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April 2025
News for Bard
Families & Friends |
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Rethinking Place Conference on Food and Memory Library Exhibition, March 2025, Photo Credit Wais Kakarr '26 |
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Dear Families,
Before diving into events coming up in April, I want to take a moment to reflect on the success of the Athletics and Recreation fundraising campaign, Raptors’ Call to Give, which took place on March 27. Over $40,000 was raised for Athletics and Recreation and we want to thank everyone who donated. Your support means a lot to student-athletes and to the wider College community.
Looking ahead, April is an action-packed month with lots to celebrate starting with a career fair, two admitted student days, some exciting changes made to pre-professional health career advising, and senior project submission day. Here is what you need to know:
The Bard Career Development Office (CDO) will be hosting their annual Internship & Job Fair this Friday, April 4 from 12:00-3:00pm in the Campus Center MPR. Currently, 23 organizations will be tabling at the fair offering paid and unpaid opportunities for students in a variety of interest fields. For unpaid civic-related internships, the Bard Center for Civic Engagement hosts an application for students to apply to be considered for summer funding through the Community Action Awards (CAA). The deadline for students to apply for the CAA is April 16.
The Bard Family Network will be represented at both Admitted Student Days in April (April 5 and April 26) at the Resource Fair to help answer questions about all that Bard has to offer. We’re looking forward to meeting the next class of Bardians and their families!
Lisa Kooperman, Bard’s Pre-Professional Health Career Adviser, has made some exciting changes to further support Bard students interested in health related fields, including:
• Creating a new Pre-Health Website – A centralized resource for guidance, opportunities, and application support.
• Developing a faculty committee for letters of recommendation – A more structured process to support strong committee letters.
• Expanding advising – No more GPA threshold, and advising is now open to all alumni, no matter when they graduated.
Students may schedule an appointment with Lisa using this link, which is also located on the new Pre-Health website.
The Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs will be kicking off a “50 Days to Graduation” countdown with an evening gathering at the Alumni/ae Center on April 4. Graduating students are invited to join staff and faculty for light bites and the opportunity to learn more about what is in store as graduation approaches - from when and where to collect their cap and gown, to what the Baccalaureate Ceremony is all about, to requirements around packing up their room. Please note that Senior projects are due by 5pm on Wednesday, April 30.
To continue celebrating the Class of 2025, the College is offering free sessions with professional photographers for graduating senior portraits on Monday, May 5 and Tuesday, May 6 from 9am-12pm and 1pm-5pm at Blithewood. You will be able to download digital copies for free and order prints for purchase from our website when the photos are ready. Other celebratory events for seniors this spring include the Faculty/Staff vs Seniors Basketball Game on April 10 and a Senior Brunch on Sunday, May 4.
As a reminder, the full schedule for Commencement is available online along with the registration form and an FAQs page. Please take note of the important information below and direct questions to the Events Office at [email protected].
• Commencement is not ticketed but the families of graduating students should register for commencement using this registration form.
• The barbecue following commencement is free for graduating students, but they need to be registered for commencement in advance to receive their complimentary barbecue ticket. They will be prompted to register themselves closer to commencement or families have the option to register them through the registration form.
• The commencement tent opens at 1:00pm and the procession begins at 2:30pm.
• Commencement tent seating is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
• To provide the most enjoyable experience for all of our guests, we request limiting each party to 6.
• Registration closes on Monday, May 5th at midnight.
• Please bring your favorite reusable bottles to the ceremony. Bard is reducing the use of plastic bottled water on campus. Bottle-filling stations will offer water refills around the perimeter of the commencement tent.
Bard students continue to impress this April. Be sure to read the “Bardian Newsmakers” section below for highlights on their recent achievements. #bardianandproud.
Best wishes,
Mackie Siebens '12
Assistant Director of Development, Family Programs
[email protected]
845 758 7316
P.S. Every year, support from families and friends helps make it possible for Bard to educate courageously in Annandale. Please consider a gift to Bard before our fiscal year ends on June 30th.
P.P.S To learn more about Bard’s third annual Rethinking Place Conference on Food and Memory, which took place in March 2025 (photo above), click here.
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Dates to Remember
For the full 2024-2025 academic calendar, click here.
