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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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November 2021

11-30-2021
The Vanguard of What?: Kelvin Browne Reviews Alex Kitnick’s New Book <em>Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde</em>
“Understood or not, McLuhan’s work was influential in its time, and with Distant Early Warning, Alex Kitnick shows how it spoke to numerous artists of the avant-garde,” writes Kelvin Browne in Literary Review Canada. “These artists may already have been aware, even if not consciously, that twentieth-century media consumption was leading to a significant cultural shift, but McLuhan’s analysis helped give shape to their intuitions. That’s why, Kitnick argues, McLuhan should be considered more relevant today than he is: not because of his role in nascent media studies but because he was a bona fide player in the art world.”

Kitnick describes his new book as an introduction to McLuhan’s theory of art. Each chapter positions McLuhan, who is most famous for the idea that “the medium is the message,” into context with individual contemporary artists through “concrete points of contact.” In doing so, Kitnick wants to “to reimagine the relationship between theory and practice, criticism and art.” Alex Kitnick is assistant professor of art history and visual culture and faculty of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
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Photo: Professor Alex Kitnick and the cover of his new book, Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Art History and Visual Culture,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Curatorial Studies |
11-09-2021
East Village Author, Bard Professor Lucy Sante Weaves Together Fiction and Memoir in New Collection of Essays 
“Author Lucy Sante is at an interesting point in her life, looking backward and forward simultaneously,” writes Bob Krasner for the Villager. “With the release of her latest book, a collection of essays entitled Maybe the People Would Be the Times, she has gathered together pieces that form a kind of memoir—even in the fiction that weaves in and out of the examinations of music, art, tabloids, photography and her life in the East Village many years ago. Between the creation of this book and its actual publication, Sante has entered a new phase of her life [...] In her mid-60’s, Sante has recently come out as transgender, changed her name and is happily living her life with a new set of pronouns.” Lucy Sante is visiting professor of writing and photography at Bard College. She has been a member of the faculty since 1999.
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Photo: Professor Lucy Sante. Photo by AnnAnn Puttithanasorn ’23
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Art History and Visual Culture,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts,Inclusive Excellence,Photography Program,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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