Bard MFA Program Presents Off Site, the Class of 2025 Thesis Performances and Exhibition, July 11–21, at Basilica Hudson and Time & Space Limited in Hudson, New York
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents Off Site, the Class of 2025 thesis performances and exhibition, which brings together the culminating work of third-year MFA candidates in the disciplines of moving image, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture, and writing. This year, the exhibition will be split between two galleries in Hudson, New York: Basilica Hudson and Time & Space Limited. The show is curated by Mary Fellios.
Bard Conservatory Faculty Lucy Fitz Gibbon Wins a 2024 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship
Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, visiting faculty in vocal arts at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, has been awarded a 2024 fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) in support of her professional projects. The BBT Fellowship Program rewards musical excellence demonstrated by outstanding young musicians—for individuals and ensembles that have been selected from over 32 countries—with fellowships in 2024 being given to seven artists, including Fitz Gibbon. BBT winners are awarded between £20,000 and £30,000. Read More >>Bard Graduate Center’s Sonia Delaunay Exhibition Featured in the New York Times
The exhibition Sonia Delaunay: Living Art at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery was featured as a Critic’s Pick in the New York Times. The exhibition reflects Delaunay’s kaleidoscopic output through all periods of her career, tracing lifetime of creative expression and presenting an innovator who transcended conventional artistic boundaries and devotedly lived her art. Read More >>Bard Graduate Programs in the News
June 2024 |
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06-17-2024 |
Off Site presents the work of Bard’s MFA Class of 2025. The title references the nature of this year’s exhibition as both a logistical reality and resilient methodology in which art activates pathways between malleable pasts and potential futures. Off Site marks a new era of openness for the program as this is the first Thesis Exhibition to occur off campus. It is staged across two venues in Hudson, New York, Time & Space Limited and Basilica Hudson. Disruptions around the source of the authorial voice; the destabilization of boundaries separating real and artificial space; and forms of perceptual mapping are among the concerns that spark connections between the works on view. Off Site showcases 19 artists working across a variety of mediums—from painting to sound installation—alongside two nights of performances. The Class of 2025 Jasmine Amussen (Writing) Michaela Bathrick (Sculpture) Erin Hoffstetter (Photography) Jenny Jisun Kim (Painting) Kinlaw (Music/Sound) Alima Lee (Moving Image) Matthew Li (Sculpture) Tyler Little (Writing) Carolyne Loreé Teston (Photography) A. Mac (Sculpture) Alina Maldonado (Music/Sound) Chantal Michelle (Music/Sound) Cherry Nin (Moving Image) lucia reissig (Sculpture) Will Stovall (Painting) geetha thurairajah (Painting) Taryn Tomasello (Sculpture) Aynsley Vandenbroucke (Writing) Grace Villamil (Music/Sound) Mary Fellios is a curator who received their MA in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard. They have completed research and worked on programs with Textile Arts Center (New York, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego, CA), Brooklyn Museum (New York, NY), Performa (New York, NY), and Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY). Founded in 1981, Bard MFA is a nontraditional school for visual, written, and time-based arts. At Bard, the community itself is the primary resource for the student — serving as audience, teacher, and peer group in an ongoing dialogue. In interdisciplinary group critiques, seminars, school presentations, as well as discipline caucuses and one-on-one conferences, the artist-student engages with accomplished faculty members while developing their individual studio practice. The program probes a diversity of approaches and fosters imaginative responses and insights to aesthetic concerns across the disciplines of film/video, writing, painting, sculpture, photography and music/sound. Bard MFA is a low-residency program that takes place over two years and two months. Students are on campus for three consecutive eight-week summer sessions and off campus for two independent study sessions completed during the intervening winters. For more information, please contact the Bard MFA Office at (845) 758-7481 or [email protected]. Off Site Class of 2025 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition July 14–21, 2024 Basilica Hudson: Student Performances Thursday, July 11, 2024: Reception 7–8 pm, Performances 8–11 pm Opening Receptions at Basilica Hudson and Time & Space Limited Friday, July 12, 2024: Reception 5–8 PM at both locations Time & Space Limited: Student Performances and Screenings Saturday, July 13, 2024: Performances 1–4 pm, Reception 4–6 pm Basilica Hudson and Time & Space Limited Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 11 am–5 pm | Saturday & Sunday, 1–5 pm Basilica Hudson will be closed on Saturday, July 13 Basilica Hudson 110 Front Street, Hudson, NY 12534 Time & Space Limited 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY 12534 Hudson, New York is a 30-minute drive from the Bard College campus. Amtrak trains from New York City and points north stop at the Hudson Amtrak station. Please check Amtrak for schedules. The train station is a short walk to Basilica Hudson and about a 20-minute walk to Time & Space Limited. Both Basilica Hudson and Time & Space Limited will be open during Upstate Art Weekend on Friday, July 21, 11 AM–5 PM, and Saturday & Sunday, 1–5 PM. Please contact the Bard MFA Office at (845) 758-7481 or [email protected] for any questions or requests regarding accessibility, including audio or film descriptions. Photo: The Mirror, 2023. Performance by Drew Zeiba. Photo by Blake Masi
Meta: Subject(s): Master of Fine Arts (Bard MFA),Bard Graduate Programs | Institutes(s): MFA | |
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06-04-2024 |
“I am overwhelmed with gratitude to have received one of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust’s 2024 Artist Fellowships. The nomination process asked me to dream about what I could accomplish with the kind of latitude that this funding and administrative support would represent, but I found the range of possibilities almost too tantalizing to imagine, as if I could permit myself only an oblique gaze at what might be,” wrote Fitz Gibbon upon receiving the fellowship. Lucy Fitz Gibbon is noted for her “dazzling virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe) and believes that creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past makes room for the diversity of voices integral to classical music’s future. Spotlighted as a Rising Star of Classical Music for 2024 in the February 20, 2024, edition of the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) Music Magazine, Fitz Gibbon is one of 15 young classical musicians that the BBC has identified worldwide who are making a prominent stamp on the industry, whether with concert performances, opera roles, or dazzling new recordings. https://www.bbtrust.com/artist/lucy-fitz-gibbon/biography/ Photo: Lucy Fitz Gibbon, visiting faculty in vocal arts at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. Photo by Steve Riskind
Meta: Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Bard Graduate Programs,Bard Conservatory | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Bard Conservatory of Music | |
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April 2024 |
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04-30-2024 |
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/arts/design/sonia-delaunay-artist-bard-textiles.html Photo: Installation view of Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery. Photo by Bruce M. White
Meta: Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Bard Graduate Center (BGC) | Institutes(s): Bard Graduate Center | |
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04-22-2024 |
Renowned Earth Scientist Naomi Oreskes to Give Commencement AddressBard College will hold its one hundred sixty-fourth commencement on Saturday, May 25, 2024. Bard President Leon Botstein will confer 395 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2024 and 229 graduate degrees, including master of fine arts; doctor and master of philosophy and master of arts in decorative arts, design history, and material culture; master of science and master of arts in economic theory and policy; master of business administration in sustainability; master of arts in teaching; master of arts in curatorial studies; master of science in environmental policy and in climate science and policy; master of music in vocal arts and in conducting; master of music in curatorial, critical, and performance studies; and master of education in environmental education. Bard will also confer 40 associate degrees from its microcolleges. The program will begin at 2:30 pm in the commencement tent on the Seth Goldfine Memorial Rugby Field.The Commencement address will be given by internationally renowned earth scientist, science historian, and author Naomi Oreskes, who is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Honorary degrees will be awarded to Naomi Oreskes, President of Al Quds University Imad Abu Kishek, sculptor El Anatsui, Chancellor of New York City Public Schools David C. Banks, scholar R. Howard Bloch, health economist Richard Frank ’74, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and actor Rachel Weisz. Other events taking place during Commencement Weekend include Bard College award ceremonies. The Bard Medal will be presented to Sandy Zane ’80 and The Right Reverend Andrew M.L. Dietsche; the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science to Daniel Fulham O’Neill ’79 and Andrew Zwicker ’86; the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters to Adam Conover ’04 and James Fuentes ’98; the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service to Paul J. Thompson ’93 and Erin J. Law ’93; the Mary McCarthy Award to Karen Russell; the László Z. Bitó ’60 Award for