College News

Bennington College will host the 28th annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival, an international juried competition and award tour, on Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the College's Tishman Lecture Hall. The event, part of this spring's Visual Arts Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

Bennington President Elizabeth Coleman was a guest on Vermont Public Radio's Vermont Edition on February 12 to discuss plans for the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, a building that will embody Bennington's new curricular initiative. Construction on the project is expected to begin this spring. 

Bennington magazine was honored with a Gold Award for Best Overall Magazine from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for its special coverage of the College's 75th anniversary, celebrated in 2007-08.

Bennington Bookmarks, a new collaborative art installation, will be unveiled at an opening reception at Bennington College’s Crossett Library on Tuesday, May 20, at 5:00pm.

Amory Lovins, author of Winning the Oil Endgame and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will speak at the first annual Four College Issues Forum—a forum founded by Bennington College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Southern Vermont College, and Williams College "to bring significant discussion of national and global issues to the region and to their campuses."