ESTEEMED ARTIST ELLEN DRISCOLL TO JOIN BARD COLLEGE FACULTY AS PROFESSOR OF STUDIO ARTS

ESTEEMED ARTIST ELLEN DRISCOLL TO JOIN BARD COLLEGE FACULTY AS PROFESSOR OF STUDIO ARTS

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Bard College announces the appointment of esteemed artist Ellen Driscoll as Professor of Studio Arts in the Division of the Arts. Driscoll, who joins the College in the fall semester of 2013, will codirect the Studio Arts Program with Judy Pfaff, Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts.

Ellen Driscoll’s teaching and artistic commitments include public art, sculpture and installation, drawing, environmental justice, and civil rights. Her works have had wide exposure through nearly 100 solo and group exhibitions of sculptures, drawings, and installations throughout the country and the world. They include Fastforwardfossil: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York; Fastforwardfossil: Part 2 at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan; The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris; As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (20 mosaic and glass images at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets); Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art; and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. The Massry Center for the Arts in Albany currently hosts an exhibition, Core Sample, featuring Driscoll's sculptures, drawings, and installations, which explore resource consumption and material lineage related to the controversial subject of global warming. For more information about this show, go to: http://www.strose.edu/about_saint_rose/massry_center_for_the_arts/esther_massry_gallery.

Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Bunting Institute at Harvard University, New York Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her works live in the private and public collections at venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, Art New England, and Interior Design. She comes to Bard from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she has been on the faculty for more than 20 years and serves as department head of sculpture. She has also been affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Princeton University, and Parsons School of Design. Driscoll graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University.

CAPTION INFO: Esteemed artist Ellen Driscoll has been appointed as Professor of Studio Arts in the Division of the Arts at Bard College.
PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Manning

BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY TO HOST C2C SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 30–DECEMBER 2

 BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY TO HOST C2C SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 30–DECEMBER 2

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — During the weekend of November 30 – December 2, Bard College will host the northeast regional C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshop. Directed by Eban S. Goodstein, director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) and dean of the Bard MBA in Sustainability, the workshop offers training to college students and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business. C2C stands for Campus to Congress, and also for Campus to Capitol, City Hall, and Corporation. C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshops support students envisioning a path to early leadership to develop their skills. The interactive workshop covers communication, entrepreneurship, environmental and climate science, media, raising capital, and other critical topics. In addition to Goodstein, speakers include, Nate Kimball, airport environmental specialist, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Jamie Henn, communications director and co-founder of 350.org. 

The workshop is open to current undergraduate or graduate students and recent graduates from any college or university in the Northeast. Students from any academic background are welcome. The cost of the workshop is $30 and includes registration, food, and lodging for non-local participants. C2C Fellows offers a limited number of scholarships to attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information about the workshop or to apply, visit Bard’s C2C Fellows website at www.c2cfellows.org or contact Jess Scott at jescott@bard.edu or 845-752-4514. Application deadline is November 20. 

BARD COLLEGE PRESENTS ANTHONY HECHT LECTURES IN THE HUMANITIES

BARD COLLEGE PRESENTS ANTHONY HECHT LECTURES IN THE HUMANITIES

Daniel Albright to Deliver Fourth Biennial Lecture Series from October 1 to 4

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Bard College honors preeminent poet, alumnus, and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44 with renowned scholar Daniel Albright delivering the fourth biennial Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities. Albright, who is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, will present the lecture series, Comparative Arts: Theory and Practice, in October. The lecture series includes: “The Purposes of Literature: Remembering, Forgetting, Pounding into Shape” on Monday, October 1, at 4:30 p.m.; “Music’s Origin, Music’s End” on Wednesday, October 3, at 6 p.m.; and “Painting as Music: The Art of Counterpoint” on Thursday, October 4, at 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, all lectures take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.

Albright will deliver an additional lecture, “White Canvas and Silent Music: Definitions and Models for the Study of Comparative Arts,” on Tuesday, October 2, at 6:30 p.m. at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York City.Tickets for this event are $15 for nonmembers and $10 for Morgan members and Bard College affiliates. Please visit www.themorgan.org/public or call 212-685-0008, ext. 560, for more information or to purchase tickets.

The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities at Bard College were established in 2007 to honor the memory of this preeminent poet by reflecting his lifelong interest in literature, music, the visual arts, and our cultural history. Anthony Hecht graduated from Bard in 1944 and taught at the College from 1952–55 and 1962–66. Every two years a distinguished scholar delivers a series of lectures at Bard College and in New York City that addresses works close to Hecht’s own imagination and sympathies. Each lecture series is published by Yale University Press. Previous Hecht Lecture Series speakers are literary scholar and author Christopher Ricks; historian, critic, author, and broadcaster Simon Schama; and renowned historian Garry Wills.

