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51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ is thrilled to be one of the inaugural recipients of the . Launched by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute and Environment & Culture Partners, the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative advances the goal of carbon neutrality across the visual arts.

Meet faculty member Camille Guthrie, who is teaching The Scriptorium: Love as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Meet faculty member Monica Ferrell, who is teaching Fiction: Beginnings & Endings as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Meet faculty member Thomas Leddy-Cecere, who is teaching Endangered Languages: Threats, Extinction, Survival? as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Meet faculty member Michael Dumanis, who is teaching Machines Made Out of Words: How to Read a Poem as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Meet faculty member Manuel Gonzales, who is teaching Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Art for Access, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s innovative fundraising program that enhances the College’s art holdings for teaching and enrichment while generating scholarship support  through the sale of art, raised nearly $300,000 for student scholarships in Spring 2021.

 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ President Laura Walker has announced that Dr. Maurice Hall has been appointed Provost of the College. He will assume this position on July 28.

The following message was sent to Faculty, Students, and Staff on June 18, 2021.

Following a vote at the May Board of Trustees meeting, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ is pleased to announce that Gabriela Yadegari ’21 will be serving a two-year term on the College’s Board.

Want to read like a Bennington student? Kick off your summer reading with the most checked out books from during the 2020-2021 school year.

While on sabbatical, Music faculty member Nick Brooke has been a Fellow at the in Liguria, Italy. 

On May 28-29, 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ will celebrate the achievements of the Class of 2021 at the 86th Commencement—this year with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker. Learn more about graduate outcomes across the years. 

Ford Foundation President , a leader in international social justice philanthropy, will address the class of 2021 at 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s 86th commencement on Friday, May 28, at 7:30 PM.

By Ashley D. Escobar '22

Intertwining art history and poetry defines Dabin Jeong’s (’21) trajectory at 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ through her ekphrastic poems and compulsive fixations. However, her work is not concerned with the overly sentimental––she aims to dismantle, disrupt, and redefine continuously throughout her scholarly endeavors and artistic oeuvre.

By Soumya Rachel Shailendra

The gardening shed, overlooking the Green Mountains, may just be a dilapidated structure for most of us, but for Zen Beattie ’21 it holds immense potential for redesigning and reconstruction.

The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation has awarded 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ a $10,000 grant to support the Incarceration in America think tank that will be held October 1-2, 2021.

By Soumya Rachel Shailendra

For 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ student William Shepard ‘21, the forest is a limitless source of fascination and information.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ has announced that Claudia E. Keenan has been appointed Senior Vice President for Advancement and Communications. She joined the College on May 24.

Students in Yoko Inoue's Make Kitchen Communal Practicum weekly served delicious, nutritious soups made from local ingredients to essential staff on campus.

Twelve students from 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ have been selected to participate in the 2021 Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation Fellowships in Theatre, a program run in partnership with the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation. 

Nine students from high schools around the world were selected as winners of 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s 2020-2021 .

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ has earned a STARS Silver rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

The Commons Renovation Project, completed in Fall 2019, has been awarded a Vermont’s Greenest Building Award.

Mark Wunderlich, Director of Bennington Writing Seminars, faculty member Craig Morgan Teicher, and past faculty Paul Yoon, Ephraim Asili, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Alexander Chee are recipients of the prestigious 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Noah Coburn was the lead researcher for a released on Monday from Brown University’s . This report discusses The United States’ Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) Program, which was designed to help Afghans and Iraqis in danger as a result of their service to the U.S. government, yet fails to properly support those who need it most.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ has received a gift of some 500 works of art to benefit Art for Access, an innovative fundraising program launched in 2018.

The following message was sent to the Bennington Community on April 1, 2021 by President Laura Walker.

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI) has been awarded a grant of $40,000 from the .

In Higher Ed Dive, President Laura Walker highlights Bennington’s commitment to the humanities and offers ideas that build what Bennington does best—provide an interdisciplinary education that values arts and humanities among the sciences as critical preparation for a meaningful life.