December 2023 Triangle 
Issue 168

Dear Bardian,

I hope you are well. The year 2023 is almost wrapped, done and dusted, but things never really stop in Annandale. 

Over the winter break there will be 47 displaced students staying on campus and working in various offices like ours, and we are excited for a chance to get to know them. Citizen Science starts up again early next month, and there will be BardWorks networking receptions in Annandale on January 25th and in NYC on the 26th. Invitations to come. 

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Bard Holiday Parties in NYC and LA this month. It was fab to be back with everyone in NYC, velvet and canapes. Thanks Caia Diepenbrock '15 for creating the new take on an old game, Bard Against Humanity, as a fundraiser—it's pretty funny! To learn more, check out Instagram here.

Also this month we published the Holiday Gift Guide online, thanks to the hard work of the Board of Governors Young Alumnx Committee. Please take a look and buy Bardian. In 2024 we will launch a full Bardian Business guide, so stay tuned. 

We celebrated students who are finishing in December with a special brunch featuring alumni/ae speaker Dr. Brianna Norton ’00–thanks Brianna for coming back to inspire students. 

When January hits, we will be speeding towards the 2024 Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend, and time will move very fast, especially if you are in reunion. 4s and 9s. Save the date: May 24th-26th. And there has never been a better time to make a reunion gift—we have an $84,000 match! 

So that's it from me for another year. I have had a great time meeting Bardians everywhere—both online and in person. Thank you for your questions, ideas, and support. 

Please stay in touch with me and with each other. We are Bardian and Proud of you. 

Be seeing you,

Jane ’89

P.S. If you missed the Friendship and Politics Hannah Arendt Center Conference, you can watch the sessions here. I highly recommend listening to Niobe Way on The Crisis of Friendships: Its Roots, Consequences, and Solutions. Her research is fascinating.

Newsmakers

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Visiting Artist in Residence Tschabalala Self ’12 on Creating Nicki Minaj’s Digital Vogue Cover

Tschabalala Self ’12, visiting artist in residence at Bard, talks about being asked to do a portrait of Nicki Minaj for Vogue’s December digital cover—using photographer Norman Jean Roy’s cover shoot as a starting point. “I do not usually delve too deeply into realism,” she says, “so by working on this project, I realized something I already suspected, which is that a portrait is more about capturing someone’s aura, as opposed to their appearance.”

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Baye & Asa. Image courtesy of the artists’ website Baye & Asa. Image courtesy of the artists’ website

Baye & Asa, Codirected by Sam Asa Pratt ’14, Wins Harkness Promise Award at 2023 Dance Magazine Awards

Alumnus Sam Asa Pratt ’14 performed at the 2023 Dance Magazine Awards Ceremony, where Pratt received a Harkness Promise Award alongside Amadi Washington. Their dance company, Baye & Asa, was praised by Harkness Foundation for Dance Executive Director Joan Finkelstein for its ability to “create political metaphors, interrogate systemic inequities, and contemporize ancient allegories.”

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Trudy Poux ’26 at a screening of <em>Do Nothings</em>. Trudy Poux ’26 at a screening of Do Nothings.

Bard Student Trudy Poux ’26 Stars in TV Pilot Do Nothings, a Musical Comedy about Their Nonbinary Coming-of-Age Experience

Trudy Poux ’26, a current theater and performance major at Bard, plays the lead character in the TV pilot Do Nothings, which tells the story of Tamarin, a teenage singer-songwriter plagued by paralyzing stage fright.

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BHSEC Cleveland, 2023. Photo by Jason Miller BHSEC Cleveland, 2023. Photo by Jason Miller

Early College Model Jump-Starts Students’ Educational Careers, Writes Dumaine Williams ’03 for Education Reform Now

“Many of us who work closely with adolescents ... are familiar with framing the importance of education for young people as ‘Your main job is to be a student,’ or a similar sentiment,” writes Dumaine Williams ’03, vice president for student affairs and vice president and dean of Early Colleges at Bard, for Education Reform Now. Williams says this likening to a career is no mistake, and that “similar to career decisions, our individual educational pathways significantly impact our lives.” The early college model, pioneered by the Bard Early Colleges, has proven to jump-start students’ educational careers, Williams argues, improving graduation rates and reducing costs.

