Bard Conservatory Alumna Micah Gleason GCP ’21 VAP ’22 Selected for 2023–24 Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase at the Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera recently announced that Micah Gleason GCP ’21 VAP ’22, who graduated from the Bard College Conservatory's Graduate Conducting Program in 2021 and Vocal Arts Program in 2022, is one of four talented musicians selected to participate in the 2023–24 Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase. Gleason (US), Maria Benyumova (Germany), Shira Samuels-Shragg (US), and Jingqi Zhu (China) were chosen from a worldwide applicant pool of more than 75 conductors hailing from 27 countries on five continents.
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Launched in 2015, the Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase is the only program of its kind in the world and seeks to address the extreme gender imbalance of leadership on the podium as well as in administration in opera companies. Now in its 7th year, more than 500 women conductors from 40 nations have applied to be trained, advised, and supported by this extraordinary initiative. The annual Institute begins in November (November 13-17) with a week of daily virtual sessions, many of which are livestreamed and open for the public to view at no cost on The Dallas Opera’s You Tube channel. During an intensive ten-day residency in Dallas (January 19-28, 2024), participants will work with esteemed faculty and mentors in group and one-on-one sessions, as well as in rehearsals for the annual Showcase Concert on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will feature each Institute conductor leading the Dallas Opera Orchestra and guest singers in selections of opera excerpts featuring overtures, solo arias, and ensemble pieces from across the centuries of the canon. https://dallasopera.org/community/artist-development/hart-institute/ Photo: Micah Gleason GCP ’21 VAP ’22 conducting at Bard Opera Workshop in 2020. Photo by Chris Kayden
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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1191257294/composer-joan-tower-is-finally-going-easy-on-herself Photo: Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts. Photo by Lauren Lancaster
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https://hyperallergic.com/836340/hannah-barretts-monsters-envision-a-world-without-gender/ Photo: Hannah Barrett in front of (left) “First Draft” (2018) and (right) “The Dark House” (2020). Photo by Shelley Marlow
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07-26-2023 |
At Bard, Harris majored in film and human rights as an undergraduate then went on to study curating at the Center for Curatorial Studies. She credits her experiences at Bard for inspiring a love of analysis and problem solving and writes: “Bard taught me to love learning and left me with an intellectual curiosity that is at the core of everything I do—whether it is art, diplomacy, or global security.” In her first year with DSS, Harris has traveled to more than 10 countries and empowers US and foreign dignitaries to conduct diplomacy safely around the world. Photo: Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent Stephanie Harris ’08 CCS ’13 (far right) protects the US Women’s National Team at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Above, Harris posed with other DSS special agents and a security liaison officer from the New Zealand Police at the first Team USA match against Vietnam at Eden Park Stadium in Auckland, NZ, July 22, 2023. Photo courtesy of US Department of State
Meta: Subject(s): Human Rights,Film and Electronic Arts Program,Division of the Arts,Bard Graduate Programs,Alumni/ae | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies | |
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07-11-2023 |
Her first show at the BMA in 2020, Stripes and Stars: Reclaiming Lakota Independence, was inspired by objects she found in the museum’s vault—children’s clothing with American flags in their Lakota beadwork designs. “These objects were conundrums for me. I asked myself, ‘Why would the Lakota people, at this moment of intense conflict with the US government, use the symbol of their oppressor on these objects?’ The question catapulted me into deep research into the history of the Lakota people, and the moment of their transition to the reservation in the late 19th century.” What she found was that the Lakota people leveraged patriotic images like the flag in order to make space for themselves to enact cultural practices that had been banned, such as giveaways and puberty ceremonies, all taking place under the cover of the American flag during “patriotic” celebrations like the Fourth of July. “Listening to the stories of the objects is a big part of my practice, as is engaging with community,” says Turner. https://www.frieze.com/article/darienne-turner-interview-2023 Photo: Darienne Turner BGC ’17 portrait, undated. Courtesy of the photographer, Christina Chahyadi
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“The UN report is a significant recognition of the job guarantee as a key strategy for addressing unemployment, poverty, and inequality,” says Professor Tcherneva. “Nation states concerned with these issues will have the opportunity to respond and, if so willing, adopt the technical recommendations outlined in the report.” Tcherneva will participate in the official launch of the report on June 30, in a side event held on the occasion of the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The event is jointly organized by the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and ATD Fourth World, and cosponsored by the Permanent Mission of Belgium and the Permanent Mission of Luxembourg to the United Nations in Geneva. Tcherneva will speak remotely on a panel moderated by Olivier De Schutter, and will be joined by Aye Aye Win, president of the International Committee for October 17th; Kate Philip, programme lead on the Presidential Employment Stimulus, South Africa; and Mito Tsukamoto, chief of the Development and Investment Branch (DEVINVEST) of the Employment Policy Department at the International Labour Office (ILO). For more information about the event, including the concept note and list of speakers, visit srpoverty.org. Pavlina Tcherneva is an associate professor of economics at Bard College, the director of the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative, and a research scholar at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. She is the author of The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity, 2020) which has been published in eight languages. Photo: “The UN report is a significant recognition of the job guarantee as a key strategy for addressing unemployment, poverty, and inequality,” says Pavlina Tcherneva, associate professor of economics at Bard College and director of OSUN's Economic Democracy Initiative.
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06-06-2023 |
ARTnews also spoke with Carol Montealgre HRA ’23 and Adam HajYahia HRA ’23, who are among this year’s cohort of graduates, about their master’s theses. Montealgre returned to Colombia and reconnected with a union of Indigenous survivors of the country’s civil war. “I asked them what they needed, and they said they needed healing,” she said. HajYahia, meanwhile, researched the history of gender and sexuality in Palestine, finding “documentation of individuals who lived beyond the traditional boundaries of the gender binary and the patriarchy, focusing on sex workers, same sex relationships, and other activities and behavior that were found to be deviant by English colonizers.” El Khoury told ARTnews she was proud of the inaugural class—and excited for what was to come. “I think so far, we’re managing to practice what we preach,” she said. “Sometimes I feel like this is too good to be true, like someone is going to find out and stop it. But so far, it’s happening.” https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bard-human-rights-and-arts-masters-tania-el-khoury-1234670264/ Photo: Scene from Howls in the Mountains, an installation performance by Carol Montealegre HRA ’23.
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Photo: From left: Michele Majer, professor emerita at BGC, Laura Grey, art director at BGC, and Emma Cormack MA ’18.
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05-09-2023 |
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program annually selects and supports artists, scholars, and practitioners who bring both a record of achievement and exceptional promise to the institute. A Radcliffe fellowship offers scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—as well as writers, journalists, and other distinguished professionals—a rare chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full year in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard. The 2023–2024 fellows represent only 3.3 percent of the many applications that Radcliffe received. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/harvard-radcliffe-institute-announces-2023-2024-fellowship-class Photo: Ephraim Asili MFA ’11. Photo by and courtesy of Sean Slavin
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