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Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop — PRI2112.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Smoot
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the basic technical processes of screen printing including, idea generation, image development, screen preparation, registration, paper handling, and printing multi-color prints. Through demonstrations and hands on experiences, students will complete a series of projects using various methods of creating stencils on screens including, direct block
Visual Arts

Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop — PRI2112.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Smoot
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the basic technical processes of screen printing including, idea generation, image development, screen preparation, registration, paper handling, and printing multi-color prints. Through demonstrations and hands on experiences, students will complete a series of projects using various methods of creating stencils on screens including, direct block
Visual Arts

Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop — PRI2112.02

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sarah Pike
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the basic technical processes of screen printing including, screen preparation, image development, registration, paper handling, and printing multi run prints. Through demonstrations and hands on experiences students will complete a series of projects using block out methods and photo emulsion by creating hand-drawn and digital films. Particular
Visual Arts

Simple Book Multiples — PRI4238.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: thorsten dennerline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course we will begin to explore the many possibilities of the book as an artist's medium. Students will make books, but also study other artists' work in order to understand the extremely broad range of options and approaches that can be taken to making artists' books. In this rigorous course, students will make a series of book projects. This will be achieved in 7
Visual Arts

Simultaneous Occupancies — ARC4239.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This class will investigate architectural projects that posit simultaneous programs contained within a single envelope. We will look at various conditions under which varying, and even divergent interests are pursued by the building and its occupants, including the haunted house, the safe house, the "front", and similar conditions where one use conceals or overlies another.
Visual Arts

Sing — MUS2148.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
Open to the entire College community. We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. Do you play an instrument that can accompany singing? Bring it- and come to sing and play. No performances- evaluation is
Music

Sing — MUS2148.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
Open to the entire College community. We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. Do you play an instrument that can accompany singing? Bring it- and come to sing and play. No performances- evaluation is
Music

Sing — MUS2148.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 2
We will gather once a week to learn and sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs and dances from around the world. The goal is purely the joy of singing as a community. No performances. Evaluation is by attendance and participation only. We will use our ears and simple notation to learn the music- no previous
Music

Sing — MUS2148.02; section 2

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 1
We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. No performances- evaluation is by attendance only. We will use our ears and simple notation to learn the music- no previous singing experience is necessary.
Music

Sing — MUS2148.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. No performances- evaluation is by attendance only. We will use our ears and simple notation to learn the music- no previous singing experience is necessary.
Music

Sing — MUS2148.01; section 1

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. No performances- evaluation is by attendance only. We will use our ears and simple notation to learn the music- no previous singing experience is necessary.
Music

Sing — MUS2148.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. No performances- evaluation is by attendance only. We will use our ears and simple notation to learn the music- no previous singing experience is necessary.
Music

Sing What You Write — MVO4403.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
Do you compose songs but lack confidence in your singing? Learn skills to get your ideas across clearly while preserving your unique sound. We’ll study successful singer-songwriters to see how they do it, then study and apply breath, alignment, diction, phrasing, mic technique and timing to help you sing anything you can imagine writing. You will be expected to show progress
Music

Sing What you Write — MVO4403

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Do you compose songs but lack confidence in your singing? Learn skills to get your ideas across clearly while preserving your unique sound. We’ll study successful singer-songwriters to see how they do it, then study and apply breath, alignment, diction, phrasing, mic technique and timing to help you sing anything you can imagine writing.

Sing What You Write — MVO4403.04

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Do you compose songs but lack confidence in your singing? Learn skills to get your ideas across clearly while preserving your unique sound. We’ll study successful singer-songwriters to see how they do it, then study and apply breath, alignment, diction, phrasing, mic technique and timing to help you sing anything you can imagine writing. You will be expected to show progress
Music

Sing What You Write — MVO2304.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 2
Do you compose songs but lack confidence in your singing? Learn skills to get your ideas across clearly while preserving your unique sound. We’ll study successful singer-songwriters to see how they do it, then study and apply breath, alignment, diction, phrasing, mic technique and timing to help you sing anything you can imagine writing.You
Music

Sister City Project — APA2110.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: susie ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course, Bennington students will participate in the research, design, and development of a sister city project between Tagum City and Bennington, Vermont. Situated in the heart of a rich agricultural island, Mindanao in the Philippines, Tagum City is known as a city that is progressive in education as well as a music capital of the Philippines. 20 minutes from central
CAPA

Site-Specific Improvisation — DAN2122.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In creating site-specific work, we will place ourselves attentively into particular environments and generate immediate composition. Our choice of location will activate scores and systems that explore the relationship between the body, architecture, and landscape. We will look at the properties of place, not only in a conceptually abstract way but also in an
Dance

Sitting in Judgment — MOD2161.03

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 1
What is it like to judge others' conflicts? This module will be an experiential examination of the final decision makers in court:  judges and juries.  Students will explore practical issues and implications relative to rendering verdicts in court trials—perhaps our most influential conflict resolution process.  Students will read course materials and participate
Modules: Transferable Approaches

Situating Black & Brown Art in Museums — BLS4001.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: An Duplan
Days & Time: TU 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits:

In collaboration with Mass MoCA’s Director of Public Programs, Lisa Dent, this course will combine art history and museum education as modes of inquiry into the unique challenges of presenting and contextualizing Black and brown artists in museums. Students will engage deeply with three solo exhibitions at Mass MoCA: (1) RACE/HUSTLE by Zora J. Murff, whose work “bluntly

Black Studies

Skillshare: Ceramics as a Tool for Placemaking — VA4111.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: yoko inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The contemporary art world has shown a renewed interest in collective activities and collaborative initiatives that focus on activism as well as reshaping or inventing new educational formats in recent years. We will explore the concept of placemaking and consider ways to use the distinctive utilitarian aspects of ceramics in creating a place where people with various skills
Visual Arts

Slip Casting Ceramics for Functional Wares — CER2144.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course to learn basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing a series of functional tableware. It focuses on the development of design concept through exploration of material transformation and various casting methods. We will experiment with non-ceramic material to make prototypes for mass production. We will explore alteration and
Visual Arts

Slip Casting – Designs, Molds, Multiples — CER2123.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to SLIP CASTING, a technique used to create multiple ceramic pieces from plaster molds. Students will focus on two parallel themes during this course: first, we will investigate mold making, porcelain slip formulation, and casting methodologies, and prototype design development. Second, we will explore how casting can be used to support concepts
Visual Arts

Slit-scan Photography — PHO2112.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dakota Pace
Credits: 2
Slit-scan photography is a process that captures an image through consecutive slices of time to create a smooth gradient of time that moves across the image. This technique has most commonly been used to document photo finishes in racing due to the accuracy with which it can document time. While its common use is more utilitarian, this technique has great potential for artistic
Visual Arts