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Michael Sadowski Interviewed for the Teaching While Queer Podcast 

Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor Michael Sadowski was interviewed on the Teaching While Queer podcast. He and host Bryan Stanton discussed what it means to be an out queer educator and Sadowski’s research on queer youth, as well as his 2021 memoir and his debut novel Indiana Queer. “[Since the 1990s] I think the balance has shifted toward students supporting each other, even when the adults around them are going crazy [and] trying to restrict who they are,” Sadowski said. “So that's a really heartening example for me, because kids are the future.”

Sadowski teaches in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, an intensive graduate teacher education program leading to an MA in Teaching and a New York State initial teacher certification for grades 7–12 in biology, history, English literature, mathematics, or Spanish. It requires an equal amount of advanced study in an elected academic discipline and in education courses, challenging pre-service teachers to apply the results of research and pedagogical analysis to their teaching.

Post Date: 03-10-2026

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Bard Alumni/ae Will Feature in the 2026 Venice Biennale 

Works by two Bard College alumni/ae, Ei Arakawa-Nash MFA '07 and Lotus L. Kang MFA ’15, will be featured in the 2026 Venice Biennale, which will run from May 9 to November 22. Arakawa-Nash, a performance artist and member of Fac Xtra Retreat (FXR), a collective of seven LA–based Asian American artists, will represent Japan at the Biennale. He is collaborating with other FXR members on a performance project coproduced by the Getty Center and the Japanese Foundation for the Biennale’s Japan Pavilion. “Ei Arakawa-Nash and FXR bring together irreverence, generosity, and collective experimentation in ways that feel both intimate and expansive,” said Sarah Cooper, performance programs specialist at the J. Paul Getty Museum. “These performances contribute to the wider story of Asian diasporas in Greater Los Angeles … while embodying his distinctive alchemy of humor and truth that unsettles fixed roles, challenges social and institutional norms and honors the multiplicities we all hold.”

Sculptor Lotus L. Kang MFA ’15 has been commissioned to produce a major new installation for the inaugural Bulgari Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Kang’s artistic practice utilizes sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation to communicate themes drawn from industrial and architectural forms, familial and social histories, poetry, and non-human figures. “Known for her complexly layered environments that meld organic, structural and metabolic languages, Lotus L. Kang’s works give poetic form to reflections on themes spanning inheritance, impermanence, memory, and translation,” writes ArtDaily. “Working fluidly between sculpture, photography and site-responsive installation, she frequently draws on unfixed, unstable materials and forms in her practice, giving evocative, often expansive shape to questions of ‘becoming.’” 

Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts is a graduate program for interdisciplinary study in the visual and creative arts. Bard MFA takes place over two years and two months, with students in residence on campus during three consecutive summers, and two winter sessions of independent study completed off campus.  

Post Date: 03-10-2026