Alumni News
Five From Bennington Awarded 2015 Fulbright GrantsTwo students, two alumni, and a faculty member have been awarded 2015 Fulbright grants to support their academic and professional work abroad.
Sally Mann's ExposureAn excerpt adapted from renowned photographer Sally Mann '73's forthcoming memoir, Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs, was published in The New York Times Magazine. The piece recalls the mixed reaction to her 1992 book of photographs, Immediate Family, which included controversial images of her children. The memoir is a "testimony to photography’s power to evoke tender, lucent portraits of the past," according to a review in Kirkus.
Dinklage ‘91 on Daily ShowEmmy- and Golden Globe-winning Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage ’91 (Bennington’s 2012 commencement speaker) promoted the hit series’ upcoming season on a recent Daily Show with John Stewart.
Viral CascadesDevin Gaffney ’10 spoke with both The Boston Globe and WBUR's Here and Now about his cutting-edge research on "viral cascades", a term used to describe “the phenomenon of content spreading quickly and widely through a human social network via its digital shadows".
Bennington College Receives $5 Million for Visual Arts Program from Helen Frankenthaler FoundationBennington College announced today that it has received a $5 million gift from the New York City–based Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to support all aspects of Bennington’s visual arts program. The gift, the Foundation’s largest single grant to date, will establish the Helen Frankenthaler Fund for the Visual Arts. In a ceremony on April 12, 2015, the College will name the visual arts wing of its 120,000-square-foot arts facility the Helen Frankenthaler Visual Arts Center, in honor of and tribute to a remarkable Bennington alumna.