College News

dance spirit magazine logo pink and white "Ask the Big Questions"

Dance Spirit interviewed Director of Field Work Term and Career Development Faith McClellan about the role that college counselors can play in advancing a student's dance career. 

Gund Institute Sgorbati, Bond Named UVM Gund Affiliates

Director of Bennington’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), Susan Sgorbati, and faculty member in the environment and Associate Director of CAPA David Bond have been named Global Affiliates at the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute for Environment.

A production of Midsummer Nights Dream at Bennington College Off-Broadway Theatre Fellowship Launched

Bennington College is pleased to announce the launch of The Lucille Lortel Foundation Fellowships in Theatre, a pilot grant program offering paid internships in off-Broadway non-profit theatre companies for exceptional Bennington drama students.

Bennington Magazine Winter 2018 Bennington Magazine, Winter 2018

The new issue of Bennington Magazine is here!

students looking at the show in usdan gallery "Some Reflections on the Young Girl"

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship published an essay on curator Jacquline Mabey titled "Not Mine Alone, Nor Mine to Own: Some Reflections on the Young Girl."

Bennington pop-up course Teaching the Here and Now

Vermont Business Magazine recognized Bennington as being among the “top institutions” now offering pop-up courses—a new curricular approach that enables faculty, experts, and students to delve into current events and issues as they unfold.

Isabel Roche “Our Students Are True Change Makers”

Bennington provost and dean Isabel Roche was the subject of a Q&A in HigherEdJobs about what makes the College—and its students, faculty, and alumni—stand out in the landscape of higher education.

Alexandra Bell Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print

The New York Times profiled artist Alexandra Bell for her Counternarratives project–now on view on buildings around the campus–which features supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender.

cover of threat bennington review issue three Praise for "Threat"

NewPages.com glowingly reviewed issue three of Bennington Review, calling it "an incredibly strong issue put forth by an excellent journal."

The Bennington Sprays The Nourishing Relationship of Olitski and Caro

A recent exhibition of works by two former faculty members and iconic figures in contemporary art—sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and painter Jules Olitski—"offers a capsule vision of the relationship of the two artists" during their formative years together at Bennington, one critic writes.