Dear Families,

Senior Project Day was last Wednesday! Congratulations to our Senior Families, those projects are a huge milestone and made possible in part with your support. Did you know you can search Bard Senior Projects online? The titles and subjects are amazing. If you are curious, anyone can search. It was a beautiful day to celebrate their accomplishments. 

Bardians make thoughtful employees. I know first hand. If you have a job opportunity for a student over the summer months, or a recent graduate,  please reach out to Bard’s Career Development Office. 

For you music fans, Bard has a student-run, free-form, experimental radio station that broadcasts live, 16-hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week? Since 1947, WXBC has provided original programming to Bard’s campus and the surrounding area. Check it out here!

Reminder from the Office of Residence Life, please read the official move out dates and pertinent information in the box below.

Bard campus is beautiful and busy all summer,  if you are nearby, join us for Bard’s own SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival, there's something for everyone from a fully-staged production of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s glorious opera Le prophète to SCAT!, a new dance-driven jazz club spectacular from Urban Bush Women.

Best, 
Sasha Boak-Kelly 
Senior Director of Development
845-758-7407

P.S. Please consider donating in support of our students before June 30, 2024. All gifts have an immediate impact and any amount meaningful to you makes a difference. Visit giving.bard.edu/bcf to donate today.

If you are already a current donor–THANK YOU! Bard would not be possible without donors. 
 

Bard Conservatory Student Hannah Park-Kaufmann ’24 Awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarship

Hannah Park-Kaufmann ’24, who is graduating with dual degrees in piano performance and mathematics, has won a Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate-level study at Stanford University. Park-Kaufmann will pursue a master's degree in computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University School of Engineering. Upon completion, she will matriculate into the PhD program in applied mathematics at Harvard University. 

Two Bard College Graduates Win 2024 Fulbright Awards

Sara Varde de Nieves ’22, who was a joint major in film and electronic arts and in human rights at Bard, has been selected for a Fulbright Study/Research Award to Chile. Their project, “Regresando al Hogar/Returning Home,” aims to preserve the legacy of Villa San Luis, a large-scale public housing complex built in Las Condes, Santiago, Chile from 1971 to 1972. Jonathan Asiedu ’24, a written arts major, has been selected for an English Teaching Assistantship Fulbright to Spain. His teaching placement will be in the Canary Islands.

Bard College Student Sierra Ford ’26 Recognized on 2024 ALL IN Student Voting Honor Roll

Bard College sophomore Sierra Ford has been named to the 2024 ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Student Voting Honor Roll. Ford, leader of the College’s student voting initiative Election@Bard, joins a group of 137 students recognized for their nonpartisan voter registration, education, and turnout efforts during the 2023 elections, which featured critical ballot measures and local and state races.

Illinoise, Co-commissioned by the Fisher Center at Bard, Nominated for Four Tony Awards

Illinoise, the dance musical based on the Sufjan Stevens album of the same name, has been nominated for four Tony Awards: Best Production of a Musical, Best Choreography, Best Lighting Design, and Best Orchestrations. Co-commissioned by the Fisher Center at Bard, Illinoise played to sold-out crowds at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts as part of SummerScape 2023 before moving on to Chicago and New York, where it is currently playing a limited run at the St. James Theater on Broadway.

CCS Bard to Double Capacity of Library and Archives with New Keith Haring Wing

$10M Capital Project Supported by Lead Gift from the Keith Haring Foundation

The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) today announced the expansion of its library and archives with a new 6,000-square-foot addition. Supported by a $10 million capital project, the Keith Haring Wing will be named in recognition of a lead $3 million gift from the Keith Haring Foundation. The addition will more than double the current capacity of CCS Bard’s library and archives, significantly increasing the number of students, scholars, and researchers it can support.