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On view in the Barn East Gallery through December 4.
Bennington alum Julia Duva '25 was among ten students who were awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2025.
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.
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.
Georgia Hauser '26 studies Visual Arts at Bennington. Last summer, Hauser completed a Field Work Term experience as a volunteer for Project 412, which helped bring artist Thomas Dambo's Alexa's Elixir to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.
On view in the Barn Annex through April 21.
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.
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.
Sawyer London ’24 is a senior from Arlington, Virginia. With a lifelong interest in ceramics and high school internships in the fashion industry, he was certain that he was going to end up at Parsons School of Design or Pratt Institute, both in New York City. But his family and college counselors encouraged him to apply to a few schools outside of the city too.
During the first two weeks of the class “Examining Space,” eighteen students learned how to shape foundry wax and prepare sand molds for the purpose of conceiving and realizing an object in iron.
Coming to work at Bennington College is nothing new to new sculpture faculty John Umphlett; he has been a technical instructor in sculpture here for more than 20 years.
Earlier this year, Design and Planning Coordinator Erin McKenny and faculty member Jon Isherwood were approached by the organizers of the annual North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS) to explore how Bennington students could engage with the Village School of North Bennington (VSNB) and participate in the outdoor sculpture show.
The City Council of Minucciano, Italy, has named faculty member Jon Isherwood an Honorary Citizen in recognition of his work promoting the region through an art and technology initiative he’s been leading for the past five years.
MESH, a new show at Gallery Oldham in Oldham, UK that opens March 11 will feature work by Jon Isherwood.
The Digital Stone Project, founded by Jon Isherwood, is “changing the nature of the art” of stone carving.
Artist Cosmo Whyte '05 has been named a finalist for the Hudgens Prize, a $50,000 award for Georgia artists.
Faculty member in sculpture Jon Isherwood is featured in the new book Artist Boss: Anthony Caro's Studio Assistants and Issues of Legacy in British Sculpture, published by Wunderkammer Press. The book looks at the life and work of Sir Anthony Caro, who was a faculty member at Bennington College in the 1960s.
In "China Dialogues" at the Usdan Gallery students from China and the U.S. turned the process of collaboration into a form of art.
This summer, faculty member Jon Isherwood once again spearheaded a collaboration between the Digital Stone Project and Garfagnana Innovazione in Tuscany, focused on bridging the gap between art and technology. This is the fourth such collaboration between Isherwood and students from Bennington College, the Digital Stone Project, and the Italian incubator for the artisanal stone industry.
Jon Isherwood’s “Sotol Duet” has been recognized by Americans for the Arts Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review which annually recognizes outstanding public art projects that represent the most compelling work for the year from across the country.
Co-organized by faculty member Jon Isherwood and Bennington Museum curator Jamie Franklin, 3D Digital: Here and Now is a collaboration between Bennington College and the Bennington Museum that highlights artists, designers, and manufacturers whose work exploits the potential of new technologies to push material practice. The exhibition runs through June 15.
Digital Stone Project, the not-for-profit technology organization led by faculty member Jon Isherwood, recently held the symposium and exhibition Marble Codes: Robotic Sculpture from Garfagnana in Florence, Italy. Digital Stone Project uses innovative digital technologies to serve artists, architects, designers, and the public.
On Saturday June 21, 2014, faculty member Jon Isherwood joined other artists, sculptors, theorists, technologists, and curators to present work with new technologies and marble in conference on stone carving in the 21st century.
Philosophy faculty member and art critic Karen Gover's review of Barry Bartlett's new work appeared in a recent issue of Ceramics: Art and Perception, a leading international magazine in the field of ceramic arts.
Alumnus Sanford Mirling ‘04 has earned the International Sculpture Center's 2009 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for his promising work as an MFA student at the State University of New York - Albany.