I Am You: An Exhibition of the Work of Gordon Parks
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 – Sunday, May 1, 2022
CCS Bard Library The Center for Curatorial Studies and the CCS Bard Library will present selections from the recently acquired portfolio of photographs by Gordon Parks, I Am You, which includes many iconic portraits and events from the Civil Rights Movement. The selections will rotate monthly through the end of May. Visitors can view the works during open hours of the CCS Bard Library. Please check the CCS Bard website to confirm open hours.
The Marieluise Hessel Collection has expanded considerably in recent years. The CCS Library has publications on artists, such as John Akomfrah, Sky Hopinka, Grada Kilomba, Otobong Nkanga, and Carrie Mae Weems—all artists whose work came into the collection in 2021. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Exhibition: Paintings by Artists Kehinde Wiley and Henry Taylor
Monday, February 7, 2022 – Monday, February 13, 2023
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The Bard Community is invited to view recent paintings by artists Kehinde Wiley and Henry Taylor. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Constantina Zavistanos
Introduced by Evan Calder Williams, Associate Professor, CCS Bard This event will have ASL and open captions. In order to receive a Zoom link, registration is required in advance on Eventbrite here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5–7 pm
Online Event Constantina Zavitsanos (Keith Haring Fellow 2021-22) is a conceptual artist who works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound. Zavitsanos’s work elaborates what is invaluable in the re/production of debt, dependency, and other shared resources.
Their work questions how incapacity and the seemingly inconsequential performances of social life might exceed the threshold of measure. Zavitsanos’s practice celebrates disability and debt as difference beyond separability and works to reveal the false opposition of dependency and autonomy––a myth often used to reinforce scarcity (for the many) amid abundance (for the few). Yet, distribution itself has many forms: from the art historical takeaway, to the ubiquitously popular giveaway, from the solution of making a way, to the dissolution of making no way and living in means without ends. Zavitsanos’s work stays with this means beyond measure to deny measurement its claims on life at large (and small).
L&D Motel, their solo show at PARTICIPANT INC, New York, NY (2019), formally experimented with the holographic principle of quantum gravity through an installation that was built into the architecture of the gallery and which sculpted low frequency laser waves and infrasonic sound waves by feel. The exhibition foregrounded non-visual knowledge through participants’ experiences of touch and vibration. Zavitsanos has exhibited and performed in New York at the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA PS1, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Essex Street, and elsewhere in the U.S. at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH and Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT. They have exhibited and performed internationally at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, Germany; Tramway in Glasgow, Scotland; Artspeak in Vancouver, Canada; Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg in Fribourg and the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland; and the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
With Park McArthur, they co-authored texts for Women and Performance: The Journal of Feminist Theory (Routledge, 2013), and Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017). Zavitsanos was a New Museum Research and Development Season: SPECULATION Artist-in-Residence (2015) and was awarded the Wynn Newhouse Award (2015). They were a visiting artist at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2017).
With others in New York’s disability community, Zavitsanos co-organized the cross-disability arts festival, I wanna be with you everywhere, at Performance Space New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Zavitsanos holds an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and a B.F.A. from Millersville University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Zavitsanos was the 2021 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Roy Lichtenstein Award.
Learn MoreSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Putting the Cooker on Low: A Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Online Event Join us for the launch of Putting the Cooker on Low, a new Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge. Ama was the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard, and we are honored to welcome her back to premiere her new video. Ama is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, researcher and pleasure activist whose intradisciplinary praxis works to hold together Blackness, pleasure, art and ecology towards queerly climate changing futures.
Putting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women, femmes, and nonbinary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual, emotional, familial, societal, and ecological crises. Putting the Cooker on Low intimates that which happens in the simmer and bubble, on the back burner and the top oven, in the side eye and the hot pot. Thinking with an ancestry of Black feminist petitions for self-preservation, this visual essay works to make visible and then unsettle the ways in which Black womxn artists internalize value-(as)-labor-(as)-capital. The cracks, crevasses, and slippages these antierotic modes of survival engender—as felt by both human and nonhuman ecologies—remain forced from view until they become black holes, into which we are swallowed and disappear. Often without a trace. It is with the cooker on low, that resistance might reduce into potency. It is with the cooker on low that we never run out of gas.
