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Join us this spring for an exciting line-up of virtual programs, including curator talks, virtual tours, a three-part workshop, and much more!
Become a member today and immerse yourself in an array of programming for the entire spring season, including special member prices for all events. Email membership@bgc.bard.edu to get your member promo code!
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Join BGC Library Artists-in-Residence, Harley Ngai Grieco and Jennifer Tobias, for an intimate studio visit! Despite COVID-19, this year’s artists have been in residence with BGC since October. Come see what they have been working on in advance of their virtual exhibition opening in May.
BGC’s Library AIR program invites artists whose work is grounded in research to use the library collection as an incubator for new work, utilizing the library reference staff as thought partners in their process.
Harley Ngai Grieco Studio Tour
Friday, April 16
2–3 pm
@bardgradcenter
Jennifer Tobias Studio Tour
Friday, April 23
2–3 pm
@bardgradcenter
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Join Nadia Rivers, coordinator of public programs, education, and engagement at Bard Graduate Center, and Dr. Therí Pickens, professor of English at Bates College, to share resources about, interrogate, and challenge questions of access and disability in museums, education, and material culture.
Art in the Time of a Pandemic
Saturday, May 15
2 pm
Pay What You Wish
With Dr. Therí Pickens and Akemi Nishida
Pre-Recorded Discussion

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Go behind the scenes with the curators of Bard Graduate Center’s upcoming exhibitions and learn more about the process of exhibition-making and storytelling.
Trenton’s Majolica Mania
April 17, 2021
1:30 pm
Free
Colorful and wildly imaginative, the lead-glazed earthenware known as majolica was one of the most significant innovations in nineteenth-century ceramics. In this lecture, Dr. Laura Microulis, research curator at BGC, will review the global phenomenon of majolica and explore how potteries in Trenton, New Jersey played a role in this story while previewing BGC’s upcoming Majolica Mania exhibition.
Conserving Active Matter
Friday, April 30
12–1:30 pm
Pay What You Wish
Soon Kai Poh in conversation with Dean Peter N. Miller
“A Map is Not the Territory”: Unsettling the Curatorial Voice in Shaped by The Loom
Thursday, May 13
12–1:30 pm
Pay What You Wish
Hadley Jensen in conversation with Rapheal Begay and Juliana Fagua-Arias
Threads of Power
June 10
12–1:30 pm
Pay What You Wish
With Emma Cormack, Ilona Kos, and Michele Majer
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How can we understand collaboration and collectivism as a radical political act? How does the work of art collectives challenge and interrogate art historical narratives and support civic transformation? Bard Graduate Center, Chinatown Art Brigade, and Gregory Sholette highlight the important work of past collectives and provide a discursive platform for contemporary collective work.
Thursday, May 6
6 pm
Pay What You Wish
With Nandini Bagchee, Libertad Guerra, and Todd Ayoung
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This three-part class fosters your understanding of objects by exploring the processes by which they are made. Join BGC PhD students, Geoffrey Ripert and Nicholas De Godoy Lopes, as they take you on a deep dive into the ways that color, rhythm, and shape influence our understanding of objects. Each session features a particular object (a nineteenth-century scenic panel on block-printed paper from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum; a fourteenth-century basin made of brass with gold and silver inlay from the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre, and a seventeenth-century ivory standing cup from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and remarks by a BGC faculty member who will bring additional expertise to the topic.
Color
Tuesday, June 8
6–7:30 pm
$15 Students and Seniors
$25 Adults
With Jennifer L. Mass
Rhythm
Wednesday, June 16
1:30–3 pm
$15 Students and Seniors
$25 Adults
With Hadley Jensen
Shape
Saturday, June 19
6–7:30 pm
$15 Students and Seniors
$25 Adults
With Caspar Meyer
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French Fashion Virtual Tours
Back by popular demand! We invite you to explore an exhibition from BGC’s past, French Fashion, Women and the First World War, and delve into the dynamic relationship between fashion, war, and gender politics in France during World War I.
Dates Include
April 17, 2021 at 2 pm
April 21, 2021 at 2 pm
May 4, 2021 at 2 pm
May 19, 2021 at 2 pm
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Upcoming in the Gallery
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Majolica Mania
September 24, 2021 – January 2, 2022
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