Bard College ART HISTORY and VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAM

Faculty News

Article by Patricia Karetzky

Patricia Karetzky latest publication is:

“Contemporary Chinese Art: Uses and Reuses of the Past”
Education About Asia, Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 39-43

To view a supplement of the artist’s images not shown in the article, please visit:  http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/

Faculty News

NEH Award given to Prof. Laurie Dahlberg

Laurie Dahlberg has been awarded a NEH summer stipend award to support development of her  manuscript:

Amateur v. amateur: Photography and the Devolution of a Gentleman’s Art.

On April 19th  she is  giving a talk, entitled “For Love or Money?: Dilemmas of Class and Caste in Early Amateur Photography”  which is derived from one segment of her project, at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.

Congratulations Laurie!

Faculty News

Prof. Diana Depardo-Minsky Selected

The Princeton Review
http://www.princetonreview.com/uploadedFiles/Sitemap/Home_Page/Rankings/Best_Professors/BestProfessors_schools.pdf
has cited two Bard professors as among the 300 best professors in the country: our own Diana Depardo-Minsky, art history, and Karen Sullivan, Literature.   Read the testimonial:  diana_depardo_minsky.  Congratulations Diana!

Alumni

Hannah Becker ’11 will give a paper.

Hannah Becker ’11 will be presenting at the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations’ National Conference in Boston this Thursday.  Her new paper discusses glitter trends in fashion accessories as they relate to economic recession.   “Is Glitter the Prescription for (Economic) Depression?”, is part of the Memory, Vintage and All That Glitters panel, which will be held in Salon K at 4:45 pm on Thursday, April 12.  Congratulations to Hannah for taking her Senior Project and bringing it out into the academic world!

For more information: http://pcaaca.org/conference/national.php
http://ncp.pcaaca.org/session/memory-vintage-and-all-glitters

Happenings at Bard

The Cultured Canvas

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, The Olana Partnership, Olana State Historical Site and Bard College cordially invite you to:

Talks, Panel Discussion and Book Signing with a Fresh Perspective on the Hudson River School

Saturday, May 5, 2012
1-5 pm, Registration opens at 12:30
Weiss Cinema, Bard College

For more information visit: www.thomascole.org/2012symposium
www.olana.org

Student Opportunities

ArtsIntern

ArtsIntern is accepting applications for paid summer internships for 2012, providing exciting opportunities for students to work in New York City museums. There are many internships that have not yet been filled. This year, participating institutions include ­-

– El Museo del Barrio
– The International Center for Photography
– Museum of the Moving Image
– The Noguchi Museum
– P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
– The Queens Museum of Art
– The Rubin Museum of Art
– Studio Museum in Harlem
– The Frick Collection
– American Folk Art Museum
– The Neue Galerie
– The Brooklyn Museum
– Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
– Scandinavia House

Students may visit the site, http://www.artsintern.org/ to review the available positions. If interested, students should apply directly to the museum contact listed for each position, not to ArtsIntern. Each museum conducts its own selection process.

Student Opportunities

Paid Summer Internship Opportunity

Northwestern University  Metadata Internship: 2012

Northwestern University Library has an archival collection that requires the generation and/or clean-up of metadata for an EAD finding aid.

The applicant must have an interest in cataloging/metadata. This is a 20-hour per week, paid internship.  The internship will begin June 2012, last fourteen weeks, and be located in Northwestern University Library in Evanston, IL.

Please send cover letter and resume to [email protected],


Nicole Finzer, Visual Resources Librarian
Digital Collections, Library Technology Division, Northwestern University Library


Student Opportunities

Art Restoration Programs – Summer 2012

ART RESTORATION PROGRAMS SUMMER 2012
Altamura, Puglia, Italy

For those interested in art restoration, this program has positive affiliations with Bard alumni and is highly recommended by them!

Session I: June 13-30th
Session II: July 4-21st

For more information: Sinergie Brochure 2012

Faculty News

Congratulations to Susan Merriam

The Art History Program proudly announces the publication of Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image by  Professor Susan Merriam, Ashgate, 2012.

Book reading with introduction by
Professor Marina van Zuylen,
Monday, March 19, 2012
5:30 pm  Finberg House

Student Opportunities

Summer 2012 Paid Internship Program

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida will be offering six paid internships to be held for ten weeks, from May 21-June 27, 2012. The Ringling is part of Florida State University and serves as the State Art Museum of Florida.  Summer internships at the Ringling combine practical, hands-on experience working on a project for a specific department with exposure to all aspects of the museum’s operations. Candidates must be graduating seniors or current graduate students. The internships are in the following departments: Collections Management, Curatorial (Modern and Contemporary Art), Education, Library, Marketing and Communications, Historic Asolo Theater.  For more information: http://www.ringling.org/Opportunities.aspx

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