“It is a great honor that Anthony Hecht chose Bard as his home, both as a student and a faculty member, and we are delighted to recognize his extraordinary achievements through this important lecture series,” says Bard College President Leon Botstein.

About Daniel Abright
Daniel Albright, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, teaches in the Music Department as well as the English Department. He is particularly interested in the ways in which artistic media—poetry, music, painting—interact with one another; in 2000 his book Untwisting the Serpent: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts won the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. Among his other books are Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources; Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism; and Stravinsky: The Music Box and the Nightingale.
At Harvard he teaches two Core Curriculum courses: the first, “Putting Modernism Together,” studies, for example, Impressionism through works by Monet, Debussy, and Joseph Conrad, or Surrealism through works by Apollinaire, Stravinsky, and Magritte; the second is “The History of the English Language.” He also teaches courses on opera, drama, Victorian and modernist poetry and fiction, and the relation of physics to literature.

THE CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT

THE RICHARD B. FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE PRESENTS THE CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT ON THURSDAY, MAY 31 

Special Concert Performed in Preparation for the Conservatory Orchestra’s Tour of China in June

 ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents the Conservatory Orchestra in concert, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. The performance takes place in the Sosnoff Theater of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, on Thursday, May 31 at 8 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. For ticket information contact the Fisher Center box office at fishercenter.bard.edu or call 845-758-7900. 

The program includes Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor; Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat major for two pianos; and the world premiere of Conservatory alumnus Shen Yiwen’s The Sorrowful Song of Drunken Exaltation. Soloists for the performance include Ming Aldrich-Gan and Wei Zhou, piano; and Julia Bullock, soprano. 

This special free concert is given in preparation for the Conservatory Orchestra’s tour of China in June. The Bard Music Festival and Bard College Conservatory of Music join forces to launch a concert tour that will take them to premiere venues in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, and Wuhan. Drawing on 22 years’ experience with the annual Bard Music Festival—devoted each year to the exploration of the world of a single composer—the tour merges the fresh talent of the Bard Conservatory with the Bard Music Festival tradition of innovative programming. 

For more information about additional events, including concerts and master classes, go to www.bard.edu/conservatory.

Celebrated Author Melissa Pritchard to Give Reading at Bard College

CELEBRATED AUTHOR MELISSA PRITCHARD TO GIVE READING AT

BARD COLLEGE ON MONDAY, APRIL 23

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — On Monday, April 23, at Bard College, award-winning author Melissa Pritchard will read from her new fiction collection, The Odditorium. Pritchard will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented by Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

Melissa Pritchard is the nationally renowned author of four short story collections: The Odditorium,Spirit Seizures, The Instinct for Bliss, and Disappearing Ingenue, and three novels, Phoenix, Selene of the Spirits, and Late Bloomer. She is also the author of Devotedly, Virginia, a biography of Arizona philanthropist Virginia Galvin Piper. Spirit Seizures, a New York Times Notable Book, received both the Flannery O’Connor and Carl Sandburg awards. The Instinct for Bliss, also a New York Times Notable Book, received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and Disappearing Ingenue, a Doubleday “Fiction for the Rest of Us” selection, was chosen to appear on National Public Radio’s 2002 Summer Reading List.Selene of the Spirits was a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and Late Bloomer, a 2004 Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year selection described as “ravishing” in Vanity Fair, received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.

Pritchard’s short stories are frequently anthologized and cited in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,The Pushcart Prize, Best of the West, Best American Short Stories, the Prentice Hall Anthology of Women’s Literature, and numerous other anthologies and college textbooks. Pritchard’s fiction has appeared in more than fifty renowned literary journals, including The Paris Review, A Public Space, Agni,Ecotone, Southern Review, Gulf Coast, and Conjunctions, the innovative literary magazine published by Bard. Her book reviews, essays, and journalism pieces have appeared in O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine; The Nation; the New York Times Book Review; and Chicago Tribune Books. Her essay “A Solemn Pleasure,” published in Conjunctions: 51, The Death Issue, edited by Morrow and guest coeditorDavid Shields, has been reprinted in The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, W.W. Norton, 2011, also coedited by Morrow and Shields. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including, among others, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Howard Foundation at Brown University, and the Illinois Arts Council. Pritchard teaches at Arizona State University and has served as judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She is also the founder of the Ashton Goodman Grant, working with The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (www.awwproject.org) to provide funding for the education and literacy of Afghan women and girls.

For more information about this event, contact conjunctions@bard.edu or call 845-758-7054.