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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“Tendon Thread” is an online talk produced in collaboration with Fisher Center and Fen Live Lab (فل/F’LL/), an incubator for innovations in live art and performance practices. It is moderated by Joanna Settle. Wednesday, April 1, 12pm ET. Registration link in bio. chra.bard.edu/event/tanya-...

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Tanya Lukin Linklater: “Tendon thread” at Bard College

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The talk is happening now. Abir Saksouk of Public Works Studio shares mapping and archival documentation of Israel's ongoing bombing of Lebanon.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Our first Spring 2026 webinar talk and first collaboration with Fen Live Lab (F’LL/فل) will be by architect and urbanist Abir Saksouk, presenting “Mapping and Documentation as Tools Against Erasure” live from Beirut TODAY Wednesday 25 February at 12pm EST/7pm Beirut time.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Join us online Wednesday, February 25 at 12:00 pm for a talk by Abir Saksouk of Public Works Studio. Public Works Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design studio that critically and creatively engages with various urban and public issues in Lebanon. chra.bard.edu/event/abir-s...

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Abir Saksouk (Public Works): Mapping and Documentation as Tools Against Erasure at Bard College

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

HajYahia and Haddad’s award is in support of a film work as part of a collaborative research project they’re developing together. "A lover is one who waits" contemplates the aesthetics and politics of time and labor as they figure within settler-colonial economies. chra.bard.edu/news/chras-h...

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CHRA’s HajYahia and Haddad Awarded 2026 NYSCA Grant

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

CHRA alumni spotlight: For her thesis project, CHRA graduate Isabella Indolfi developed and presented a research-based lecture performance titled “Leave the Community Alone.” The performance explores the politics and ethics of “community art” in rural contexts. chra.bard.edu/news/chra-al...

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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Leave the Community Alone

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

CHRA alumni spotlight: Katya Korableva’s documentary film Cranes and Ships was screened as part of the 2024 Oxford Shorts International Film Festival in Oxford, UK and the 2025 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Read more at the link: chra.bard.edu/news/chra-al...

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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Migration and the Russian War on Ukraine

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

You can purchase our first three volumes of Talks on Human Rights & the Arts for your personal collections and libraries (or for your holiday gifts!) on our website, linked in bio. If you are local, get in touch to schedule a pick up of your copies from our offices at Bard College.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Thank you everyone who joined us from around the world at the re/presentare webinar “Reframing Evidence for the Commons”. For those who missed it, we have published the entire talk online. vimeo.com/chrabard/rep...

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re/presentare: Reframing Evidence From the Commons

The Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College presents re/presentare: Reframing Evidence From the Commons November 14, 2025 Webinar moderated by…

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The first program of the international festival Evidence, took place in Tunis in October 2025 curated by CHRA’s director Tania El Khoury and Dream City’s Artistic Director Jan Goosens. It featured five installation and performance works programmed during Dream City, a festival by L’Art Rue.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

CHRA MA graduate Elie Arden presented “Sacrifice Zones: The Rights of Mother Nature, or, Becoming Indispensable” at the 5th Conference on Latin American Political Ecology held in Mexico City. chra.bard.edu/news/chra-st...

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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: The Rights of Mother Nature

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

So what is evidence? Instead of asking the San Gregorio farmers to transform their knowledge into methodologies, we attempt to use art and visual tools to inscribe their history. Through methods and languages legible to them and their communities, but without risking their extraction.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

And so, we enter into a new phase of extraction: One where this ancient situated knowledge [of chiampas] is processed through technoscientific methodologies, and begins to decouple atlapulcan epistemologies from their bodies and their communities.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Although it is not the place of the state to recognize their ancestral ties to Pueblos originarios, these communities have learned to navigate the many bureaucratic and judicial roadblocks to protect their lands.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Las madres buscadores have developed and registered many indicators of possible mass graves. A specific type of flower that only grows under high concentrations of nitrites, or a different color of soil that sinks when the bodies are decomposing.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The webinar is happening now. Tune in at the link.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Images are from re/presentare's ongoing project "Tlamachtiloyan" as part of Evidence: an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Webinar talk this Friday: chra.bard.edu/event/prefur...

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In this talk, re/presentare reflects on the practice of working from the commons, in its frictions and possibilities. Friday, November 14th at 12:00 pm New York / 11am Mexico City. Moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco. chra.bard.edu/event/repres...

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re/presentare: Reframing Evidence from the Commons at Bard College

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

CHRA student spotlight: Lubnah showed work as part of “Domestic Departures: (Im)mobility, Loss, and Resilience in An Uncertain World” (November 2024). Read the full story: chra.bard.edu/news/chra-st...

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CHRA Student Spotlight: Exploring Hindu Temples in the UAE

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

CHRA alumni spotlight: Immanuel J. presented two live interactive performances in Fall 2024. They also published “The Black Performer Becomes Sisyphus” in Culturebot (March 5, 2025). Read more: chra.bard.edu/news/chra-al...

