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The Fisher Center presents "breathtaking visionary" Cynthia Hopkins in her newest work, A Living Documentary. The performance takes place on February 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the LUMA Theater. A Living Documentary is a hilarious and searing reflection on the trials and tribulations of earning a living as a professional theater artist in the 21st century. Intertwining elements of musical comedy, documentary, and fiction, the show intersperses autobiographical storytelling with portrayals of semi-fictional comedic characters, all the while asking myriad questions about the realities of artistic life in New York City.

The work of James Benning and Peter Hutton exhibited in Nature Is a Discipline reveals the transition from celluloid film to digital technology.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents Sō Percussion and Grey McMurray in Where (we) Live. The performance takes place on February 14 and 15 in the LUMA Theater. In the second performance of Branches—a multiyear partnership between the Fisher Center, The Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the John Cage Trust to highlight Sō Percussion’s integration into the artistic and academic community of Bard College—this “ambitious, beguiling show” (New York Times) blends music, video, and storytelling in a theatrical creation that reflects on notions of community and home. The performances, directed by Ain Gordon, feature guitarist Grey McMurray, choreographer Emily Johnson, and guest artists Aron Sanchez and Caroline Wallner. Additional program information can be found at fishercenter.bard.edu.

Jazz musician and Bard MFA music/sound faculty Matana Roberts's Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee is "a 12-part cycle of personal, socio-historical and psychic inquisition."

CCS Bard alumna Ruba Katrib, curator at SculptureCenter in New York, discusses her journey from artist to curator and how women in the arts can support each other.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Santa Fe painter Jivan Lee "is a talented, emerging artist with a blossoming career and bright future ahead of him," writes Bonnie Gangelhoff.

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.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents a full spring season of performing arts events, including jazz and orchestral concerts, and innovative dance and theater productions, from January 31 through May 16. Highlights include the Billie Holiday Centenary Tribute, Joseph Haydn’s The Creation, American Symphony Orchestra concerts, Cynthia Hopkins’ A Living Documentary, Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Laurie Anderson, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance.

Sound artist and educator Christine Sun Kim joins this year's TED fellows, a select group that presents at TED conferences and participates in a network of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce the gift of almost 200 contemporary artworks from New York art collectors Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. The gift includes mostly works from the past fifteen years, close to the time Martin Eisenberg has been involved with the center as a board member and avid supporter of the graduate program, its students, and exhibitions. The Eisenbergs have supported the annual graduate exhibitions held each spring for the past eight years. In 2010, their collection was exhibited in the Hessel Museum of Art in At Home/Not At Home, curated by Matthew Higgs. Many of the artists shown in the Hessel Museum exhibition are represented in the new gift valued at approximately $2 million.

Yulia Van Doren M.M. '08, a graduate of the Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, talks about being mentored by the great Dawn Upshaw.

Photography Program director Stephen Shore discusses teaching, the digital revolution, his approach to the craft, and why he loves Instagram.