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Trashy — FV2323.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
This is a 7-week screening and discussion-based seminar on the concept and look of “trashiness” in modern and contemporary media and art practices.  We will look at a broad range of art practices as well as film and online media, primarily from the latter half of the 20th century and the 21st. Of particular interest will be works produced in an independent/alternative
Visual Arts

Trashy — FV2323.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
This is a 7-week screening and discussion-based seminar on the concept and look of “trashiness” in modern and contemporary media and art practices.  We will look at a broad range of art practices and short films/media, primarily from the latter half of the 20th century into the 21st, with work produced in an independent/alternative context, though in conversation with
Visual Arts

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country’s social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian cinematic narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

Twelve Objects: An Introduction to Art History — AH2108.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This part-lecture, part-discussion course offers a survey of the history of art through close study of twelve objects selected from a wide chronological and geographical breadth. Each object will serve as notable example of a canonical artistic movement, as well as illustrate a key art historical term. The course will offer students an overview of important movements, themes,
Visual Arts

Twelve Objects: An Introduction to Art History — AH2108.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury
Credits: 4
This part-lecture, part-discussion course offers a survey of the history of art through close study of twelve objects selected from a wide chronological and geographical breadth. Each object will serve as notable example of an important artistic movement, as well as illustrate a key art historical term or method. The course will present students with an overview
Visual Arts

Type | Prototype — ARC4125.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza (new faculty as of 8/27/2021)
Credits: 4
The relationship between form and site has been of paramount concern to architects and planners through the ages. In this studio we will focus on programmatic analysis and the significance of site, and how context and function might influence the design of spaces/buildings. The first half of the term we will study libraries. Looking at precedents both traditional and
Visual Arts

Typography for Artists and Designers — PRI4213.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-advanced level course, we will study Typographic design and its application to making visual art. We will learn design fundamentals, some history, and use this knowledge to produce unusual art works. If this course can be taught in person, it will take place in The Word Image Lab, Letterpress studio. If we cannot meet in person, this course will take
Visual Arts

Understanding Ceramic Glazes — CER4251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
Credits: 4
Learn how and why ceramic glazes work. This course focuses on the science behind glazes. No more myths and legends about how glazes work, only facts and science. ​The course provides information and science to help students utilize glazes in ways that will help them take control of materials and advance their work. This course is a hybrid in-person, online course consisting of
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged.

Students will learn various non-typical

Printmaking Drawing

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking methods
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unpacking The Vault: Hidden Narratives in the Bennington Art Collection — VA4137.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
The Bennington art collection is a kind of mystery. Sequestered in a basement space called "the vault,” the collection’s contents—its depth and breadth—are not fully known. On display around campus are some Abstract Expressionist–era paintings by celebrated former students, faculty, and area residents such as Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, and Jules
Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down — VA2237.01) (cancelled 7/17/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing, actions and traces. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings.
Dance Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down — VA4321.01) (cancelled 7/17/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing, actions and traces. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings.
Dance Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down: Drawing = Movement — DRW2164.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings. Happenings depend
Dance Visual Arts

Upending Clay: Non-Traditional Methods Alternative Techniques — CER2122.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: david katz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** This course is intended to strip away assumptions about clay and explore its raw potential as a sculptural medium. We will focus on non-traditional methods of working with the material, utilizing structural armatures, embracing unfired clay, experimenting with various additives, and non-ceramic surfaces. With an emphasis on experimentation and research
Visual Arts

Urban Design and Development — ANT4216.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Karis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course applies the perspectives and methods of anthropology to explore and critique patterns of urban design and development around the world, paying attention to the interactions between structural forces (urban planning and design practices, global capitalism, city and state policies) and locally produced cultural meanings and political activities involving the use of
Society Culture and Thought Visual Arts

Vampire as Cultural Critic — CUR4401.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This seminar explores the cinematic vampire as a symbolic curator, critic, and connoisseur, one who collects, consumes, and reflects cultural concerns. Through films paired with philosophical and critical texts, we examine how vampires serve as mirrors, archivists, aesthetes, and subversive observers and how filmmakers stylistically foreground or reframe aspects of the

Curatorial Studies

VAPA at Fifty — ARC4135.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

In 1976, Bennington inaugurated the Visual and Performing Arts Building, a remarkable facility that embodies the ethos of Bennington’s educational philosophy. Over the past fifty years, VAPA has undergone significant transformation, adapting to new programs and emerging technologies. This studio, led by faculty emeritus Donald

Architecture Curatorial Studies

VAPA Evolving — ARC4111.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
VAPA was conceived as a facility that would provide an "...evolving environment for the performance of all forms of art and open to the most challenging ideas and personalities from either inside or outside the college environment..." [The Art Policy Committee, 1964] VAPA has undergone significant change over the course of forty years, with new programs and studios created for
Visual Arts Environment