Memorial Hall Dedication

We hope you can join us on November 11 as we rededicate the Old Gym at Bard, in honor and remembrance of alumni/ae, faculty, and staff who have served the country in armed services. Dedication and remarks will began at 11 am with a reception immediately following at the Schwab '52 Atrium in the Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building.

Please RSVP here.

Joanna Haigood ’79. Photo by Charlie Formenty

Bard Alumna Joanna Haigood ’79 Honored with Dance Magazine Award

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. 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.

Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl. Courtesy Utopia

Profile of Gia Coppola ’09 in the Sunday Times

The Sunday Times profiled Bard alumna Gia Coppola ’09, whose feature film The Last Showgirl premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Coppola spoke about her family, her path toward being a director, and how the film and Pamela Anderson's casting in it came together like a “divine intervention."

Still from Valve Turners. Photo courtest of Climate Film Fest

Film by Steve Bonds-Liptay MS ’10 Valve Turners Wins Climate Action Award

Valve Turners, a documentary feature film directed and produced by Steve Bonds-Liptay MS ’10, premiered and won the Climate Action Award in this year’s Climate Film Fest. Valve Turners follows a small group of activists from the Pacific Northwest as they turn the valves and halt the flow of five oil pipelines entering the United States from Canada to spotlight the climate emergency.

L–R: Rosa Polin ’16 and Ryan Rusiecki ’20.

Bard Alumni/ae Rosa Polin ’16 and Ryan Rusiecki ’20 Featured in Cultured Magazine’s List of Young Photographers 2024

Bard alumni/ae Rosa Polin ’16 and Ryan Rusiecki ’20, graduates of the photography program, have been featured in Cultured magazine’s Young Photographers 2024, a list highlighting the next generation of image makers who have dedicated themselves to photography as an art form.

L–R: TEDx Bard organizers Tom Chitwood, first, Emily O'Rourke, second, Jay Siegal, third, and Thanasis Kostikas, sixth, are joined by Center for Civic Engagement project advisors Chaya Huber, fourth, and Sarah deVeer, fifth.

TEDxBard Organizer Emily O’Rourke ’25 Shares Her Lessons Learned from Organizing a Conference

Emily O’Rourke ’25 shared her experiences working on Bard’s TEDx organizing team in an article for Bard CCE News. TEDx events are independently organized conferences that bring together speakers to give short talks with the aim of sparking conversation and change. The upcoming TEDxBard conference, "Building Bridges," will focus on topics from structural issues in the global coffee supply chain to building a sustainable lifestyle.

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WXBC Director Liam Dwyer ’26 Interviewed About Tape Decks in the New York Times

The New York Times interviewed Bard student and WXBC director Liam Dwyer ’26 for an article about the revival of tape decks. Modern artists have increasingly been releasing their music on cassette, capitalizing on listeners with old cars as well as younger music fans who are discovering cassettes for the first time. One of them is Dwyer, who originally got interested in cassettes because of how musical artists use tapes in experimental music.