Visual Arts: Related Content
This fall, photographer and faculty member Jonathan Kline completed a three-year photographic history project with the Photographic Conservation Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, involved recreating five different variants on the paper negative process, a method used by French and British photographers in the 1840s and ’50s and one that, with the advent of the film negative, few photographers are skilled in using today.
The work of photography faculty member Liz Deschenes is part of Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through October 19, 2008.
Two paintings by visual arts faculty member Andy Spence are presently featured in New Works, a group show by gallery artists at the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York. These two recent pieces, Variation 2 and Untitled (Corner Painting 1), will be on view at the Gallery through August 1, 2008.
Bennington Bookmarks, a new collaborative art installation, will be unveiled at an opening reception at Bennington College’s Crossett Library on Tuesday, May 20, at 5:00pm.
International artist Mimi Robinson designs commercially celebrated products, and four months out of the year, she designs solutions. As founder of the organization Bridging Cultures Through Design (BCTD), Robinson develops international programs that allows her to work directly with local artists on sustainable business ideas that preserve their culture and traditional skills.
The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that five members of Bennington's community have been honored with this year's 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships for their "distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the nation's most prestigious honors, were given to current MFA in Writing faculty member Michael Paul Burkard; acclaimed poet Reginald Shepherd '88; innovative choreographer Myrna Packer '74; New Yorker magazine editor and translator Ann Goldstein '71; and professor of organism biology and ecology at the University of Massachusetts, Laurie R. Godfrey '67.
Field Work Term is Bennington College's annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work.
This photo contest brings those experiences to life. Students use #FieldWorkTerm to share photos of themselves making, working, and learning to tell the story of their unique work exploration over Field Work Term.
Director of the IDEAS Lab at UCLA and winner of a NASA competition to design habitation on Mars
Ayodamola (Ayo) Tanimowo Okunseinde is an artist and time-traveler living and working in New York. His works range from speculative design to wearable technology, and explorations of Afrofuturism / Reclamation.
Jonah Gabriel is the Founder and Creative Director of Real Good, an award-winning creative studio that creates digital and social content for brands such as Amazon, Cash App, Paramount, and BMW.
Annette Lawrence’s art transforms raw data into drawings, objects, and installations. Her work is grounded in examining what counts, how it is counted, and who is counting.
Photographer named one of the Best and Brightest by Esquire in 2003, whose work is in the collection of MoMA and has appeared in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao
Photograph © Bernd Arnold
Rachelle Mozman's photography explores how culture shapes individuals and environment conditions behavior in photographic series that confound documentary and fiction.
In this section we feature work that came to fruition as an offshoot of primary work or intended work. An actor who turns to legal performance coaching, an installation artist turned furniture maker, a publisher putting out trading cards are among the examples of work that was made in the act of improvisation and curiosity.
Artist whose politically charged works are in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and others
Photograph © Constance Kheel
Dan Phiffer is a software developer and artist who works at the ACLU. His art projects often use computer networks as a raw material, and have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and SFMOMA.
Photographer for Newsweek, Reuters, and, for eight years, at the White House as the President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton’s official documentary photographer
Professional printmaker with vast experience in professional fine art print studios and who has studied at the Tamarind Institute
Seattle-based interior architecture business owner focused on designing spaces that embody properties of healing, healthfulness, and wellbeing.
Sara Mangenheimer's work blends sound, video, performance, sculpture, and other forms, and has been shown at venues ranging from the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the New York Film Festival, to MoMA PS1 and White Columns.
Bessie and Guggenheim award-winning dancer, choreographer, and videographer, and the artistic director of Cathy Weis Projects
Photograph © Richard Termine
Yifan Jiang is a project-based artist, who works across painting, animation, sculpture, and performance. She constructs images and narratives by weaving together personal moments with idioms of philosophy, history, and science.
Multimedia artist who creates sculpture, installation, performance, and video art that engages questions of race and gender, and director of the Rhinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art
Nancy Nowacek is an artist, designer, and education who works in the realms of socially-engaged art, visual design, design strategy, and education.
Artist whose paintings, drawings, and altered x-rays engage with American and European abstraction
Photograph © Paula Gillen
Founder of the award-winning firm Alter Studio architects, and Wm. S. Marvin Hall of Fame for Design Excellence inductee. Leading educator and critic, and associate director of the Center of American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin
Designer, artist, and architect examining the emerging possibilities of digital design.
