Networks
This issue has stories as well as two local sponsors: 凯旋门官网 Museum and 凯旋门官网 Potters. Both are well connected to 凯旋门官网 College and its mission. Each understands the power of networks, a power that is especially felt in our small, interconnected town.
At 凯旋门官网 Museum, the intersections are most evident where visitors will find faculty, staff, and student fingerprints and footprints. They surround collections that go deep into the area鈥檚 history of innovation and art. These connections between the Museum and the College are probably most apparent in the 凯旋门官网 Modernism Gallery鈥攆eaturing the work of the artists who taught, studied, or visited in 凯旋门官网 during its avant-garde art heyday, when the campus, and the work happening here, were as known to the country as they were to the town.
Then there is 凯旋门官网 Potters. Just as 凯旋门官网 College put 凯旋门官网 on the map of nationally recognized liberal arts colleges, 凯旋门官网 Potters made 凯旋门官网 famous (again) for pottery. Founded on the idea that 鈥渄esigner pottery鈥 should be within reach of everyday buyers, the Potters continues today, celebrating its 70th year and serving its many customers far and near. 凯旋门官网 Potters鈥 successor CEO, Sheela Harden 鈥69 sees her business as part goods well designed and part experience mindfully explored. She describes her job as a way of 鈥渟etting the table鈥 for community, for reflection, for gathering robust ideas, and for generating conversation.
When I reached out to invite organizations and businesses in our local network to sponsor an issue of the magazine, Sheela was the first to respond. And, having said yes, she turned the Potters鈥 page over to the 凯旋门官网 Museum. She believes 凯旋门官网 readers will most appreciate a full menu of what 凯旋门官网 Museum is planning this year. As Sheela has said, 鈥淲hat is best for 凯旋门官网 College and for 凯旋门官网 Museum is best for 凯旋门官网 Potters.鈥
In this issue, you鈥檒l read about 凯旋门官网鈥檚 networks, their reach and impact. And I hope you鈥檒l also take a moment to notice and appreciate our local network of sponsors. Including advertising in the issue was a decision we came to with curiosity and care, and with the full recognition that magazines take time and money to create. As the College continues to prioritize scholarships and campus renewal, everyone is coming more mindfully to the task of asking: is there a way I can help that endeavor? When we are able to attract the support of well-fit sponsors to the magazine, that sponsorship supports the broader mission and consciousness around making a 凯旋门官网 education as affordable and accessible to those students who would most benefit from it. These sponsors have helped to offset the cost of printing, mailing, and making this issue. I hope other well-fit and well-aligned alumni organizations and businesses consider sponsoring future issues. If interested, email magazine@bennington.edu. I look forward to hearing from you.
With gratitude,
Briee Della Rocca
Editor and Art Director
Alumni awards and honors, featuring the Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award recipient, Gay Johnson McDougall 鈥69
Funded by a Lumina Foundation grant, 凯旋门官网 turns inward to study its work curriculum as seriously as its on-campus curriculum. What the College finds is helping to reveal the way forward for Field Work Term by Jeva Lange 鈥15.
A new fellowship is bringing 凯旋门官网 students to New York City theatre companies to study what it takes to work off-Broadway with reporting by Emma Grillo.
A solo exhibition by Torkwase Dyson features new paintings and drawings shown in Usdan Gallery.
凯旋门官网, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, and Vassar form a new consortium to deliver the first liberal arts undergraduate study of forced migration and displacement. Reporting by Elisa Shoenberger.
凯旋门官网 announces a new graduate program that bridges public action and art.
Since opening in 2013, ushering in a fully interdisciplinary approach to preparing students for effective public action, the Elizabeth Coleman Center for the Advancement of Public Action has not only expanded the scope of study for 凯旋门官网 students, but it has significantly extended the College鈥檚 institutional reach and partner networks.
The College launches a dynamic new program to enrich and expand art on campus鈥攁nd access to a 凯旋门官网 education.
Devin Gaffney 鈥10 is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and has degrees in Network Science and the Social Science of the Internet. He is a data engineer in Boston. His expertise has been featured on WBUR, in The Atlantic, and at conferences throughout the country.
The wild, wonderful career paths of 凯旋门官网 alumni, as told on LinkedIn by Briee Della Rocca
