July 2024 Triangle 
Issue 174

Dear Bardian,

Happy Summer. 

Greetings from the lush and steamy HV. I am just back from the very cool and breezy Maritimes, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, which was lovely. I hope you are finding some R & R wherever you are.

If you are in the Hudson Valley or your plans bring you here don't forget all the fab things going on.

SummerScape has something for everyone–from opera, to bluegrass, to tap dancing, burlesque, BMF, and disco nights at the tent. Alumni/ae get a 20% discount and select performances also offer a round-trip bus from NYC!

There were some wonderful alumni/ae participating this year– Milo Cramer ’12 and director Morgan Green ’12 brought School Pictures to the Spiegeltent and Roobi Gaskins ’19 was at the Fisher Center in June performing with the Urban Bush Women. Thanks for coming out to meet us. #bardianandproud

CCS is always worth a visit but this summer's offerings include an extensive exhibition of lesser-known works by the amazing Carrie Mae Weems, Start Making Sense, a curated selection of works held in the CCS collection, and the first in-depth show of multi-faceted work by Ho Tzu Nye: Time & Tiger.

The MFA program has just wrapped up their 2024 session with the biggest first-year class ever.  This year's thesis exhibition and performances happened at the alumni/ae-owned Basilica Hudson and Time and Space Limited in Hudson, in conjunction with Upstate Arts Weekend, and drew over 1,500 visitors. New MFA alumni/ae on the faculty include: Maryam Hoseini MFA ’17, Caitlin MacBride MFA ’16, Jess Arndt MFA ’07, Felipe Meres MFA ‘16, Megan Plunkett MFA ’17, Heather Ann Halpert MFA ’18, Krista Belle Stewart MFA ’16 and Judith Kakon MFA ’17.  

And, in other graduate program news, Bard's MBA in Sustainability has been ranked #1 Green MBA for fourth straight year and is now #1 for Non-Profit Management by the Princeton Review. Congratulations to everyone involved and MBA alumni/ae please let us know what you are up to. 

On Thursday I am hosting a ghost tour of campus with Bard librarians Helene Tieger ’85 and Jeremy Hall ’98 for students participating in the OEI Summer program. (A pre-L&T program for students who are part of the 2024 OEI cohort.) We are not focusing on Blithewood this time—which is where most Bard spooky lore is centered—but we will visit the chapel, Warden's Hall, Stone Row, and Ludlow. If you have anything to add, please let me know. Lots of liminal space at Bard, seems to encourage the spirits to appear.

Thank you to everyone who gave at the end of our fiscal year and especially thank you to our matching donors. We made the match, we had a lot of new donors and most of last year’s donors came back–THANK YOU. 

While I have you, please save the dates for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend: October 25-27, 2024 and Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend: May 23-25, 2025.  

Classes ending in 0s and 5s, you're up!

Have a great summer, please let me know what you are up to, and stay in touch. I am happy to connect if you are in the valley. 

Be seeing you,
Jane ’89

P.S. Last week the Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors Nominations Committee sent out a request for suggestions for the Bard College Awards. If you have someone to recommend, please fill out the form here.

Newsmakers

Malia Du Mont ’95, vice president for strategy and policy and chief of staff at Bard, joined virtually in the launch of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s (HKUST) Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC). Malia Du Mont ’95, vice president for strategy and policy and chief of staff at Bard, joined virtually in the launch of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s (HKUST) Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC).

Malia Du Mont ’95 Participates in Launch of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s New Division of Arts and Machine Creativity

Malia Du Mont ’95, vice president for strategy and policy and chief of staff at Bard, joined virtually in the launch of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s (HKUST) Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC). AMC will offer postgraduate programs focusing on four areas: Machine Creativity, Machine-assisted Art Practice, Art Management, and Critical Studies on Arts and Machine Creativity.

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Book cover of <em>On and Off-Screen Imaginaries </em>and Tiffany Sia ’10. Photo by Johnny Le Book cover of On and Off-Screen Imaginaries and Tiffany Sia ’10. Photo by Johnny Le

Bomb Magazine Interviews Artist and Filmmaker Tiffany Sia ’10 about Her New Book, On and Off-Screen Imaginaries

Bard alumna Tiffany Sia ’10 thinks and works across text and film. Her newest book, On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, is a collection of six essays that grapple with the complexities of post-colonial experience. The first three essays focus on new Hong Kong cinema and examine the national security policies, censorship, surveillance that followed Hong Kong’s mass protests in 2019 and 2020. The second half of the book “abruptly drifts toward other geographies,” says Sia.

