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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to Bard Graduate Center to continue its “Cultures of Conservation” curriculum, which the foundation initially funded in 2012 for a period of five years. The second phase of “Cultures of Conservation” will continue its mission to model the best ways of integrating the approaches and insights of objects conservation and materials science with those of academics in the human sciences (anthropology, archaeology, art history, history). A key part of the grant initiative involves the appointment to the Bard Graduate Center faculty of a visiting professor of science who will bring a different kind of knowledge of materials to the close work of conservation. To this end, Jennifer Mass, who holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Cornell University, has been appointed Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor to teach courses on conservation for non-scientists. Her research interests include the degradation mechanisms of artists’ pigments and developing nondestructive depth profiling methods for imaging buried paintings.

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The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents the Class of 2018 Thesis Exhibition July 22–30 at the Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery at 29 O’Callaghan Lane in Red Hook, New York, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibition brings together candidates’ culminating work in film/video, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture, and writing. Performances, readings, and screenings of time-based works will take place on the Bard College campus during the evenings of July 24–28.

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Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus will host a new seasonal exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. The exhibition, “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place,” is being presented by the Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard, with special thanks to Claire Copley. It is free and open to the public and will be on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset, including its gardens, arboretum, and three miles of hiking trails with views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains.

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Bard's Dean of International Studies James Ketterer received a grant to travel to Luxembourg from the U.S. Embassy. Ketterer participated in the triennial Transatlantic Dialogue, a conference hosted by the University of Luxembourg and supported by the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. The conference brings together scholars, diplomats, politicians, artists, and students to explore formal and informal cultural exchange and diplomacy among nations, cities, universities and other organizations in Europe and North America. Ketterer served as the official U.S. observer for a meeting of the European Cultural Parliament and delivered a summary of those proceedings at the closing plenary session of the Transatlantic Dialogue. In a panel with Luxembourg’s former minister of culture, Ketterer gave a presentation on the history of jazz diplomacy.
While in Luxembourg, Ketterer met with representatives of schools and universities to explore possible cooperation between those institutions and the College. He also gave master classes on jazz drums and discussed the history of jazz with music students at the International School of Luxembourg, the Lycee de Garcons in Esch-sur-Alzette, and the Conservatoire de Bonnevoie. 

ASA City Radio recently interviewed Ketterer about his trip. Listen to the interview using the link provided.
 

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The U.S. Foreign Policy Institute launched its summer program at Bard College on Saturday, June 17. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) hosts 18 distinguished multinational scholars for a six-week exchange program, “Grand Strategy in Context: Institutions, People, and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy.” The scholars have been nominated by U.S. embassies, consulates, and Fulbright commissions for the academic residency at Bard College’s campus in Annandale-on-Hudson and one week at Bard Globalization and International Affairs (BGIA) in New York City. The program provides participants with historical and political grounding in U.S. foreign policy, and employs Bard’s pedagogical resources to assist the scholars in developing syllabi, curricula, and the teaching tools to effectively implement the material in the classroom. The academic component will be complemented by tours of the Roosevelt Institute, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.