May 15, 2025

Dear Alumni,

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a career panel for current BGC students that featured three recent alumni: Tessa Goldsher (MA ’19), Pim Supavarasuwat (MA ’22), and Madeline Warner (’20). The panelists, in conversation with professor Deborah Krohn, discussed their professional trajectories since BGC and the useful and sometimes unexpected ways that a BGC education can support a range of careers, from rare books research to development at arts organizations. It was wonderful to hear about the panelists’ lives after grad school and I know the current students in attendance found the session helpful!

As always, you can share news via our online form! I look forward to hearing your updates.

All best,
Julia Carabatsos (MA ’22)
alumni@bgc.bard.edu

Alumni Spotlight

Jessie Mordine Young (MA ’21) will show a collection of 365 woven works created over the 2023 calendar year at Dot & Grid Gallery in Brooklyn. A Woven Year will open on May 21 and remain on view until June 1. A Q & A event will take place on May 31, featuring Jessie in conversation with Rachael Schwabe (MA ’20), who wrote an essay for the show’s catalogue. Congratulations!

Maeve Hogan (MA ’15), Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Predoctoral Fellow in American Craft and Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, presented dissertation research in a talk titled “Between Utility and Art: Recovering Fiber-Based Craft Histories of the 1950s and 1960s” at the SAAM 2025 Fellows Lectures on May 9. Well done, Maeve!

Beatrice Thornton (MA ’09) showed a series of plant-processed photographs in the show Balsamic Time, on view earlier this month at Small Works in San Francisco. You can learn more about the exhibition in its recent coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle. Congratulations, Beatrice!

Select Career Opportunities

The William L. Thompson Collections Fellowship for Emerging Museum Professionals and Graduate Students is now open for applications. This opportunity is a short-term residential fellowship designed for emerging museum professionals and graduate students with an interest in a career focusing on collections and material culture within historic house museums.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art seeks a one-year, full-time research associate to support work on forthcoming volumes of the catalogue American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The research associate will conduct and verify research and write craftsmen’s biographies for two volumes of this publication.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum seeks submissions for its upcoming symposium, Stradanus at Cooper Hewitt, taking place on November 6–7, 2025. Cooper Hewitt is home to 143 sheets of drawings and inscriptions by the Netherlandish artist Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet, 1523–1605). With support from the Getty’s Paper Project Initiative and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Collections Program, Cooper Hewitt embarked on the Stradanus Project, an effort to conserve, research, and digitize Stradanus’s drawings, which served as preparatory designs for his engravings. Submit abstracts by June 15. See Cooper Hewitt’s call for papers, with submission guidelines, here.

For more opportunities please visit the BGC job board.

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Select Internal Events

Public programming at BGC has concluded for the academic year. Please check back for updated event listings in the fall!

Select External Events

Academy, Market, Industry: Sculpture between Britain and Italy
Victoria and Albert Museum (Online)
Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May 17

Papers will explore the evolution of established genres like busts, ideal sculptures, funerary and public monuments, along with copies and adaptations of ancient works. They will also examine how these models spread into decorative sculpture, including reliefs, medallions, and chimneypieces, as well as smaller artworks such as gems, cameos, ivories, and objects made from porcelain, earthenware, and new artificial “stones.” The conference is organized in collaboration with the University of Buckingham and the Fondazione Federico Zeri–Università di Bologna and is supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, Stuart Lochhead Sculpture, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra.

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