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
Chase Sinzer ’11 Receives Michelin Sommelier Award
Bard alumnus, restaurateur, and sommelier Chase Sinzer ’11 has been awarded the Michelin Guide New York 2024 Sommelier Award, alongside Ellis Srubas-Giammanco, who is the wine director of Sinzer's raw bar restaurant Penny, which he opened earlier this year in New York City. After serving as wine director of the two-Michelin star restaurant The Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, Sinzer opened Claud and Penny, overseeing both wine programs. In conversation with Michelin Guide, Sinzer discussed sustainability in their wine menus, wines worth splurging on, and the advice he has for aspiring sommeliers.Chase Sinzer ’11 Receives Michelin Sommelier Award
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
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Bard College Hosts Annual Margaret and John Bard Society Luncheon
Bard College Hosts Annual Margaret and John Bard Society Luncheon
On Monday, December 2, Bard College Margaret and John Bard Society members, staff, and students gathered in New York City for this year’s annual luncheon. This special occasion is dedicated to honoring and celebrating our esteemed donors who have made generous contributions through their estate plans. Their commitment to Bard College’s mission through future planning is not only inspiring but instrumental in defining the experiences and opportunities Bard can offer its students. Bard is deeply appreciative of the generosity and foresight that the members of the Margaret and John Bard Society have.
“This special annual gathering celebrates the generous alumni/ae, family, and friends who have chosen to support Bard through planned giving. Their commitment and philanthropy play a vital role in shaping the future of Bard College, ensuring that Bard can continue to provide a transformative education for generations to come. It’s a time to connect, share stories, and inspire each other with the legacy of support helping fulfill Bard's mission,” said Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Debra Pemstein.
Post Date: 12-10-2024
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Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’12 Named ARTnews 2024 Emerging Artist of the Year
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’12 Named ARTnews 2024 Emerging Artist of the Year
Artist and Bard alumnus Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’12 has been recognized by ARTnews as a 2024 Emerging Artist of the Year. For his first solo museum presentation, which took place earlier this year, Aparicio was selected by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles to take over part of its sprawling Geffen Contemporary location for the relaunch of its “MOCA Focus” exhibition series, which featured works he made between 2016 and 2023 alongside three site-specific commissions. “In Aparicio’s work there is a commitment to experimentation and to pushing materials to their limits, only to show us new ways of seeing and thinking,” ARTnews wrote of the exhibition. “This is the beginning of an incredibly promising career.” His work explores the visual and conceptual possibilities of globally ubiquitous raw materials and products of Indigenous knowledge of Latin America. In recent years, Aparicio has produced large scale rubber casts that document the social and economic relationships between Latin America and the United States through specific use of material, multiplicity of site and metaphorical gestures.
Post Date: 12-10-2024
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Suzanne Kite MFA ’18 Interviewed for NBC News
Suzanne Kite MFA ’18 Interviewed for NBC News
Suzanne Kite MFA ’18, aka Kite, distinguished artist in residence, assistant professor of American and Indigenous Studies, and director of the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard, was interviewed by News10 NBC for an article about how Indigenous engineers and artists are using artificial intelligence for cultural preservation projects. Of the 4,000 Indigenous languages worldwide, it is estimated that one dies every two weeks with its last speaker, according to data from the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. AI can be a valuable tool in the initiatives designed to preserve those languages and other aspects of Indigenous culture and creative practices, such as the art which Kite is using machine learning to create. “My question is simple: How do we create ethical art with AI by applying Indigenous ontologies?” Kite said. “I try to resist Western personification of AI and instead dig into the hyperlocal, grounded and practical frameworks of knowledge that American Indigenous communities provide.”
Post Date: 12-03-2024
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How Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt Made Rob Brunner ’93 Confront His Family’s Holocaust History
How Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt Made Rob Brunner ’93 Confront His Family’s Holocaust History
Bard alum Rob Brunner ’93, politics and culture editor at the Washingtonian magazine, writes about how Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award–winning play Leopoldstadt—which follows the story of the Merz family, a wealthy, deeply assimilated family of Viennese Jews, from the cultural heyday of Vienna’s pre-war period, through two world wars, and their terrifying aftermath—made him finally confront his own family's tragic history. Brunner’s grandparents, also Viennese Jews, fled their beloved city in 1938, shortly after the Nazis annexed Austria, evaded the Gestapo through a chance meeting, secretly crossed the French border into Paris, and miraculously received two American refugee visas on August 31, 1939, one day before Hitler invaded Poland and started World War II. The rest of his grandparents’ Viennese family, like most of the Merz family in Stoppard’s play, did not survive. “None of it felt like it belonged to me. That was a delusion that I held onto for too long . . . ” writes Brunner of his family’s Holocaust story. “But had the cousins survived, they would have been my family, my son’s family. They would have come over for Thanksgiving dinner; I might have been friends with their children. Their loss isn’t some abstraction, I have finally come to realize. It’s my loss, too.”
Post Date: 12-02-2024
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Elizabeth Royte ’81 Covers Rattlesnakes for National Geographic
Elizabeth Royte ’81 Covers Rattlesnakes for National Geographic
In an article for National Geographic, science writer and Bard alumna Elizabeth Royte ’81 explores the life cycles and habitats of rattlesnakes, and the various conservation efforts to protect them. More than 50 species of rattlesnakes occur exclusively throughout the Americas, and Royte notes that though there may be pockets where they thrive, the fate of most of the venomous snakes is grim. “From southwestern Canada to central Argentina, people continue to capture them for the pet or skin trade, swerve to flatten them as they warm themselves on roads, and chop up their habitat with subdivisions, pipelines, and cell towers,” she writes for National Geographic. “Timber rattlesnakes, once abundant, have been extirpated in a number of northern US states and Ontario, and they’re threatened or endangered in pockets throughout their broad US range. Several other species are categorized from generally threatened to critically endangered.”
Post Date: 11-26-2024
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Ronan Farrow ’04 Interviewed in NPR and the Guardian
Ronan Farrow ’04 Interviewed in NPR and the Guardian
Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist and Bard alumnus Ronan Farrow ’04 spoke to NPR and the Guardian about his new HBO documentary, Surveilled, in which he delves into the shadowy world of surveillance and the private companies that sell powerful commercial spyware technology. The documentary “records the emotional toll, scope and threat potential of a technology most people are neither aware of nor understand,” writes Adrian Horton for the Guardian. “It also serves as an argument for urgent journalistic and civic oversight of commercial spyware—its deliberately obscure manufacturers, its abuse by state clients and its silent erosion of privacy.” Farrow addresses how the lack of regulations surrounding this technology has wide reaching implications for political and social abuse. “In the film, I am motivated by having come face-to-face with surveillance and understanding how intrusive that is, how devastating it can be personally and invasive,” Farrow told NPR. “But also, more consequentially, how much it shrinks the space for the free flow of information and the expression of dissent.”
Post Date: 11-26-2024
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