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David Bloom ’13 MM ’15. Photo by Bruce Kung
“What brought me to Bard, in a word, was the faculty.”
“To work with Joan Tower, George Tsontakis, and James Bagwell was an opportunity I couldn’t miss. I had long followed and admired their work, and then I found out that each of them taught here. It’s easy for musicians to focus only on music, whereas I wanted to have a broader education that would prepare me for a world that requires a more well-rounded base of knowledge and experience.”
—David Bloom ’13 MM ’15
—David Bloom ’13 MM ’15
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A. Sayeeda Moreno Receives 2026 Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship
The fellowship will support Moreno’s development of her screenplay into a feature film, Out in the Dunes, a coming-of-age romance set in Provincetown in 1992.
A. Sayeeda Moreno Receives 2026 Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship
A. Sayeeda Moreno, assistant professor of film/electronic arts. Photo by Francis Guevara
Post Date: 03-18-2026
Bard Faculty Tanya Marcuse and Adriane Colburn Awarded a Marble House Project Residency
Marcuse will develop a new body of work titled Circle | Cycle, and Colburn will developher project Windward.
Bard Faculty Tanya Marcuse and Adriane Colburn Awarded a Marble House Project Residency
L–R: Tanya Marcuse, associate professor of photography; and Adriane Colburn, artist in residence at Studio Arts.
During her residency, Marcuse will develop a new body of work titled Circle | Cycle, exploring the symbolic and cosmological power of the circle as both subject and structure. Using natural materials gathered from the surrounding landscape, she will construct and alter a single circular assemblage, documenting its evolution through photographs and a looping stop-motion film. Long associated with ideas of wholeness, infinity, and cosmic order, the circle in this project becomes a site where creation and rupture coexist on the same plane. Marcuse will invite fellow artists to contribute locally found materials, creating a collaborative process rooted in place.
While in residence, Colburn will develop Windward, a suite of artworks that explore the resonance of trees increasingly felled by wind and water. Through research on vulnerable tree species across northeastern forests, riparian zones, and urban landscapes, and the climatic pressures that bring them down, her project examines the environmental conditions reshaping contemporary forests and the material possibilities of salvaged wood. Working with arborists, foresters, and rural sawyers, she will recover fallen trees and transform them into lumber and paper pulp as raw material for sculptures, installations, and works on paper. The resulting artworks explore interspecies connectivity, woodcraft traditions, and poetic traces of environmental forces embedded within the wood, illuminating escalating environmental crises and their complex web of cause and effect.
Post Date: 03-17-2026
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“New York colleges can do better by student voters”: Jonathan Becker and Sierra Ford ’26 Pen Op-Ed in Times Union
“New York colleges can do better by student voters”: Jonathan Becker and Sierra Ford ’26 Pen Op-Ed in Times Union
“American democracy is in trouble.” In an op-ed for the Times Union, Jonathan Becker, vice president for academic affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, and Sierra Ford ’26, coleader of Election@Bard and president of Bard Student Government, advocate for the passage of Student Voter Empowerment Act, a bill which “seeks to foster informed student electoral participation by requiring New York institutions of higher learning to systematize and expand their engagement with student voters.” After federal encroachment on nonpartisan efforts to engage student voters, Becker and Ford believe that the Student Voter Empowerment Act could serve as a state-level corrective, increasing civic engagement and young voter turnout. “New York’s college students are our country’s future engaged citizens and leaders,” they write. “The Legislature and governor should respond to the current moment by passing the Student Voter Empowerment Act.”L–R: Jonathan Becker and Sierra Ford ’26.
