L-R: Caleb Wagner ’24, Odetta Hartman ’11, Joseph “Slima” Williams, Professor Michael Robinson Cohen, Amadou Gadio ’24, Waleska Brito ’24, Sage Arnold ’24, Sam McVicker ’23, Carlos “Chino” Garcia, Marcus Pirozzi ’24, Jack Loud ’23, Dot Ayala Valdez ’24. Photo by Phil Hartman ’79

Bard Architecture Students Meet with Celebrated Community Organizers in East Village

Bard College students in Michael Cohen’s architecture course Designing Potential Histories of El Bohio Off Anarchy Row took a trip to the East Village on Friday, February 24. Over pizza at Two Boots, they met with activists Carlos “Chino” Garcia and Joseph “Slima” Williams, two members of the CHARAS collective, to discuss their community and cultural work on the Lower East Side (Loisaida). Between 1978 to 2001, CHARAS organized educational, arts, and social programming that primarily served the growing Puerto Rican community, operating mainly out of the vacated Public School 64 building which they renamed “El Bohio,” or the hut. Students in Designing Potential Histories are imagining the adaptive reuse of the now vacant school building and the appropriation of other sites on the block.

Clockwise, from top left: Maya Frieden ’22, Lance Sum ’21, Mercer Greenwald ’22, Jordan Donohue ’22, Paola Luchsinger ’20.

Bard College Named a Top Producer of Fulbright Students for 2022–23

Bard College is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2022–23 Fulbright students and scholars. Each year, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces the top producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes the lists annually.

Tanya Marcuse in her studio with new large works from Book of Miracles. Photo by Jonah Romm ’24

Bard Artist in Residence Tanya Marcuse SR ’81 Awarded MacDowell Fellowship for Work on Her Most Recent Project Book of Miracles

Tanya Marcuse SR ’81, artist in residence in the Photography Program at Bard, has received a MacDowell Artist Residency Fellowship for spring/summer 2023. Marcuse’s fellowship will support work toward the completion of her project, Book of Miracles, to be published by Nazraeli Press. This project, in direct conversation with the 16th-century Book of Miracles, a compendium of biblical, astronomical, and apocalyptic miracles, aims to visualize phenomena that seems to defy the laws of nature, using fire, paint, and the staging of fantastical scenes. Photography often walks a thin line between fact and fiction, or dwells in a realm where the two cannot be distinguished; the proposed work takes part in this pendulum swing between belief and doubt.

Brothers@Bard students participate in a meeting at Kingston High School. Photo courtesy of Jessica Clegg/Ulster BOCES

Kingston High Partnership with Brothers@ and Bard College Helping Teens “Take Charge of Their Educations and Their Futures”

Since first partnering with Brothers@ and Bard College in 2015, students at Kingston High who participated in the program have “achieved an overall graduation rate of over 90%,” writes the Daily Freeman. Brothers@, founded at Bard by Dariel Vasquez ’17 and Harry Johnson ’17, partners with institutions to improve the educational outcomes of young men of color through their “Our Space” methodology. At Kingston High, high school students are matched with current Bard students as mentees “to foster academic persistence as well as positive identity and character development.”

The late Bard professor and alumnus Harvey Fite ’30.

Opus 40 Set to Acquire House of Late Bard Professor, Alumnus Harvey Fite ’30, Bard Will Partner on Programming

Opus 40 has reached an agreement to purchase the historic home of Bard professor, alumnus, and artist Harvey Fite ’30. Bard College was a partner in the process, and will provide programming support in the house going forward, to include educational programs, workshops, and faculty residencies. Bard College President Leon Botstein said, “It’s an honor to participate in the preservation of this unique sculpture and land art made by an alumnus and long-time faculty member of Bard and our neighbor in the Hudson Valley. We look forward to expanding joint programming with Opus 40 in the future and are thankful to the Richards family for their efforts preserving Harvey Fite’s legacy.”

Luke Haaksma. Photo by Emma Daley

Bard College Conservatory and Film and Electronic Arts Alumnus Luke Haaksma ’21 Awarded Charles Ives Scholarship by the American Academy of Arts

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the 16 recipients of this year’s awards in music. Among the winners, Bard College Conservatory and Bard Film and Electronic Arts alumnus Luke Haaksma BA/BM ’21 was awarded a Charles Ives Scholarship. Charles Ives Scholarships are $7,500 each and awarded to composers for continued study in composition, either at institutions of their choice or privately with distinguished composers.