Every Bard alum is a member of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association
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By attending Bard College in Annandale, or any institution in the Bard Network, you are automatically a member of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association. The Alumni/ae Association is here to strengthen the connection between alumni/ae and the College and help Bardians everywhere, of every graduating class, to stay in touch. There are now more than 19,000 Bard alumni/ae—and that number is growing, as close to half of all Bardians have graduated in the last 20 years.
The Bard College Alumni/ae Association, its Board of Governors, and its committees are committed to maintaining shared values of antiracism, justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and access in all aspects of programming and interactions with Bard College community members, including but not limited to students, faculty, administration, fellow alumni/ae, and guests.
Reunion Classes ending in 4s and 9s—we have exciting news!
Thanks to the enthusiasm and generosity of your fellow alumni/ae below, all gifts made to the Bard College Fund by June 30, 2024, in honor of your reunion will be matched dollar for dollar up to $84,000!
As of April 17, we are at 80% of our goal!
Rob Ross ’09 • Isaac Liberman ’04 • KC Serota ’04 • Anonymous ’94 • Nicole de Jesus ’94 • Mark Feinsod ’94 • John Stevens ’94 • Jane Brien ’89 • Laurie ’74 and Stephen Berman ’74 • Ed Kimball ’74 • Ellen Louise Schwartz ’64 • Roger Isaacs ’49 • Arnold Davis ’44
Join your fellow alums by continuing the reunion tradition and making a difference in the lives of our students. Your support, at any level, is what makes Bard possible. Thank you!
Thank you to all alumni/ae from Reunion classes ending in 4s and 9s for your support of Bard so far this fiscal year!
Thank you to all alumni/ae from Reunion classes ending in 4s and 9s for your support of Bard so far this fiscal year!
List as of April 11, 2024
Arnold J. Davis ’44 Roger D. Isaacs ’49 Ilse W. Ross ’49 Lois F. Weitzner ’49 Cynthia M. Dantzic ’54 Nina Drooker ’54 Barbara L. Sandler ’54 and Robert Sandler Judy Donner ’59 Robert A. Goldfarb ’59 and Beth M. Uffner Paula C. Phipps ’59 Stephen A. Wertheimer ’59 Michael P. Winn ’59 Ronni C. Brenner ’64 Norman I. Cohen ’64 and Sara Y. Cohen ’63 Lynne E. Elliott Bannister ’64 Helen S. Gross ’64 Bob N. Lear ’64 Bonnie Markham ’64 Peter Scheckner ’64 Ellen Louise Schwartz ’64 Rufus Botzow ’69 Alexander O. Boulton ’69 Marcelle Clements ’69 Robert M. Eadie ’69 Michael Elswit ’69 and Sharon B. Elswit ’68 Margaret Evans ’69 Ward Feurt ’69 Tobie T. Finzel ’69 Jane K. Glover ’69 Michael R. Goth ’69 William P. Gottlieb ’69 Mark A. Gross ’69 and Hannah S. Gross ’71 Elaine M. Hyams ’69 Roseanne Kanter ’69 Marilyn Lindenbaum ’69 Philip Lyford ’69 Ellen M. Orendorf-Carter ’69 Eric Perlberg ’69 Regan Roos ’69 Carla E. Sayers Tabourne ’69 Toni-Michelle C. Travis ’69 Marilyn Wiederwohl ’69 Claire Angelozzi ’74 Scott B. Baron ’74 Stephen H. Berman ’74 and Laurie A. Berman ’74 Ted W. Boylan ’74 and Miranda M. Boylan ’75 Mary C. Brittingham ’74 David Ossian O. Cameron ’74 Karen B. Cutler ’74 David G. Ebersole ’74 Richard G. Frank ’74 Thomas W. Graham ’74 Jessica P. Kemm ’74 Edward J. Kimball ’74 Elliott M. Kroll ’74 Eugene L. Lebwohl ’74 Jeannie Motherwell ’74 and James D. Banks ’73 Caroline Muir ’74 Roberta Powell Esposito ’74 John A. Reiner ’74 Nancy