Press Releases by Date
February 2026
02-19-2026
Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies (CfIS) Hosts Annual Symposium With Keynote Speaker Miranda Belarde-Lewis on March 9–10 Full Story
02-18-2026
CCS Bard’s 2026 Graduating Class Seeks Understanding of the Present Through 12 Curatorial Projects Full Story
02-18-2026
Bard College Conservatory of Music and Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program Present Menotti’s Amelia Goes to the Ball and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi on March 6 and 8, 2026 Full Story
02-03-2026
The Fisher Center at Bard Announces Summerscape 2026, Bringing Opera, Dance, Spiegeltent, and the 36th Bard Music Festival, Mozart and His World, to the Stunning Hudson River Valley Setting, June 25 – August 16 Full Story
02-03-2026
Bard College Named a Top Producer of Fulbright US Students for 2025–26 Full Story
02-02-2026
First Survey on Marilou Schultz Charts Her Innovation at Intersection of Navajo Weaving and Digital Technology Full Story
January 2026
01-29-2026
Bard College Hosts Panel Discussion and Film Screening About Biodiversity in the Hudson Valley Full Story
01-27-2026
Bard Professor Felicia Keesing Elected a Fellow of the British Ecological Society Full Story
01-21-2026
Bard Conservatory of Music’s US–China Music Institute and the Central Conservatory of Music, China, Present Seventh Annual “The Sound of Spring” Chinese New Year Concert Celebrating the Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day Full Story
01-21-2026
Bard College Completes Its Landmark Endowment Challenge Full Story
01-21-2026
Bard College Awarded Department of Energy Grant for Quantum Computation Research Project Full Story
01-20-2026
The Orchestra Now Begins 2026 Winter/Spring Season at Bard College with Six Concerts and Four Programs January 24 – May 10 Full Story
01-16-2026
Bard Professor Tania El Khoury Awarded 2026 Creative Capital Award Full Story
December 2025
12-19-2025
The Levy Economics Institute Drafts Open Letter to Indian Government Full Story
12-18-2025
Bard Professor Dinaw Mengestu Named President of PEN America Full Story
12-17-2025
First Retrospective Exploring Betty Parsons’ Dual Legacy As Artist and Gallerist to Open at CCS Bard June 2026 Full Story
12-11-2025
Bard Conservatory of Music Announces Seventh Annual Kurtág Festival Honoring György Kurtág’s 100th Birthday, March 11–April 4 Full Story
12-11-2025
Two Bard College Professors Receive 2025 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Full Story
12-10-2025
Hamza Walker Selected 2026 Recipient of the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence Full Story
12-09-2025
Four Bard College Faculty Awarded New York State Council on the Arts Grants Full Story
November 2025
11-19-2025
Youth Voting Rights, a New Book by Bard Vice President Jonathan Becker and Constitutional Scholar Yael Bromberg, Examines the Ongoing Fight for the Right to Vote in the United States Full Story
11-13-2025
The Orchestra Now Presents Egypt in Music and Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 7 Full Story
11-12-2025
Carlos Motta Named 2025-26 Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism Full Story
11-11-2025
Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Presents “Democracy in Practice: A Model Assembly” in NYC on Nov. 19 Full Story
11-10-2025
Bard Scholar Suzanne Kite Named Codirector of the Abundant Intelligences Research Program Full Story