Category: Student News

Art History major Christopher Richards ’12 won two of the most prestigious awards at Bard College for his senior project titled The Age of Tears: Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross and its Lachrymose Contexts (Adviser, Susan Merriam).  Christopher received the  Cristina Duarte Prize for Medieval Literature and the Wilton Moore Lockwood Prize…

The Jean M. French Travel Award was established in 2011 to assist second semester juniors in researching their senior project.  Money for this award was generously donated by Bard art history alumni in honor of Prof. Jean M. French, who retired in 2011.  It was her wish that juniors could use the summer before their…

On Thursday, May 19th, art history seniors presented their projects to their peers and faculty and then participated in a celebratory dinner. Here is the Program, please enjoy! Open publication – Free publishing – More 2012

Bard Senior Art History majors, Monica Semczyk and Manu Del Peschio emulate Manet’s Bar At The Folies Bergère while interning during winter break at an opening at the Steven Harvey Gallery on the Lower East Side, NYC.

Erica Lome, class of 2011, is a curatorial intern at the Museum of Arts and Design.  She is assisting in the development of a contemporary Japanese design show,  “Beauty in All Things,” and part of her responsibilities is to promote the works in the show through a weekly blog on the MAD website.  The show…

A.L. STEINER and A.K. BURNS “COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER” screening with the artists Monday, May 9, Weis Cinema, at 7:00 pm Panel Discussion to follow with Julia Paoli and Nathan Lee Event sponsored by Art History, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Trans-Action, organized by Marlies Staple as part of her senior project

Summer 2010 – Isabelle Coler I spent the summer interning at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Indian and Himalayan art department, as a part of the Museum Studies Internship program. My work ranged greatly, from small tasks like rearranging files and cropping pictures to creating a binder that organized the department’s collection of…

Summer 2010- Karen Johnson This year, I spent my second summer working at the Quent Cordair Fine Art gallery in Napa, California. The gallery exhibits work in a variety of mediums, all falling within the genre of romantic realism.  My duties were pretty varied.  While I was hired as an art salesperson, I also did…

Summer 2010 – Miriam Natis This summer I worked for the Masonic Library and Museum in the Grand Lodge of New York.  It was an interesting experience, working for a not-so-secret secret organization, especially because I couldn’t know some things and wasn’t supposed to know others.  Despite being a touch surreal, it was definitely worthwhile.…

Summer 2010 – Sara Kornhauser This summer I worked for Eli Wilner framing company in New York City. They have a gallery which houses their antique frames and an offsite studio space where reproduction frames are made as well antique frames are restored. I started with finishes–learning about the different layers that can be applied…