Headliners
Faculty, alumni, staff and students are in the headlines calling attention to toxic waste sites, single use plastics, children in ICE detention camps; their films, artwork, journalism, performances, businesses albums and more are earning national attention as well. For the full recap of the headlines, click on the stories below.
Beethoven & Aortic DissectionForbes featured Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Stamford Hospital Dr. Michael Coady ’89 in a report published this past December.
Shirley Captivates and HauntsShirley—the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell MFA ’09, which takes Shirley Jackson, former guest lecturer and North Bennington resident, as its main character and is plotted on Bennington College’s campus—was adapted into a critically acclaimed, genre-blending film by the same name.
Concert/DocumentaryNPR favorite, Sylvan Esso (Amelia Meath ’10 and Nick Sanborn) performed another Tiny Desk Concert in May, this time at home.
The Astronomy ClubThe Astronomy Club, a new Netflix sketch comedy show featuring the first all-Black house team at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in New York is receiving rave reviews and earning loyal audiences beyond the stage it first originated.
Faking Fine Art for FilmWhen The New York Times featured the work of Fanny Pereire ’82 in May, she summed up her role on film and tv in one sentence: “I create art collections for people who don’t exist.”