Faculty News

Jen Liu is a faculty member at Bennington who works primarily in video and painting, whose research-based work often involves collaboration with biologists and programmers to genetically engineer cells, build custom language models, and use dark encryption to hide information within her videos.

Six Bennington College faculty members have been named 2025 Whiting fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, which provides funding for travel that will deepen and expand their teaching and curriculum development.

Faculty members from Bennington College's BFA Dance Lab share their recent awards, accolades, and projects.

Greenwall Auditorium was full to busting when eight performers from Bread + Puppet Theater took the stage on the evening of Thursday, April 3. Students and community members filled the rows of chairs and the balconies along both sides and the back of the room. Students climbed steep ladders to catwalks high above the crowd and let their feet dangle. 

Bennington College is excited to announce the launch of its groundbreaking ArtRX program, a pilot initiative designed to explore the transformative power of the arts on mental well-being. Inspired by the growing Social-Prescribing model, this unique program combines community-based arts events with social processing sessions to offer eight students a pathway to better mental health. The work is supported by The Endeavor Foundation as a part of a grant to the Endeavor Lab Colleges.