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Jefferey Spivey MFA '26 is a finalist for the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature.
Luca van der Velde '26, who has been covering community news for The Bennington Banner, highlighted the Bennington Senior Show, an annual opportunity for Bennington graduates studying Visual Art to showcase their work from May 19–30.
Projects for Peace has announced its 2026 cohort of grantees. This year, 142 projects from 98 partner institutions were selected, with one project being chosen from Bennington College.
Eleven Bennington students have received Field Work Term scholarships for experiences either completed during the 2026 winter Field Work Term season or that will take place over summer 2026.
On May 29 and May 30, Bennington College will celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2026 at the 91st Commencement. Learn more about graduate outcomes across the years.
As spring arrives in Bennington, preparations are underway for another growing season at Purple Carrot Farm—a 1.2-acre campus farm that has rapidly expanded its production, student programming, and community partnerships in recent years. The farm serves as a food source for the campus and as a living classroom where students study sustainable agriculture and local food systems.
This academic year, Eliot Wiersma '28 has been covering community news for the Bennington Banner. He recently sampled matcha tea at cafes around Bennington, including alumni-owned Pangaea and Café Briette.
Patricia Martin MFA ’22 appeared on the Harvesting Happiness podcast through the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) in May.
Davin Malasarn, Ph.D., MFA '20 has published his debut novel The Outer Country (One World, 2026).
Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Lance Richardson was named a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Pantheon, 2025).
Through August 9, former faculty member Jules Olitski is highlighted in Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s at The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, created as a showcase for the brief but highly regarded chapter when the artist was enthralled by the aesthetic possibilities of sprayed color.
On Saturday, May 2, from 10:00 am–10:00 pm, Luella Arizola-Lyons '28, Devan Spiro '27, Anna Sutton '28, and Olli Wiesmann '28 are organizing a free, family-friendly, all-day, community arts event for the Downtown Bennington area.
JAYS – Bennington Artisan Market (B.A.M.) presents "My Fleeting Moments," a solo exhibition Mattias Van Cleef '26, from May 1–7 in the storefront windows at 115 South Street in downtown Bennington. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 1, from 5:00–7:00 pm.
Seven students from Bennington College have been selected as Frankenthaler Fellows for the 2026 Museum Fellows Term, a study-away program that provides participants with practical, professional art world internship experience working at a major cultural institution in New York City for five months.
In March, the Martha Graham Dance Company performed at Bennington College as part of the Company’s centennial celebration.
Nine students from high schools around the country and the world were selected as winners of Bennington College’s 2025-2026 Young Writers Awards.
The Bennington College Herbarium was showcased at this year's Northeast Natural History Conference in Burlington, VT.
Faculty member Tim Schroeder is co-author of the study “Mineral Carbonation of Peridotite Fueled by Magmatic Degassing and Melt Impregnation in an Oceanic Transform Fault,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Bennington College faculty member Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and alumni jaamil olawale kosoko '05 and Molly Rose Lieber '21 are recipients of the prestigious 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are among more than 100 Bennington-associated Guggenheim Fellows to have been awarded throughout both organizations’ histories.
Rafe Churchill '91 discusses his latest venture, Place in Mind, a hotelier dedicated to resurrecting historically unique properties that recall a life well lived in a place well loved.
On Saturday, March 14, Linds Leggett ’27, along with facilitators Beatrix Sherry ’26 and Carissa K. Lombardi '26, joined nearly a dozen participants in the Admissions Parlor for a restorative justice circle combined with succulent planting. The event, part of the Restorative Justice Collective’s Pi Day celebration, centered on building community.
The New York Times highlighted Caro Claire Burke MFA '20 and her debut novel Yesteryear (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026).
On April 1, 2026, Bennington College Interim President Elissa Tenny announced the appointment of a distinguished chair to the Presidential Search Committee.
Michael Pollan '76 joined The Ezra Klein Show to discuss his most recent book, A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness.
Ivy Mix '08 is nominated for a 2026 James Beard Award for Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service. Mix is the co-owner of the natural wine bar Whoopsie Daisy in Brooklyn, NY.
Jeannie Nicholas '63 is the author of Kalayla and the 2025 follow-up Kalayla: Unraveling Triangles. She spoke to Kirkus Reviews about her twisting journey toward becoming an author and the distinct ways in which she envisions her characters.
Bennington College alumni are publishing novels, memoirs, non-fiction books, and poetry books. Check out the round up below to learn who was published this spring.
Bennington Review—a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing housed at Bennington College—has released its fifteenth issue, around the theme of “The Secret History."
By Mollie Hawkins
Bennington Writing Seminars recently announced a new dual-genre concentration as part of the MFA in Writing; beginning January 2027, students can study literary translation alongside fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Designed and led by faculty member Bruna Dantas Lobato '15, the concentration is an opportunity for current and future students to deepen their understanding of literature through a global perspective. We asked Lobato a few questions about the new concentration and the art of literary translation.
On Thursday, March 12, Kiran Desai '93 was a guest speaker at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, as part of UCLA professor Mona Simpson's "Some Favorite Writers" series.