J. Ruddy ’74 and John Cetra Olympia Saint-Auguste ’74 William S. Stone ’74 Lynn Tepper ’74 Catherine S. Fischer ’79 Grace L. Judson ’79 Cary Kittner ’79 Robin K. Nolte ’79 Sara E E. Smith ’79 Jennifer Bennett ’84 Daniel J. Brassard ’84 Reggie Bullock ’84 Matthew Canzonetti ’84 and Anne J. Canzonetti ’84 Grace C. Gibson ’84 William D. Hamel ’84 and Juliet D. Wolff Lynn Hatashita-Jung ’84 Tia J. Landau ’84 Karen Lehmann ’84 Rebecca Miller ’84 Kenneth Milman ’84 and Bridget Elder-Milman ’83 Heather L. Murray ’84 Thomas A. Nolan ’84 Jonathan Slone ’84 and Elizabeth J. Kandall ’84 David H. Smith ’84 Claire K. Surovell ’84 Lisa A. Vasey ’84 Samantha Adams ’89 Sally T. Bickerton ’89 Kim Bistrong ’89 Ray Brahmi ’89 Jane A. Brien ’89 and Stewart Verrilli Peter J. Criswell ’89 Lauran P. Epstein Ballinger ’89 Tabetha L. Ewing ’89 Kimberly A. O’Flaherty ’89 Elizabeth A. Rejonis ’89 Noah B. Rubinstein ’89 and Jill Blakeway Timothy J. Siftar ’89 Adam Snyder ’89 Claudia E. Sobral ’89 and Julio R. Sobral Anonymous ’94 Anonymous '94 Michael J. Adams ’94 Ina Calver ’94 Renee A. Cramer ’94 Nicole M. de Jesus ’94 Sara M. Dilg ’94 Mark L. Feinsod ’94 Cynthia W. Gannon ’94 and Frederic L. Gannon ’92 Lara Ganz ’94 Josie P. Gray ’94 Amber J. Heinze ’94 Eric A. Hoffman ’94 Dickson Jean ’94 Rebekah A. Klein-Pejsova ’94 Daniel S. Kurnit ’94 Blossom B. Lefcourt ’94 Dawn R. Mattoon ’94 Andrew J. Nicholson ’94 Molly M. Northrup Bloom ’94 and Joshua D. Bloom ’95 Sharon B. Oldham ’94 Tatiana M. Prowell ’94 Kira Sloop ’94 John A. Stevens ’94 Jonathan E. Stiles ’94 Kate Trimble ’94 Mandy Tumulty ’94 Myra A. Waterbury ’94 Andrew J. Yoon ’94 Lukas I. Alpert ’99 Eva Bodula ’99 Charlene Christie ’99 Joanne E. Cuttler ’99 and Bruce Cuttler Karen T. Dugan ’99 Allison A. Eggers ’99 Gwenaelle Gobe ’99 Chelsea Guerdat ’99 Laura Hawkinson ’99 Davis Z. Hilton ’99 Leigh K. Jenco ’99 Josette M. Lee ’99 Adam Lobel ’99 and Alexandra Lee ’01 Sevil Miyhandar ’99 Liza J. Palmer ’99 Kara M. Rudnick ’99 Shayda Schilleman ’99 Courtney E. Scott ’99 Gwynedd A. Smith Benders ’99 Joe A. Stanco ’99 Matthew D. Cameron ’04 and Meredith Danowski Jordan Caress-Wheelwright ’04 Erin Daly ’04 Michelle Devereux ’04 Rachel Juris ’04 Meredith S. Kadet Sanderson ’04 Jared Killeen ’04 Milton Kondilis ’04 Kate S. Lawrence-Shetty ’04 Warren Leijssius ’04 Alexa S. Lennard ’04 Isaac Liberman ’04 Sarah M. Mosbacher ’04 Kerri-Ann Norton ’04 Reazur Rahman ’04 Kate (Grim-Feinberg) Robins ’04 Stacey Schliffer ’04 K C Serota ’04 Pierpaolo Vidali ’04 Christine Gehringer ’09 Alice Gregory ’09 Abbey G. Hart ’09 Nick Hippensteel ’09 and Lindsey Feinberg ’10 Morgon J. Kanter ’09 Sarah Paden ’09 and Lucas N. Pipes ’08 Anna Shevel-Vreeland ’09 and Reed Vreeland ’08 Lydia M. Spielberg ’09 Anonymous ’14 Miles H. Berson ’14 Sophie M. Davis ’14 Antonin Fajt ’14 Kalena M. Fujii ’14 Olivia Goldberg ’14 Emily F. Harris ’14 Elliot B. Korte ’14 Yi Liu ’14 Chris Liu ’14 Kimberly Sargeant ’14 Jeremiah W. Tillman ’14 Bella T. Feinstein ’19 Amalie Gassmann ’19 Clarissa P. Messer ’19 Tyler R. Williams ’19
Photo by Brennan Cavanaugh ’88
The Board of Governors
The work of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association relies on the active participation of alumni/ae on the committees of the Board of Governors. Alumni/ae from all eras of Bard’s history serve on this volunteer board and act as ambassadors of the College. We welcome all alumni/ae to attend Board of Governors meetings, which are held in May and December each year.
