U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock Delivered Commencement Address at Bard College’s One Hundred Sixty-Third Commencement on Saturday, May 27, 2023
Bard College held its one hundred sixty-third commencement on Saturday, May 27, 2023. Bard President Leon Botstein conferred 384 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2023 and 182 graduate degrees. The Commencement address was given by U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock.
Bard College Receives $93,000 from the Garden Conservancy for Blithewood Garden Rehabilitation
Bard College has been gifted $93,000 from the Garden Conservancy to go toward construction drawings that will aid the rehabilitation of Blithewood Garden. “We are delighted that the Garden Conservancy is partnering with Bard to preserve the rich history of Blithewood Garden for future generations,” said Debra Pemstein, vice president of development and alumni/ae affairs at Bard College. “This generous contribution will help with ongoing restoration efforts to renew Blithewood’s iconic landscape for the Bard community and beyond.” Read More >>Stranger Love, a Six-Hour Opera by Dylan Mattingly ’14 and Thomas Bartscherer, Goes On for One “Euphoric” Night Only, Writes the New York Times
The New York Times profiled the “singular, tender, euphoric, hypnotic opera” Stranger Love and its collaborators, composer and Bard alumnus Dylan Mattingly ’14 and librettist Thomas Bartscherer, Bard’s Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities. The Times also reviewed the opera, naming it a Critic's Pick, calling it “an earnest exercise in deep feeling that takes sensations and stretches them from the personal to the cosmic, and goes big in a time when contemporary music tends to go small.” Read More >>More Bard News
- President Botstein’s Charge to the Class of 2023
- Groundbreaking Survey Examining Performance and Objecthood in Native North American Contemporary Art Opens at CCS Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art June 2023
- Three Bard College Students Win Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad
- Marty Two Bulls Jr. MFA ’24 Named a 2023–24 NDN Changemaker Fellow
- Latest Issue of Conjunctions, Bard College’s Celebrated Literary Magazine, Explores the Nature of Water
- Thrift 2 Fight, Cofounded by Masha Zabara ’21 and Jillian Reed ’21, Profiled in the Times Union
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