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Art and Entrepreneurship — APA2445.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This course will explore the intersection of art and entrepreneurship while providing artists and arts administrators with the essential knowledge needed to create an arts-related enterprise, whether a nonprofit, a for-profit business, or a “business of one.” We will look at the innovative ways that artists and individuals have gone beyond the traditional art world model to
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Art in Captivity:  The Images, Sounds, and Rhetoric of Freedom — APA2345.03

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The course will expand on  the initial ideas presented in the Fall workshop, Blood, Sweat, and Tears which focused on the work of contemporary justice artist Russell Craig.  Through work that is both confrontational and contemplative, Craig’s pieces create a platform to help unify all who have struggled through trauma and advocate for positive
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Art in Public Spaces as connective tissue — DAN4380.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Martin Lanz
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

In this course, we will explore various projects that aim to connect people with their surroundings and communities.
We will also explore the strategies that various artists have implemented to increase their audiences and interest in the arts.
We will analyze and design projects that seek sustainability, diversification, and access to the experience of art and

CAPA Cultural Studies and Languages Dance Education Architecture Art History Curatorial Studies

Art in the Public Realm II: Bennington and China — APA4107.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This course will research, develop and implement public art for two projects: Bennington We will research existing models nationally and internationally that have provided integrations for public spaces. We will explore opportunities on the Bennington campus including, but not limited to, the Commons project. Through dialogue and collaboration, we will assess what spaces are
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Art in the Public Realm: Oslo Project — VA4107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jon isherwood; susan sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Through the experience of developing with Jon Isherwood a site-specific, commissioned work of art for the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. Over the course of the term, the class will conduct case studies of prior public art projects and explore the various dimensions
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Art in the Public Realm: Oslo Project II — VA4107.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jon Isherwood; Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Through the experience of developing with Jon Isherwood a site-specific, commissioned work of art for the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. In the second-half of this year-long course, the class will continue to conduct case studies of public art projects and to
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Art Intervention Projects Class: Mapping Projects on Climate Change — APA2216.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 4
The students will study a creative model and methods used by Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra and Glaciologist/Geomorphologist Michele Koppes that sonically maps water sources, downstream communities and shifting landscapes in the Himalayas used to create an acoustic story on climate change. Each student will map an individual project of their own over the term using
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Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 2) — VA2119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 2
This course will provide a collaborative site for the production of distributable protest and resistance imagery, as well as a shared investigation into the rich international history of political posters and related ephemera. Students will be provided structure both in which to work together on research, and on the design, production, and distribution of imagery. Discussion of
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Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia — APA2126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Much of the expected urban growth has been predicted to occur in Asian cities and its megacities. This class studies city communities in Asia with the use of artists' aural and visual cartographies. Alongside mapping are the artists and activists creative work that challenges social, political, and environmental issues, and reimagines time and space in these communities. Field
CAPA Environment

Attention Studio — APA4112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sal Randolph
Credits: 4
The Attention Studio is a lab class where we will engage in protocols and practices of sustained attention, most often in relation to works of art. Through these experiments we will explore the way objects and performances choreograph our attention, and study the internal movements of our own response. Our collective work will engage questions of attention that reach beyond
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Barriers to Democracy in Modern and Modernizing Nations — APA2359.03

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The idea of democracy is rooted in the preconception that citizens of modern or modernizing nations often face competing positions on economic, political and sociocultural issues. There are two ways such challenges can be addressed: authoritarianism and democracy. Authoritarians claim that leaders know the answers to all questions and the citizens must obey the leaders –
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Beans Give Back 2.0 — APA4263.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Beans have a long shelf life packed with nutrition. How could this food source extend itself to the local community? Beans are a legume coming from the French word légume and the Latin word leger meaning to gather or to pick. With a cultural significance across several continents, beans have nourished humans, animals and soil health. As a seasonal progression of Beans Give Back
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Beginning Peacebuilding — APA2139.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 2
Peacebuilding is an intervention that is designed to prevent the start or resumption of violent conflict by creating a sustainable peace. Students in this course will read about and research  the types of peacebuilding programs and initiatives out there, which are effective, and which aim at engaging young people to become peacebuilders in the post conflict societies
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Belarus: A Critical Understanding Of Democracy — POP2279.02) (new time as of 10/16/2020

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course aims to provide a critical understanding of democracy by examining what is happening in Belarus, with the space for students to respond creatively. Together we will explore different historical and current perspectives, media coverage (and what is not covered), personal accounts, and conversations with activists. This class will draw on writings by scholars, artists
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Belarusian Dream: Human Rights and Performance — DRA4182.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course will be part of an international festival of short plays commemorating Belarusian Freedom Day, 25 March, the unofficial holiday invoked to express opposition to the current regime (referred to as the last dictatorship in Europe). The eight plays, four Belarusian and four international, explore human rights issues and promote social action. We will rehearse and stage
CAPA Drama

Beloved and Halfway Home: Narrating the Aftermaths of Slavery and Mass Incarceration in the United States — APA4165.02) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This course examines Beloved, by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison and a contemporary nonfiction work in the social sciences by Reuben Jonathan Miller. Together, these works of literature embody an intersectional approach to critical race theory, which incorporates race, gender, social policy, structural violence, and culture in experiences
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
An enviornmental policy class which closely examines the environmental and public health impacts of the production, transport, use and disposal of plastics.  It is taught on-line and includes many community people who audit the class  - creating a nice exchange of ideas between Bennington students and grassroots environmental advocates from across the country. 
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy class with an emphasis on building your skills to take action on this growing environmental justice and climate justice problem.  The class will focus on the production, use and disposal of plastic, including one class on how the US and Europe exports its plastic waste problems to  countries in Asia and Africa. 
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
Days & Time: WE 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 1

Plastic pollution has emerged as a significant environmental issue in the past few years, particularly on how plastics affects health, environmental justice, climate change and water quality.  This is an environmental policy class iwth a focus on public action.  This class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics and the need for

Advancement of Public Action Environment Politics

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy class that focuses on the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastics enter the ocean each year.  Through the lense of environmental justice, this cutting-edge class focuses on how plastic pollution is a climate change issue; how the plastics industry spins the myth that we can recycle our way out of the
Advancement of Public Action

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy course with an emphasis on taking public action to address the problem. The class will focus on the production, use and disposal of plastics, with a focus on environmental justice. The class will examine the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastic enter rivers and oceans each year. This cutting edge class will examine
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This is a public policy class, with a focus on public action.  Plastic pollution is an important issue that requires a systemic response, far beyond individual consumer choices. Readings and discussion will be on the latest cutting edge information on this topic. The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use, and disposal of plastics (often in low income
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 1
This is an environmental policy course with a focus on public action.  The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics, including climate change implications, alternatives to plastics, and the need for innovation.  Environmental justice implications will be a major part of the class focus, along how plastics impact health and the
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