Interested in volunteering? There are multiple ways to help and engage. We encourage alumni/ae to get involved with the Board of Governors, volunteer as mentors for current students, host events, and serve on reunion committees. Getting involved is more important than ever. Email us at [email protected] to connect.
Photo by Tyler R. Williams '19 MAT '21
Stay in Touch
Keep your records up to date in the alumni/ae directory.* The Alumni/ae Association sends out a monthly e-newsletter, The Triangle which is filled with alumni/ae news, news of the College, and upcoming events. We also send important messages from the College and news on networking events and alumni/ae achievements. The Bardian magazine, published twice yearly, is another way to stay informed on alumni/ae and College news. Follow us on social media to make sure you are getting the most out of your Alumni/ae Association.
Connect with Us *The alumni/ae directory will return in fall 2024. In the interim, please email us your updated information at [email protected].
2024 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Bard Faculty and Alumnae
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship to Adam Shatz, visiting professor of the humanities at Bard College. Chosen through a rigorous review process from 3,000 applicants, Shatz was among 188 scholars, photographers, novelists, historians, and data scientists to receive a 2024 Fellowship. Bard MFA faculty and alumna Lotus Kang MFA ’15, and alumnae Katherine Hubbard MFA ’10 and Ahndraya Parlato ’02 were also named Guggenheim Fellows for 2024.
2024 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Bard Faculty and Alumnae
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship to Adam Shatz, visiting professor of the humanities at Bard College. Chosen through a rigorous review process from 3,000 applicants, Shatz was among 188 scholars, photographers, novelists, historians, and data scientists to receive a 2024 Fellowship. Bard MFA faculty and alumna Lotus Kang MFA ’15, and alumnae Katherine Hubbard MFA ’10 and Ahndraya Parlato ’02 were also named Guggenheim Fellows for 2024.
“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges,” said Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation and 1985 Fellow in Poetry. “The Guggenheim Fellowship is a life-changing recognition. It’s a celebrated investment into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, scholars, scientists, writers and other cultural visionaries who are meeting these challenges head-on and generating new possibilities and pathways across the broader culture as they do so.”
In all, 52 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 84 academic institutions, 38 US states and the District of Columbia, and four Canadian provinces are represented in the 2024 class, who range in age from 28 to 89. More than 40 Fellows (roughly 1 out of 4) do not hold a full-time affiliation with a college or university. Many Fellows’ projects directly respond to timely issues such as democracy and politics, identity, disability activism, machine learning, incarceration, climate change and community.
Created and initially funded in 1925, by US Senator Simon and Olga Guggenheim in memory of their son John Simon, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has sought to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.” Since its establishment, the Foundation has granted over $400 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors. The broad range of fields of study is a unique characteristic of the Fellowship program. For more information on the 2024 Fellows, please visit the Foundation’s website at gf.org.
Adam Shatz, who will be working on a book about jazz throughout his Fellowship, is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and The Nation, among other publications. He is the author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) and Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso, 2023). He is also host of the podcast Myself with Others, produced by the pianist Richard Sears. His political reporting and commentary have covered subjects such as Trump and the white supremacists in Charlottesville, mass incarceration, Israel’s Putinization, the deep state, and Egypt after Mubarak. Published profiles and portraits include Franz Fanon and Michel Houellebecq (London Review of Books), Nina Simone (New York Review of Books), saxophonist Kamasi Washington (New York Times Magazine); French cartoonist Riad Sattouf (New Yorker); and jazz great Charles Mingus (The Nation). Shatz previously taught at New York University and was a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars.
Lotus Laurie Kang MFA ’15 works with sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation, exploring the body as an ongoing process. Combining theory, poetics and biography, her work takes a regurgitative approach rather than a prescriptive or reiterative one. Kang considers the multiplicitous, constructed nature of identity and the body and its knots to larger social structures through sculpture, architectural interventions and material innovations, and an expansive approach to photography where materials are often left in unfixed and continually sensitive states. Notable group exhibitions include Hessel Museum of Art, The New Museum, SculptureCenter, Cue Art Foundation, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver; The Power Plant, Art Gallery of Ontario, Franz Kaka, Cooper Cole, Toronto; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Misk Art Institute, Riyadh; Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana; and Camera Austria, Graz. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Mercer Union, Gallery TPW, Franz Kaka, Toronto; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, and Helena Anrather, Interstate Projects, New York. Artists residencies include Rupert, Vilnius; Tag Team, Bergen; The Banff Centre, Alberta; Triangle Arts Association and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn; and Horizon Art Foundation, Los Angeles.
