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51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s Spring 2024 Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS) welcomes photographer and educator Elle Pérez as the Adams-Tillim Lecturer on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. All VALS lectures are free, open to the public, and will take place from 7:00 – 8:30 pm in Tishman Lecture Hall on the College’s campus.

Nine students from high schools around the country were selected as winners of 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s 2023-2024 Young Writers Awards.

Presentation to address storytelling as a form of social activism on April 16, 2024.

Today, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ announced its plans to open a new satellite campus, which will be launched into space, buildings and all, on April 8.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s Carriage Barn Concert Series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, has announced its Spring 2024 lineup of talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians who will share their work with the college and local community.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ is pleased to announce that poet and memoirist Safiya Sinclair ’10 will address the class of 2024 at Commencement.

Poetry at Bennington, an endowed program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ for public readings and close work with students, has announced its Spring 2024 lineup of featured poets.

More than 100 people attended the opening of Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal at 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s Usdan Gallery on the evening of Tuesday, February 27, 2024. The nationally traveling exhibition gathers the multifaceted work of Milford Graves (1941–2021) to explore the practices and predilections of an extraordinary jazz innovator, tireless polymath, and legendary 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ professor. The exhibition is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00–5:00 pm and by appointment through April 27. For more information, visit the . 

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI), which serves Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security men’s prison in Comstock, NY, is poised to become in New York State to offer incarcerated people the opportunity to pursue a bachelor’s degree. 

This award offers national recognition of academic libraries that are making a difference for all underrepresented groups.

Music performances and documentary screening create a vibrant program of Milford Graves events.

Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal, a nationally traveling exhibition, gathers the multifaceted work of Milford Graves (1941-2021) to explore the practices and predilections of an extraordinary jazz innovator, tireless polymath, and legendary 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ professor.

35 Bennington students have been selected for paid fellowship opportunities during the 2024 Field Work Term.

In September 2023, was eager to start her position as the director of Student Accessibility Services at 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ. This new role, which had previously been shared between Residential Life and Academic Services, was created to provide added accessibility and (ADA) expertise more conveniently than ever. 

As we look forward to 2024 and reflect on the past year, celebrate all that 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ has accomplished with the 10 most-read stories from 2023.

This holiday season, relax and rewind the year with these notable picks of podcasts, movies, books, and TV shows released in 2023 and featuring work from the 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ community.

Get ready for a winter wonderland adventure in Southwestern Vermont.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ joins in mourning the passing of groundbreaking television writer and producer Norman Lear. . 

Curated by Veronica Melendez, Connected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media is a celebration of multimedia artistic contributions of US Central American artists who too often are excluded from contemporary art world conversations.

When Karina Gonzalez Perez ’25 returned to campus this past fall, she approached Assistant Director of Student Engagement Jack de Loos ’22 about getting the long running co-ed soccer club off to a good start. Little did she know that de Loos already had a plan underway.

Dancer, choreographer, and activist Souleymane Badolo MFA ’13 has been named the 2023 recipient of 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s Dr. Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award. This annual award recognizes an engaged Bennington alumni who has successfully demonstrated leadership and confident willingness to step forward and take risks in order to solve problems and achieve results in the areas of education, government, the arts and sciences, or industry.

We know you need local Halloween event recommendations, and we’ve got them! But how to choose? Use your costume to determine which event is best for you.

The following message was sent to students, faculty, and staff earlier this week. 

New funding supports historic preservation and cultural programs.

Alison (Young Eun) Cho ’14 was named Associate Director of International Students and Scholar Advising at 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ at the start of the fall term. This is a new full-time position 100 percent dedicated to international students’ needs. The role involves handling logistical, social, and emotional support for those studying far from home.

Banned Books Week is October 1-7, 2023. We checked in with Dean of the Library Oceana Wilson to learn more about what Banned Books Week means to her.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s student body is among the more economically diverse, compared with other elite colleges and universities across the country, according to the New York Times College-Access Index released Thursday. In order of their students’ economic diversity, of the country’s most selective universities.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ welcomed a robust and diverse class of 211 new first-year and transfer students this fall.

College earns a top-ten ranking for classroom experience.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ is pleased to announce that President Laura R. Walker has joined the Editorial Board of LearningWell magazine, a publication of the .

Etan Kerr-Finell, a fourth term MFA student in poetry, has been selected to be the eleventh Residential Teaching Fellow at Bennington Writing Seminars.