Humanitarian Service to Golden McCarthy ’05, Adam Khalil ’11 and Zack Khalil ’14; and Bardian Awards to Myra Young Armstead, Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Joel Perlmann, and Tom Wolf. ABOUT THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is an internationally renowned earth scientist, science historian, and author of both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of earth and environmental science. Her authored or coauthored books include The Rejection of Continental Drift (1999), Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (2001), Merchants of Doubt (2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), Discerning Experts (2019), Why Trust Science? (2019), and Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean (2021). Oreskes has been a leading voice on the science and politics of anthropogenic climate change. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” (Science 306: 1686)—the first peer-reviewed paper to document the scientific consensus on this crucial issue—has been cited more than 2,500 times. It was featured in the landmark Royal Society publication, “A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change,” and in the Academy Award–winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Her 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt (coauthored with Erik M. Conway), has been translated into nine languages and was made into a documentary film produced by Participant Media and distributed by SONY Pictures Classics. Her 2014 TED Talk, “Why We Should Trust Scientists,” has over 1.6 million views. In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for a book project with Erik M. Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. It was released by Bloomsbury Press in February 2023, and has been widely reviewed, including in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker. # Photo: Naomi Oreskes. Photo by Kayana Szymczak
Meta: Subject(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Bard Graduate Programs,Academics | |
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04-11-2024 |
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/style/nona-faustine-nude-photos-white-shoes-black-history/index.html Photo: Nona Faustine. They Tagged the Land with Trophies and Institutions from Their Rapes and Conquests, Tweed Courthouse, NYC, 2013. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Higher Pictures. © Nona Faustine
Meta: Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Alumni/ae,Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | |
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04-03-2024 |
According to Chris Gentry, program manager of the Policy Debate League for Chicago Public Schools, “Almost every affirmative team across the country is running a jobs guarantee case, and to do so they are pulling heavily on Tcherneva’s publications.” During one weekend tournament, Gentry realized that essentially every debate relied on Tcherneva’s work. In just one round that he was judging, 10 different articles or books that she wrote had been quoted. “At least twice this last weekend, I heard ‘well that’s not what Tcherneva is trying to get at here,’” he added. Another high school debate coach in Los Angeles confirmed that Tcherneva has likely been the most cited author in high school debate this year, and as a result the student debaters are quite familiar with her work. “Personally, I can’t think of a greater impact of my work than seeing young people engage with it, study it, and defend its principles,” says Tcherneva. After meeting with a group of high school student debaters this month, she adds, "The questions the students asked about the job guarantee were probing, well-informed, thoughtful, and inspired—with a keen focus on social justice. I hope that some of them will become policy makers.” Inspired by this nationwide student engagement, Tcherneva has also opened up spots in her summer workshop “Public Finance and Economic Policy” to select high-school debate students interested in going deeper into Modern Monetary Theory and the job guarantee. Organized and hosted by Bard College and the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI), this five-day workshop taking place online June 17–21 is for undergraduate students interested in public policy to tackle economic instability and insecurity, and in understanding the financing capacity and policy space available to governments to pursue these aims. Applications from high school debate students will be reviewed in April and early May. Students can apply here. Tcherneva also recently developed a resource tool jobguarantee.org, created and maintained by Bard College students and alumni, with the support of OSUN, for anyone interested in learning more about the job guarantee policy innovation. Centered on the well-being of some of the most vulnerable parts of the US population, the 2023–24 national debate topic of “Economic Inequality” prevailed over “Climate Change” and represents a pressing issue at the forefront of our collective societal consciousness. Photo: Bard Professor of Economics and Research Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute Pavlina Tcherneva.
