Faculty News

Two paintings by visual arts faculty member Andy Spence are presently featured in New Works, a group show by gallery artists at the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York. These two recent pieces, Variation 2 and Untitled (Corner Painting 1), will be on view at the Gallery through August 1, 2008.

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.

Bennington psychology faculty member David Anderegg will read from his new book Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont on Thursday, May 15, 2008.

Faculty member and South African anti-apartheid hero Mac Maharaj and his biographer Padraig O’Malley appeared on the nationally syndicated public radio program Fresh Air with Terry Gross on Monday, May 12, to discuss their recent reconciliation work with 36 Iraqi leaders. 

The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that five members of Bennington's community have been honored with this year's 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships for their "distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the nation's most prestigious honors, were given to current MFA in Writing faculty member Michael Paul Burkard; acclaimed poet Reginald Shepherd '88; innovative choreographer Myrna Packer '74; New Yorker magazine editor and translator Ann Goldstein '71; and professor of organism biology and ecology at the University of Massachusetts, Laurie R. Godfrey '67.