Alumni News
Reunion Find: Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81's tribute to faculty member in social science Ron CohenOver lunch on the Saturday of reunion weekend, October 4, Deborah Elizabeth Finn '81 remembered a letter she wrote to recommend her favorite Bennington teacher Ron Cohen for a teaching award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The letter reveals much of what it was like to be a student with Ron Cohen then and something of the faculty-student mentorship culture that endure today. The letter appears below along with Ron's humble and humorous response.
In the Studio with Joanna Pousette-Dart '68Art and Object takes readers behind-the-scenes into the studio of painter Joanna Pousette-Dart '68, who recently exhibited Centering at Lisson Gallery in New York.
Exploring Lives and Cultures with Fran Antmann '69Fran Antmann '69 is a documentary photographer, writer, and professor. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of the indigenous people of Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, the Dene First Nation people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada.
Bennington Alumni Take Home Two of Three American PrizesThe winners of the 2025 American Prizes in Orchestral Programming have been announced, with Bennington alumni Stephen Michael Smith '72 and Brian Stone '92 claiming two of the three awards.
Kiran Desai's Latest Novel Shortlisted for the Booker Prize The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the latest novel by Kiran Desai '93, is on the shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize.