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Image of Bennington commons February Alumni Perspectives: Shay Totten '91

Learn more about ways to connect with alumni in your region and opportunities to share your knowledge with Bennington students.

Jacqueline Melbourne Brown Llewellyn ’51 A Legacy of Place and Possibility

Jacqueline Melbourne Brown Llewellyn ’51 and Oak Bluffs

Image of Michael Pollan Humanity's Revolutionary Change

Best selling author Michael Pollan '76 spoke to The New York Times about his forthcoming book A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, which will be published by Penguin Press on February 24.

Read more at The New York Times
Teresa Booth Brown ’85 Teresa Booth Brown ’85: Practicing Possibility

Teresa Booth Brown ’85 calls herself a Possibilitist. It’s a way of thinking and working that begins with simple but expansive questions: What can this be? What can we do with what we have right here? What’s the potential of this or that? That orientation toward openness has shaped her life as an artist and educator since she “ran away” to Bennington.

Charlene Schwartz ’54 There’s Nothing You Can’t Learn

After more than seventy years, Trustee and successful business person Charlene Schwarz ’54 is still trying to bring the Bennington College magic that shaped her life to others.