Meta: Subject(s): Levy Economics Institute,Global and International Studies,Gender and Sexuality Studies,Faculty,Economics Program,Economics and Finance Program,Economics,Economic Policy Addressing Inequality and Poverty,Economic Democracy Initiative,Division of Social Studies,Bard Graduate Programs | Institutes(s): OSUN,Levy Grad Programs,Levy Economics Institute,Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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March 2024 |
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03-20-2024 |
https://www.ft.com/content/283495fc-52e7-470e-856b-0256ec08071f Photo: Sonia Delaunay, manufactured by Manufacture de Beauvais, Rythmes couleurs or Panneau F 1898, 1975 (designed 1974). Wool tapestry. Mobilier national, Paris, BV-270-000. Photograph: Isabelle Bideau. © Pracusa.
Meta: Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Bard Graduate Center (BGC) | |
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February 2024 |
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02-12-2024 |
Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) welcomes the audience to a world of humans, gods, and goddesses that seems all too familiar. This is Olympus High, a place where the tipping scales of popularity and power provide the perfect backdrop for a tale of love, jealousy, and intrigue. This is prom and circumstance for the ages, a lively, witty operetta springing from the genius of a young, aspiring Jacques Offenbach in 1858, playing out here in the year 1986, where relationships and hierarchy haven’t changed a bit. “It has been exciting to see the opera evolve under the artistic guidance of director Katherine Carter, who, along with the cast, is creating new dialogue to set the story in a 1980’s American high school,” says Associate Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Kayo Iwama. “If you ever thought high school was ‘hell’, you will relate to this ironic twist on the classic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice!” Photo: Graduate Bard Conservatory of Music VAP students in rehearsal for the 2024 VAP Opera production of Orphée aux enfers (by Jacques Offenbach). L-R: Joseph Breslau, Emily Finke (seated in deep background), Nisha Caiozzi, Jun Mo Yang, Georgia Perdikoulias, Jacob Hunter, Sam Warshauer, Megan Maloney, Colton Cook, Abbegael Greene. Photo by Katrine Ottosen
Meta: Subject(s): Opera,Event,Conservatory,Bard Graduate Programs,Bard Conservatory | Institutes(s): Fisher Center,Bard Conservatory of Music | |
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02-06-2024 |
Sarah Hennies is a composer based in Upstate NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer and trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. New Red Order is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) that collaborates with informants to create exhibitions, videos, and performances that question and rechannel subjective and material relationships to indigeneity. Trisha Baga is a Filipino-American artist working in stereoscopic 3D video installation, paint, clay, consumer grade electronics, and community performance. Compelled by an interest in what they call “the stuff that makes things stick together,” Baga recombines objects and images into scenarios that address issues related to the environment, technology, and identity. Representing a broad diversity of regions and mediums, the USA Fellows are awarded through a peer-led selection process in the disciplines of Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing. https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/2024-fellows/ Photo: L-R: Sarah Hennies, photo by Mara Baldwin; New Red Order (detail), photo courtesy of the artists; and Trisha Baga, photo by Molly Dektar have won 2024 United States Artist (USA) Fellowships.
