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Sound artist and educator Christine Sun Kim joins this year's TED fellows, a select group that presents at TED conferences and participates in a network of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

In honor of the late artist Robert De Niro Sr., each year his estate supports a mid-career American painter with the $25,000 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize. This year's recipient is Robert Bordo, Bard MFA painting faculty member.

Chan’s “singular artistic voice” and versatile practice won him the prestigious award, which includes a $100,000 prize and an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.

Lisa Oppenheim is the recipient of the prestigious Aimia | AGO Photography Prize which carries a $50,000 CAD prize in addition to a six-week, fully funded residency.

Bard MFA sculpture faculty Nancy Shaver is the first-ever recipient of the Art as Media Award presented by the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) as part of the Exceptional Merit Media Awards (EMMAs). The EMMAs were created by the NWPC in 1986 to honor and reward journalists and media outlets in radio, television, print and the Internet that inform and educate the public about critical issues that impact women’s lives. The 2014 EMMAs were presented on the evening of October 27 at The Metropolitan Club of New York City. Previous recipients include Ellen Goodman, Cokie Roberts, Barbara Ehrenreich and Diane Sawyer. Cochairs for this year’s awards were Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Nancy Shaver's work has been shown extensively in the United States and abroad in both solo and group exhibitions. She has also been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.

Los Angeles-based painter Mary Weatherford MFA '06 has won the Artists' Legacy Foundation 2014 Artist Award and will receive a $25,000 cash prize.

Bard MFA photography faculty Mark Alice Durant interviews MFA writing faculty David Levi Strauss on art, writing, and politics.

Bard MFA alumna Corrine Fitzpatrick writes an in-depth article on the intense immersion experience of studying in Bard's MFA program.

Bard alumna Lisa Oppenheim MFA '02 has made the short list for the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize. She and three other artists will compete for the $50,000 award.

Bard MFA faculty and alumna Amy Sillman '95 offers surprises and inspiration in new exhibition.

Works by Israeli artist and Bard graduate Orit Raff MFA '03 "transcend national identities, challenge assumptions and transport viewers." 

The Bard MFA is noted for its unique low-residency program, in which "the focus is on creating art, rather than credits, grades, or classes."

Jazz musician and Bard MFA music/sound faculty member Matana Roberts is one of the inaugural recipients of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Impact Awards. The new awards are part of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, a special, 10-year initiative to support artists with flexible, multiyear funding in response to financial challenges that are specific to the performing arts. Doris Duke Impact Award recipients receive $80,000. Since commencing in April 2012, the program has awarded a total of $18.1 million to artists in the fields of jazz, dance and theater.

Taylor Davis's sculptures necessitate engaged reorientation on the part of the viewer. Her works—for example, the text cylinders in this exhibition—require "at least six orbital journeys" in order to be fully understood.

Bard MFA Music/Sound faculty member Matana Roberts has been named as a recipient of the distinguished Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, which carries a prize of $75,000. Every year five mid-career, risk-taking artists in the categories of dance, film/video, music, theater, and visual arts are each selected to receive an award from the foundation. "Visionary composer, avant-garde saxophonist, and sound artist Matana Roberts was chosen as the winner in Music for her charismatic, powerful renderings of sound," says awards director Irene Borger. On May 9, the recipients will receive their awards at a private celebratory luncheon at the Herb Alpert Foundation in Santa Monica, California.

The John Ashbery Poetry Series at Bard College presents Brenda Coultas and Ann Lauterbach reading from their work, with an introduction by Michael Ives. The program takes place on Thursday, April 3, at 6 p.m. in Bard Hall, and is free and open to the public.

Composer Richard Teitelbaum discusses his early work in electronic music in the 1960s with Musica Elettronica Viva.

Multimedia artist Dani Leventhal discusses the evolution of her work from ceramics to drawing and film, and reflects on her time at Bard.

Bard MFA faculty and alumna Amy Sillman will be featured in the Whitney Biennial for the second time this year, and her acclaimed survey Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two will come to CCS Bard.

Installation artist Brad Tucker MFA '09 has created a new art book suitable for toddlers, called Dunes at Noons, and it's published by fellow alum Julia Klein MFA '09's Soberscove Press.