All Courses

Art Exhibitions as Site for Contemplation and Research — VA4117.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Liz Deschenes

Credits: 2

This is a six-week course that will require no previous knowledge of Museum or Curatorial studies. We will spend class time together looking at how for profits, otherwise know as a commercial art galleries, produce art exhibitions- solo and group exhibitions. Students will have assignments and readings, that will support the visits and research that we will embark upon as group

Visual Arts

Art in America Since WWII — AH2286.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Andrew Spence

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

After WWII, artists in U. S. cities played a major role in the transformation of contemporary art from Modernism to Post Modernism and the present. As a survey, this course looks at several of these artists' works and their connections to important movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and the proliferation of later movements including Photo Realism,

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Art in America Since WWII — AH2286.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: andrew spence

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

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

CAPA

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

CAPA Visual Arts

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

CAPA Visual Arts

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

CAPA Visual Arts

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

CAPA

Art of Alterity: Representation and Otherness in American Visual Culture, 1839-1939 — AH2347.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

Credits: 4

From the advent of photography to the start of the second World War, American art, the cultural product of a former British colony younger than many of its foreign-born citizens, had what many perceived as "otherness" to contend with. Immigrants, enslaved and later freed, blacks, women of all sorts, sexual “deviants,” religious outsiders, the disabled, among other and

Visual Arts

Art of Auditioning — DRA2178.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn

Credits: 2

Auditions are an opportunity to develop your artistic voice and your confidence in that voice through self-critique. In this class we will work to demystify the process of auditioning and understand how to prepare and present work under challenging circumstances. We will cover cold readings, monologues and prepared scenes, with an in-depth look at each step of the process, from

Drama

Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 1) — VA2118.02

Fall 2018

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

Visual Arts

Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 2) — VA2119.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ann Pibal

Credits: 2

CAPA Visual Arts

Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

Credits: 4

A scenic design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its

Drama

Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to

Drama

Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its outward

Drama

Art of the Islamic World — AH2123.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Art of the Islamic World — AH2123.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Razan Francis

Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to the art of the Islamic world from the late seventh century to the present, covering a geography that extends from Central and South Asia to North Africa and Spain. Focusing on objects of different materials (e.g., mosaics, textiles, metalwork, painting, sculpture, wood, ivory carvings, illuminated manuscripts, and glassware), we will pay

Visual Arts

Art of the Sonnet: Conventions and Inventions — LIT4113.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Credits: 4

The sonnet, from the Italian sonnetto, or little song, has a long and rich history as a poetic form, described by contemporary poet Laynie Browne as ʺa controlled measure of sound and space within which one can do anything. An invitation.ʺ This course, a literature seminar with a significant creative component, will invite you to study the sonnet in‐depth, both as a traditional

Literature

Art of the Sonnet: Conventions and Inventions — LIT4113.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Credits: 4

Literature

Art on the Brink of Modernity in the 18th Century — AH4103.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This seminar explores how art and visual culture in France, Britain, and South Asia catalyzed and were informed by an emerging culture of modernity in the 18th century. By situating the relationship between art and modernity within global networks of trade, diplomacy, and colonial power, the course also offers students an opportunity to asses the ways in which art instantiated

Visual Arts

Art, Visual Culture, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century — AH4104.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury

Credits: 4

This course will engage students with a critical history of nineteenth-century art and visual culture in Europe (primarily France, Britain, and Belgium) and its colonial domains in North and Central Africa, the Near and Middle East, and South Asia. It will thus explore how nineteenth-century art and visual culture instantiated the psychological, physical, and imaginative

Visual Arts

Artificial Intelligence — CS4105.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Darcy Otto

Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 4

How can we create machines that think, learn, and solve problems? This course explores the fascinating field of artificial intelligence (AI), introducing the fundamental concepts, techniques, and ethical considerations that drive this rapidly evolving discipline.

Building upon your programming knowledge, you will explore key AI paradigms including search algorithms,

Computer Science

Artificial Intelligence — Canceled

Spring 2017

Instructor: Justin Vasselli

Credits: 4

In this class, students will learn the basics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We’ll talk about algorithms that allow computers to play simple games like Mancala or Pac-Man, including search algorithms, decision trees, and pathfinding. We’ll talk about how software can “learn” from a dataset, and apply that “knowledge” to improve its future effectiveness.

Science and Mathematics

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private

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