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Bard College Awarded 2021–22 Big Read Grant from National Endowment for the Arts for Community-Wide Reading Program in Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Kingston
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with Arts Midwest, has awarded Bard College a $19,985 NEA Big Read grant to support the Big Read Hudson Valley: Spanning the Hudson River with Words, a dynamic community-wide reading program offering reading groups, performances, workshops, and events in Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Kingston. Focused on the Big Read selection, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
Alumni Spotlight: Tyler Williams Graduates with His Third Bard College Degree
Tyler Williams ’19 MAT ’21 has completed his third Bard College degree. Williams is a graduate of Bard High School Early College Baltimore, the Bard College undergraduate program, and now the Bard MAT program. He graduated from Bard High School Early College in Baltimore, Maryland in 2017 with his associate’s degree. He then enrolled as an undergraduate at Bard College, graduating in 2019 with his BA in religion. In 2020 he joined the Bard MAT program in literature and graduated on May 29, 2021 with his Master of Arts in Teaching degree in literature and a New York State secondary English Language Arts teacher certification. Read More >>Bard College Holds One Hundred Sixty-First Commencement on Saturday, May 29, 2021
Bard College held its one hundred sixty-first commencement on Saturday, May 29, 2021. Bard President Leon Botstein conferred 398 undergraduate degrees and 136 graduate degrees on the Class of 2021. The program, which took place at 2:30 pm in the commencement tent on the Seth Goldfine Memorial Rugby Field, was in person for graduating students only, in accordance with New York State health and safety guidelines, and was livestreamed for family and friends. Read More >>More Bard News
- Bard Music Festival Returns with “Nadia Boulanger and Her World” (Aug 6–15), Celebrating Life and Times of One of Classical Music’s Most Important Women
- Bard Summerscape Announces Casting for “Most Happy In Concert,” Conceived by Tony Award Nominee Daniel Fish and His Oklahoma! Music Collaborators Daniel Kluger and Nathan Koci
- Incoming First-Year Student Enlik Tagasheva Awarded $15,000 New York Times Scholarship
- Boston’s Greenway Home to Ambitious New Art Installation by Bard Alum Daniel Gordon ’04
- Funny Money: Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva Talks with the BBC
- Bard Alum Carla Perez-Gallardo’s Hudson Restaurant Lil’ Deb’s Oasis Featured in New York Times Article on Thriving Queer Restaurants
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