Alumni News

The winning plays from Dorset Theatre Festival’s Jean E. Miller Young Playwrights Competition, which is supported by Bennington College faculty, students, and alumni, will be performed on Wednesday, September 28, 6:30 p.m., at the Manchester Community Library. 

Lynn Emanuel '72 has been awarded the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her new book The Nerve of It.

A new exhibition of the later works of Helen Frankenthaler '49 opened today at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. The show, titled Line Into Color, Color Into Line and curated by John Elderfield, includes "works where the painter was exploring the division between drawing and painting." It will run until October 29. 

After receiving honorable mention for a Golden Nica Award at the Ars Electronica festival, Heather Dewey-Hagborg ’03 discovered that more than 90 percent of the prize’s winners over its 29-year history were male. In response, Heather and other female artists developed a social media campaign—#KissMyArs—which quickly went viral.

Remembered Light, the newest show from photographer Sally Mann '73, will open at Gagosian Gallery in New York City on September 22nd. The show was inspired by her friendship with artist Cy Twombly, who passed away in 2011. The show includes "intimate and elegiac images, some with just the play of light on the wall and floor of [Twombly's] emptied studio."