Newsmakers

Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she uses sound in her work to challenge and disturb the norms of the hearing world.

The award honors two Americans every year under the age of 40 who are committed to public service in their communities.

Mariel Fiori, Bard alumna and cofounder/editor of La Voz, was selected as one of Hudson Valley Magazine's 2015 Women in Business. The 2015 and 2016 honorees were recognized at a luncheon on Thursday, December 8 at Villa Borghese in Wappingers Falls. Senator Sue Serino was the keynote speaker at the event. Fiori cofounded La Voz, a Spanish-language magazine for the Hudson Valley, with Emily Schmall '05 as a student TLS project in 2004. She has been celebrated for her work as a journalist and local activist. Learn More

Science writer and Bard alumnus Nsikan Akpan examines a surge in fake news stories with real-world impact, beginning in 2010 and leading up to this year's election.

Chris Claremont became an industry icon by emphasizing the importance of character development, storytelling, and melodrama in his long career at Marvel Comics.

Party People, a play by the Universes ensemble, cofounded by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, reflects on leaders of movements for racial justice.

South African curator and CCS Bard graduate Gabi Ngcobo will curate the 2018 Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

Marcelle's Kokomo "is the perfect embodiment of the Freudian Uncanny concept: familiar and disquieting at the same time."

Last week, Bard brought more than 50 students to the nation's capital for Bard Works D.C. During the three-day program, students heard from alumni/ae, parents, and friends in the Bard network who are living and working in the D.C. area. Panel topics included politics, government, nonprofit, private sector, and arts-related careers. Networking receptions were held throughout the program so that students had the opportunity to meet and mingle with panelists and other program participants. Bard Works 2017, a weeklong professional development event for Bard juniors and seniors, will take place January 22–27 in Annandale. Bard Works is made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor and is a collaboration between the Bard Center for Civic Engagement, the Bard Career Development Office, the Dean of Student Affairs Office, the Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs, and the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors.

“Being exposed to some of the major works in Western Civilization, I saw myself as a citizen in a new way," says George Chochos, alumnus of BPI and Yale Divinity School.

Bard alumna Tschabalala Self discusses her new solo exhibition of collaged fabric and paint work exploring the black female body, and the ongoing impact of the Bard faculty on her practice.

Work by several Bard alumnae and faculty members will be featured in the Whitney Biennial this spring. Bard alumnae include Celeste Dupuy Spencer (Studio Arts), Dani Leventhal MFA '10 (Film/Video), Carrie Moyer MFA '02 (Painting), and Leila Weinraub (MFA). Faculty artists include Susan Cianciolo (MFA visiting artist in Painting), Kevin Everson (MFA Film/Video faculty), An-My Lê (Photography), Ulrike Müller (MFA Painting cochair), and Cauleen Smith (MFA Film/Video faculty).  

Video artist Tal Yarden '81 brings a "visual lullaby for the city" to Times Square billboards in Counting Sheep, featuring music composed with his brother, Guy Yarden '84.

The growth in sales at BjornQorn, a solar-powered popcorn business started by Class of 2003 Bard graduates Bjorn Quenemoen and Jamie O'Shea, has brought the venture to a pivot point.

Mariel Fiori '05, community leader and cofounder and editor of La Voz, will be honored by Newburgh Girl Power at their awards dinner on Friday, November 11.

The Bard Prison Initiative and other programs in the Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison are models for how similar initiatives might expand under a new Pell pilot program for inmates.

​Conover focuses his astute comedy on the election in “The Adam Ruins Everything Election Special” on truTV, a taped version of a live stage show he performed in 15 cities.

Campus will be bustling this weekend as parents, family members, and alumni/ae come back to experience the Annandale autumn and reconnect with each other. Numerous special events will take place, including performances, campus tours, panel discussions, sample classes, and athletic events.

Idaho is one of the most welcoming states in the Union for refugees, settling nearly 1,000 a year, mostly from war-torn regions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Actress Gaby Hoffmann on her role in the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent and her remarkable childhood growing up in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel.

Kalb founded Bellows and has played in Bard bands Eskimeaux and Told Slant. This album is the "most fully realized since Kalb brought it to life in his Bard College dorm room."