Katherine Hubbard MFA ’10 uses photography, writing and performance to plumb photography’s continuing significance. Considering analog photography as a mimesis of the body, Hubbard asks how its procedures might be called upon to investigate social politics, history, and narrative. In her photographs, the physical positioning of one’s body has an essential relationship to how one processes images, exploring this encounter as a time based experience. Hubbard’s writing practice forms the core of her performances, culling the malleability of vision to frame a politics of looking, bridging the imaginary with the familiar. She is currently Associate Professor and MFA Director at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Ahndraya Parlato ’02 is an artist based in Rochester, New York. She has published three books, including Who Is Changed and Who Is Dead, (Mack Books, 2021), A Spectacle and Nothing Strange, (Kehrer Verlag, 2016), East of the Sun, West of the Moon, (a collaboration with Gregory Halpern, Études Books, 2014). Additionally, she has contributed texts to Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Shoot (Aperture, 2021), and The Photographer's Playbook (Aperture, 2014). Parlato has exhibited work at Spazio Labo, Bologna, Italy; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Aperture Foundation, New York, New York; and The Swiss Institute, Milan, Italy. She has been awarded residencies at Light Work and The Visual Studies Workshop and was a 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts Joy of Photography Grant recipient.
Post Date: 04-17-2024
First Solo Exhibition by Photographer Nona Faustine MFA ’13 Is Reviewed on CNN and Selected as New York Times Critic’s Pick
Nona Faustine: White Shoes, a series of 43 self-portraits shot throughout New York City over the course of decades, explores the city’s central but often obscured role in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, as well as examining questions about representation and perception of the Black body—and, more specifically, the Black female body—in art and other spaces.
First Solo Exhibition by Photographer Nona Faustine MFA ’13 Is Reviewed on CNN and Selected as New York Times Critic’s Pick
Nona Faustine: White Shoes, a series of 43 self-portraits shot throughout New York City over the course of decades, explores the city’s central but often obscured role in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, as well as examining questions about representation and perception of the Black body—and, more specifically, the Black female body—in art and other spaces. Currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum through July 7, this first solo exhibition of Nona Faustine MFA ’13 was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick when it opened in March and was recently reviewed on CNN. The body of work, including many striking photographs of the artist posing fully nude apart from a pair of crisp white pumps, began while Faustine was a graduate student at the International Center of Photography (ICP) program at Bard College. “All my knowledge, everything I know about photography, and everything I know about history and life is part of the work. My heart and soul is in that series,” Faustine told CNN in an email.
“Cultural-Centric Computational Embroidery,” Coauthored by Megumi Kivuva ’22, Wins Best Paper at SIGCSE TS 2024
How does one combat disparities in access to computer science classes for historically marginalized populations? One answer, proposed in a paper coauthored by Bard alum Megumi Kivuva ’22, could be embroidery. “We’ve come a long way as a country in offering some computer science courses in schools,” Kivuva said to the University of Washington. “But we’re learning that access doesn’t necessarily mean equity. It doesn’t mean underrepresented minority groups are always getting the opportunity to learn.”
“Cultural-Centric Computational Embroidery,” Coauthored by Megumi Kivuva ’22, Wins Best Paper at SIGCSE TS 2024
How does one combat disparities in access to computer science classes for historically marginalized populations? One answer, proposed in a paper coauthored by Bard alum Megumi Kivuva ’22, could be embroidery. “We’ve come a long way as a country in offering some computer science courses in schools,” Kivuva said to the University of Washington. “But we’re learning that access doesn’t necessarily mean equity. It doesn’t mean underrepresented minority groups are always getting the opportunity to learn.” Using Turtlestitch, an open-source coding language, Kivuva and their coparticipants worked with 12 students from demographically diverse backgrounds, using a unique pedagogical approach “where the students had a say each week in what they learned and how they’d be assessed,” the University of Washington reports. “We wanted to dispel the myth that a coder is someone sitting in a corner, not being very social, typing on their computer,” Kivuva said. The subsequent paper on their findings, “Cultural-Centric Computational Embroidery,” won Best Paper at the inaugural technical symposium of Special Interest the Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).