All Bard News by Date
July 2015
07-25-2015
Bard alumnus David Duckler’s origins as a tea importer began on a trip to China where he studied, through Bard College, on a Fulbright scholarship focused on tea culture and folklore.
07-16-2015
"Iran is going to get a nuclear weapon. Sooner or later, sanctions or no sanctions, deal or no deal," states Cristol, director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program.
07-15-2015
Alumnus Dumaine Williams ’03, principal of Bard High School Early College Cleveland, urges legislators to support the Go to High School, Go to College Act of 2015.
07-15-2015
Faustine’s series of self-portraits, titled "White Shoes," feature photographs of Faustine posing nude before New York landmarks where African men and women were once bought and sold.
07-06-2015
Bard alumnus and trustee Charles S. Johnson III has received a "Celebration of Civil Rights Milestones" award from the State Bar of Georgia and the Center for Civil and Human Rights.
07-04-2015
The Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College has partnered with The Verge to create a database of the first 500 exemptions to the FAA's commercial drone restrictions.
June 2015
06-30-2015
Alcantara leaves the communications department at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to join the Clinton presidential campaign as director of media planning.
06-27-2015
Levy, an alumna of Bard's joint MFA program with The International Center of Photography (ICP), creates Hard to Swallow, a mini-documentary about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
06-25-2015
Morrison takes a fresh approach to the study of microscopic killers: she combines new computational tools with traditional scientific methods.
06-24-2015
Soprano Clarissa Lyons ’11, alumna of the Bard College Conservatory of Music Graduate Vocal Arts Program (VAP), has been invited to join the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, capping an exciting year in which she was named the Grand Prize Winner at Florida Grand Opera’s Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition and the Glenn & Ginger Flournay Award Winner at Shreveport Opera’s Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Competition. In January, Lyons participated in The Song Continues series at Carnegie Hall, where she performed in a master class led by Warren Jones. She will return to Carnegie Hall in January 2016 to present a Spotlight Recital in Weill Hall as part of The Song Continues series alongside tenor Miles Mykkanen and pianist Ken Noda.
06-11-2015
On June 11, Bard College's La Voz magazine was awarded the second place prize for Best Small Circulation Publication at the 2015 Ippies award ceremony. The Ippies are the only journalism awards in New York City to honor reporting in English and in languages other than English by the ethnic and community press. La Voz, cofounded by Mariel Fiori '05 and Emily Schmall '05 in 2004 as a Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) project, serves the Latino community of the Hudson Valley with a free Spanish-language magazine.
06-11-2015
Choreographer, composer, and jazz singer Jeanne Lee makes this list of exceptional black women composers to look out for in June for Black Music Month.
06-09-2015
The musical adaptation of Fun Home, the best-selling graphic memoir by Simon's Rock alumna Alison Bechdel, who received her A.A. degree in 1979, has won the Tony Award for best new musical.
April 2015
04-14-2015
This spring Triangle invites you to visit us at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn, Suites 318 + 350 to meet artists-in-residence. View works-in-progress and engage directly with the artists whose projects span drawing, installation, painting, pedagogy, performance, photography, sculpture, video and more.
04-14-2015
This summer, Jonah Richard is one of 54 student interns from across the U.S. worked side-by-side with top researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to see how they seek out real-world solutions to the nation's energy challenges.
04-13-2015
Bard alumni Mildred Ruiz-Sapp '92 and Steven Sapp '89 each received the 2015 Doris Duke Artist Award in theatre. Mildred Ruiz-Sapp is an actress, poet, vocalist, and playwright; husband Steven Sapp is an actor, poet, director and playwright. Together, the two co-founded UNIVERSES in The Bronx, NY in 1995. UNIVERSES is an award winning poetic musical theater ensemble that has toured extensively nationally and abroad. The Doris Duke Artist Award, provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, is given to artists who have received national recognition for their work. The award provides grantees $275,000 and access to resources for audience development and creative exploration.
04-08-2015
"GABI is like a Princess and the Pea–style mattress, constructed of layers and layers of chiffon, looped vocals, soft pink light glowing."
04-02-2015
Ian Bickford has immersed himself in Bard's early colleges. He began as a student at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts, and then served as a faculty member at Simon's Rock before joining the faculty at Bard High School Early College–Queens. Now he has returned to his alma mater to launch the new Bard Academy at Simon’s Rock: a 9th and 10th grade boarding and day college-preparatory program that will open its doors this fall.
March 2015
03-24-2015
In the late 1960s, Arthur Tress began creating staged photos of children's dreams and nightmares, producing a haunting series that went against the photojournalistic conventions of the time.
03-17-2015
Bard students founded Contemporaneous on campus in 2010. On March 8, the group returned to Bard for a well-received anniversary concert.
03-17-2015
Josephine Sacabo's haunting photographs, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, are created using a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century.
03-16-2015
Bard alumna Raquel Hardy and her high school boyfriend had very different experiences transitioning from a public high school in a poor neighborhood to elite private colleges (39:28).
03-12-2015
Bard artist in residence Medrie MacPhee, alumnus Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford '06, and former visiting artists James Clark and Jane Rosen have been selected for the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Annual Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by 40 contemporary artists and will be on view at the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City from March 12 through April 12. Participating artists were chosen from a pool of over 200 nominees submitted by the members of the Academy.
February 2015
02-02-2015
CCS Bard alumna Ruba Katrib, curator at SculptureCenter in New York, discusses her journey from artist to curator and how women in the arts can support each other.
January 2015
01-30-2015
Allison Cekala '06 uses photography and video to trace the journey of road salt from Chile to Boston in her new exhibition at the Museum of Science.
01-22-2015
The Times reviews Kansas City Choir Boy, a new opera featuring members of Contemporaneous under the musical direction of David Bloom '13.
01-18-2015
The third annual Bard Works program runs from Sunday, January 18, to Friday, January 23, offering opportunities for students to gain valuable career tools as they near graduation. Juniors and seniors participate in a series of workshops, networking events, and other professional development activities. With the support of mentors from the campus community and beyond, students hone their business etiquette and job searching skills, work on public speaking and workplace leadership, and explore how to translate their undergraduate education to the global marketplace. Participants include more than 50 alumni/ae, parents, and local professionals. On Thursday, January 22, the program takes place in New York City with a day of panels and a networking reception hosted by the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors. Read More
01-14-2015
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.
01-13-2015
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.
01-07-2015
Bard alumnus Ian Dreiblatt visits temple cults, urban landscapes, and cultures both modern and ancient through Robert Kelly's A Voice Full of Cities.
01-02-2015
The Bard Prison Initiative "is symbolic of what is best about our college and our community," says BPI director and Bard alumnus Max Kenner in this interview.