Event Calendar
Pick a DateMusic Installations
Several small music installations throughout Jennings: a composer’s installation featuring former faculty Vivian Fine and alumnae composers Betsy Jolas ’46, Joan Tower ’61, and Elizabeth Swados ’73; an exhibition by faculty Nick Brooke on electronic music including alumni Pril Smiley ’65; and an installation on the Black Music program created by faculty member Karthik Pandian and students.
Sit Still with a Presence
An exhibition featuring the work of seven alumni artists who studied at Bennington from the 1940s up to VAPA’s opening in 1976. The show takes as its starting point the College’s longstanding attention to the language and possibilities of abstraction.
Alumni Memory Project Open Hours
The Alumni Memory Project (AMP) is a group of students and alumni whose mission is to record multi-generational alumni memories to share with and to preserve for the Bennington College community. Please stop by to record a short story from your time at Bennington with student interviewers.
Alumni: Conversation with President Mariko Silver
Alumni will hear updates from Bennington’s president, Mariko Silver, and discuss Bennington’s future.
Alumni: Reunion Farm to Table Celebration Dinner
Alumni are invited to enjoy a locally-sourced dinner with friends and the presentation of the Hudas Liff ’45 Volunteer Award to one of your classmates.
The VAPA Reader: Creating a publication from the archives and reflections
Ian Dolton-Thornton ’11 will lead visitors in how to use the equipment in the Word & Image Lab to customize and bind their own copies of a brand new publication about the history of the Visual and Performing Arts center (VAPA). Location: Word & Image Lab
LAB Talk: Emerging Scientists at Work
Join Chernoh Jalloh '15, Genelle Rankin '15, and Naima Starkloff '15 for a conversation on working in the sciences, facilitated by Dean of Research, Planning, and Assessment Zeke Bernstein. This discussion is intended to share the different paths one can take in the first year or two post-graduation, and the questions these young alumni wrestled with in the process of deciding what was next.
Alumni Memory Project Open Hours
The Alumni Memory Project (AMP) is a group of students and alumni whose mission is to record multi-generational alumni memories to share with and to preserve for the Bennington College community. Please stop by to record a short story from your time at Bennington with student interviewers.
"Runaways" Experimental Performance
An experimental performance incorporating art, music, and dance by Josh Blackwell ’95, Alex Huberty ’95, Daniel Roberts MFA ’14, Jacob Robichaux, Lizzie Scott, and current students.
Alumni Dance Films
Two alumni dancers will show films of their work: Ghost line directed by Shona Masarin and Cori Olinghouse ’01 and Explicit Female, Body Etudes & Female on Stage by Zornitsa Stoyonova ’06.
We’re the Jam in the Sandwich: Caregiving for Any Age
A humorous, serious, and practical conversation with Diane Cameron MFA ’99 about caregiving and caregivers of the “Sandwich Generation,” people who are raising families while caring for their parents. Please join us to look at the needs, demands, strategies, and even the literature of caregiving.
Unexpected Careers: The Paths to the Entrepreneurial Life
Join a discussion with Brendon Blake '92, Joanna Dillon '07, Blaine Graboyes '95, Adnan Iftekhar '97, Riva Magaril Poor '56, and David Zicarelli '83, moderated by visual arts faculty member Robert Ransick about Bennington pathways to entrepreneurial careers and creative problem solving.
Alumni: 50th Reunion Reflections
The classes of 1965, 1966, and 1967 celebrating their joint 50th Reunion come together for sharing of work, ideas, and discussion about their experiences at Bennington and beyond.
LAB Talk: Professional Possibilities in Architecture
A conversation about working in the world of architecture hosted by Kent Hikida ’85, Annie Coggan ’85, and architecture faculty member Donald Sherefkin.