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January 2015
01-30-2015
Allison Cekala '06 uses photography and video to trace the journey of road salt from Chile to Boston in her new exhibition at the Museum of Science.
01-26-2015
Founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (BGC) Susan Weber is the recipient of the 2015 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from the College Art Association (CAA) for the catalogue, William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press, 2013). Given for an “especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published in the penultimate calendar year under the auspices of a museum, library, or collection,” the award reflects the BGC’s commitment to the highest standards of scholarship. The award will be presented to Weber during CAA’s Convocation in Manhattan on Wednesday, February 11.
01-25-2015
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced its 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees, and a Bard MFA alumna and faculty members are among them. Music/Sound faculty Jace Clayton, Writing alumna Charity Coleman MFA '13, and Writing faculty Matvei Yankelevich have all been named as winners. For the past 29 years, NYFA has awarded unrestricted fellowships of $7,000 to artists living and working in the state of New York. Awarded in 15 different disciplines over a three-year period, Artists' Fellowships support artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers.
01-14-2015
Four Bardians are involved in The Scarlet Ibis: Mallory Catlett '92, director; David Cote '92, librettist; Joe Silovsky '91, set designer; and Stefan Weisman '92, composer.
01-13-2015
Artists at last month's symposium, What's Love Got to Do with It: Affect, Interactivity, and the Haptic, explored the intersection of the personal and the political.
01-13-2015
Dylan Mattingly is composing the score for Quest, a film about the life-changing relationship between one of Mattingly's former teachers and another student.
01-08-2015
Bard MFA alumnus Zach Layton '15 and faculty members Ellen Fullman and David Hartt have been named recipients of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2015 Grants to Artists. Each of 14 winners receives an unrestricted grant of $35,000. These cash awards, given to artists across disciplines, provide recipients with the financial means to engage in whatever artistic endeavors they wish to pursue, to research and develop ideas, to embark on projects, and to complete projects already underway. Fullman and Layton won in the category of Music/Sound and Hartt won in the category of Visual Arts.
MFA Photography student Felipe Meres '16 is the Grand Prize winner of the Tom of Finland Foundation 2014 Emerging Artist Competition. The Foundation produces a biannual contest that supports and encourages emerging erotic artists by providing exhibition of their work, publicity, and awards.
MFA Photography student Felipe Meres '16 is the Grand Prize winner of the Tom of Finland Foundation 2014 Emerging Artist Competition. The Foundation produces a biannual contest that supports and encourages emerging erotic artists by providing exhibition of their work, publicity, and awards.
01-07-2015
Santa Fe painter Jivan Lee "is a talented, emerging artist with a blossoming career and bright future ahead of him," writes Bonnie Gangelhoff.
01-03-2015
The exhibition of groundbreaking works by feminist artist and illustrator Barbara Nessim at the Bard Graduate Center is not to be missed, writes Sheila Weller.
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