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When Technology and the Human Body become Partners, Who Leads? — DAN4294.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 1
This hands-on intensive course is taught by visiting artist Cathy Weis, who will be showing videos she shot in the studios and on the streets of New York City from 1983 to today. Examining these archival videos will serve as a launching pad for students to begin their own collaborative projects. Through these collaborative projects, students will have an opportunity to expand
Dance Visual Arts

Women and Moving Image Arts — FV2106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
A look at women’s roles in the history of the moving image—as subject, object, maker, viewer, consumer, and critic. What influence has feminism had on how we make and watch moving images today? We’ll study typically female roles within the film industry and notable women who occupied them, as well women who broke barriers to penetrate traditionally male realms. We’ll look at
Visual Arts

Women and Moving Image Arts — FV2106.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
A look at women’s roles in the history of the moving image—as subject, object, maker, viewer, consumer, and critic. What influence has feminism had on how we make and watch moving images today? We’ll study typically female roles within the film industry and notable women who occupied them, as well women who broke barriers to penetrate traditionally male realms. We’ll look at
Visual Arts

Women and Photography (past and present) — PHO4204.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 4
This course will have two components: a historic and contemporary examination of how women have shaped the discipline of photography. We will initially look at, and study, how women have played an integral role in the practice of photography from its inception, and we will research how women’s achievements within the medium have been historicized. We will read first hand
Visual Arts

Wood Firing Kiln — CER4172.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will look into the use of the wood kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will examine the structure of the wood kiln and learn the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces within the wood kiln. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how it has influenced the
Visual Arts

Wood Kilns, A History in Practice — CER4205.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This course will be focused on techniques that investigate clay and glazes in the wood‐fired kiln. As a class we will improve our understanding of technologies used by both ancient cultures and contemporary artist. Through this study of the earliest types of firing techniques and moving forward in time to the current use of these kilns as a contemporary language in the ceramic
Visual Arts

Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 2
Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Bennington College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood blocks, oil-based and non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different approaches to mark
Visual Arts

Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 2
Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Bennington College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood blocks, oil-based and water-soluble inks, we will examine different approaches to mark-making: from
Visual Arts

Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Corinne Rhodes
Credits: 2
Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Bennington College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood blocks, oil-based and non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different 
Visual Arts

Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Bennington College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood blocks, oil-based and non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different approaches to mark
Visual Arts

Woodcut/Linocut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2026
Instructor: Corinne Rhodes
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Bennington College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab.

Using type-high plywood and linoleum blocks and oil-based, non-toxic, water

Printmaking

Woodcut/Linocut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2027
Instructor: Corinne Rhodes
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Bennington College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab.

Using type-high plywood and linoleum blocks and oil-based, non-toxic,

Printmaking

Woodcut/Linocut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Corinne Rhodes
Credits: 2
Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Bennington College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood and linoleum blocks and oil-based, non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different approaches
Visual Arts

Word and Image Lab: Poems into Print — PRI4250.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline and Mark Wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this hybrid Literature / Visual Arts course, students will experience the full range of the poet's creative process, from the conception of the poem, to writing it, shaping and editing it, designing its printed material aspects, setting it in type, printing on the letterpresses, and producing the work in a readable, distributable form. The process will be a dialog between
Literature Visual Arts

Word Play In The Press Room — PRI4220.02) (cancelled 4/30/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 2
This class offers participants a unique chance to develop word-poem stories while simultaneously learning traditional letterpress relief printing techniques, making a distinctive multidisciplinary connection to letterforms on paper. Word play refers to the fact that we will be inventing poems spontaneously, using improvisation and therefore will become involved imaginatively
Visual Arts

Word Play In The Press Room — PRI4220.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 2
This class offers participants a unique chance to develop word-poem stories while simultaneously learning traditional letterpress relief printing techniques, making a distinctive multidisciplinary connection to letterforms on paper. Word play refers to the fact that we will be inventing poems spontaneously, using improvisation and therefore will become involved imaginatively
Visual Arts

Working with Light — DRA2234.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts.  In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, the course will explore

Drama Design

Working with Movement: Cinema Dance — DAN2116.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elliot Caplan
Credits: 4
A hands-on seminar conducted by Elliot Caplan to teach film/video and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement in dance, theatre, and the visual arts. It is intended for those interested in developing their aesthetic of the moving image rather than learning primarily the technical aspects of filmmaking. We work to clarify space in the frame. The dynamic
Dance Drama Visual Arts

World Building: Designing Characters and World They Live In — DES2109.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Every fictional universe has its own history, culture, geography, and ecology that act as a backdrop to the narratives that inhabit it.  This course will investigate the relationship between such a fantastical place and its characters – with a particular emphasis on the philosophy and symbology of the characters and their clothes.<

Drama Design

Worlding: Building in Digital Space — MA4108.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
Unlike any other medium, animation provides unmatched suspicion of disbelief. Moreover, in digital space, one can exercise their imagination beyond material and physical limitations. The combination of the two provides the permissive space to live out our wildest reveries: utopias, dystopias, social experiments, psi-fic scenarios, or dollhouses for amphibians. This class can
Visual Arts