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For her senior work, Sarah Goone '16 wrote, produced, and directed a processional puppet show that led the audience on a "hero's journey" across the 51�������� campus.

Need caption to provide further context for Plan question. —Zoey Huey '18

Jon Isherwood’s “Sotol Duet” has been recognized  by Americans for the Arts Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review which annually recognizes outstanding public art projects that represent the most compelling work for the year from across the country.

"Dream States," an exhibition of photography at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art until 30 October, includes faculty member Liz Deschenes' work.

Jonah Nigro '16 is one of a group of international artists whose work will be displayed on digital screens around Paris for the first Parisian exhibition of animated GIFs. The exhibition, organized by Balibart Gallery, will run through June 10. An article on the exhibition states that Nigro is considered among the best digital illustrators in the world.

The Bennington Banner featured artist-in-residence Jacqueline Mabey's exhibition of feminist pedagogy "Utopia Is No Place, Utopia Is Process" on view at Usdan Gallery.

Rea McNamara discusses Utopia is No Place, an exhibition on feminist praxis shown this spring at Usdan Gallery, in the online art magazine ArtFCity. The exhibition included a pop-up module course co-taught by visiting curator Jacqueline Mabey and visual arts faculty member Robert Ransick.

Tom Sachs exhibition, Boombox Retrospective, runs through August 14 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Utopia Is No Place, Utopia Is Process, an exhibition that will transform Usdan Gallery into a space for critical feminist pedagogy, is on view until May 12. Inspired by Bennington’s experimental curricula and its history as a women’s college, the project features a selection of video art, a site-specific installation by Ella Dawn McGeough, a D.I.Y. printing press, and an important work by the pioneering artist Lorraine O’Grady.

Andy Bichlbaum, one half of , will be giving the Adams–Tillim Lecture on Tuesday, March 29 at 7:30 pm in Tishman Lecture Hall. There will also be a screening on Monday of The Yes Men Are Revolting.

Co-organized by faculty member Jon Isherwood and Bennington Museum curator Jamie Franklin, 3D Digital: Here and Now is a collaboration between 51�������� and the Bennington Museum that highlights artists, designers, and manufacturers whose work exploits the potential of new technologies to push material practice. The exhibition runs through June 15.

The sculptor and his helpers build an untraditional Japanese garden from whatever materials are available, resulting in a creation that "Willy Wonka would approve." 

Tom Sachs ’89 was profiled in The New York Times recently in an article that talked about his Willy Wonka-esque studio, his exhibition “Tea Ceremony” at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, NY (through May 24), and his upcoming retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum (April 21–14).

Caroline Stinger ’16 was thrown into the midst of presidential politics this Field Work Term, when she was commissioned by a celebrity to make a sweater for a Bernie Sanders rally.

Karen Johnson Boyd ’46, an alumna, a lifetime member of 51��������’s board of Trustees, and a driving force in the world of craft, passed away on January 29, 2016.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced its . Among the winners are  for her work in the visual arts, and  for her dance and performance work. Former faculty member in dance , who taught at Bennington in 2009, also received an award.

Bryn Mooser ’01 has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short for Body Team 12, which he coproduced with David Darg. The film follows the lone female member of a team responsible for collecting the bodies of the dead during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

Training Wheels, a Vermont Arts Exchange exhibition of print work by ten Advanced Printmaking students from 51��������, will open at the Bennington Train Depot. The show will kick off with a reception on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:30 pm and runs through February 29, by appointment.

In a new project at the Usdan Gallery at 51��������, artists, dancers, curators, students, and thinkers from China and the U.S. are turning the process of collaboration into a form of art. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays 1:00 to 5:00 pm; admission is free.

The fashion house is displaying two of Helen Frankenthaler’s paintings as acknowledgement of the artist’s influence on the current collection and announced it would donate 15% of a week’s sales to the Foundation’s scholarship fund at Bennington.

The international fashion house Proenza Schouler is displaying two of Helen Frankenthaler’s paintings at its flagship location in New York City to acknowledge the artist’s influence on its current collection. The label will donate 15 percent of a week’s sales to the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s scholarship fund at Bennington.

What do you do with a degree in architecture, philosophy and sculpture? For one, you win a NASA competition to design a 3D-printed habitat to be used in Mars exploration.

That’s what a team led by Bennington alum Guvenc Özel ‘02 did recently.

, a program of  in Boston, runs three weeks of workshops for visual artists every summer at 51��������.

Faculty member Mary Lum’s solo exhibition at Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Mass., is garnering attention in the art press.

The exhibition Dan Shapiro: Bennington and Beyond will be on view at Usdan Gallery at 51�������� June 17 through August 30. Shapiro taught printmaking at 51�������� beginning in 1947.

Genevieve Belleveau ’07, Michael Chinworth ’08, and Jo-Anne Hyun ’12 will be performing in faculty member Nick Brooke’s show, Psychic Driving, at the HERE Arts Center on March 10 and 11.

The New Yorker profiled the artist Elise Engler MFA ‘86 in their June 8 issue, highlighting the completion of her year-long project of drawing every one of Broadway’s two hundred and fifty-odd blocks in New York City.

51�������� announced today that it has received a $5 million gift from the New York City–based Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to support all aspects of Bennington’s visual arts program. The gift, the Foundation’s largest single grant to date, will establish the Helen Frankenthaler Fund for the Visual Arts. In a ceremony on April 12, 2015, the College will name the visual arts wing of its 120,000-square-foot arts facility the Helen Frankenthaler Visual Arts Center, in honor of and tribute to a remarkable Bennington alumna.

Faculty member Andrew Spence is one of 30 artists included in a major exhibition surveying new work in pattern, repetition, and motif at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery (between 51st and 52nd Streets, NYC). The exhibition opens with a reception on March 16, 6:00–8:00 pm, and runs through June 12 (Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–6:00 pm). 

New works by artist Devin Powers '05 on view at Lesley Heller Workspace in New York "muster an elaborate physicality while corralling a profusion of references to different cultures, mediums and artifacts," said a recent review in The New York Times.