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Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine Bennington College has received a gift of some 500 works of art to benefit Art for Access, an innovative fundraising program launched in 2018. Art for Access celebrates the College’s pioneering legacy in the visual arts by pursuing dual goals: to expand and enhance Bennington’s art holdings for teaching, enrichment, and enjoyment and to raise funds for scholarships through the sale of art, advancing the College’s commitment to equity, diversity, and access. The gifted works including prints, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture are from the collection of noted art patron and curator Melva Bucksbaum (1933-2015). In assembling her private collection, Mrs. Bucksbaum was a risk-taking collector who focused on the artist, not art-world trends, and supported artists through her philanthropic work as well as studio acquisitions. She served as a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art and on many other boards including

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