Category: Alumni

  • Circa 1971

    Circa 1971 Early Film & Video from the EAI Archive September 17, 2011 – September 4, 2012 Curated by art history alumna Lori Zippay ’80, Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) on the occasion of EAI’s 40th anniversary. DIA: BEACON Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, New York www.diaart.org/circa1971 www.eai.org Gallery Talk with Lori…

  • Update from our Fulbright Scholar

    Rachel Heidenry, ’11, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study murals in El Salvador.  She recently emailed an update: “I split my time between San Salvador, the westernized capital, and Suchitoto, a small town about two hours north. In San Salvador, I tend to hop on the bus with my camera concealed in my backpack and…

  • Alum’s Outsider Art Project

    Clare Conniff’s Post-Grad ’11 Project My whole life I have watched my grandfather, Jim Conniff, create weird and wacky, but beautiful, art. When I was young I just thought of it as something he did for fun. I never realized how truly wrong I was until my last semester at Bard, when I took a…

  • Alumnus Max Yeston ’08 in his own words..

    I am currently a first-year graduate student at Columbia University’s Historic Preservation Program. The curriculum uses New York City as a laboratory for exploring a wide array of issues pertaining to the preservation of the built environment, such as research and documentation, city planning, structures and materials, architectural history and theory. I have already undertaken…

  • Alum to Lecture

    Olivia Tamzarian graduated from Bard College in 2005 with a triple concentration in anthropology, art history, and Latin American studies.  She is a study abroad coordinator with LPI (Learning Programs International), Austin, TX. Olivia will lecture at Bard High School Knowledge College Event Saturday, February 5, 2011 Globe-Trotter Before Graduation: Everything You Need to Know…

  • A Former Art History Student Goes To Peru

    Summer 2010 – Jessica Blau With the advent of the Haiti earthquake in January, I was very keen to volunteer there with the relief aid; however due to political tensions in Haiti, the organization I was set to volunteer with suggested that I also look into volunteer opportunities in Pisco, Peru, which had been victim…

  • Samantha Erin Safer ’04

    We are proud to announce that Samantha Erin Safer, Art History Department Graduate of 2004 has just written a book titled Zandra Rhodes: Textile Revolution: Medals, Wiggles, and Pop 1961-1971.   Published by the Antiques Collectors Club, Ltd. in Suffolk, England, this lavishly illustrated book is a major study of the visionary British textile and…

  • Alumni News!

    Inspired in part by Susan Aberth’s Outsider Art seminar (Fall ’09), recent graduate Alisa Saario (Class of 2010) and two friends spent the summer on a road trip across America discovering artists and their work. Check out her blog! http://insidersout.wordpress.com,