Post Date: 03-17-2026
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Jonathan Becker and Sierra Ford ’26 Discuss the Student Voter Empowerment Act on WAMC’s The Roundtable
Jonathan Becker and Sierra Ford ’26 Discuss the Student Voter Empowerment Act on WAMC’s The Roundtable
“If we believe in the future of our country is in young people, we want to get them involved in the democratic process, and voting is the core expression of democracy,” Jonathan Becker, vice president for academic affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, said on WAMC’s The Roundtable. Appearing alongside Sierra Ford ’26, coleader of Election@Bard and president of Bard Student Government, the two discussed the Student Voter Empowerment Act and the challenges facing nonpartisan efforts to increase student participation in democracy. Ford said that young people feel a certain sense of “nihilism” around the state of democracy: “But I want to be very clear that that nihilism is not apathy. That's still a feeling towards democracy. There is a desire to participate, but they’re disenchanted with certain politicians and really turned off by how partisan and how hostile things have become over the course of years.” The Student Voter Empowerment Act, which Becker and Ford have endorsed and hope will pass, would partner with colleges and universities across New York State, distributing voting rights educational materials, upcoming deadlines, information on local candidates, and more. Becker said that it would not be cost prohibitive for institutions to enact these changes. “The question is, are you investing in your future citizens?” he said. “Are you investing in democracy?”Jonathan Becker (left) and Sierra Ford ’26 (right) in the WAMC studio. Photo courtesy WAMC
Post Date: 03-17-2026
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New Book by Bard Writer in Residence Benjamin Hale Featured in Chronogram
New Book by Bard Writer in Residence Benjamin Hale Featured in Chronogram
Benjamin Hale, writer in residence at Bard College, was highlighted in an article in Chronogram about his new nonfiction book, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks, which covers his cousin’s 2001 disappearance in the Arkansas wilderness at the age of 6. “At first glance, Cave Mountain reads like true crime,” writes Brian K. Mahoney. “A child disappears. A massive search ensues. The wilderness becomes a stage for suspense and survival. Yet Hale’s narrative quickly veers into stranger territory,” as Hale uncovers a darker history surrounding the mountain where his cousin was lost, which had been the site of a cult-related murder of a child decades before. Hale considered adapting the story into a fictional work before concluding that “the story really only works as nonfiction,” he told Chronogram. “It’s so weird it wouldn’t be believable as a novel.”Benjamin Hale, writer in residence. Photo by Rachel Collet
Hale will discuss the book in conversation with Ryan Chapman at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck on March 12 at 6 pm.
Post Date: 03-11-2026
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Wíhanble S’a Center Open House Featured in Chronogram
Wíhanble S’a Center Open House Featured in Chronogram
The Wíhanble S’a Center at Bard College and its director, Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor Suzanne Kite, were profiled in Chronogram magazine. Jessica Carew Kraft wrote about the Center’s 2026 Open House, where participants met to listen to research presentations, learn hide tanning and maple sugaring, and discuss the Center’s mission. “I’m personally invested in any kind of AI research that isn’t a critique of current AI systems but is the development of new ones, generative research that engages with Indigenous methods and produces new ideas,” Kite told Kraft. “I think the most important Indigenous ethical value is reciprocity; how do we give more than we take from the land, the deer, the trees, and then celebrate together?”Suzanne Kite MFA ’18, director of the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI.
The Wíhanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College conducts interdisciplinary research that merges Indigenous knowledge with artificial intelligence technologies. The Center is a National Endowment for the Humanities artificial intelligence research center and a pod with the Abundant Intelligences research program.
Post Date: 03-10-2026
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Michael Sadowski Interviewed for the Teaching While Queer Podcast
Michael Sadowski Interviewed for the Teaching While Queer Podcast
Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor Michael Sadowski was interviewed on the Teaching While Queer podcast. He and host Bryan Stanton 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. “[Since the 1990s] I think the balance has shifted toward students supporting each other, even when the adults around them are going crazy [and] trying to restrict who they are,” Sadowski said. “So that's a really heartening example for me, because kids are the future.”Michael Sadowski, associate dean of the College and associate professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
Sadowski teaches in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, an intensive graduate teacher education program leading to an MA in Teaching and a New York State initial teacher certification for grades 7–12 in biology, history, English literature, mathematics, or Spanish. It requires an equal amount of advanced study in an elected academic discipline and in education courses, challenging pre-service teachers to apply the results of research and pedagogical analysis to their teaching.
Post Date: 03-10-2026
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Jonathan Becker Publishes Article in the EDU Ledger on Voting Rights
Jonathan Becker Publishes Article in the EDU Ledger on Voting Rights
Jonathan Becker, vice president for academic affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, together with Lisa Bratton, a Tuskegee University professor, published an article in the EDU Ledger. The article discusses how Gomillion vs. Lightfoot, a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that found an electoral district with boundaries created to disenfranchise African Americans violated the Fifteenth Amendment, is still relevant in the fight for voting rights today. The case pitted a Tuskegee Institute sociology professor, Charles Gomillion, and members of the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA), of which he was president, against the white politicians who controlled the city government of Tuskegee in Macon County, Alabama, along with the entire state government. The case culminated with the Supreme Court ruling unanimously in favor of Gomillion. “The efforts of Gomillion and the TCA, including numerous Tuskegee Institute faculty and staff, and the many students who stepped forward to support the economic boycott, illustrate that universities can be laboratories of resistance,” the article states.Jonathan Becker, vice president for academic affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College.
Post Date: 03-06-2026
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