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Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal — SCU4797.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
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Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal — SCU4797.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
Visual Arts

Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal — SCU4797.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jason Middlebrook
Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most affecting expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self-directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
Visual Arts

Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal — SCU4797.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
Visual Arts

Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal — SCU4797.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
Visual Arts

Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal — SCU4797.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most affecting expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self-directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
Visual Arts

Projects in Documentary Photography — PHO4369.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course offers students a hands-on opportunity in documentary photography where each student will learn about and develop long term projects. Students will conceptualize, produce, and edit photographs for a specific documentary project, and present a final product. This course will enable students to brainstorm about and select a long-term subject, undertake the
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Propaganda — FV2315.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Since its inception, film has been used for propaganda - disseminating information with a particular slant, whether subtle or obvious - by regimes and independent players across the political spectrum. As the means of production and circuits of distribution become ever more accessible to individuals, we have moved from an era of focused

Media Studies Film and Video Media Arts

Puppets and Animation I — MA2325.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by stop motion, drawings, and cut out collages. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects followed by a longer more sustained project based on current events and environmental issues. Students will be
Visual Arts

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively-inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and even Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both ‘pagan’ antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but
Visual Arts

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both 'pagan' antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but
Visual Arts

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, regionalist, and heteronormatively inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural colonial origins and paradoxical investment in both 'pagan' antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is
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Quliritaa: S/he tell a legend — VA4318.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
Alaska Native oral forms of education, history and legend benefit from a profoundly personal relationship-based approach to one of the most important ways we connect. Verbal communication is breathing, evolving, raw with vulnerability and very much rooted in a present form of communion. Reciprocity and relationships are foundational values of Yup’ik culture, and it makes sense
Visual Arts

Rape/Culture: Sexual Violence and the Visual Arts, from Giambologna to Kara Walker — AH2405.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
“Heroic rape” is no stranger to art history. Under this rubric, students have been introduced to the field and its concerns via crisp photographs of canonical works in which Roman foundation legends, etiological myths, and political absolutism are prescribed and perpetuated via the trope of (eroticized) sexual violence. The existence of a ‘rape culture’ in modern life in
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Reading the Photograph — PHO4218.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore the myriad ways that the photograph has been considered over past 175 years. From the early observations of Charles Baudelaire, Lady Eastlake, and Fox Talbot through the 20th century insights of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and John Berger, we will investigate the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of the medium. More recent
Visual Arts

Reading the Photograph — PHO2306.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: JKline@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore a range of writings on the photograph from the 19th, 20th, and current century. Readings will be shared by literary and cultural critics, artists, scholars including Lady Eastlake, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, bell hooks, T.J. Demos, and Mark Sealy. Students
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shape its history of representation of the human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner. The contemporary
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO4370.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner.
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Photography was used scientific purposes and a tool of imperial during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its historical representation of the body as well as its descriptive language. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a

Black Studies Photography

Relief Printing Without a Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 2
Using a choice of linoleum or wood blocks and non-toxic water-soluble ink, we will examine different approaches to mark-making: from graphic and angular to painterly and gestural.  Students will learn image preparation and transfer methods, sharpening and care of tools, wood and linoleum carving methods, ink and paper preparation, hand-inking and rolling techniques and
Visual Arts

Religious Architecture of Islamic Cultures — AH2126.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Razan Francis
Credits: 4
This introductory course explores the architecture of the Islamic world from the beginning of Islam to the present, extending from Spain to India. By examining architectural monuments from different periods and locales, the course demonstrates how architectural production was not only informed by religious ritual, but also shaped by cultural encounters with a diversity of
Visual Arts

Religious Architecture of Islamic Cultures — AH2126.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Razan Francis
Credits: 4
This introductory course explores the architecture of the Islamic world from the beginning of Islam to the present, extending from Spain to India. By examining architectural monuments from different periods and locales, the course demonstrates how architectural production was not only informed by religious ritual, but also shaped by cultural encounters with a diversity of
Visual Arts

Representing Sexuality and Gender On Screen — MS4105.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Teddy Pozo
Credits: 4
This advanced media studies course explores the relationship between censorship and self-expression, with a particular focus on queer and feminist readings of Hollywood cinema and the history of the adult film and video industry in the United States. From the Motion Picture Production Code, to the ratings system, to SESTA-FOSTA, U.S. media industries have sought respectability
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought