July 11, 2024

Dear Alumni,

As I noted in my last correspondence, in future newsletters I plan to include brief notes about where BGC alumni are today. Today I’m excited to share a few words about my dear friend Marion Cox (MA ’22), who currently works as the preparator and production coordinator for Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. Marion arrived at BGC with a background in art handling, fabrication, and conservation. During her MA, she cultivated her research interest in public art, most notably in her qualifying paper and her NYC Parks summer internship in monuments conservation.

In her current role, Marion draws on all these experiences by focusing on large-scale production and public art. If you’ve found yourself in Madison Square Park or Inwood Hill Park recently, you may have spotted Rose B. Simpson’s Seed, a public art exhibition whose installation Marion managed. If you haven’t visited either park, perhaps you can add it to your agenda for a coming weekend.

If you’d like to be featured in a future newsletter you can write to me at alumni@bgc.bard.edu. I’d love to learn more about what you’re up to. For more specific updates, you can fill out our online form.

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

Alumni Spotlight

Congratulations to Allison Donoghue (MA ’24), who began her role as the Met’s Tiffany & Co. Foundation Twelve-Month Curatorial Intern in American Decorative Arts this month!

William Dunsmore (MA ’24) received the inaugural Jeffrey Kroessler Student Research Award at New York City’s Historic Districts Council Grassroots Preservation Awards ceremony for his qualifying paper, “‘A Winter Temperature in the Summer Time’: Preserving Nineteenth-Century Lagerkellers and German American Heritage.” Well done, William!

Associate professor Freyja Hartzell (MA ’04) and Karlyn Allenbrand (MA ’24) attended the University of Delaware’s Center for Material Culture Studies annual symposium. The event also screened a video about material culture studies at BGC created by Bob Hewis (MA ’24).

Current president of the Vilcek Foundation, Rick Kinsel (MA ’00) was recently featured in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s magazine, Preservation, for restoring the Detweiler House in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The house is now part of the State Register of Historic Houses in Hawai’i, has been celebrated by the Historic Hawai’i Foundation, and was an editor’s pick for The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Design Awards for 2023. Congratulations, Rick!

Alexis Romano (MA ’10) was awarded the Social Documentation Teaching Fellowship at Wesleyan University for 2024–25. In May, she presented papers at the Costume Society of America National Conference and Beyond the Blockbuster: Exhibiting Fashion Now, organized by the Pasold Research Fund, Museum of London and London College of Fashion. Well done, Alexis!

Select Career Opportunities

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has opened applications for its 2024–25 fellowships and awards. ACLS offers programs that promote research across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks its inaugural Carol B. Grossman Curatorial Scholar. This two-year position in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (ESDA) is dedicated to the development of curatorial practice in a museum. Under the guidance and mentorship of the ESDA curatorial team, you will be trained in all duties related to the study and care of the permanent collection of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Collaborating closely with the curatorial team, you will be responsible for making our collection more accessible to the public by cataloguing the permanent collection and entering information into TMS and departmental files.

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) is now accepting applications for Fellowships for Americans in the Nordic Countries in the 2025–26 academic year. ASF offers both long-term (4–12 months) fellowships of up to $23,000 and short-term (1–3 months) fellowships of up to $5,000 to graduate students (preferably dissertation-related) and academic professionals interested in pursuing research or creative arts projects in the Nordic region (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Sámpi). Awards are given in all fields.

For more job listings please visit the BGC job board.
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BGC Events

Look forward to more BGC events starting in the fall!

Select External Events

The Boston French Film Festival
MFA Boston
July 11 through August 4

The Boston French Film Festival returns with a hand-picked lineup of the year’s most lauded Gallic cinema, ranging from stirring dramas to star-studded comedies. A host of France’s biggest names grace our screen this year: Marion Cotillard leads the devastating docudrama Little Girl Blue with a César Award–winning performance; Romain Duris heads the lauded sci-fi epic The Animal Kingdom; Isabelle Huppert vamps in the charming period comedy The Crime is Mine; Juliette Binoche, Adele Exarchopoulos, Camille Cottin, Bertrand Bonello and François Ozon each add their own je ne sais quoi to a sparkling lineup. Grab a Francophile friend and celebrate some of the world’s best cinema with this beloved summer tradition.

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