Meta: Subject(s): Music Program,Division of the Arts,Bard Graduate Programs,Awards,Alumni/ae | Institutes(s): MFA | |
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02-06-2024 |
Jessie Montgomery’s “Rounds” is a composition for piano and string orchestra inspired by the imagery and themes from T.S. Eliot’s epic poem Four Quartets, fractals (infinite patterns found in nature that are self-similar across different scales), and the interdependency of all beings. Julia Bullock’s Walking in the Dark was recorded with her husband, conductor and pianist Christian Reif, and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. The album combines orchestral works by American composers John Adams and Samuel Barber with a traditional spiritual and songs by jazz legend Billy Taylor and singer-songwriters Oscar Brown, Jr., Connie Converse, and Sandy Denny. The Metropolitan Opera’s recording of Terence Blanchard’s Champion, an opera about young boxer Emile Griffith who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, was conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and featured a cast including mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as Kathy Hagen. ![]() Artistic Director of the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Stephanie Blythe The GRAMMYs are voted on by more than 11,000 music professionals—performers, songwriters, producers, and others with credits on recordings—who are members of the Recording Academy. Further Reading: Jessie Montgomery’s “Rounds” Wins 2024 GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition Julia Bullock Wins First Grammy Award with Walking in the Dark, Her Solo Album Debut The Metropolitan Opera wins 2024 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Terence Blanchard’s Champion https://www.playbill.com/article/met-operas-champion-jessie-montgomerys-rounds-more-win-at-2024-grammy-awards Photo: L-R: Bard Composer in Residence Jessie Montgomery (photo by Jiyang Chen) and Julia Bullock MM '11 (photo by Allison Michael Orenstein) win 2024 GRAMMY Awards.
Meta: Subject(s): Music Program,Division of the Arts,Bard Graduate Programs,Bard Conservatory,Alumni/ae | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music | |
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02-01-2024 |
https://www.thedailycatch.org/articles/opera-does-not-need-to-be-repackaged-argues-star-stephanie-blythe-as-she-takes-to-the-fisher-center-stage-singing-brahms-this-weekend/ Photo: Artistic Director of Bard Conservatory of Music’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program and acclaimed mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe.
Meta: Subject(s): Opera,Division of the Arts,Bard Graduate Programs,Bard Conservatory | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music | |
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January 2024 |
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01-31-2024 |
https://www.grubstreet.com/2024/01/feeding-nyc-migrants.html Photo: Beatrice Ajaero ’12 MBA ’17.
Meta: Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Alumni/ae | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability | |
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01-29-2024 |
The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles (Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator) and Meg Onli (Curator at Large), with Min Sun Jeon CCS ’22 and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker. “After finalizing the list of artists last summer, we have built a thematic Biennial that focuses on the ideas of ‘the real,’” write the curators. “Society is at an inflection point around this notion, in part brought on by artificial intelligence challenging what we consider to be real, as well as critical discussions about identity. Many of the artists presenting works—including via robust performance and film programs—explore the fluidity of identity and form, historical and current land stewardship, and concepts of embodiment, among other urgent throughlines, and we are inspired by the work they are creating and sharing.” Photo: Bard College faculty members Kite MFA ’18, Sarah Hennies, and Lotus Laurie Kang MFA ’15 are among the artists selected to participate in the Whitney Biennial 2024.
Meta: Subject(s): Music Program,Division of the Arts,Bard Graduate Programs,American and Indigenous Studies Program,Alumni/ae | Institutes(s): MFA | |
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01-19-2024 |
Daaimah Mubashshir, playwright in residence at Bard, received a MacDowell Fellowship in MacDowell’s Artist Residency Program for fall 2023 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in support of their work on a new play about their great grandmother, Begonia Williams Tate, who defied all odds in Mobile, Alabama, in the late 19th century. Chaya Czernowin, a composer and Bard MFA ’88 in Music, and Bard alumna Hannah Beerman ’15, are also 2023 MacDowell Fellowship recipients. The MacDowell Fellowships are distributed by seven discipline-specific admissions panels who make their selections based on applicants’ vision and talent as reflected by work samples and a project description. Once at MacDowell, selected Fellows are provided a private studio, three meals a day, and accommodations for a period of up to six weeks. Photo: Clockwise from top left: 2023 MacDowell Fellowship recipients Bard Visiting Artist in Residence Carl Elsaesser; Chaya Czernowin MFA ’88 (photo by Irina Rozovsky); Bard Playwright in Residence Daaimah Mubashshir (photo by Maya Sharpe); Hannah Beerman ’15 (photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey).
Meta: Subject(s): Theater and Performance Program,Film and Electronic Arts Program,Division of the Arts,Bard Graduate Programs,Alumni/ae | Institutes(s): MFA | |
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