Sara J. Winston Awarded Grant from Arts Mid-Hudson

Sara J. Winston, associate director of the Photography Program and artist in residence, has been awarded a 2025 Arts and Culture Project Grant by Arts Mid-Hudson, a nonprofit organization which aims to provide vital support to artists and organizations throughout Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties. The grant will support Winston’s project, Too Visceral to be Intelligent, a special edition of her hybrid visual-textual artist book that chronicles her experience of living with Multiple Sclerosis. Diagnosed in 2015, Winston has developed a body of work centered on self-portrait photographs taken during her monthly and biannual intravenous infusion treatments. These images juxtapose the clinical starkness of the environment with her youthful, able-bodied appearance, producing a striking and deeply personal meditation on chronic illness, resilience, and self-representation. The book will be released in an edition of 250 copies in 2026, and as part of the public component of the grant, Winston will present the work at a talk and book launch event at the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s CPW Kingston on February 12, 2026.

The Photography Program at Bard College offers instruction in the medium while providing a historical and aesthetic framework for student development within the context of a broad-based liberal arts education.
 

Post Date: 08-27-2025