Student News

Image of Fenis Brown Bennington Students Present Work Around the Region

Several Bennington students have presented work this month at community events around the region.

Mountain Man Mountain Man Performs on NPR's World Cafe

A live performance by Mountain Man, the singing folk trio of Amelia Meath '10, Molly Sarlé '12, and Alex Sauser-Monnig '09, was aired this month on NPR's World Cafe, a nationally broadcast program that showcases indie rock, singer-songwriters, folk, alternative country, blues, and world music.

Bennington ACTS Student Volunteers 2010 Students, Staff Volunteer on Bennington ACTS Day

More than 60 Bennington students and staff members painted, gardened, cleaned, and beautified several sites in the local community last Saturday for the first annual Bennington ACTS Day.

Image of Mitchell Lichtenstein Lichtenstein ’78 Offers Advice to Students

"Be enthusiastic about your work, but always stay humble," filmmaker Mitchell Lichtenstein '78 told a room full of Bennington students as part of the "Beyond Bennington" speaker series, which invites alumni to campus to discuss their careers with current students.

Plain China Bennington Launches National Literary Anthology

Bennington College has launched a first-of-its-kind anthology of premier fiction, poetry, and nonfiction selected from more than 40 American undergraduate literary journals. Featuring work from Brown, Boston College, UCLA, the University of Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Oberlin, Stanford, and Tulane, among others, plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2009 is the only national online compilation of undergraduate writing.