April 2, 2025

Dear Alumni,

I hope the official start of spring finds you well! I’m in particularly good spirits because I’ve passed my oral qualifying exams for my PhD program. If this season presents milestones for you, academic or otherwise, I wish you well!

Speaking of spring, BGC would like to host a career development roundtable later this spring. It would take the form of a conversation on life after BGC among current students and alumni in any field. If you’re interested in participating (or learning more), please reach out to Julia Cullen (julia.cullen@bgc.bard.edu), senior manager of academic programs and student affairs, who is organizing the event. I’ll share more information in the coming weeks!

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

Andrew Taggart (MA ’16) has been promoted to associate vice president and senior specialist of American furniture, folk & decorative arts at Freeman’s. Well done, Andrew!

Amber Winick’s (MA ’13) long-term collaborative project Designing Motherhood was awarded the 2025 W Awards Prize for Research in Gender and Architecture. Congratulations, Amber!

Select Career Opportunities

The Museum of Modern Art is currently accepting applications for a curatorial assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design. The curatorial assistant provides support to senior curatorial staff for upcoming contemporary design exhibitions, collection-based rotation displays of contemporary design, and acquisitions to the collection. The curatorial assistant also works with colleagues across the museum and with external colleagues to provide preparatory assistance and logistical support that ensures that exhibitions, collection care, programs, department operations, and other daily functions are smoothly executed.

The Green-Wood History Fellowship provides a selected awardee with an unprecedented nine-month engagement with the Green-Wood Cemetery’s rich resources: a 478-acre historic landscape with an unparalleled collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century monuments and mausoleums, alongside expansive institutional archives dating back to the 1830s. This fellowship is open to current graduate students or early-career scholars (no more than five years out from their PhD) and provides support for independent research in any area of study that makes direct use of Green-Wood’s resources. The fellow will work closely alongside the cemetery’s professional staff, including the current environmental research fellow and artist in residence. They will also have the opportunity to craft public history programs to share their research findings with a wider audience. We strongly encourage research proposals that focus on historically underrepresented and marginalized communities. Applications are due on April 20.

The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian seeks a full-time collections manager and registrar. The position is primarily responsible for the care of the collection, including assessing conservation status, monitoring gallery and storage needs/conditions, undertaking inventory and rehousing work, implementing integrated pest management principles, and maintaining documentation to the proper professional standards. The postholder will lead on ensuring the overall security and well-being of the collections and will maintain documentation and inventories with curatorial and collections staff. This position oversees transportation, packing, and shipping of collections in compliance with insurance regulations and the highest standards of professional practice. The position also supports the collections committee, ensuring all paperwork for accessions, de-accessions, and loans are maintained. Find more information here.

The Open University and the Museum of the Home invite applications for a PhD Studentship in the Department of Art History at the Open University funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with the Museum of the Home and the Centre for the Studies of Home at Queen Mary, University of London. For further details, see here.

The Victoria & Albert Museum seeks a curatorial research fellow in furniture and woodwork. This post has been designed as a career development opportunity, to encourage growth of specialist knowledge in furniture studies while supported and mentored by the furniture and woodwork curatorial team.

For more opportunities please visit the BGC job board.

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Select Events at BGC

Select External Events

The Institute of Fine Arts and the Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Thursday, April 3, 1–6 pm
Friday, April 4, 2:30–6 pm

Since 1940, the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts have jointly sponsored a symposium on the history of art for graduate students from doctoral programs across the Northeast. Speakers are nominated by their departments to share original research in any field of art history. BGC PhD candidate and Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at the Frick Collection Geoffrey Ripert (PhD candidate) will moderate one of the panels.

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

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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.