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With her current exhibition at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, faculty member Liz Deschenes—recently dubbed a “giant of post-conceptual photography” by the New York Times—“turns the gallery into a camera,” writes one critic. .

An exhibitions of small-scale photo and acrylic collages by visual arts faculty member Mary Lum opens October 23 at  in New York. 

Slipped Gears, a multimedia exhibition featuring the work of nine artists, opens in Bennington's Usdan Gallery on Tuesday, September 16, at 6:30 pm. The show offers challenging responses to a moment of tectonic cultural transition, when technology increasingly resides in and around us. The exhibition is available for viewing Tuesdays - Saturdays, from 1-5 pm, through Thursday, October 16. It is free and open to the public.

Bennington teaching technician and sculptor John Umphlett MFA '99 was interviewed by visual arts faculty member Jon Isherwood for the September issue of Sculpture magazine. 

For the second year in a row, a Bennington faculty member has been named winner of the prestigious Rappaport Prize. The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced Liz Deschenes as recipient of the $25,000 award, after . The prize is given annually to an established contemporary artist with strong ties to New England. 

The New York Foundation for the Arts has awarded faculty member Yoko Inoue a Fellowship in Crafts/Sculpture. The $7,000 fellowships are awarded to individual artists living and working in New York State and are intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice. See their website for more information. 

On view through September 3 at Bennington’s Usdan Gallery are iconic abstract works from the College’s Collection, including works by David Smith, Helen Frankenthaler ‘49, Larry Poons, Pat Adams, Hans Hofmann, Pat Adams, and other influential figures. The exhibition includes a sculpture by Sir Anthony Caro, on view for the first time ever, which was created using David Smith’s metal after his death.

Faculty member Jon Isherwood will be featured in an international exhibition of contemporary sculpture using robots to carve Tuscan marble. The show opens at The Museum of Sculpture and Architecture (MUSA) Pietrasanta, Italy on July 5, 2014.

On Saturday June 21, 2014, faculty member Jon Isherwood joined other artists, sculptors, theorists, technologists, and curators to present work with new technologies and marble in conference on stone carving in the 21st century.

Holly Block '80 was awarded the inaugural Dr. Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award.

Nearly 40 51�������� alumni artists representing the past five decades of graduates have donated artwork for a benefit exhibition and auction to support the College’s 120,000-square-foot Visual and Performing Arts Center (VAPA).

Mariam Shah ‘14 talks about her experience with working with clay during Field Work Term and how she gradually became comfortable with the material.

Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal, MFA faculty member Major Jackson, and alumna Kiran Desai ’93 are among the 175 artists, scholars, and scientists—out of nearly 3,000 applicants—to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships.

The Network, a compelling new video portrait by artist Lincoln Schatz ’86, is a single-screen video that constantly recombines 89 interviews with politicians, scientists, innovators, and scholars. It is currently on view at the Smithsonian’s .

Usdan Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition of Middle Falls by Linda Matalon until November 30, 2012. Begun in 1999 in Matalon’s 40th year, this extraordinary work is made up of 36 large-scale minimalist drawings that represent a visual catalogue of every sculpture Matalon had made up until that point in her career.

Three large-scale sculptures by visual arts faculty member Jon Isherwood were unveiled last month at the Songzhuang Art Museum in Beijing, China. The pieces are sculpted from Indian red granite ("Prophecy"), China black granite ("The Move's On"), and white marble ("Swan Song"), and will be on view through the end of the year.

A show of new works by visual arts faculty member Mary Lum will open with a reception at Yancey Richardson Gallery on September 6. The exhibit, Small Structures—on view through October 20—includes a series of small-scale photographs and acrylic-based collage works on paper, hung end-to-end in a line throughout the gallery.

The International Print Center New York (IPCNY) has selected a series of prints by visual arts faculty member Thorsten Dennerline for its “New Prints 2012/Winter” exhibit—a collection of 68 prints by 45 artists selected from a pool of more than 2,300 submissions.

The entire Bennington community mourns the loss of Helen Frankenthaler ’49, one of the most influential figures in contemporary American art and a former Bennington trustee, who died on December 27, at the age of 83.

The Sherman Fairchild Foundation has awarded a grant to 51�������� for the Open Art and Technology Initiative. The $300,000, three-year grant will support a faculty-led project to create new opportunities for Bennington’s visual and performing arts faculty to collaboratively develop curriculum that uses new technology, with the support of visiting artist-technologists who will teach and train faculty and students together in an open environment of artistic and intellectual exchange.

Laura-Lee Whittier Woods ’48 honors former faculty member Peter Drucker with a $10 million gift to Bennington in his name.

Visual arts faculty member Jonathan Kline’s exhibition at the University of Vermont showcased 17 prints produced using one of the many historic photographic processes that he’s dedicated his recent career to preserving.

Artist Tom Sachs ’89 was featured in Wall Street Journal Magazine’s “Special Innovator’s Issue” which described his recent short film 10 Bullets as a “brilliantly twisted homage to corporate training films as well as an amusing look at Sachs’s exacting studio process.”

Visual arts faculty member Yoko Inoue was one of ten artists selected to receive a $25,000 grant from the . The unrestricted grant enables women “at a critical juncture in their lives or careers to continue to grow their work,” according to the Foundation. Inoue is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, collaborative projects, and public intervention performance art.

Several Bennington students have presented work this month at community events around the region.

Alumnus Ben Hall '04 was profiled in the Detroit Free Press last month after being the only local artist selected for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit's exhibition "," which will be on display through Friday, December 30.

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has selected Lincoln Schatz's 2008 commission for Esquire magazine, Portrait of the 21st Century, for inclusion in their collection. The series of 19 portraits, which includes George Clooney, Jeff Bezos, and LeBron James, will be on view through 2011 in the exhibition "Americans Now."

State of the Union, a visual arts piece created by Bennington faculty member Robert Ransick is currently on view at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) until September 26.

Bennington faculty member Mary Lum has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship to support her ongoing work in the visual arts.

Artist and educator Nick Tobier will speak about his recent and upcoming work on Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30 pm in the College's Tishman Lecture Hall. The event, part of this term's Visual Arts Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.