Visual Arts: Related Content
Art and Object takes readers behind-the-scenes into the studio of painter Joanna Pousette-Dart '68, who recently exhibited Centering at Lisson Gallery in New York.
Ashley Davis ’09 is a passionate herbalist and wellness practitioner based in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Former faculty member Paul Feeley's sculptural works are on view in Paul Feeley: The Shape of Things at New York City's Garth Greenan Gallery through Saturday, October 25. The Brooklyn Rail highlighted the exhibition.
Want to know what a typical weekday evening looks like at Bennington College? The evening of September 16, 2025, was packed with interesting events that exemplify the diverse array of experiences and activities available to students and the community.
Boston Art Review featured the Usdan Gallery exhibition Overbody: New Works by Sreshta Rit Premnath in its roundup of fall’s must-see museum shows across New England. Overbody is on view at Bennington College through December 6.
Zee Camp '26 recently hosted the disability-centered ceramic lesson Creature Creation at Context Collective in Troy, NY.
Aliza Khan '26 studies Visual Arts, including Architecture and Sculpture, at Bennington. For their summer 2025 Field Work Term, Khan is working as an intern for Yasue Maetake, a New York City-based Japanese sculptor.
On the beautiful warm afternoon of May 27 at Bennington College, the Commons Lawn came alive in an explosion of fabric, movement, and meaning. A student-led fashion event, The Bennington Strut—part runway show, part celebration, part artistic activism—made its debut.
Eight stories about the visual arts graduates and their final work.
The juniors and seniors in Sue Rees’s Animations Projects class have walked away with several valuable lessons this term. Stills from their projects are up in an exhibition in the Barn Annex through May 16.
Jen Liu is a faculty member at Bennington who works primarily in video and painting, whose research-based work often involves collaboration with biologists and programmers to genetically engineer cells, build custom language models, and use dark encryption to hide information within her videos.
Oakland, CA-based artist Sarah Fetterman ’14 bridges the realms of sculpture and memory in her work and draws inspiration from her deep connection to physical movement and experience.
Six Bennington College faculty members have been named 2025 Whiting fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, which provides funding for travel that will deepen and expand their teaching and curriculum development.
Bennington alumni make the lives they want and places for others.
By Ashley Brenon Jowett
How students and faculty brought art to the U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai.
Artist Lulu Wiley ’24 used a great work ethic, a strong sense of self, and Bennington connections to land their first solo exhibition at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont. It opened February 13 and runs through June 22. We caught up with them to discuss and celebrate.
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.
Cosmo Whyte '03's solo exhibition The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone is currently on view at the Arts Club of Chicago through April 2, 2025.
Nine Bennington College students–the largest cohort to date–have been selected as Frankenthaler Fellows for the 2025 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.
Carlos X. Torres de Janon '14 currently lives in Seattle and works as an associate Landscape Designer at MIG, Inc. He shared how his Bennington education taught him to "wear many hats" in design and in life.
Abby Neale '13 is a teaching artist in Boston public schools. They shared how their Bennington education has supported them through their career path.
Nancy Halverson Melvin '76 is a teaching artist who designs and produces clothing, teaches after-school enrichment classes in painting and handwork for children through adults at the Chicago Branch of the Anthroposophical Society, and documents her work with short videos. She shared how her Bennington education started her long and fruitful artistic career.
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.
Advanced Animation students reflect on their experiences at the 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Faculty member John Umphlett's latest sculpture, Bit Death; Life; He Blows on Them and They Wither, on view at the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS) at the Bennington Museum through November, takes the form of a cross with angled arms–and is designed, too, for Umphlett's own entombment.
The Dance and Drama programs at Bennington College are pleased to welcome director and artist Robert Wilson for a lecture and performance 7:00–9:00 pm Friday, September 20, at the Martha Hill Dance Theater in the campus’s Visual and Performing Arts Center. The New York Times has described Wilson as "[America]'s—or even the world's—foremost vanguard 'theater artist.'” The event is free and open to the public thanks to funding from the Peter Drucker Fund for Excellence and Innovation.
Exhibition reveals the personal collections of Bennington College community members September 17–November 23.
Chuna Chugay '25 studies Visual Arts at Bennington, with an emphasis of storytelling through images—which includes animation, illustration, comics, and painting—as well as Public Action, researching the Koryo-Saram diaspora. For their summer Field Work Term, they worked as an editorial intern at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI).
Nine stories about the visual arts graduates and their final work in 100 words or less.