Faculty News

Image of Mariam Rahmani and Sue Rees Two Bennington College Faculty Members Awarded Prestigious 2026 Fellowships from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation

Faculty members Mariam Rahmani and Sue Rees have been named 2026 Whiting Fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation.

Left: spray gun used by Olitski. Right: Olitski in his studio in New York, 1972. Spray Gun Art from the Swinging Sixties

Through August 9, former faculty member Jules Olitski is highlighted in Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s at The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, created as a showcase for the brief but highly regarded chapter when the artist was enthralled by the aesthetic possibilities of sprayed color. 

Image of Lance Richardson and book cover Richardson Named 2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Lance Richardson was named a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Pantheon, 2025).

Image of deep rover exploration Accidental Deep Ocean Discovery Reveals Hidden Carbon Sink

Faculty member Tim Schroeder is co-author of the study “Mineral Carbonation of Peridotite Fueled by Magmatic Degassing and Melt Impregnation in an Oceanic Transform Fault,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Image of women's photographs printed on transparency in a window from Double Jeopardy, an exhibition by  Carmen Winant at Usdan Gallery of Bennington College Moving Image in the Archive

A conversation between artist Carmen Winant and curator Anne Thompson about Double Jeopardy, an exhibition at Usdan Gallery of Bennington College.