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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.

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

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.

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.

Students in Judith Enck's  course have written letters to the editor about the need to protect the environment and marine life from the growing problem of plastic pollution.

Barbara Rice postbac '96  Assistant Secretary for Economic Development by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.