Artist in Residence Jeffrey Gibson. Photo by Brian Barlow

Bard Faculty Member and Multimedia Artist Jeffrey Gibson Will Represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale

Jeffrey Gibson, artist in residence at Bard College, will represent the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale Arte in 2024. Gibson, who is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, is one of the first Indigenous artists to represent the country at the Biennale. The Biennale Arte 2024 is being curated by Adriano Pedrosa, who received this year’s CCS Bard Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.

Photo by Peter Aaron ’68/ESTO

New York Times Profiles Bard’s Fisher Center: At 20, an Upstate Arts Haven Keeps Breaking New Ground

The Fisher Center at Bard has become an incubator for commercially promising new work like Justin Peck’s Illinois, while holding tight to its experimental roots.
For the New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler visits Bard’s Fisher Center in its 20th anniversary season, on the heels of a sold-out, extended run of Illinois, to talk with Fisher Center Artistic Director Gideon Lester, Illinois director Justin Peck, choreographer Pam Tanowitz, President Leon Botstein, and others about the Fisher Center’s past and future. “Since opening 20 years ago,” she writes, “the center’s Frank Gehry building has emerged as a hothouse for the creation of uncompromising, cross-disciplinary, and sometimes hard to describe hits.”

John Yau and his book Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art. Photo by Gloria Graham (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Interview: Bard Alumnus John Yau ’72 Talks about His Latest Book Please Wait by the Coatroom on the LA Review of Books Radio Hour

Poet and art critic John Yau ’72 talks with LA Review of Books Radio Hour about his process and experiences writing about artists and art in New York City. He discusses the complexities of how biracial, multiracial, and transcultural identities influence artists’ work within American art, and the ways those identities have been traditionally and historically ignored by the art world.

Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent Stephanie Harris ’08 CCS ’13 (far right) protects the US Women’s National Team at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Above, Harris posed with other DSS special agents and a security liaison officer from the New Zealand Police at the first Team USA match against Vietnam at Eden Park Stadium in Auckland, NZ, July 22, 2023. Photo courtesy of US Department of State

Bard Alumna Stephanie Harris ’08 CCS ’13 Serves as US Diplomatic Security Service Liaison at FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand

Stephanie Harris ’08 CCS ’13 is a special agent with the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) currently serving as a liaison at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Harris is embedded with the US Women’s National Team and is responsible for ensuring the safety of players as they travel across the region to compete with teams from around the world.

L-R: Jonathan Tunick ’58 and Carl Davis ’58 at their 60th Reunion. Photo by China Jorrin ’86

EGOT Winner and Bard Alumnus Jonathan Tunick ’58 Spoke with Playbill about Two Phone Calls That Changed His Life

As part of “How Did I Get Here,” a series of interviews by Playbill, Bard alumnus Jonathan Tunick ’58 spoke about his long, EGOT-winning career as an orchestrator and two phone calls that changed his life. The first was an early career call Tunick made to Milton Greene, who needed an arranger—and soon. “He was over a barrel; he couldn’t find anyone,” said Tunick. “And so, not without trepidation, he gave me the job.”

Tania El Khoury. Photo by Nour Annan HRA ’23

Bard College Receives $2,000,000 from the Mellon Foundation to Support the Work of Artist Tania El Khoury

The Fisher Center at Bard (Gideon Lester, artistic director and chief executive; Aaron Mattocks, chief operating officer) today announces that, in partnership with the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard (CHRA), it has received a $2,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the work and livelihood of Tania El Khoury, a commissioned artist and guest cocurator at the Fisher Center, founding director of CHRA, and a distinguished artist in residence at Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.