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• Photographer An-My Lê Interviewed on Louisiana Channel
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  Photographer An-My Lê Interviewed on Louisiana Channel

  An-My Lê, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts.
  

  An-My Lê, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts, was interviewed for a feature on Louisiana Channel, the YouTube channel of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark with weekly videos on art and design. Lê spoke about her project Silent General and also about her experiences photographing military technology and the aftermath of war. In her conflict photography, Lê values subtlety and presenting a picture without telling the viewer how to think. “A good picture is one that is surprising,” she said. “It may be something that is familiar to me, but it's described in a way I've never seen before, [so that] it’s making me understand the situation in a new way.”
  
  Lê spoke about understanding her childhood after she evacuated from Vietnam to the US through her work as an artist. When she took her first photography class in college, she discovered her skills in visual expression and was encouraged by a professor to become a photographer. She eventually traveled back to Vietnam and photographed the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. “Dealing with the unknown is a big part of being a photographer,” she says. “It requires one to be courageous, to go to places you don’t normally go to, or you may fail; it’s about realizing something that you don’t know.”
  

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  Post Date: 11-13-2024
  
• Joan Tower’s Cello Concerto A New Day Featured in Times Union
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  Joan Tower’s Cello Concerto A New Day Featured in Times Union

  

  Joan Tower.
  

  A New Day, a cello concerto released in 2021 by Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts at Bard College, was featured in Times Union. The work, which began as a commission by the Colorado Music Festival, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra, was written while Jeff Litfin, her late husband of 50 years, was dying. “I was in real bad shape,” Tower said. “So I decided to write. In fact, all the music I've been writing since then is about him.” The concerto, which will be performed by Albany Symphony in Troy on November 16 and 17, contains four movements: “Daybreak,” “Working Out,” “Mostly Alone” and “Into the Night.” The titles are intentionally simple, allowing for many interpretations of a single day, she told Times Union.
  

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  Post Date: 11-12-2024
  
• Alum Daniel Terna ’09 ICP ’15 Named in Artsy Artist’s “On Our Radar” and Reviewed in the New York Times
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  Alum Daniel Terna ’09 ICP ’15 Named in Artsy Artist’s “On Our Radar” and Reviewed in the New York Times

  

  Monastery, 2023-4. Photo courtesy Daniel Terna and Jack Barrett Gallery, New York
  

  Daniel Terna ’09 ICP ’15 was profiled in Artsy Artist’s “Artists On Our Radar,” an editorial series featuring five artists who made an impact in the past month through exhibitions, gallery openings, and other events. Terna’s latest exhibit The Terrain is on view at the Jack Barrett Gallery in Tribeca until December 14. The Terrain features Terna’s photographs of political events from 2017 to the present, including the Women’s March and the Global Climate Strike, along with day-to-day photographs from his own life. The Terrain was also reviewed by the New York Times, which writes that Terna's photography contains “narrative restraint... [it] keeps admitting how hard it is to really know another human being.”
  
  Terna has exhibited at the BRIC Arts Media Biennial, MoMA PS1’s film program, and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, among others, and will exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery in May 2025. His photography is focused on intergenerational relationships, combining personal narratives with his outside perspective on current events. Of Terna’s 2023 photo Monastery, taken near the Dachau concentration camp where his father was imprisoned, Artsy writes, “The peaceful scene is transformed by its context, invoking the weight of memory and survival.”
  

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  Post Date: 11-12-2024
  
• Bard Fund for Visual Learning Has Raised $300,000 to Support Art Students Since 2014
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  Bard Fund for Visual Learning Has Raised $300,000 to Support Art Students Since 2014

  

  2024 Fund for Visual Learning Art Sale. Photo by Queenie Si ’25
  

  The Fund for Visual Learning (FVL) recently held their annual sale in the Fisher Studio Art Building Galleries and online, generating $8,650 to support studio arts students at Bard. Faculty, students, and staff all contributed work to the 2024 FVL art sale. The exhibition was hung by Roman Hrab and organized by Paige Mead and Erin Dougherty, with the help of students Heidi Lind ’26, Praagya Khand ’25, and Calum Tinker ’25. FVL began in 2014 to improve access to the Studio Arts Program for students experiencing financial challenges, and to enrich classroom and campus experiences for all. Since its founding, FVL has provided grants for an ambitious range of diverse student art projects.
  

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  Post Date: 11-12-2024
  
• Bard Alumna Joanna Haigood ’79 Honored with Dance Magazine Award
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  Bard Alumna Joanna Haigood ’79 Honored with Dance Magazine Award

  

  Joanna Haigood ’79. Photo by Charlie Formenty
  

  The 2024 Dance Magazine Awards honor Bard alumna Joanna Haigood ’79, alongside George Faison, Liz Lerman, Mavis Staines, Shen Wei, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, whose work with Baryshnikov Arts earned him the Chairman’s Award. From its first year in 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards have been given annually in appreciation of the artistry, integrity, and resilience that dance artists have demonstrated over the course of their careers. The theme for this year’s awards is “the stage and beyond”—the dancers, choreographers, and educators recognized are invested in work that often transcends the proscenium.
  
  “Since 1980 Joanna Haigood has been creating work that uses natural, architectural, and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative,” says the Dance Magazine Awards statement. “Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions, including Dancing in the Streets, Jacob’s Pillow, the Walker Art Center, the National Black Arts Festival, and Festival d’Avignon. Haigood has had the privilege to mentor many extraordinary young artists at the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque, the Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Spelman College, Stanford University, the San Francisco Circus Center, and Zaccho Studio.”
  

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  Post Date: 10-22-2024
  
• An-My Lê Photographs in New York Times Op-Ed: “The Price”
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  An-My Lê Photographs in New York Times Op-Ed: “The Price”

  

  An-My Lê, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts.
  

  Professor An-My Lê’s photographs are featured in the New York Times Opinion piece “The Price,” which is part of the Times series “On the Brink” about the modern threat of nuclear weapons. “The Price” covers the United States’ $1.7 trillion overhaul of its nuclear arsenal and its impact on American communities. Lê’s photographs show the infrastructure of the US military, including the inside of nuclear facilities and the people working inside them. They illustrate the tension that writer W. J. Hennigan describes: “Congress decided that America needed new weapons… but it’s clear, after I visited these places, that the American people have not.”
  
  Lê is a professor of photography whose work has covered war’s impact on culture and the environment for over 30 years. Her past projects have been exhibited in solo shows at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others.
  

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  Post Date: 10-15-2024