Class of 2027: Related Content
The vibrant blue program audience members picked up from a music stand inside Greenwall Auditorium at The Bennington Balkan Ensemble concert last Wednesday night could not reveal the rich cultural experience in store.
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 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.
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.
The Bennington College Herbarium was showcased at this year's Northeast Natural History Conference in Burlington, VT.
Maverick Yarger '27 studies Drama and Sculpture, with a focus on properties fabrication, at Bennington. For the winter 2026 Field Work Term, Yarger is assisting playwright Catherine Filloux.
Charlie Love '27 studies Music and Political Philosophy at Bennington. For his winter 2026 Field Work Term, Love is interning at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City.
Thirty Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2026 Field Work Term.
On view in the Barn East Gallery through December 4.
On November 6, Sapo Perro Collective kicked off Pangea Cafe's Winter Music Series in North Bennington, VT.
Learn about transfer student experiences at Bennington College.
Zen Spencer '27 has been selected by the Disability Justice and inclusive arts organization Embraced Body as a participant in its new national How We Move program.
Ren Acevedo '27 studies Drama, Music, and Japanese at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, Acevedo performed in New Bedford Festival Theatre's summer production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Krithika Meenakshi '27 studies Dance, Acting, and Voice at Bennington. For her summer 2025 Field Work Term, Meenakshi is studying Clowning and Voice at Accademia Dell’ Arte in Tuscany, Italy.
The scent of simmering curry and cooking rice filled the Student Center Kitchen at Bennington College on Saturday afternoon, May 3, as Bennington College students and members of the local Japanese community gathered to cook, connect, and celebrate International Food Day.
On view in the Barn Annex through April 21.
Lindsey Leggett '27 completed a Field Work Term experience at the Vermont Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Devan Spiro '27 studies interdisciplinary photojournalism through ethnographic research methodologies and curatorial practices. During the winter, Spiro completed a Field Work Term experience at SoHo Photo Gallery, one of New York City's oldest cooperative nonprofit art gallery spaces.
Bennington students reflect on their winter 2025 Field Work Term experiences, honing and testing classroom knowledge in their independent projects and internships.
Thirty-six Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2025 Field Work Term.
Students present at the first International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference in New York.
Julie Gargiulo '27 studies Costume Design at Bennington. She spent her winter Field Work Term in New York interning with local seamstress, Mery Fernandez.
In the class Examining Space, taught by Sculpture faculty member John Umphlett, students learned their way around iron forge and the glass studio at the Salem Art Works (SAW), just 25 miles from campus in Salem, New York.
Krithika Meenakshi '27 studies Performing Arts—including dance, acting, and singing—at Bennington. During summer 2024, Krithika completed a Field Work Term experience as a dance trainee with dancer Ronita Mookerji.
Katie Hansen ’27 studies set design and architecture at Bennington. During her first year, she was hired to design a backdrop for the “Lessons with Lincoln” panel of the 2024 Gettysburg Film Festival, which occurred on April 5 in Gettysburg, PA.
In honor of the celebration of Ramadan, Ahmed Shuwehdi ’25 and Muhammad Ammar ’24, co-leaders of the Muslim Student Association, asked Muslim students to respond to the prompt, "What has Ramadan felt like for you at home, and how does it feel at Bennington?” and answered the prompt themselves. The responses reveal longing, nostalgia, and an appreciation for the community at Bennington.
35 Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2024 Field Work Term.
On the final Wednesday of the fall 2023 term, students in faculty member Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie’s How to Build a Forest course prepared to present their final projects.