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Ludlow Lawn Cetiliztli Nauhcampa is a cultural, spiritual, artistic, political, and educational circle made up of community and family members who carry on the ancient traditions of the Native peoples of this continent.
Join us for an outdoor ceremonial performance on May 14 at 3 pm on the Ludlow Lawn.
For more information, please email Professor Yebel Gallegos at [email protected].Sponsored by: Dance Program; Office of Equity and Inclusion.
Online Event The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) and partners at Western States Center and the Montana Human Rights Network welcome network members to attend the launch of a co-written and co-published toolkit called A Community Guide for Opposing Hate.
The purpose of the manual is to provide those who want to “do something” about hate with the steps to improve their communities, not only for the immediate aftermath of a hateful act, but for years to come. It details best practices for how to start a local group opposing hate and to improve the work of organizations already engaged in this effort.
Written by people with decades of experience in the field, the guide notes that “hate may be manifested by different means (rallies, posters, social media postings, crimes, etc.) and may have a variety of targets (people of different ethnicity or religion, gender or sexual identity, even different politics). It underscores that it is a mistake to ignore hateful acts, as hate "imbedded as a noble idea can inspire individuals to acts of violence.”
The guide has detailed sections on messaging, traditional media and social media strategies, working with politicians and schools and academics, hate crimes, security, and research. Importantly, it also has a section on the importance of protecting free speech rights, and how, while doing so, to make the hater’s free speech exercise backfire.
Study Abroad Tips/Tricks (Student of Color Edition)
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 6–7 pm
Gilson Place Come learn about what it’s like to study and live abroad as a student of color! Pick up a fact sheet for tips and tricks for how to pay for your semester or year abroad and how to find your community wherever you are in the world! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
I Am You: An Exhibition of the Work of Gordon Parks
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 – Sunday, May 1, 2022
CCS Bard Library The Center for Curatorial Studies and the CCS Bard Library will present selections from the recently acquired portfolio of photographs by Gordon Parks, I Am You, which includes many iconic portraits and events from the Civil Rights Movement. The selections will rotate monthly through the end of May. Visitors can view the works during open hours of the CCS Bard Library. Please check the CCS Bard website to confirm open hours.
The Marieluise Hessel Collection has expanded considerably in recent years. The CCS Library has publications on artists, such as John Akomfrah, Sky Hopinka, Grada Kilomba, Otobong Nkanga, and Carrie Mae Weems—all artists whose work came into the collection in 2021. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Exhibition: Paintings by Artists Kehinde Wiley and Henry Taylor
Monday, February 7, 2022 – Monday, February 13, 2023
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The Bard Community is invited to view recent paintings by artists Kehinde Wiley and Henry Taylor. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Constantina Zavistanos
Introduced by Evan Calder Williams, Associate Professor, CCS Bard This event will have ASL and open captions. In order to receive a Zoom link, registration is required in advance on Eventbrite here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5–7 pm
Online Event Constantina Zavitsanos (Keith Haring Fellow 2021-22) is a conceptual artist who works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound. Zavitsanos’s work elaborates what is invaluable in the re/production of debt, dependency, and other shared resources.
Their work questions how incapacity and the seemingly inconsequential performances of social life might exceed the threshold of measure. Zavitsanos’s practice celebrates disability and debt as difference beyond separability and works to reveal the false opposition of dependency and autonomy––a myth often used to reinforce scarcity (for the many) amid abundance (for the few). Yet, distribution itself has many forms: from the art historical takeaway, to the ubiquitously popular giveaway, from the solution of making a way, to the dissolution of making no way and living in means without ends. Zavitsanos’s work stays with this means beyond measure to deny measurement its claims on life at large (and small).
