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left, a woman stands with a camera in a swamp to take a photo. right, a woman smiles with grass behind her

Two Bard College Faculty Awarded New York State Council on the Arts Grants

Tanya Marcuse, associate professor of photography, and Sarah Hennies, assistant professor of music, have been awarded 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships. 
Tanya Marcuse pointing at a large, abstract black and white nature photo.

Tanya Marcuse interviewed by Emma Ressel ’16 in Lenscratch

In photography “sometimes things truly, fully come together,” Marcuse said.
Sonita Alizada ’23, dressed in black against a black background with a serious expression.

Sonita Alizada ’23 Begins a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford in Fall 2025

“[Bard] faculty have been incredibly supportive, offering guidance, mentorship, and resources," she said.

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October 2018

10-31-2018
Bard High School Early College Hosts Public Conversation with Painter Amy Sherald and Poet Elizabeth Alexander
“Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today” will be held at BHSEC Manhattan on October 31, followed by a lunch hour talk at Bard at Brooklyn Public Library on November 1.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts,Early Colleges | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,BHSECs,Center for Civic Engagement,Center for Curatorial Studies |
10-30-2018
Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today

Poet Elizabeth Alexander and Painter Amy Sherald in Conversation

Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today with Elizabeth Alexander and Amy Sherald 
Bard High School Early College Manhattan, October 31 at 6:30 p.m.

Lunch Hour Talk with Amy Sherald and Thelma Golden
Bard at Brooklyn Public Library, November 1 at 12:45 p.m.

Watch Live Starting at 6:30 Eastern Time on October 31:



Bard High School Early College Manhattan (BHSEC) hosts a discussion with poet Elizabeth Alexander and painter Amy Sherald about their creative processes and their commitments to the humanities. This public conversation seeks to diversify perspectives on the arts disciplines and to offer models for collective and inclusive community dialogues. The event is free and open to the public. It takes place on Wednesday, October 31, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at BHSEC on 525 East Houston Street in New York City. Preregistration is required. Register here. A live webcast of the event will also be available.

Poet and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Elizabeth Alexander and painter Amy Sherald have both produced works critical to marking and reflecting on recent periods of political and social change in the United States. Alexander wrote and recited the poem “Praise Song for Our Day” to usher forward the presidency of the first black American president, Barack Obama, and Sherald painted the official portrait of the first lady, Michelle Obama, one of two works to mark the end of the Obama Presidency. Moderators BHSEC literature professor Brittney Edmonds and Bard Associate Professor of History Christian Crouch will ask Alexander and Sherald four contextualizing questions around the process of patronage and collecting in the arts, artistic practice and black feminism, how their work speaks across artistic media, and how their work engages with the image of body.

“This event, the first of a series, is inspired by an ongoing dialogue within Bard’s Africana Studies Program surrounding race and diversity and social engagement in the visual and performative arts. We hope to create the opportunity for public dialogue around creative artistic practice and the humanities, and how artists engage their audience and broader community,” says Director of Africana Studies at Bard and Assistant Professor of Africana and Historical Studies Drew Thompson.

This event is cosponsored by Humanities New York, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Undergraduate Program in Africana Studies, Bard High School Early College, and Bard American Studies Program.

On Thursday, November 1, from 12:45pm to 2:00pm, Amy Sherald will be in conversation with curator Thelma Golden at Bard at Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), the first New York City Microcollege. In this inaugural Bard at BPL Lunch Hour Talk, Golden and Sherald discuss an understated aspect of the creative process: the relationship between curator and artist. Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, has presided over exhibitions in which painter Amy Sherald’s works were included and was involved in the selection of Sherald to paint the portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. It takes place at BPL Central Library, Dweck Center, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. Preregistration is required. Register here.
 

Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,BHSECs,Center for Civic Engagement,Center for Curatorial Studies |
10-23-2018
Castello di Rivoli Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has been named the winner of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, which carries a prize of $25,000.
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Meta: Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
10-23-2018
Art icon and powerhouse DJ Huxtable talks about process, representation, internet culture, and the future of nightlife in New York City.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-17-2018
Bard Fisher Center Presents Vijay Iyer and Teju Cole: <em>Blind Spot</em>
Pioneering jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and Nigerian American writer, photographer, and Bard faculty member Teju Cole present a live collaboration, Blind Spot, on October 26.
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Credit: Photo: Vijay Iyer by Barbara Rigon; Teju Cole by C. Anderson
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
10-09-2018
In tracing the remarkable work of gallerists Pat Hearn and Colin de Land, the exhibition presents the gallery as a crucial site for the history of art.
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Credit: Photo: Vijay Iyer by Barbara Rigon; Teju Cole by C. Anderson
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
10-09-2018
Times theater critics Ben Brantley and Jesse Green review Daniel Fish’s “newly energized, gloriously conflicted” revamp of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.
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Credit: Photo: Vijay Iyer by Barbara Rigon; Teju Cole by C. Anderson
Meta: Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
10-09-2018
Bard MFA Music/Sound faculty member Jace Clayton will present his latest video, The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence, at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center on October 19.
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Credit: Photo: Vijay Iyer by Barbara Rigon; Teju Cole by C. Anderson
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): MFA |
10-05-2018
Artist Wu Tsang, Bard MFA Faculty Member, Awarded Prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named artist Wu Tsang, cochair of Bard MFA’s Film/Video Program, a recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship.
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Photo: Wu Tsang Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-02-2018
“The exhibition’s total picture is one of insatiable intellectual and aesthetic curiosity and uncompromising integrity.”
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Photo: Wu Tsang Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
10-02-2018
The artist, whose work focuses on “the intervention of human technology into nature, … aims in the current show for an immersive experience evocative of virtual reality.”
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Photo: Wu Tsang Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
10-02-2018
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place examines the impetus behind votives, ultimately arguing that it exceeds the confines of any single faith, even of religion itself.
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Photo: Wu Tsang Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission
Meta: Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
10-02-2018
Gallery without Walls: Ex Voto NYC is a series of walking tours, installations, and workshops that celebrate the rich history of New York City and explore votive practice across cultures.
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Photo: Wu Tsang Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission
Meta: Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Education | Institutes(s): Bard Graduate Center |
10-02-2018
Exhibitions of Sacabo’s Tagged series of photogravure prints open in Atlanta and New Orleans later this month.
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Photo: Wu Tsang Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-02-2018
Bard Fisher Center Presents Andrew Schneider’s <em>NERVOUS/SYSTEM</em>
OBIE award–winning interactive media artist Andrew Schneider and his collaborators perform NERVOUS/SYSTEM, a Live Arts Bard commission, at the Fisher Center October 12–14.
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Credit: Photo: Andrew Schneider
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
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