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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Performative Politics of Black Bodies

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Join us online Friday, November 14th at 12pm ET/ 11am CST for a conversation with re/presentare co-founders, Sergio Beltrán-García and Elis Mendoza. re/presentare is a spatial investigations agency that centers work from the commons to research human rights violations. chra.bard.edu/event/repres...

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re/presentare: Reframing Evidence from the Commons at Bard College

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

CHRA alumni spotlight: Leil Mortada Zahra is showing their interactive installation, “The Land, not a film by Youssef Chahine” as part of AL.Berlin’s 2025 AL.FESTIVAL on October 3. chra.bard.edu/news/chra-al...

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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: On Nubian Dispossession

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Recognizing the exclusionary nature of high art, Owen originally wanted the works to draw people in from the street, as the inside of the gallery was visible from the sidewalk.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Zoé Samudzi: “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko Happening now. Join via bard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Please join us for a webinar on Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET with Zoé Samduzi titled “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko. The talk will be moderated by Folarin Ajibade. Registration link is in bio.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This year, CHRA sponsored two publications: "The Alarm Phone Scrapbook," and "Ecotono: revoluciones silenciosas." As always, our publications are available to read on our website for free. chra.bard.edu/publications/

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Best wishes to our alumni students! As some begin PhDs, others have been continuing humanitarian and non-profit work, producing art and performing throughout the tri-state area, or otherwise enriching the crossroads between art and activism in their own pursuits. We wish them all the very best!

Current students and alumni at last spring’s thesis exhibition.

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Bard College @bardcollege.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In an essay for the @nytimes.com series “Finding Beauty,” Bard Prison Initiative student Robert Lee Williams wrote about his bittersweet relationship to trees during his incarceration.

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Opinion | Finding Beauty in a Prison Yard

These trees were the only living beings that I could touch without fear.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Art Curator and Scholar Zoè Samudzi offers a reflection on the ethnopolitical and historical implications of “Sibathontisele” (2010-present), a series of paintings by Zimbabwean artist and genocide survivor Owen Maseko. Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET online. chra.bard.edu/event/sibath...

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“Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko at Bard College

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Congratulations to our Class of 2025 MA in Human Rights & the Arts. 🧿❤️ Felicitations to Sariyah Abuzant, Sarah Al-Yahya, Amr Amer, Elinor Arden, Pyae Phyo Aung, Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Leil Zahra Mortada, Arina Pshenichnaya, Nabil Salih, and Mauro Tosarelli.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Last night we celebrated the class of 2025 MA in Human Rights & the Arts in a dinner and dance party at Massena Campus where their thesis exhibition took place. Tomorrow, they walk across the commencement stage.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Fresh off the press: “Common Ground,” the third volume of Talks on Human Rights and the Arts by artists, activists, and scholars from around the globe and edited by Tania El Khoury. Get in touch if you would like to buy an early-bird copy for the discounted price of $10.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended “State of Fracture,” the 2025 MA thesis exhibition in Human Rights and the Arts at Massena Campus, featuring written work, photography, video, sound, and multimedia installations as well as a lecture performance and a panel discussion.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thanks to everyone who attended the Open Studios exhibition, where first-year MA students in Human Rights and the Arts showed work developed in their core art-making class taught by Robin Frohardt and Oscar Gardea.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Friday, April 25 will mark the launch of “State of Fracture,” a thesis exhibition by the MA class of 2025. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works. Join us for an opening reception with food for purchase from Samosa Shack beginning at 4pm.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce “The State of Fracture,” the thesis exhibition for the MA class of 2025. The exhibition will be open to the public daily April 25-May 4 from 3:00-7:30pm at Massena Campus.

Poster with a pale spring green background, sans serif text, and grayscale abstract geometric shapes--like starbursts and electrical bolts. Text reads: Center for Human Rights and the Arts, STATE OF FRACTURE: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025. 25 April-4 May, 2025 3:00-7:30pm Massena Campus, Bard College. chra.bard.edu/events. Participating students: Sariyah Abuzant, Sarah Al-Yahya, Amr Amer, Elinor Arden, Pyae Phyo Aung, Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Leil Zahra Mortada, Arina Pshenichnaya, Nabil Salih, Mauro Tosarelli.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works in progress developed in class, led by artists Robin Frohardt and Oscar Gardea.

