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2 unusual facts about Bard College


American University of Central Asia

In March 2010, AUCA has established an official partnership with Bard College located in the state of New York, United States.

Musica Elettronica Viva

They are active as a group to this day in addition to their individual work as composers - most recent MEV performance by Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, and Frederic Rzewski at Bard College in 2012.


Alexander Soros

He is the son of hedge fund manager and philanthropist George Soros and Susan Weber Soros, the founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) for studies in the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture affiliated with Bard College.

An-My Le

An-My Lê (born 1960, Saigon, Vietnam) is an American photographer, and professor at Bard College.

Bruce Chilton

Bruce Chilton is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism, now Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, and formerly Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale University.

Franz Schreker

In spring 2010 Die Gezeichneten had its American premiere at the Los Angeles Opera, while Der ferne Klang enjoyed its first staged American performance at the Bard Summerscape Festival.

Heinz Insu Fenkl

Before his appointment to his current position at SUNY, he taught a wide array of creative writing, folklore, and Asian literature courses at Vassar College, Bard College, Eastern Michigan University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yonsei University (Korea).

Irma Brandeis

Brandeis was also a close friend of the poet James Merrill, who funded in her memory the Irma Brandeis Professorship of Romance Cultures and Literature at Bard College (where Brandeis taught from 1944 until her semi-retirement in 1979).

James Chace

In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Government at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, in upstate New York.

Kelly Link

She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey; the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University; New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, Massachusetts; Clarion East at Michigan State University; Clarion West in Seattle, Washington; and Smith College, near her home in Northampton.

Kristin Prevallet

In her academic life, she has taught at Bard College, The New School for Social Research, and currently at St. John's University in Queens.

LUMA Foundation

The Foundation engages in long-term collaborations with institutions like the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), CCS Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern (London), the Kunsthalle Zürich and the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland).

Martin Creed

In the decade since winning the Turner Prize he has exhibited extensively throughout the world, including large survey shows at Trussardi Foundation, Milan ('I Like Things'), Bard College, New York ('Feelings'), and a touring exhibition which started at Ikon Gallery Birmingham and toured to Hiroshima and Seoul.

Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy

During the summer of 2009, MMLA moved its locations to Green Mountain College, Vermont and Bard College, Massachusetts.

Nancy Milford

While considering writing to be her primary career, Milford has also taught at the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Brown University, Vassar College, New York University, Bennington College, Briarcliff College, and Bard College.

Nothing Painted Blue

References to mathematics are common in their songwriting and iconography (Bruno's undergraduate degree was in mathematics; he is currently a visiting professor in philosophy at Bard College); for example, their 1998 record was named after the Monte Carlo method.

Penelope Umbrico

Umbrico has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at MoMA PS1, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; The Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among others.

Quantum Hoops

On January 6, 2007, the Beavers broke their losing streak in NCAA Division III play: coached by Roy Dow, they beat Bard College 81-52 to achieve their first victory since 1996.

Richard C. Friedman

Friedman studied at Bard College in the early 1960s, received his MD from the University of Rochester in 1966 and completed his psychiatric residency at Columbia University in 1970, following which he spent two years with the United States Army Medical Corps working in the psychiatric department of William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, with the rank of Major.

Sasson Soffer

He created numerous permanent sculptures for institutions including Wayne State University, Lehman College, Bard College, Lincoln Center, and the Xi’an International Studies University in China.

Stephanie Kelton

On a fellowship from Christ's College, Cambridge Kelton then spent a year at Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

The Musical Quarterly

Since 1993 The Musical Quarterly has been edited by Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.


see also

Jamie Livingston

Livingston was a member of Chris Wangro's circus troupe The Janus Circus founded by Wangro at Bard College with other Bard Alumni including Zeena Parkins.