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Tomorrow we'll be recording an episode about Russian novelist Fyodor #Dostoevsky with Garry Hagberg from @bardcollege.bsky.social. Got questions about faith, doubt, and other themes in his novels? Ian Shoales the Sixty-Second Philosopher certainly has some thoughts: youtu.be/6PfvSLbH1ls?... #PhilSky
Forbes interviewed Kyaw Moe Tun, founder and president of Parami University, who said "the academic credibility Bard [lent] to Parami" was one of the biggest contributions to the university's founding. Parami is part of the Bard Global Degree Program.
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Bard alumna Lindsey Aldrich Jordan ’24 and Bard students Tessa Ni ’28, Anna Gaylord ’27, and Myla Allen ’27 each wrote about their experiences attending a three day reading event in Vienna, coordinated by the Hannah Arendt Center.
Bard alumna Kate McNamara MA-CCS ’07 has been named director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University. “We are building an ecosystem where artists, students, scholars, and local residents encounter art as a living, shared practice,” said McNamara.
Congratulations to Julia Weist, visiting artist in residence in studio arts at Bard College, who has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship to the MacDowell Residency Program in the Visual Arts category. Weist will complete her theater project Questioning to debut in July 2026.
Sculptor and painter Tschabalala Self '12 was profiled in the New York Times and Elle Decor to commemorate her piece “Art Lovers,” which was unveiled on the facade of the New Museum in NYC at its reopening earlier this year.
Congratulations to Bard senior Yale Coopersmith ’26 for being recognized on the ALL IN Student Voting Honor Roll! This honor reflects Coopersmith’s hard work and commitment to nonpartisan civic engagement through Election@Bard. #AllInToVote
Spiegeltent returns! The Fisher Center at Bard presents 2026’s Spiegeltent as part of Summerscape, running from June 26 to August 15. Curated by Jason Collins, this year’s Spiegeltent brings wildly distinct performers working across various disciplines.
Bard College, together with PEN America, is pleased to announce the launch of Central America Independent Media Archive, an initiative to safeguard and preserve independent journalism in Central America through a digital archive accessible to the public.
Professor Paul Cadden-Zimansky and Bard students Thanasis Kostikas ’26 and Yaroslav Valchyshen ’27 attended the Global Physics Summit in Denver hosted by the American Physical Society. Cadden-Zimansky was awarded the 5 Sigma Physicist Honor for outstanding volunteer work in physics.
A. Sayeeda Moreno, assistant professor of film and electronic arts at Bard, has been selected as a 2026 Film Independent Amplifier Fellow. The fellowship will support Moreno’s development of her screenplay Out in the Dunes, a coming-of-age romance set in Provincetown in 1992.
Bard College Student Mustafa Mayar MA ’27 has been named a fellow in Humanities at Hertog, an online seminar series by the Hertog Foundation. Mayar is one of 45 fellows and his focus will include Dante’s Divine Comedy, works by Mark Twain, and The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.
Detailed watercolor illustration of a Tricholoma russula mushroom, showing a pinkish-red cap, pale gills, and a thick white stem, with handwritten scientific notes surrounding the specimen.
There’s something quietly mesmerizing about #mushrooms, and Violetta White Delafield knew it well. 🍄
A collection from @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Montgomery Place brings together her detailed, annotated watercolor studies of fungi.
See the full collection: https://bit.ly/47oaiT9
Bard faculty members Tanya Marcuse and Adriane Colburn have been selected for summer residencies at the Marble House Project in Vermont. Marcuse will develop a new body of photography titled Circle | Cycle, and Colburn will develop her multimedia project Windward.
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career at @bardcollege.bsky.social, founding the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, and writing about the crisis of democracy and free speech.
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Bard alumna Sonita Alizada ’23, a Rhodes Scholar and human rights activist, was profiled in Forbes magazine. “Sonita’s message is simple but profound: never underestimate the power of your voice,” writes Mandeep Rai.
Bard Prison Initiative alumni José Perez ’13 and Reggie Chatman ’21 published an opinion piece in The Imprint discussing the public health impact of youth incarceration. “Policy helped create this crisis, and policy can dismantle it,” they conclude.
Chronogram magazine wrote about the Wíhanble S’a Center at Bard College’s 2026 Open House, where participants met to listen to research presentations, learn hide tanning and maple sugaring, and discuss the Center’s mission of merging Indigenous knowledge with artificial intelligence.
Professor Michael Sadowski was interviewed on the Teaching While Queer podcast, where he 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.
Works by Ei Arakawa-Nash MFA ’07 and Lotus L. Kang MFA ’15 will be featured in the 2026 Venice Biennale. Arakawa-Nash will represent Japan at the Biennale, and Kang has been commissioned to produce a sculptural installation for the inaugural Bulgari Pavilion.
Painter Mira Dancy ’01 was featured in the Financial Times in an article about how artists are still navigating the effects of the Los Angeles fires a year later. Her latest exhibit, Mourning’s Orbit, opened in February at Night Gallery.
Visiting Professor Bryson Rand is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Ellis-Beauregard Residency in Rockland, Maine. The residency will support Bryson’s development of his recent work A Need to Leave the Water Knows.
Diya Vij ’08, vice president at Powerhouse Arts, has been named the Mamdani administration’s leader of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and was profiled in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/a...
On April 4, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, a collection of 12 graduate thesis exhibitions organized by CCS Bard’s Class of 2026. The projects ask where—and when—we look to understand our present moment.
Artist-in-Residence Isabelle O’Connell has been awarded a Culture Ireland Grant for 2026, which funded her solo piano recital. The Culture Ireland Grant supports the presentation and promotion of Irish arts internationally.
Peter Filkins, professor emeritus at Bard College, has been awarded the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, presented by the Jewish Literary Foundation in partnership with the Times Literary Supplement. This new international award celebrates excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction.
The Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities at Bard recently unveiled the Saw Kill Watershed Community Database, a publicly accessible data tool housing datasets developed by community members, researchers, and Bard faculty and students since the late 1800s.
The seventh annual Sound of Spring concert celebrating the Chinese New Year, which premiered earlier this month at the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater, was reviewed in China Daily and the Millbrook Independent. The Independent described the concert as “a mélange of city and landscape visions."