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Jacquelyn Stucker ’13. Photo by Alfredo Llorens Jacquelyn Stucker ’13. Photo by Alfredo Llorens

Performance at Aix-en-Provence Festival by Bard Conservatory Alumna Jacquelyn Stucker ’13 Reviewed in the New York Times

Jacquelyn Stucker ’13, an alumna of Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, was reviewed in the New York Times for her role as Delilah in the opera Samson, a never-performed opera by Voltaire and Rameau, two of Enlightenment France’s most important cultural figures. Samson was performed as an updated production with pieces drawn from other Rameau works to replace the original score, which was lost some 250 years ago, at the Aix-en-Provence festival.

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Dinaw Mengestu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities and director of the Written Arts Program. Dinaw Mengestu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities and director of the Written Arts Program.

Professor Dinaw Mengestu Interviewed in the New York Times about His New Book, Someone Like Us

Mengestu spoke about the hidden lives of his characters, his goals when directing the writing program at Bard, and the ideas that inform the way he writes about immigrant experiences in his fiction.

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Amina Edris, Robert Watson, and Jennifer Feinstein, stars of <em>Le prophète</em>. Photo by Maria Baranova Amina Edris, Robert Watson, and Jennifer Feinstein, stars of Le prophète. Photo by Maria Baranova

Opening this Friday, July 26, at Bard SummerScape: First New US Production in 47 Years of Meyerbeer’s Grand Opera Le Prophète

Featuring the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and Bard Festival Chorale under the leadership of festival founder and co-artistic director Leon Botstein, Le prophète runs for five performances in the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center.

Starting this Friday, July 26, at the 2024 Bard SummerScape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical grand opera in which religion, politics, and power collide.

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June Supporters

Thank you to all our alumni/ae who supported Bard in June. #donorsmakedegreespossible

