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Bard College Names Miriam Felton-Dansky Director of Undergraduate Theater and Performance Program
Bard College has named Miriam Felton-Dansky director of its undergraduate Theater and Performance Program. A longtime faculty member in the program as well as in Bard’s Experimental Humanities concentration, Felton-Dansky will take her position as director in spring 2021. Gideon Lester, who has served as director of the program since 2012, will become senior curator of the newly formed Center for Human Rights and the Arts, alongside his work as artistic director of the Fisher Center at Bard.
Award-Winning Author Suzy Hansen Joins Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program Faculty
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program announces the appointment of journalist and award-winning author Suzy Hansen to its faculty. Hansen is the author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs. She will teach writing on international affairs starting in the spring 2021 semester. Read More >>Ama Josephine B. Johnstone Named as 2020–21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard College
The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project announced today that Ama Josephine B. Johnstone has been selected as the seventh recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Her appointment is made possible by the Keith Haring Foundation as part of the second series of a five year-grant supporting the Fellowship—an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at Bard College. Read More >>More Bard News
- Azikiwe Mohammed ’05 Founds Black Painters Academy, a New School Dedicated to Black Art History
- Award-Winning Chef Carla Perez-Gallardo ’10 Opens Community Refrigerator at Her Hudson, N.Y., Restaurant Lil Deb’s Oasis
- “Eloquent, unexpected, and beguiling”: Meshell Ndegeocello’s Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin from the Fisher Center
- Associated Press Praises Direction, Cinematography, and “Hugely Entertaining” Relationship at Core of Dreamland, the New Film Directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ’14 and Costarring Lola Kirke ’12
- Leon Botstein Discusses the Challenges of Learning During a Pandemic, the Value of Higher Education in Prisons, and the Obligation of Educators to Emphasize the Link between Learning and Democracy
- Bard Diplomat in Residence Frederic C. Hof on Lebanon 50 Years after Its Last State-builder
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