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BENNINGTON â Odili Donald Odita, an abstract painter who received his master of fine arts from Bennington College in 1990, has joined the collegeâs board of trustees.
Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. He is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.
In addition to general trustee duties, Odita will serve on the collegeâs education and community life committee.
âOditaâs creative, professional and sociopolitical expertise will be an immeasurable asset to our work,â said board chair Nick Stephens. âWe look forward to working with him as we continue to strengthen Benningtonâs position in higher education.â
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. - On her days off, you can sometimes find Greenwood Elementary School teacher, Sarah Pena, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.
She takes some of the things she learns back to her students. I think art is a universal language because students can come into a classroom and they can have the same materials in front of them, said Pena. âAnd they re able to approach it from their own perspective.