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Meet new Costume Design faculty member Tilly Grimes.

Virginia Kelsey is a mezzo-soprano trained in the Western classical tradition and an original member of the Grammy© Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, an alternative-classical vocal band.

Experts on Iranian culture and politics blur the lines between the familiar and the unfamiliar.

51�������� is proud to announce that long-time visiting faculty member Maboula Soumahoro will join scholars from around the world for a year-long fellowship at Columbia University’s starting this fall.

51�������� Film-Video faculty member Mariam Ghani and Choreographer Liz Lerman ’69  of the prestigious 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are among more than 100 Bennington-associated Guggenheim Fellows to have been awarded throughout both organizations’ histories.

Winston Foundation Grant funds Spring 2023 class and reading Wednesday, May 17

Through a thought-provoking Q & A, Susan Sgorbati, the Director of 51��������’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), reveals a refreshing philosophy and original means of working toward a better world. Interview by Chief Writer Ashley Jowett.

The director of 51��������’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), Susan Sgorbati, will join , Director, the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security, Professor of Public Policy & Computer Science, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics & Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, and Oluowo Freeman of the (ACCARD) and others to present an event at the 2023 United Nations (UN) Water Conference.

Tom Bogdan is a Music faculty member at 51��������.

Newly appointed Drama faculty member Shawtane Bowen shares his journey coming to Bennington and his experience of life on campus.

By Halley Le '25

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Eula Biss has been selected as a 2023 New America National Fellow.

Visionary and futurist Divine Bradley MFA ’22 turned his passion for reimagining and transforming education into an immersive learning experience for the Bennington community.

By Halley Le '25

David Bond has been awarded the New Directions Prize by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

For HuffPost, Vermont State Sen. Brian Campion and CAPA Director of Public Policy Programs, shares how he helped guarantee that Vermont schoolchildren all have access to local, fresh foods for the 2022-23 school year.

Several members of the 51�������� community have been participating in the 2022 summer theatre season.

For the 25th anniversary of the  (NBOSS), Technical Instructor in Visual Arts John Umphlett MFA '99 will do a live performance, Flipping One Over a Bush, first performed 22 years ago at the third NBOSS in 2000.

This fall, Bennington welcomes nine new full-time faculty members to the College.

Faculty member and Director of Undergraduate Writing Initiatives Camille Guthrie's new poetry collection,  (BOA Editions, 2021), has received a rave review in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Faculty member and cultural anthropologist David Bond has just published a new book, Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment (University of California Press). 

Sound recording and electronic music faculty member Senem Pirler has been awarded a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Music/Sound.

Senior fellow and visiting faculty member Beyond Plastics president Judith Enck has been featured in Forbes to discuss , shifting the waste reduction burden from the consumer to the producers, and the crucial need to hold companies accountable.

Faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz has just published a of "Four Poems from Night" by Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo for Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature. 

Senior fellow and visiting faculty member Beyond Plastics president Judith Enck was featured on Spectrum News NY1 to discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling that limited the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Faculty member Noah Coburn, along with Abdul Khabir Saber and Malvika Dang '24, shared what they learned about teaching students from and about Afghanistan despite Taliban restrictions that have stifled education in the country.

Music faculty member Allen Shawn has been featured on The Jewish Lives Podcast to discuss the music and artistic life of Leonard Bernstein. 

Former art faculty member Pat Adams was featured in with Vermont News & Media. 

Faculty member Mary Lum will be part of a discussion panel for Time of Now, MASS MoCA’s annual festival of thought and performance, on June 25, 2022. 

, the arts publication featuring creatives from the Central American diaspora and from Central America and created by Technical Instructor in Photography Veronica Melendez will be featured in the inaugural exhibition presented by the National Museum of the American Latino.

Visual arts faculty member and director of the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS), Vanessa Lyon has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for the Fall/Winter 2022-2023 residency period.

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Monica Ferrell has published a poem, "Infancy," in the June 6, 2022 issue of .