Anonymous (11) • Samantha Adams '89 • Dorothy C. Albertini '02 • Jesse James '94 and Gus Anagnopoulos '99 • Claire Angelozzi '74 • Jonathan P. Asiedu '24 • David Avallone '87 • Penny Axelrod '62 and Jerome Haller • Donald Baier '66 and Marty Mann '66 • Tanya M. Bart '87 • Hannah Becker '11 • Lynn Behrendt '81 • Leonie F. Bell '12 • Jennifer Bennett '84 • Sally T. Bickerton '89 • Clare E. Blackmer '89 • Connor C. Boehme '17 • Morgen M. Bowers '90 • Daniel J. Brassard '84 • Johnny J. Brennan '10 and Amy Monaco '10 • Jane A. Brien '89 and Stewart Verrilli • Matthew L. Brophy '02 • Jesse Browner '83 and Judith Clain • Reggie Bullock '84 • Michael Burgevin '10 • Marjorie Cahn '65 • Matthew D. Cameron '04 and Meredith Danowski • Wendy W. Campbell '72 • Arthur Carlson '79 • Steven M. Carpenter '87 and Amanda K. Gott '87 • Meredith Cherven-Holland '81 • Jim B. Chevallier '72 • Elizabeth C. Choate '76 • Kathleya Chotiros '98 and Ian Moore • Anastasia Christman '90 • Charles B. Clancy '69 • Lon C. Clark '90 • Richard B. Cohen '72 • Noah T. Coleman '92 • Jonathan A. Coleman '89 • Courtney Collins '73 • Gary N. Comorau '68 • Miles B. Conant '12 • Adam O. Conover '04 • Peter J. Criswell '89 • Lee-Eta Damon '24 • Timothy M. Davis '91 and Lisa Sanditz • Sophie M. Davis '14 • Nicole M. de Jesus '94 • Deanna A. Depietro '16 • William T. Dickens '76 • Jason P. Drucker '93 and Joseph Ortiz • Nicholas J. Eddy '14 • Nancy L. Edelstein '48 • Hildegard F. Edling '78 and Richard Edling • Nolan G. English '13 • Tamar D. Faggen '23 • Mark Favus '68 • Tracy S. Feldman '95 • Jack Fenn '76 • Michael R. Fesen '79 • Mariel d. Fiori '05 • Megan Fishmann Getten '05 • Diane Flynn '84 • Dylan Flynn '06 • Richard G. Frank '74 • Bonnie L. Frankel '69 • Sophia Friedson-Ridenour '05 • Hal Fuchsman '07 • Sharon E. Garbe '83 and David Blumel • Stephen B. Tremaine '07 and Karen E. Gardner '12 • Jennifer M. Gaudioso '95 • Andrew C. George '94 • Dan M. Gettinger '13 • Jin Goh '12 • Tristan D. Golas • Joan P. Goldin '02 • Eric W. Goldman '98 • Rebeca L. Gordenstein '05 • Steven M. Carpenter '87 and Amanda K. Gott '96 • Catherine A. Grillo '82 • Daphne Grosett-Ryan '66 • Mikaela Gross '07 • Lawrence C. Grossman '85 and Anissa Grossman • Hasani J. Gunn '18 • Alexander S. Habiby '18 • Sarah M. Halpern '05 • Claudine C. Hamm '99 • Jack J. Hanly '16 • Nikkya M. Hargrove '05 • Tanessa S. Hartwig '95 • Marlene Hennessy '90 • Roy L. Herrmann '76 • Jessie Hook '24 • Genevieve Howell '10 • David W. Jacobowitz '65 and Linda Rodd • Bill K. Johannes '70 • Roger A. Johnson '68 and Catherine Sheehan • Rebeccah Johnson '03 • Harry A. Johnson '17 • Charles S. Johnson '70 and Sondra R. Johnson • Meghan Jordan '07 • Eben I. Kaplan '03 • Janina Kaplan '08 • Max J. Kenner '01 and Sarah L. Botstein • Maud L. Kersnowski Sachs '86 • Stephen J. Kessler '68 • Ben T. King '03 • Doug Zwick '75 and Zina Klapper '73 • Meghan A. 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Morley '13 • Sarah M. Mosbacher '04 • Diana J. Moser '85 • Gina L. Moss '78 • Alfred E. Motsinger '77 • Patricia Moussatche '98 • Katharine M. Mullen '03 • Lisa Mullenneaux '66 • Patrick K. Murtagh '07 • Charles R. Naef '53 • Rachel K. Nalecz '18 • David L. Newhoff '88 and Scarlett O'Leary '88 • Kerri-Ann Norton '04 • Jennifer Novik '98 • Daniel F. O'Neill '79 • Maggie H. Ogden '05 • Sharon B. Oldham '94 • Ellen Parker '71 • William C. Peirce '80 • Claire Phelan '11 • Thea Piltzecker '11 • Sydney A. Pindling '14 • Tamara C. Plummer '02 • Enayat Qasimi '96 • Reggie J. Raye '10 • Robert F. Reynolds '94 • Steven B. Richards '72 • Lilian I. Robinson '98 • Alexis M. Roe '13 • Katheryn J. Ross-Winnie '02 • Esteban Rubens '97 and Susan E. D'Agostino '97 • Patrick Ryan '87 • Karen S. Saxe '82 • Kay B. Schaffer '14 • David C. Schiffman '61 • Robin Schmidt '07 and Kate Hardy '07 • David E. Schwab '52 and Ruth S. Schwab '52 • Martha Schwartz Bragin '68 • Courtney E. Scott '99 • Lis A. Semel '72 • K.C. Serota '04 and Luis Campos • Maro R. Sevastopoulos '00 • Alix M. Shafer '78 and Denis Duman • Sarah Sharp '86 • Valerie A. Sharper '81 • Mike Shea '77 • John P. Shekitka '11 • Genya N. Shimkin '08 • Mackie H. Siebens '12 and David P. Lindholm • George A. Smith '82 • Thoko A. Soko '20 • Clive A. Spagnoli '86 and Theresa Dimasi • Raissa J. St. Pierre '87 • Lindsay A. Stanley '12 • Marion P. Stein '48 • Janet Stetson '81 • William S. Stone '74 • Drake H. Stutesman '75 • Harry Sunshine '76 and Susan Schwimmer • Claire K. Surovell '84 • Steven B. Tatum '13 • Sarah T. Taylor '11 • Kathryn TeBordo '99 • Lynn Tepper '74 • Sofi M. Thompson '16 • Paul J. Thompson '93 and Saskia Thompson • Owen Thompson-Lastad '02 • Ariana Thompson-Lastad '08 • Helene Tieger '85 and Paul Ciancanelli • Maxwell R. Toth '22 • Joe Vallese '04 • Mary E. Van Egmond '84 • Kat K. Wahi '22 • Marya Warshaw '73 • Kristin B. Waters '73 • Jennifer E. Watterud '87 • Brandon K. 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