Monday, April 28, 2025 – Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | Advising Days, no classes are held on advising days
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | Senior Projects Due (5:00 p.m.)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | Last Day to Withdraw from a Class
Thursday, May 8, 2025 | Registration for Fall Classes Opens at 8 a.m.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 – Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams: All students and faculty remain on campus
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | Last Day of Spring Classes
Thursday, May 22, 2025 | Baccalaureate Service and Senior Dinner
Saturday, May 24, 2025 | Commencement |
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Family Leadership Council
Members of the Family Leadership Council (FLC) play a leadership role in the Bard community through a range of activities. FLC members develop and participate in on-campus and regional recruiting and mentoring events, promote and provide career opportunities for students, and participate in peer-to-peer fundraising. Parents on the FLC play a role in the success of the Bard College Fund through annual gifts. The Family Leadership Council meets twice each year: once during Family Weekend in the fall and once in the spring. These meetings are open so all Bard families are welcome to attend.
Interested in joining or have questions? Contact Mackie Siebens '12, Assistant Director of Development for Family Programs, at [email protected] or 845-758-7316. |
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Grace Miller-Trabold ’26.
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Bard Student Grace Miller-Trabold ’26 Awarded Davis Projects for Peace Grant
Grace Miller-Trabold ’26, a junior art history and visual culture and human rights major at Bard College with a concentration in Latin American and Iberian Studies, has been awarded a Projects for Peace Grant for $10,000 by the Davis Foundation. Miller-Trabold’s project, “Connecting Threads: Reciprocity and Gratitude as Pedagogies of Peace in Oaxacan Textile,” will provide resources for youth workshops on Indigenous Oaxacan textile traditions, which will take place in Oaxaca, Mexico, and in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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Blanche Darr ’25.
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Bard College Senior Blanche Darr ’25 Wins Prestigious Watson Travel Fellowship
Bard College senior Blanche Darr ’25 has been awarded a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which provides for a year of travel and exploration outside the United States. Darr, an anthropology major and violinist in the Bard College Conservatory, will spend a year expanding her musical vocabulary for her Watson project, Reimagining Music-Making as a Way of Life.
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L-R: Benjamin Barron ’15 and Bror August Vestbø, creators of All-in.
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Benjamin Barron ’15 Interviewed in W Magazine
Bard alumnus Benjamin Barron ’15 was interviewed in W Magazine about All-in, the fashion brand and magazine he founded with Bror August Vestbø. Their annual collections are based on a storyline featuring a female character and inspired by vintage fashion. The brand's growth is "driven by a fan base of insiders who recognize and prize originality,” writes Alice Cavanaugh for W Magazine.
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Artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’12 Creates Protest Painting in Wake of LA Fires
When the recent Los Angeles wildfires burned down the Altadena home of artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’12, his brick fireplace and chimney were the only structures left standing. “I began thinking about the resilience of these chimneys,” Aparicio told Hyperallergic. “I’m always looking at symbols that can hold both sides of an emotion: resilience and trauma.” In his first painting since the fires, Aparicio collaborated with Bay Area artist and activist David Solnit and a group of about two dozen volunteers to create a protest painting made from ash and charcoal collected at Altadena burn sites.
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The cover of Ars Poeticas by Juliana Spahr ’88.
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Poetry Collection by Juliana Spahr ’88 Featured in the Washington Post
Christopher Kondrich included Spahr’s most recent collection, Ars Poeticas, in a list of four books of poetry that “help restore nuance to our chaotic world.” Kondrich describes Ars Poeticas as a collection about poetry’s ability to respond to social and environmental crises.
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Written Arts Joseph O’Neill. Photo by Michael Lionstar
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Joseph O’Neill Interviewed by the New York Review of Books on the State of US Democracy
Daniel Drake interviewed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Written Arts Joseph O’Neill for the New York Review of Books, speaking to O’Neill about his assessment of the state of authoritarianism and resistance in the United States. “The end of the rule of law does not mean that we automatically find ourselves in an authoritarian society,” O’Neill said, but cautioned Democrats against being “distracted by the past.”
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March Supporters
Thank you to Bard families and friends who supported Bard in March. We are grateful for your generosity to the College! #donorsmakedegreespossible
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