Press Releases by Date
August 2021
08-26-2021
Marieluise Hessel Foundation Donates $25 Million to Bard College Supporting CCS Bard’s Pioneering Curatorial Studies Program Full Story
08-10-2021
Bard High School Early College Receives $1.5 Million Grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to Bolster Early College Success in the Baltimore Public School System Full Story
July 2021
07-29-2021
Kingston Air Quality Initiative Detected Potentially Dangerous Levels of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) from Western Wildfire Smoke in Late July Full Story
07-13-2021
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) Presents Class of 2022 Thesis Exhibition, July 17–25, at Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook, NY Full Story
07-12-2021
Nadine Fattaleh and Oscar Humberto Pedraza Vargas Named as the Inaugural OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts Fellows at Bard College Full Story
June 2021
06-23-2021
Bard College’s Award-Winning Literary Magazine Conjunctions Celebrates the Launch of Its Fortieth Anniversary Issue with an Online Reading Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company on July 7 Full Story
06-21-2021
Bard College Anthropology Professor John Ryle Awarded an OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire Full Story
06-16-2021
Award-Winning Literary Journal Conjunctions and Founding Editor Bradford Morrow Celebrate Fortieth Anniversary in Latest Issue Full Story
06-14-2021
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 Full Story
06-13-2021
U.S. Department of State Awards Bard Undergraduate Student Grace Molinaro ’24 Critical Language Scholarship to Study Arabic During Summer 2021 Full Story
06-11-2021
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 Full Story
06-09-2021
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 Full Story
06-02-2021
Bard College’s Award-Winning Literary Magazine Conjunctions Celebrates the Launch of Its 40th Anniversary Issue with an Online Reading Hosted by Oblong Books on June 4 Full Story
06-02-2021
Yarran Hominh to Join Faculty of Bard College Philosophy Program in Fall 2022 Full Story
May 2021
05-31-2021
Bard College Holds One Hundred Sixty-First Commencement on Saturday, May 29, 2021 Full Story
05-27-2021
Bard Faculty Erika Switzer and Lucy Fitz Gibbon Share $30,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant Full Story
05-25-2021
Isabel Snodgrass ’18 Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Study the Relationship Between Indigenous Knowledge and Experiential Education in Samoa Full Story
05-21-2021
Bard College Professor Valeria Luiselli Wins Prestigious 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Her Novel Lost Children Archive Full Story
05-20-2021
Two Bard College Students Win Highly Competitive Gilman Study Abroad Scholarships Full Story
05-20-2021
Bard SummerScape Presents Black Roots Summer, a Cross-Genre Series of Concerts Organized by Curator-Educator-Producer Musicians Michael Mwenso and Jono Gasparro, July 23–31, Outdoors at Montgomery Place Full Story
05-18-2021
Political Theorist Lucas G. Pinheiro to Join Faculty of Bard Political Studies Program in Fall 2022 Full Story
05-18-2021
Award-Winning Playwright Daaimah Mubashshir to Join Bard’s Theater and Performance Program as Playwright in Residence in Fall 2021 Full Story
05-13-2021
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music Christopher H. Gibbs Awarded 2021–22 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin Full Story
05-11-2021
Bard College Appoints Political Theorist Mie Inouye to Tenure Track Faculty Position in Political Studies Program Full Story
05-11-2021
Bard College Names Ranjani Atur Inaugural Recipient of the Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies Full Story