Event poster with neon light green and pink background. Poster includes an image of a student work, which is a sculpture of a character face made of recycled materials. The character has a pink face, lion's mane hair, bulbous nose and button eyes, a shredded paper beard, pink and silver crown, and a hubcap hat. Text reads: Center for Human Rights and the Arts Open Studios, works in progress by first-year students in the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College. Thursday, April 17, 2025 at Massena campus 3:00-6:00PM. Participating students: Mona Benyamin, Mahmoud El Safadi, Nadía Yracema, Lubnah, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Omayma Sbeih, Selo. More info: Chra.bard.edu/events

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In this talk, Hawai’i artist and building practitioner Sean Connelly of After Oceanic shares critical and projective work around creating “architecture for ‘āina”. Tuesday, April 8, 6-7:30pm in Weis Cinema, Bard College.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thursday, March 27 @ 7:30pm, in Ottaway Theater, Avery Arts Center. The screening will be followed by a precorded Q&A with Director Rashid Masharawi.

A shadowy and graphically rendered image of a man sitting with his arms folded, in a pensive and reflective manner. He is surrounded by buildings in ruin, in a small, undefined town in Gaza. The text reads, in black, yellow, and white block sans serif print: "Michael Moore Presents: From Ground Zero, Stories from Gaza. Shortlisted Best International Feature (Palestine) 97tth Academy Awards. Screening 7:30pm Thursday, March 27th Ottaway Theater. WATERMELON PICTURES. "A triumph of the human spirit" - POV Magazine "A Profound cinematic event" -Film Threat. 2024 Official Selection at Toronto International Film Fest and Palm Springs International Film Fest. Awarded 2024 Best Feature Film in World Cinema at Urbanworld Film Fest."

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Updated location for today’s event. “Cliff Notes from an Anti-Zionist Jew” will be today at 6pm in Resnick Studio, Fisher Center (2nd floor).

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“'Masterclass,' the product of this serendipitous partnership between the self-described 'fed-up feminist' and 'all-around good guy,' is another skewering of the patriarchal performing world and, in turn, the greater world around it."

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Fisher Center at Bard @fishercenterbard.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Don't miss your chance to learn from the master. 🖊️ 🎭 Limited engagement! Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott's Masterclass runs at the Fisher Center from April 3–6 only. 🔗 bit.ly/masterclass-bard

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah” is a book published by Wendy’s Subway, edited by Morgan Bassichis, Jay Saper, and Rachel Valinsky. Questions include but are not limited to “What even is a Bat Mitzvah?” “I’m queer/nonbinary/secular/old/not even Jewish—are Bat Mitzvahs for me?”

A book cover titled, "Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah" subtitled "Edited by Morgan Bassichis, Jay Saper, and Rachel Valinsky. Foreward by Angela Y. Davis." The book has a bright yellow background, with three anthropomorphic question marks that are green, orange, and purple. The purple question mark hold an olive branch.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Join comedic performer Morgan Bassichis for their public talk, “Comedy for Organizers: Cliff Notes from an Anti-Zionist Jew” on Wednesday, March 26, 6pm Studio North, Fisher Center. Co-Sponsored by Theater and Performance, Studio Arts, and Middle Eastern Studies.

A green poster with black text and an image of Morgan Bassichis. Text reads:

How do artists, comedians, and performers respond to crises? What tools and opportunities do comedy and laughter offer political and social movements in their confrontations with fascism and supremacy? Comedian and performance artist Morgan Bassichis, a longtime member of Jewish Voice for Peace, shares their experience at the intersection of comedy and political organizing.

Morgan Bassichis is a comedic performer who has been described as “fiercely hilarious” by the New Yorker. They are touring their current show, Can I Be Frank? about the queer performance artist Frank Maya. Recent shows include A Crowded Field, which explored the use and abuse of Jewish holidays. Morgan is co-editor with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, published by Wendy's Subway.

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Co-sponsored by Theater and Performance, Center for Human Rights & the Arts, Studio Arts, and Middle Eastern Studies.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Masterclass is coming to the Fisher Center April 3-6. Purchase tickets at link in bio. Photos by Ste Murray.

Adrienne Truscott performing in "Masterclass."

Adrienne Truscott and Brokentalkers acting in "Masterclass."

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Join curator Juliana Steiner for a book launch and discussion on Monday, March 10, 6:00-7:30pm in Barringer Global Classroom. Co-Sponsored by Rethinking Place & Experimental Humanities.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Amar Kanwar’s films and multi-media works explore the politics of power, violence, and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterized by a unique poetic approach to the personal, social, and political.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Spring 2025 newsletter is out now. Sign up on the CHRA homepage to receive semesterly updates about the public program and news about faculty and student art productions. To view the current newsletter, see the link in bio.

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Center for Human Rights & the Arts @chrabard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Announcing our Spring 2025 Public Program. Save the dates and follow for more information about each event.

Announcing our Spring 2025 Public Program: a webinar talk by filmmaker Amar Kanwar, a book launch with curator Juliana Steiner, in-person talks with artist and activist Morgan Bassichis (in collaboration with Theater and Performance and Studio Arts programs) and interdisciplinary artist Sean Connelly; Open Studios by First-Year MA Students and MA Thesis Exhibition by Class of 2025.

Save the dates and follow for more information about each event.

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