College News

51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ will host the 28th annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival, an international juried competition and award tour, on Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the College's Tishman Lecture Hall. The event, part of this spring's Visual Arts Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

Bennington President Elizabeth Coleman was a guest on Vermont Public Radio's Vermont Edition on February 12 to discuss plans for the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, a building that will embody Bennington's new curricular initiative. Construction on the project is expected to begin this spring.

Bennington magazine was honored with a Gold Award for Best Overall Magazine from the for its special coverage of the College's 75th anniversary, celebrated in 2007-08.

Bennington Bookmarks, a new collaborative art installation, will be unveiled at an opening reception at 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæâ€™s Crossett Library on Tuesday, May 20, at 5:00pm.

, author of and CEO of the , will speak at the first annual Four College Issues Forum—a forum founded by 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Southern Vermont College, and Williams College "to bring significant discussion of national and global issues to the region and to their campuses."