Fishkin has created a series of compositions—and a brand new instrument, the Lady's Harp—building on his experience of tinnitus.

“Most of our students come from the poorest communities,” says BPI founder and director Max Kenner '01, “but they return as extraordinary role models.”

Mozart in the Jungle star Kirke talks about the privileges of an arts education and the power of being in a show with strong female characters.

The "liberal arts comedy" of Bard alumnus Adam Conover's TruTV series, Adam Ruins Everything, aims not only to entertain but also to educate.

The eighth annual La Guelaguetza de Poughkeepsie, coorganized by Bard's La Voz, celebrated the culture of Oaxaca, Mexico and the Latino community of the Hudson Valley.

Writer, director, and cinematographer Sonja Tsypin has been awarded the first place 2016 KODAK Student Cinematography Scholarship for her dramatic narrative Powder Room.

Kenner talks about BPI's reentry program, which provides career counseling and helps students transition to life after prison, and emphasizes the practical value of a liberal arts education.

Opus 40 is the masterwork of the late Bard professor and alumnus Harvey Fite '30, the product of his "ceaseless vision" and 37 years of labor.

Professor An-My Lê urged Emma Ressel to send a portfolio from her Senior Project to New York Magazine. The result is Ressel's ornate and vibrant photo spread.

Alexandra Bettina '11, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has made a discovery that could make waves in wiping out drug-resistant bacteria.

Florida International University biology professor and Bard alumnus Matthew DeGennaro discusses his work modifying mosquitos to reduce the transmission of diseases like dengue and Zika.

Bard High School Early College Manhattan alumna Sophia Van Valkenburg is part of the team that's made it possible to view the Times archive in a new, mobile-friendly design.

Cristol, senior fellow at Bard's Center for Civic Engagement, predicts a more "assertive and interventionist" approach in a Hillary Clinton administration.

New York Times commentators consider the phenomenon of Marie Kondo's popular books on tidying up. Alumna Elizabeth Royte urges readers to start by buying less stuff.

After 20 years exhibiting her work internationally, visual artist Amy Granat '98 returned to her native St. Louis, opening an intimate, salon-like gallery intent on "art meeting life."

Writer and artist Rikki Ducornet, recipient of the Bard College Arts and Letters award, constructs a series of paper scrolls in response to Margie McDonald's whimsical sculptures.

Bard researcher, alumnus, and Hudsonia director Erik Kiviat '76 has made a career out of understanding and protecting the natural environment of the Hudson Valley.

Salisbury makes his directorial debut with Everything's OK, a postapocalyptic live action/animated hybrid, which was accepted to the Cannes short film program.

Carusone and Gardner opened Republic Restoratives in May in the Ivy City neighborhood, which has several distilleries and breweries. Women are still relatively rare in the industry.

Hanusik's poignant photos of southern communities grappling with the effects of climate change have been published in Oxford American's "Eyes on the South" series.

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has unveiled its biennial list of 2015 grantees. Among them are two Bard MFA faculty members, Pam Lins and A. L. Steiner, and three MFA alumni/ae: Jared Buckhiester '13, Rochelle Goldberg '15, and Kelly Kaczynski '03. More on Arforum

Artist Kate Stone '09 and writer Hannah Schneider '09 met at Bard; now they've created a "poignant and witty" collection of illustrated short stories.

On the eve of her second solo exhibition at the Rachel Uffner Gallery, Greenbaum discussed the profound influence of her Bard mentor, Elizabeth Murray.

In the late 1970s, Atwood was living in Paris and had a chance encounter with blind students, from that stemmed her award-winning series of photographs.

The success of incarcerated students should move education leaders to rethink college admission and the values and purpose of higher education, says Kenner.

Bard alumna and La Voz cofounder and editor Mariel Fiori has been named to the inaugural class of the etsy.org Hudson Valley Good Work Program.

Troy Simon, once a troubled, illiterate teenager, has now graduated from Bard and is on his way to Yale.

Bard Prison Initiative alumnus George Chochos started his college education behind bars. Last week he graduated with his master of divinity from Yale Divinity School.

Chris Claremont has written more X-Men comics than anyone else, and his work has had a major impact on the franchise and the superhero genre generally.