Bard Graduate Center is a graduate research institute in New York City. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.
Exhibitions
Majolica Mania
Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915
Upcoming Exhibition
September 24, 2021 – January 2, 2022
September 24, 2021 – January 2, 2022
CANCELED—Objects as Data, and in…
A Short History of Beringian…
Brooke Penaloza-Patzak
April 22, 2021
Jennifer Tobias Instagram Live Studio Visit
Jennifer Tobias, Bard Graduate Center Library Artist-in-Residence
April 23, 2021
Marked in Clay: Interdisciplinary Methods…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Sanchita Balachandran
April 27, 2021
Materiality and Politics: How Integrated…
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 4, 2021
From Spaces of Resistance to…
Curated by Gregory Sholette with Nandini Bagchee, Libertad Guerra, and Todd Ayoung
May 6, 2021
Materiality and Politics: How Integrated…
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 11, 2021
Curators on Curating
“A Map is Not the…
Hadley Jensen, Raphael Begay & Juliana Fagua Arias
May 13, 2021
Art in the Time of a Pandemic
Disability Cultures, Creativity, and Consciousness
Dr. Therí A. Pickens
May 15, 2021
Beyond Sustainability: Cultural Organizing for Social Justice
Curated and moderated by Chinatown Art Brigade
May 17, 2021
Materiality and Politics: How Integrated…
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 19, 2021
Mind over Matter? Exploring Making
Color
Nicholas De Godoy Lopes, Geoffrey Ripert and Jennifer L. Mass
June 8, 2021
Mind Over Matter? Exploring Making
Rhythm
Nicholas De Godoy Lopes, Geoffrey Ripert, and Caspar Meyer
June 16, 2021
Collectively Imagining De-Gentrified and Abolitionist Futures
Curated and moderated by Chinatown Art Brigade
June 17, 2021
Mind Over Matter? Exploring Making
Shape
Nicholas De Godoy Lopes, Geoffrey Ripert, and Hadley Jensen
June 19, 2021
Object
Research Forum
Book Prize: Material Culture of the Americas
Research Forum
Episode 8: Tanya Aguiñiga—Making Metabolizing the Border
Fields of the Future
April 8, 2021
MA/PhD
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