Familiarity and Surprise Work by visiting faculty member Farhad Mirza ’12 and Katarina Burin was exhibited in Boston’s Anthony Greaney last fall. The show received a rave review and was featured in The Boston Globe. Calling on memory for their childhood homes, Globe critics wrote, the installation “nods outward to […]
Shirley Captivates and Haunts Shirley—the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell MFA ’09, which takes Shirley Jackson, former guest lecturer and North Bennington resident, as its main character and is plotted on Bennington College’s campus—was adapted into a critically acclaimed, genre-blending film by the same name. Starring Elizabeth Moss and produced by Martin Scorsese, […]
Initiating Creative Chaos Forbes featured Asad J. Malik ’19—founder and head of 1RIC—this past fall after the exclusively Augmented Reality (AR) studio inked a seven figure investment deal. Forbes wrote, “New industries like XR are spheres where the rules of creation and participation are established in real time, and Malik […]
Pulitzer Prize Nominee Nigel Poor ’86, co-creator of the hit podcast Ear Hustle, was nominated this year for a Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. Speaking with the Sacramento Bee Poor reacted to the nomination, “To me, it came as a shock, a total shock. I am an artist who is […]
The Astronomy Club The Astronomy Club, a new Netflix sketch comedy show featuring the first all-Black house team at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in New York is receiving rave reviews and earning loyal audiences beyond the stage it first originated. The award-winning troupe features visiting faculty member and founding […]
Single Use Plastic Ban Visiting faculty member and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck has been all over the news as a top expert in plastics reform. Enck—a key figure behind the scenes working on legislation, research, and advocating to ban single use plastics—was profiled in Quartz this past winter […]
Page 74, 75, 76—17 year old girl, from El Salvador, June 19, 2019: “One of the guards came in yesterday afternoon and asked us how many stripes were on the flag of the United States. We tried to guess, but when we were wrong, he slammed the door.” Copyright Mary […]
Exposing Soil Contamination After testing soil and water around a Norlite incinerator in Cohoes, NY—Associate Director of Bennington’s Elizabeth Coleman Center for Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) David Bond and Beyond Plastics founder and visiting CAPA faculty member Judith Enck discovered PFAS in soil and water surrounding the incinerator. Their […]