May 1, 2025

Dear Alumni,

Last week I visited the Met’s new exhibition Sargent and Paris. The show features some of my long-standing favorites (including The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, which I have fond memories of seeing at the MFA Boston as a child), and it also introduced me to new material (like a series of studies in pencil of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau for the portrait Madame X). I was especially excited to visit because current BGC PhD candidate Caroline Elenowitz-Hess worked on the show as a research assistant in the American Wing and contributed a chapter to the catalogue titled “Echoes and Afterlives of Madame X”!

I’d also like to call your attention to BGC’s Alumni Spotlight Lecture on Tuesday, May 13, featuring Julie Bellemare (PhD ’21). Please find more information about the evening, which will begin with an opportunity to learn more about the BGC Study Collection, in the BGC events listings below. I hope to see many of you there!

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

May Alumni Event!

Alumni Spotlight

This month, Anna Riley (MA ’23) will present on a panel titled “Life of Glass: Following Pathways of Connection, Rupture, and Alteration” at the Glass Art Society conference. Well done, Anna!

Select Career Opportunities

The Vilcek Foundation will award six Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in the amount of $50,000 in two categories: Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture. In each category, three young immigrant fashion professionals who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field will individually receive an unrestricted cash prize of $50,000. Find more information here.

The Hungarian Academy of Arts, Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology, and the University of Pécs’s Department of Applied Arts and Department of Communication and Media Studies are now accepting submissions for paper presentations at an upcoming three-day, transdisciplinary conference, Transcultural Fashion/Costume Narratives.

The Journal of the History of Collections seeks an Associate Editor with expertise in Eastern European, Asian, eighteenth- through twenty-first-century Western art histories and/or Classical art.

For more opportunities please visit the BGC job board.

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Select External Events

Research Out Loud: Met Fellows Present
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 8–23

At this event, Met fellows explore new avenues of research in art history, visual culture, interpretation, cultural heritage preservation, and scientific research through presentations, panel discussions, and gallery activations, such as talks, tours, and hands-on activities. The fellows will present cross-cultural and transhistorical connections throughout the Met collection that go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, bridging the visual arts and other areas of the humanities, sciences, performing arts, and fine arts.

Shop the BGC Store!

Visit our online store at store.bgc.bard.edu for 40% off all items. Enter code ALUMNI at checkout to receive the discount.

Sign up for Gaggle!

Gaggle.mail is an opt-in list-serv that serves as a place to share job openings, conference attendance, published books/articles, and exhibition openings directly with fellow alums. It’s a communication forum for alumni, by alumni. To circulate your news in the Gaggle group, send an email to bgcalumni@gaggle.email.