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Christian Crouch Named Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College
Bard College announces the appointment of Professor Christian Crouch as the incoming Dean of Graduate Studies, beginning July 1, 2021. Professor Crouch has been Associate Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Bard since 2014. Her work focuses on the histories of the early modern Atlantic, comparative slavery, American material culture, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Professor Crouch succeeds Professor Norton Batkin, who stepped down on September 1 after 15 years as Dean of Graduate Studies. During his tenure, Norton Batkin oversaw the growth and success of Bard’s graduate programs.
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Professor Kite’s Artistic Residency Featured in I Care If You Listen
Bard Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies Kite MFA ’18 was profiled in the multimedia hub I Care If You Listen. The piece focuses on Kite’s two-day residency at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer (EMPAC), where she led seven students through a workshop on dreaming.Professor Kite’s Artistic Residency Featured in I Care If You Listen
Kite joined Bard in 2023 and has worked in the field of machine learning since 2017. She develops wearable technology and full-body software systems to interrogate past, present, and future Lakȟóta philosophies. She is also the director of the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard. I Care If You Listen describes her work as “[uniting] scientific and artistic disciplines through custom worn electronic instruments, research, visual scores, and more… rooted in Lakota ways of making knowledge, in which body and mind are always intimately intertwined.”
Post Date: 01-07-2025
Lotus Kang MFA ’15 named a New York Times Breakout Star of 2024
Lotus L. Kang MFA ’15 was included in the New York Times’s list of breakout stars of 2024. Nominated for her sculpture and site-responsive artwork, Kang’s 2024 exhibits included In Cascades at the Whitney Biennial, featuring sculptures made from purposefully exposed film, and Receiver Transmitter, a greenhouse located at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto.Lotus Kang MFA ’15 named a New York Times Breakout Star of 2024
Kang’s 2024 exhibits included In Cascades at the Whitney Biennial, featuring sculptures made from purposefully exposed film, and Receiver Transmitter, a greenhouse located at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. The Times reviewed In Cascades last year, calling it “a richly sedimented, beautifully vulnerable installation in a perpetual state of becoming.”
Post Date: 12-17-2024
Gridthiya Gaweewong Selected as 2025 Recipient of Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence
Gaweewong will receive CCS Bard’s annual Audrey Irmas Award, which is accompanied by a $25,000 prize. Curator and educator Amber Esseiva CCS ’15 will receive the 2025 CCS Bard Alumni Award, which comes with a $10,000 prize. Gaweewong has dedicated her career to championing contemporary Thai artists and developing a curatorial practice addressing the social transformation faced by artists from Thailand and beyond following the Cold War. Esseiva develops exhibitions that center emerging, mid-career, and underrecognized artists.Gridthiya Gaweewong Selected as 2025 Recipient of Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence
Amber Esseiva (CCS Bard ’15) to Receive CCS Bard Alumni Award
Awardees to be Honored at CCS Bard’s Spring 2025 Gala
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) announces Gridthiya Gaweewong as the recipient of its 2025 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.
Currently the artistic director of the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok, Gaweewong has dedicated her career to championing contemporary Thai artists and developing a curatorial practice addressing the social transformation faced by artists from Thailand and beyond following the Cold War. An independent panel of leading curators, artists, and museum directors selected Gaweewong to receive the annual award, which is accompanied by a $25,000 prize and was launched in 1998 to honor the outstanding achievements of curators who bring innovative thinking, bold vision, and dedicated service to the field of exhibition-making.
“Gridthiya’s curatorial approach, which subverts institutional narratives in lieu of artist-led and personal perspectives, embodies the innovative contributions to the curatorial field CCS Bard aims to recognize with this award,” said Tom Eccles, Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
In addition to Gaweewong, CCS Bard recognizes curator and educator Amber Esseiva (Class of ’15) with the 2025 CCS Bard Alumni Award. As Acting Senior Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (ICA at VCU) and former Curator-at-Large at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Esseiva develops exhibitions that center emerging, mid-career, and underrecognized artists. Established in 2023, CCS Bard awards this $10,000 prize to honor outstanding graduates who demonstrate sustained innovation and engagement with exhibition-making, public education, and research in the field of curation.
Gaweewong and Esseiva will accept their awards at CCS Bard’s Spring 2025 gala celebration and dinner on April 7, 2025. The event, which is chaired by the CCS Bard Board of Governors, will be held in New York City at The Lighthouse at Pier 61.
“I’m deeply honored to receive this award and thank the esteemed committee. This milestone manifests the collaborative efforts of my family, friends, artists, mentors, and vibrant art community in Thailand, the region, and beyond,” said Gaweewong. “It inspires me to curate passionately, trusting art’s power to foster resilience and meaningful societal change."
“It brings me so much joy to receive this recognition from CCS Bard, an institution that has had such a profound impact on my work and career. It was at CCS that I first developed my passion for collaborating with artists and colleagues to produce new works of art,” said Esseiva. “To be acknowledged by so many talented alumni I admire, is both humbling and truly meaningful to me.”
Post Date: 12-17-2024