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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.

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.

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.

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.

Languages and Literature professor Ann Lauterbach and professor emeritus John Ashbery describe the pull of their favorite historical photographs.

Author Teju Cole discusses the CIA torture report, his affection for the Times arts section, and why he wants to write for the Onion.

Sundance describes Ian Samuels's new film as, "A heartbroken alien dreamer from the moon transitions into young adult life in Los Angeles just like any other 20-something."

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce that Christine Tohme and Martha Wilson are the recipients of the 2015 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. The award carries a $25,000 prize to be split between the recipients and will be presented at a gala celebration and dinner on April 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm in New York City.

In honor of the late artist Robert De Niro Sr., each year his estate supports a mid-career American painter with the $25,000 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize. This year's recipient is Robert Bordo, Bard MFA painting faculty member.

Bard College presents a special exhibition of photographs and poetry on display from December 8 
through January 9, on view in the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library in the atrium and the Sussman Room, 2nd floor. The exhibition features two works, “Winter Music,” a collaboration between artist/photographer Susan Quasha and renowned poet Robert Kelly, and “Madonna Comix,” a series of 26 prints by Dianne Kornberg based on 11 poems by Celia Bland. There will be an opening reception and poetry reading on Tuesday, December 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Library atrium.

Between 2008 and 2013, architectural photographer Felicella captured all 212 branch libraries of New York City’s three public library systems.

The Fisher Center at Bard College presents a special holiday performance of Nut/Cracked—The Bang Group’s beloved, witty response to The Nutcracker. Showcasing choreography by David Parker ’81 with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nut/Cracked will be performed in the Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center on Saturday, December 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 21 at 2 p.m.