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L-R: Dylan Mattingly ’14 and Thomas Bartscherer. Photo by Michael George L-R: Dylan Mattingly ’14 and Thomas Bartscherer. Photo by Michael George

Stranger Love by Dylan Mattingly ’14 and Professor Thomas Bartscherer Among New York Times Best Classical Music Performances of 2023

The one-night-only, six-hour-long opera Stranger Love by composer and Bard alumnus Dylan Mattingly ’14 and librettist Thomas Bartscherer, Bard’s Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, has been selected as one of the best classical music performances of 2023 by the New York Times. The performance was conducted by Mattingly’s fellow Bard alumnus David Bloom ’13.

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November Supporters

Thank you to all of our alumni/ae who made a gift to Bard in the month of November. All December donors will be acknowledged in the January issue of the Triangle.

Anonymous (13) • Coleen M. Alexander '00 and Matthew Alexander • Herbert H. Alter '65 • Claire Angelozzi '74 • Carolyn H. Antrim '65 • Penny Axelrod '63 and Jerome Haller •  Frederick L. Baker '92 • James D. Banks '73 and Jeannie Motherwell '73 • Izzy S. Barber '11 • Robert L. Bard '66 • Hannah Becker '11 • Emily Benedetto '02 • Jennifer Bennett '84 • Stephen H. Berman '74 and Laurie A. Berman '74 • Alex J. Bernstein '71 • Richard R. Bilangi '72 • Indy D. Bisram '18 • Jessica L. Boyd '18 • Jane A. Brien '89 and Stewart Verrilli • Matthew L. Brophy '02 • Michael Burgevin '10 • Caroline D. Burghardt '97 • Ina Calver '94 • David Ossian O. Cameron '74 • Matthew D. Cameron '04 and Meredith Danowski • Thomas J. Cassidy '82 • Bruce Chilton '71 and Odile S. Chilton • Anastasia Christman '91 • Noah T. Coleman '92 • Gary N. Comorau '68 • Miles B. Conant '12 • Betty Crawford '00 • Peter J. Criswell '89 • Sophie M. Davis '14 • Brian Dean '07 • Tate E. DeCaro '02 • Jonathan P. Dilks '03 • Jeremy C. Dillahunt '97 and Natasha Dillahunt '98 • Tony H. Dunlop '86 • Marian E. Dunn '60 and Eliott Dranoff •  Nancy L. Edelstein '48 • Angela J. Edman '03 • Bella T. Feinstein '19 • Marvin C. Fell '77 • Jennifer C. Feng '06 •  Jack Fenn '76 • Carole K. Fink '60 • Catherine S. Fischer '79 • Barbara W. Flanagan '60 • I. J. Frantzman '60 • Nick A. Galluzzi '22 • Frederic L. Gannon '92 and Cynthia W. Gannon '94 • Jennifer M. Gaudioso '95 • Christine Gehringer '09 • Charlotte V. Gibbs '02 • Amy D. Givens '93 • Jennifer A. Glynn '00 •  Gwenaelle Gobe '99 • Tristan D. Golas • Jill Goldring '86 • Mark A. Gross '69 and Hannah S. Gross '71 • Mikaela Gross '07 • Kapil Gupta '96 • Len Gutkin '03 • Richard F. Gutow and Susan F. Gutow • Alexander S. Habiby '18 • Rayna M. Harman '62 • Jim E. Hart '83 • Lynn Hatashita-Jung '84 • Barbara Hays '51 • Linda Helbling '85 • Jane M. Hill '68 • Eric Hoffman '81 • Jeraldine D. Hoffman '83 • Maggie Hopp '67 • Don Hurowitz '65 and Elizabeth Hurowitz • Roger D. Isaacs '49 • David W. Jacobowitz '65 and Linda Rodd • Rajive I. Jayawardhane '94 • Bill K. Johannes '70 • Cecilia E. Kaplan '17 • John S. Katzenbach '72 • Joshua P. Kaufman '92 • Maud L. Kersnowski Sachs '86 • Jared Killeen '04 • Arthur Kilongo '20 • Elliot B. Korte '14 • Zach Z. Korzyk '07 • Eugene D. Kublanovsky '98 • Judith C. Kuppersmith '63 • Tess Landon '10 • Kate S. Lawrence-Shetty '04 • Damianos V. Lazaridis Giannopoulos '13 • Joshua S. Ledwell '96 • Jake E. Lester '20 • Cynthia Levy '65 • Isaac Liberman '04 • Diane Liftig Saslow '70 • Jacquie A. Lowry '73 • Lissa Lundberg '68 • Tom M. Maiello '82 • Zoe K. Malecki '13 • Dati L. Mamukelashvili '17 • Bonnie R. Marcus '71 • Janeta Marinova '06 • Robert V. Marrow '62 • Kathy K. Marsh '86 • Dionisio Martins '07 and Anna Neverova '07 • Liese M. Mayer '05 • Andrew R. McIntosh '97 • Mollie G. Meikle '03 and Nathan J. Smith • Laura J. Meiselman '83 • Delia C. Mellis '86 • Ryan Mesina '06 • Clarissa P. Messer '19 • Claire E. Michie '02 • Abby Miles-Ruttenberg '13 • Morgan E. Miller '95 • Gideon Moor '12 • Sarah M. Mosbacher '04 • Diana J. Moser '85 • James D. Banks '73 and Jeannie Motherwell '74 • Hank H. Muchnic '75 • Patrick K. Murtagh '07 • Andrew J. Nicholson '94 • Sarah A. Nisenson '62 • Kerri-Ann Norton '04 • Brianna Norton '00 • Jennifer Novik '98 • Tim J. Oakes '97 • Karen G. Olah '65 • Patty E. Pforte '08 • Claire Phelan '11 • Tamara C. Plummer '02 • Tracy Pollock '07 • Sandra Propp Schwartz '55 • John A. Reiner '74 • Allegra M. Rosenbaum '13 • Katheryn J. Ross-Winnie '02 • Esteban Rubens '97 and Susan E. D'Agostino '97 • Noah B. Rubinstein '89 and Jill Blakeway • Louise A. Sarezky '66 • Lisa Savin '03 • Joseph Schwaiger '71 • Ellen Louise Schwartz '64 • Martha Schwartz Bragin '68 • Courtney E. Scott '99 • KC Serota '04 • Maro R. Sevastopoulos '00 • Alix M. Shafer '78 and Denis Duman • Erik Shagdar '11 • Peter Shapiro '01 • Homer J. Shew '12 • Jen Shykula '96 and Thomas Ochs • Mackie H. Siebens '12 and David P. Lindholm • Barbara P. Silver '57 • Alan Skvirsky '61 • Kira Sloop '94 • George A. Smith '82 • Rebecca L. Smith '93 • Adam Snyder '89 • Lydia M. Spielberg '09 • Jeremy J. Stamas '05 • John A. Stevens '94 • Michael Stiller '83 • Claire K. Surovell '84 • Walter E. Swett '96 • Aparna Tambar '95 • Steven B. Tatum '13 • Eric D. Taylor '96 • Oliver te Boekhorst '93 • Helene Tieger '85 and Paul Ciancanelli • Taun N. Toay '05 and Christine Diaz • Maxwell R. Toth '22 • Nancy Y. Urban '91 • Mark L. Viebrock '76 • Samir B. Vural '98 • Kristin B. Waters '73 • Stephen A. Wertheimer '59 • Alexander W. White '01 • Michael P. Wilkins '77 • Michael P. Winn '59 • Mike A. Wood '15 • Athanasia L. Worley '68

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