Category: Alumni

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,