Press Releases by Date
July 2025
07-18-2025
Opening on Friday, July 25 at Bard SummerScape: First Fully Staged American Production of Smetana’s Opera Dalibor, Now Starring John Matthew Myers and Cadie J. Bryan Full Story
07-08-2025
Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition Opens in Red Hook, NY, July 12-20 Full Story
07-08-2025
Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies Receives 2025 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Grant Full Story
07-07-2025
Galvan Donates Real Estate Portfolio to Bard College in Historic Gift to Advance Community Building Mission and Support Bard’s Endowment Campaign Full Story
07-01-2025
Wiháŋble S’a Center at Bard College Receives Wagner Foundation Grant Full Story
June 2025
06-26-2025
Kingston Air Quality Initiative at Bard College Reports After Five Years of Monitoring Full Story
06-24-2025
Bard College Announces Two Recipients of the Second Annual Anthony Lester Fellowships to Support Practical Work in the Field of Human Rights and the Rule of Law Full Story
06-18-2025
The Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College Welcomes Four Writers for Its 2025 Summer Residency Program Full Story
06-12-2025
Bard College Receives 2025 Capacity Building Grant from Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative Full Story
06-10-2025
Bard College Launches New Online Platform in Partnership with JustAir to Give Public Access to Real-Time Hudson Valley Air Quality Information Full Story
06-10-2025
US-China Music Institute Awarded Grant from Cyrus Tang Foundation Full Story
06-04-2025
Three Bard College Graduates Win 2025 Fulbright Awards Full Story
May 2025
05-29-2025
Leading Economists and Policymakers to Discuss Money, Finance, and Economic Strategies in Fractured Times at the Levy Economics Institute’s 32nd Annual Conference, June 16 Full Story
05-25-2025
Bard College 2025 Commencement Address Full Story
05-15-2025
The Fisher Center at Bard Presents the World Premiere of Pam Tanowitz’s Pastoral, a Collaboration with Visual Artist Sarah Crowner and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Caroline Shaw, June 27–29 Full Story
05-01-2025
Bard College Holds One Hundred Sixty-Fifth Commencement on Saturday, May 24, 2025 Full Story
05-01-2025
James Romm in Conversation with Leon Botstein at Plato and the Tyrant Book Launch on May 13 Full Story
April 2025
04-30-2025
Bard Music Festival Explores Life and Times of Preeminent 20th-Century Czech Composer in “Martinů and His World” (August 8–17), as Part of Bard SummerScape 2025 Full Story
04-23-2025
CCS Bard Announces Lauren Cornell as Artistic Director and Mariano López Seoane as Director of the Graduate Program and ISLAA Fellow in Latin American Art Full Story
04-23-2025
July 25–August 3: Bard SummerScape Presents First Fully Staged American Production of Smetana’s Opera Dalibor Full Story
04-21-2025
Bard Center for the Study of Hate Awarded GS Humane Corp Grant for Summer Internships Full Story
04-16-2025
The Fisher Center at Bard Announces Programming for the Spiegeltent at Bard SummerScape 2025, June 27 – August 16 Full Story
04-15-2025
Two Bard College Faculty Members Named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows Full Story
04-11-2025
Estimated Cost of Hate Crimes to Phoenix Residents in 2022 Between $39 and $160 Million, Reports Bard Center for the Study of Hate and Anti-Defamation League’s Desert Region Full Story
04-10-2025
Ella Walko ’26 Recognized for Voter Registration, Education, and Turnout Efforts Full Story