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51�������� trustee Matthew Clarke has been appointed the new Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space.

On Saturday, May 9, Bennington students, alumni, and rising star bands will perform as part of Sunfest, Bennington's annual all-day music festival.

During Field Work Term, Flo Gill '22 served as a community cast member and assistant producer on , a short film produced by Slung Low, a theatre company based in Leeds, England.

Multimedia artist Nigel Poor ’86 and poet Mary Ruefle '74 have been announced as finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes.

51��������'s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has partnered with fellow members of The New York Consortium for Higher Education in Prison (NY-CHEP) to provide protective face masks for all incarcerated individuals in New York State.

As the Bennington community social distances during the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual Wellbeing Assistant Soumya Shailendra '21 is compiling a community cookbook to foster healthy eating habits during quarantine.

Want to contribute your favorite recipe? Email soumyashailendra@bennington.edu. 

Beat the Monday morning blues by following on Instagram for new recipes every Monday! 

Bennington students offer their thanks to essential staff supporting students remaining on campus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

During Field Work Term, Stanzin Angmo ’20, Ren Barnes ’22, Ekaterina Burtseva ’20, Elene Charkviani ’22, DaEun Jung ’21, and Ulysses Lin ’20 participated in the inaugural Population Health Fellowship. This fully-paid, health-related internship opportunity was jointly offered by 51�������� and (SVMC).

Bennington students, faculty, and staff in Kerry Ryer-Parke's course go virtual with this arrangement of Love Is Love Is Love Is Love by Abbie Betinis.

Faculty member J Blackwell ’95, Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Jenny Boully, past BWS commencement speaker Garth Greenwell, and Helen Mirra '91 are recipients of the prestigious 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Technical Instructor in Costume Production Richard MacPike is constructing face masks for Bennington students remaining on campus. Learn how to make your own.

51��������’s 3D printers are usually a staple of the College's Visual Arts programming. However, as Southern Vermont grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, the College’s 3D printing equipment  and materials have been put to a now-critical use. 

51��������'s Student Health Center was featured on the cover of the April 2020 issue of the Journal of American College Health.

The Bennington Writing Seminars is pleased to announce that  is the recipient of the Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets. She will begin her studies in June 2020. 

51��������’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has been awarded a grant of $50,000 from the Ford Foundation.

This Field Work Term, Kayly Hernandez Panameno ’22 and James Walkergoutal ’20 worked as Production Fellows at XTR, a nonfiction film and television studio founded by Bryn Mooser '01.

Vermont Public Radio featured 51�������� as part of its "Syllabus for Survival" series, highlighting the College's unique Plan Process and Field Work Term as distinguishing components of a Bennington education.

From expanding Population Health research at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center to supporting refugees resettling in Idaho to creating puppets for stop-motion films in Denmark, Bennington students made a worldwide impact across myriad disciplines this Field Work Term. 

Multimedia artist , co-creator, co-producer, and co-host of the award-winning podcast , will address the class of 2020 at 51��������’s 85th commencement dinner on Friday, May 29, at 7:00 pm on Commons Lawn. The event will be .

In 2019, undergraduate and Bennington Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 65 books.

FLoW—Bennington’s community of first-generation, low-income, and working-class students—held a pop-up gallery to highlight and celebrate the work that FLoW students are creating on campus.

Poet Jericho Brown delivered the 49th Bennington Writing Seminars Commencement address.

From January 10 - February 8, Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, located on the campus of MASS MoCA, is featuring works by Bennington and Williams College students as part of the Bennington-Williams Student Exhibition.

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Marguerite Feitlowitz will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500. This Fellowship will support the translation into English of two books  by Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo.

51�������� has received accreditation from the New England Commissions of Higher Education (NECHE) to award a 51�������� Associate of Art degree to incarcerated students through its (PEI).

51�������� has been awarded a four-year $290,000 grant from the New York-based The Endeavor Foundation to launch The Endeavor Foundation Environmental Changemaker Fellowship Program, which includes funded internships for Bennington students to work in nonprofits with a focus on environmental justice.

Bennington Review—a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing housed at 51��������—has released its seventh issue, around the theme of “The Devotions.”

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty and staff offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

In October 2019, the National Gallery of Art became the first American art museum to invite six teams of data scientists and art historians to its permanent collection data, an effort that culminated in “Coding Our Collection,” a two-day Datathon.

Five students from 51�������� have been selected as Frankenthaler Fellows for the 2020 Museum Fellows Term, a study-away program that provides participants with practical, professional art world internship experience working at a major cultural institution in New York City for five months.