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This Month at Bard Graduate Center:
Another academic year has closed and Bard Graduate Center once again celebrates the outstanding achievements of our latest graduates—twenty master’s degree students who presented their qualifying papers and two doctoral candidates who successfully completed their dissertations. We wish them success as they embark on the next phase of their careers.
In the Gallery, the Focus Project series continues with the exhibitions: The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity (read an interview with curator Georgios Boudalis below) and Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles. In conjunction with these, the Textile Arts Center’s artists-in-residence program continues in a dedicated Makerspace on the fourth floor of the Gallery and the first floor Reading Room (featured in Wallpaper magazine) offers visitors a curated selection of work by contemporary artists working in the ever‐expanding field of art book publishing.
Read on for more Bard Graduate Center news—we are proud to announce that our publications continue to receive awards for excellence in publishing.
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| | | | Research and Academic Programs | | |  | Master’s and doctoral students received their degrees at Bard College’s commencement ceremony on May 26. Read more.
| | |  | Bard Graduate Center’s collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum continued as students in Catherine Whalen’s classes studied its American collections. Read more.
| |  | Bard Graduate Center faculty are presenting talks, attending seminars, and more. Read more.
| | |  | This May, first-year MA students were offered two options for faculty-led study trips. Photos from London are here and Paris are here.
| | | | | Gallery | | |  | Focus Project
On view through July 8, 2018
“In the exquisite exhibit and the accompanying book, Boudalis clearly and compellingly demonstrates the close connection between the sewing of textiles and the binding of multi-quire codices”—Brent Nongbri
Read the book
| | |  | Focus Project
On view through July 8, 2018
“ . . . not only a beautiful display of masterfully-rendered, colourful textile works from the Indonesian island, but also an enlightening look at the ceremonial and cosmological significance of these pieces.”—The Art Newspaper
Read the book.
| |  | Currently, the head of the Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, Greece, curator Georgios Boudalis was a spring 2015 research fellow and a fall 2016 visiting professor at BGC. Read an interview with him here.
| | |  | From June 4 through October 2018, the 86th Street at Central Park West subway station will be closed for renovations. During this time, the Gallery will be open and we hope you will visit. Alternate routes are here.
| | | | | Upcoming Events | | |
Textile Arts Center Resident Artist: Natalie A. Stopka
Through July 8
This spring, Bard Graduate Center is partnering with Textile Arts Center to run monthly hands-on workshops for adults and kids that respond to our two exhibitions. The Textile Arts Center Makerspace, on the fourth floor of the Gallery, is featuring Artist-in Residence Natalie A. Stopka, who binds books emphasizing unconventional structure and materials. Read more.
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Wendy’s Subway Curated Reading and Talk Series:
Language Weavers
June 28, 7:00 pm
Language Weavers gathers writers and artists working at the intersection of fiber-based forms and language to read from recent work. The event is organized on the occasion of the release of Francesca Capone’s Weaving Language III: Language is Image, Paper, Code, & Cloth, the third in a series of publications examining the poetics of weaving traditions through historical research and contemporary artists’ practices. Readings by Francesca Capone, Martha Tuttle, and Sarah Zapata, with conversation to follow, moderated by Jill Magi. Read more
| | | | Publications | | |
Three Bard Graduate Center publications have received awards for excellence in publishing. In April, the Victorian Society New York announced that the Digital Media Department will received the Outstanding New Media award in recognition of the digitalization of its spring 2017 Focus Project, New York Crystal Palace 1853; Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World, won the 2018 Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians; and John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London received the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for Excellence in the category of catalogues. Read more.
| | | | Iris Awards | | |
On April 18, Bard Graduate Center hosted over 150 donors and friends at the 22nd Annual Iris Foundation Awards Luncheon honoring John C. Waddell, Dr. Jason Sun, Dr. Aileen Ribeiro, and Benoist F. Drut/Maison Gerard. Proceeds benefited the Scholarship Fund. View photos here.
Donations to the Scholarship Fund ensure that the most talented emerging scholars in the fields of decorative arts, design history, and material culture have access to the degree programs we offer regardless of their economic status. Click here to make a tax-deductible gift. Thank you!
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