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Assembly (Lorem ipsum), a long term installation by visual arts faculty Mary Lum, will be on view at Mass MoCA this coming May as part of the official opening of Building 6, their newly created gallery space.

On Monday, February 20th at 8 pm at The Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City, 51��������, in association with The 24 Hour Plays, will present The 24 Hour Plays®: A Bennington Tribute to Spencer Cox. This one night–only event will take place at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre and will bring together 51�������� alumni and friends—including Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Obie winners and nominees—to write, cast, rehearse, and present six one-act plays within a 24-hour period. Ticket sales and donations will benefit the Spencer Cox ’90 Scholarship for student activists at 51��������.

Jacqueline Shatz '69 has a show at Carter Burden Gallery called Interiors. 

Josh Blackwell: Neveruses Report Progress will be celebrated with a reception and a performance at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. The show is the first ever installation in the MAD Process Lab. 

Faculty member Josh Blackwell '95 is the moderator of Intertwined: A Panel Discussion which will take place at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York City in response to the current exhibit at the James B. Duke House which reexamines what defines a painting.  

Through her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Research award Sue Rees traveled to India this winter, where her research is based at the Kattaikkuttu Sangam.

 glowingly reviewed Thorsten Dennerline and Michael Dumanis’ “,” writing that the “clouds, sky, [and] text….create a rich brew that has...everything to do with the roots of poetry.”

Art History, a leading journal in the field, has published an essay by Vanessa Lyon called "A Psalm for King James: Rubens's Peace Embracing Plenty and the Virtues of Female Affection at Whitehall.”

The Digital Stone Project, founded by Jon Isherwood, is “changing the nature of the art” of stone carving.

Artist Cosmo Whyte '05 has been named a finalist for the Hudgens Prize, a $50,000 award for Georgia artists. 

Jaqueline Kramer '76 installed a selection of paintings inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis. The proceeds went to the International Rescue Committee. For Kramer, who studied painting during her time at Bennington, “This series combines my love of painting with my love of service. I’m very excited to share these paintings with others.” 

Ariel Herwitz ’06, Floryn Honnet ’13, Rainer Hunt ’13, and Georgia Lassner ’09 are the inaugural class of a new residency for young alumni artists that was established at Bennington this year. Funded by a grant from an anonymous donor made in honor of faculty members Barry Bartlett and Jon Isherwood, the program invites recent graduates in sculpture and ceramics to live and work on campus for two- to four-week stints. In “studios” in Usdan Gallery, these four artists have had a chance to dive into their practice mostly uninterrupted, and current students have had the opportunity to interact with them in a variety of ways. Says Jon Isherwood, one of the designers of the residency, “It’s a very exciting moment for us in the Visual Arts to be able to bring back alumni and have them develop new work in the gallery. The premise of the residency has been to encourage experimentation. Complimenting this, the VA faculty have invited our alumni guests to visit classes and meet with students one on one.”

The fruits of the artists’ labors will be on view at Usdan Gallery from November 29 through December 8. They spoke with Aruna D’Souza about their student experiences, their approach to art making, and their experience being back on campus.

The Yellowstone Art Museum (YAM) in Billings, Montana, will exhibit a woodblock print by Mira Darham '19.

Robin Jebavy '04 has been awarded a Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation in recognition of her work as an "emerging artist." Her work will be included in an exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art next June. 

Faculty member Josh Blackwell '95 will have a solo show at Museum of Arts and Design in New York City this winter from November 15 through February 19, 2017.  Neveruses Report Progress is based on "interventions into and upon the form of the plastic bag—a globally ubiquitous symbol of capitalist waste."

Faculty member Josh Blackwell ’95 will have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City this winter.

Thorsten Dennerline will be showing work at the Editions / Artists' Books Fair this week in New York City. His new book, A Cloud in Trousers, written by Vladimir Mayakovsky and translated by Michael Dumanis, will be on display. 

Twenty-six designs for a restaurant at the Peninsula Hotel in Beijing, developed by Bennington students, staff, and faculty, will be featured in an exhibition at the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) at the end of this month, with a simultaneous exhibit in the Gllery at the hotel. 

Liz Deschenes has two new shows on view now—one at Miguel Abreu Gallery and the other at Paula Cooper Gallery. In both, her work is presented in conversation with that of acclaimed conceptual and minimal artist Sol LeWitt, who passed away in 2007. 

A new exhibition of the later works of Helen Frankenthaler '49 opened today at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. The show, titled Line Into Color, Color Into Line and curated by John Elderfield, includes "works where the painter was exploring the division between drawing and painting." It will run until October 29. 

VBS (violet burning sunset) will highlight both notable and up-and-coming Bennington artists. The show is the capstone event of a year-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of College’s Visual and Performing Arts building, bringing together artists who studied and worked in that space—a mix of both established and emerging international artists.

Gesture, a nearly 3000-part installation of small paintings by Manju Shandler ’95, is included in the exhibition “Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11” at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Each painting is meant to evoke a particular victim. The show opens on September 12.

Faculty member Jon Isherwood will debut ten new wood block relief carvings at the John Davis Gallery on Sunday, August 20th. The show will run until September 11th. 

This summer, faculty member Jon Isherwood once again spearheaded a collaboration between the Digital Stone Project and Garfagnana Innovazione in Tuscany, focused on bridging the gap between art and technology. This is the fourth such collaboration between Isherwood and students from 51��������, the Digital Stone Project, and the Italian incubator for the artisanal stone industry.

Alex Simon ’09 was named “DIY Docs” Artist of the Month by Dr. Martens in June. In a feature on the company’s blog, Simon talks about her work since graduating from Bennington, including her about-to-launch creative business, Make Good Choices.

Faculty member Liz Deschenes spoke with Artforum about her midcareer retrospective on view now at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, as well as her fascination with the histories and challenges of photography. The show is on view through October 18, 2016.

A 20-year survey of the work of faculty member Liz Deschenes opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston on June 29. The exhibition will include "explorations of various photographic technologies, rich and nuanced work with photograms, and sculptural installations that reflect the movements and light within a given space and respond to a site’s unique features."

Video by Eloise Schieferdecker '16

Animation by Josh Reinstein '19

Animation by Kagan Marks '16 and Rebeca Jervis '16
Backgrounds by Kagan Marks '16 and Ben Lee '18