July 2026

Dear Alumni,

I hope this email finds you staying cool this summer! I’m currently in Washington, DC, for a few weeks of dissertation research, and I’ll also be presenting a paper at the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference, “Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación,” next week (please let me know if you’ll also be around for the conference and we can connect)! I haven’t spent much time in DC before, so I welcome recommendations of all kinds as I get to know the area.

As the summer continues, please consider sharing any recent updates with me and the BGC community through the online form!

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

Alumni Spotlight

Anna Kaplan (MA ’10) has joined the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy as their deputy director. Previously, she spent six years as the executive director of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff, a historic house museum just outside of Buffalo in Derby, New York. At Graycliff, Anna focused on a capital campaign for a new visitor center, which opened in March. Congratulations on an exciting and successful year so far, Anna!

Select Career Opportunities

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields seeks a curator of fashion and textile arts to advance the museum’s commitment to textiles, fashion, fiber, dress, and related material culture. The position will guide the study, care, growth, interpretation, and presentation of more than seven thousand works in the fashion and textile arts collection across cultures, materials, techniques, and time periods. Highlights include: the archives of Stephen Sprouse; contemporary Japanese, historic American, and European fashion; and African textiles.

Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, an annual publication produced by graduate students affiliated with the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico, seeks submissions for its new issue on the theme “Contested Exhibitions: Curating the Local and Reframing the Margins.” Articles should examine understudied exhibition histories, ethical curatorial practices, and artistic interventions to museum displays and their relations to marginalized artists, communities, and under-documented geographies across the Americas from any historical period. The journal is particularly interested in exhibition histories that foreground local and regional contexts, engage in historiographic revision, center tribal/community-centered practices, and treat the exhibition as a contested site of knowledge production. Papers and projects that critically engage with how exhibitions have shaped our understanding of and/or challenged dominant narratives of the art of the Americas are highly encouraged. Submissions in English, Spanish, or Portuguese are due by July 31. Find more information here.

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Select BGC Events

BGC public programming has concluded for the academic year. Check back in the fall for more events!

Select External Events

“The Index of American Design,” a New Deal Webinar
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
8 pm
Online

This New Deal Webinar features a conversation between K. L. H. Wells, associate professor of American art and architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and John Ott, professor of art history at James Madison University. Q&A will follow a discussion of Dr. Wells’s exciting new book, Uncanny Revivals: Designing an American Identity, recently released by Yale University Press.

Objects of Independence: American Arts at the 250th
Doyle, 175 East 87th Street, New York City
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
3–7 pm

You’re invited by BGC alum Jenny Pitman (MA ’00), vice president, director of regions at Doyle auction house, to an engaging afternoon of lectures and conversation exploring American arts at the nation’s 250th anniversary with the Winterthur Museum. Light hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served. Space is limited. RSVP here.

Conference: The Work of Revolution
American Association for State and Local History and the National Council on Public History
Providence, RI
Wednesday–Saturday, September 16–19, 2026

The American Association for State and Local History and the National Council on Public History will present the conference “The Work of Revolution” in Providence, Rhode Island, from September 16 to 19. (Early bird registration rates are active until August 3.) The conference, held on the occasion of the semiquincentennial, explores themes related to revolution: “Revolution is at the center of every remarkable societal change. Through formal politics, grassroots organizing, boycott, protest, litigation, war, and a wide range of other mass and individual actions, behind every revolutionary moment are the people working to bring revolutionary ideas into reality. In the face of rapid cultural, social, political, and technological change, history’s importance as a guide for our future has become clearer than ever. Documenting during crises, archiving our collective past, supporting researchers and revolutionaries alike, public historians are part of the landscape of revolution. We bring history to the public because it matters.”

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