{"id":3436,"date":"2022-09-22T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:41:26","slug":"3436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism in Perpetuity"},"content":{"rendered":"

$3.2 Million Given to Bard College\u00a0Endowing Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism in Perpetuity<\/strong>
\nUntitled wall drawing, circa 1981, Keith Haring artwork \u00a9 Keith Haring Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Endowment Coincides with CCS Bard\u2019s Permanent Reinstallation of Keith\u00a0Haring Wall Drawing\u00a0Created During 1981 Visit to Bard College<\/p>\n

Egyptian\u00a0Author Haytham el-Wardany\u00a0Appointed 2022-23 Fellow<\/strong>
\nBard College announced today it has received $3.2 million to endow in perpetuity\u00a0the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism, an annual faculty position that brings a prominent scholar, activist, or practicing artist to teach and conduct research\u00a0within the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) graduate program and the undergraduate Human Rights Program. The endowment is made possible by a grant of$800,000 from the Keith Haring Foundation and matching funds from the Marieluise Hessel Foundation and benefactor George Soros.\u00a0First launched in 2014, the fellowship embodies the shared commitment of Bard and the Keith Haring Foundation to imaginatively explore the complex connections between sociopolitical engagement and artistic practice. It also speaks to the historic relationship between the college and Keith Haring, which is further honored with CCS Bard\u2019s permanent reinstallation of a wall drawing the artist created in an act of spontaneity while visiting the campus in 1981.<\/p>\n

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Untitled wall drawing, circa 1981, Keith Haring artwork \u00a9 Keith Haring Foundation.<\/h6>\n

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In conjunction with the gift and reinstallation, Bard simultaneously announced that\u00a0writer\u00a0Haytham el-Wardany\u00a0has been named the 2022-23 recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship and will be in-residence on campus during the spring semester to teach and conduct research.\u00a0El-Wardany brings to Bard students a deep knowledge of philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, history, and literature with a focus on social movements in the Middle East and around the globe. Using collective reading as a vehicle for cultural research and debate, his teaching will bring a richly literary and global dimension to\u00a0CCS Bard and the Human Rights Program’s curricula, advancing Bard College\u2019s mission of cultivating critical thinking and creative action through deeper understandings of human history, society, and the arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism has been an enormous source of pride for the Keith Haring Foundation for the last eight years. It is a nod to the spirit and belief of Keith Haring that both art and activism can complement one another and bring about social and political change. We are honored to partner with the Marieluise Hessel Foundation and George Soros to ensure this critical work continues perpetually,\u201d said\u00a0Gil Vazquez, Executive Director of the Haring Foundation.<\/p>\n

About the Haring Wall Drawing<\/strong>
\nIn the early 1980s, Keith Haring was invited by Bard College Professor of Art History Tom Wolf to speak at the Procter Art Center (now the Fisher Studio Arts Building) about his practice and personal ethics around graffiti art. Prior to the talk, in an act of spontaneity, using a fat Magic Marker, Haring drew a series of five crawling babies on the wall of Wolf\u2019s office. During a phase of construction and expansion in the Fisher Arts Studio Building, a portion of the wall with the drawing was carved out and moved to Wolf\u2019s new office located in a different building on campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Wolf\u2019s imminent retirement from Bard College, the work will be transferred from the Department of Art and Art History to CCS Bard to undergo conservation and stabilization. It will be permanently installed in the CCS Bard Library, where students, researchers, and guests will have continued access to Haring\u2019s work, illustrating the connection between Keith Haring and Bard College.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See more https:\/\/www.bard.edu\/news\/32-million-given-to-bard-college-endowing-keith-haring-fellowship-in-art-and-activism-in-perpetuity-2022-09-21<\/a><\/p>\n

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