L&D Motel, their solo show at PARTICIPANT INC, New York, NY (2019), formally experimented with the holographic principle of quantum gravity through an installation that was built into the architecture of the gallery and which sculpted low frequency laser waves and infrasonic sound waves by feel. The exhibition foregrounded non-visual knowledge through participants’ experiences of touch and vibration. Zavitsanos has exhibited and performed in New York at the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA PS1, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Essex Street, and elsewhere in the U.S. at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH and Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT. They have exhibited and performed internationally at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, Germany; Tramway in Glasgow, Scotland; Artspeak in Vancouver, Canada; Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg in Fribourg and the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland; and the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
With Park McArthur, they co-authored texts for Women and Performance: The Journal of Feminist Theory (Routledge, 2013), and Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017). Zavitsanos was a New Museum Research and Development Season: SPECULATION Artist-in-Residence (2015) and was awarded the Wynn Newhouse Award (2015). They were a visiting artist at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2017).
With others in New York’s disability community, Zavitsanos co-organized the cross-disability arts festival, I wanna be with you everywhere, at Performance Space New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Zavitsanos holds an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and a B.F.A. from Millersville University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Zavitsanos was the 2021 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Roy Lichtenstein Award.
Learn MoreSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Putting the Cooker on Low: A Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Online Event Join us for the launch of Putting the Cooker on Low, a new Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge. Ama was the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard, and we are honored to welcome her back to premiere her new video. Ama is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, researcher and pleasure activist whose intradisciplinary praxis works to hold together Blackness, pleasure, art and ecology towards queerly climate changing futures.
Putting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women, femmes, and nonbinary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual, emotional, familial, societal, and ecological crises. Putting the Cooker on Low intimates that which happens in the simmer and bubble, on the back burner and the top oven, in the side eye and the hot pot. Thinking with an ancestry of Black feminist petitions for self-preservation, this visual essay works to make visible and then unsettle the ways in which Black womxn artists internalize value-(as)-labor-(as)-capital. The cracks, crevasses, and slippages these antierotic modes of survival engender—as felt by both human and nonhuman ecologies—remain forced from view until they become black holes, into which we are swallowed and disappear. Often without a trace. It is with the cooker on low, that resistance might reduce into potency. It is with the cooker on low that we never run out of gas.
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Ludlow Lawn Cetiliztli Nauhcampa is a cultural, spiritual, artistic, political, and educational circle made up of community and family members who carry on the ancient traditions of the Native peoples of this continent.
Join us for an outdoor ceremonial performance on May 14 at 3 pm on the Ludlow Lawn.
For more information, please email Professor Yebel Gallegos at [email protected].Sponsored by: Dance Program; Office of Equity and Inclusion.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) and partners at Western States Center and the Montana Human Rights Network welcome network members to attend the launch of a co-written and co-published toolkit called A Community Guide for Opposing Hate.
The purpose of the manual is to provide those who want to “do something” about hate with the steps to improve their communities, not only for the immediate aftermath of a hateful act, but for years to come. It details best practices for how to start a local group opposing hate and to improve the work of organizations already engaged in this effort.
Written by people with decades of experience in the field, the guide notes that “hate may be manifested by different means (rallies, posters, social media postings, crimes, etc.) and may have a variety of targets (people of different ethnicity or religion, gender or sexual identity, even different politics). It underscores that it is a mistake to ignore hateful acts, as hate "imbedded as a noble idea can inspire individuals to acts of violence.”
The guide has detailed sections on messaging, traditional media and social media strategies, working with politicians and schools and academics, hate crimes, security, and research. Importantly, it also has a section on the importance of protecting free speech rights, and how, while doing so, to make the hater’s free speech exercise backfire.
Study Abroad Tips/Tricks (Student of Color Edition)
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 6–7 pm
Gilson Place Come learn about what it’s like to study and live abroad as a student of color! Pick up a fact sheet for tips and tricks for how to pay for your semester or year abroad and how to find your community wherever you are in the world! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
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