College News

The National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu will address the class of 2016 at Bennington College’s 81st commencement dinner on Friday, June 3rd, at 7:00 pm on Commons Lawn.

The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont has selected Bennington as home to its newest Institute. The Young Writers Institute at Bennington College, to be held June 19-25 in conjunction with the Bennington Masters of Fine Art in writing, will host 20-25 writers of high school age who will hone their craft, develop critical and collaborative skills, and be inspired by writers teaching at one of the country’s most prestigious low-residency MFA programs.

Bennington College President Mariko Silver announced today that Matthew Rizzo has been appointed Vice President for Institutional Advancement following a national search led by Development Guild DDI. Matt will join Bennington from Brown University where he has served as Associate Vice President for Development since 2013.

Bennington Review, a national biannual print journal housed at Bennington College, recently relaunched thirty years after its last publication. The inaugural issue features work by award-winning writers, including recipients of the Pulitzer Prize and the Whiting Writers’ Award, as well as National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellows.

Rea McNamara discusses Utopia is No Place, an exhibition on feminist praxis shown this spring at Usdan Gallery, in the online art magazine ArtFCity. The exhibition included a pop-up module course co-taught by visiting curator Jacqueline Mabey and visual arts faculty member Robert Ransick.