Julia Carabatsos (MA ’22) and
Hadley Jensen (MA ’13, PhD ’19) presented on “Materiality & Resistance” at the American Philosophical Society’s conference on June 6.
Earlier this month,
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (MA ’17) and
Susie Silbert (MA ’12) participated in a panel about German
waldglas and slippage between media like glass and jewelry at the Whitney Studio. The discussion was organized by
Elle Décor writer Camille Okhio to coincide with the debut of jeweler Jean Prounis’s new collection,
Waldglas: A Study of Prunts.
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!
Recent alum
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.
PhD candidate
Caroline Elenowitz-Hess and assistant professor
Mei Mei Rado (PhD ’18) helped organize the first
Fashion Studies Network Symposium. The conference, titled Unraveling Fashion Narratives, took place June 6–7 at Parsons. BGC students
Vega Shah (MA ’25) and
Amanda Thompson (PhD candidate) and recent alumna
Antonia Anagnostopoulos (MA ’24) presented.
Associate professor
Freyja Hartzell (MA ’04) and
Karlyn Allenbrand (MA ’24) attended the University of Delaware’s Center for Material Culture Studies annual symposium. Hartzell said she was very proud to showcase student work from her course, In Focus: Dollatry, in the context of a lively discussion about current material culture work across a number of institutions. A video about material culture studies at BGC created by
Bob Hewis (MA ’24) was also screened.
Hadley Jensen (MA ’13, PhD ’19) was recently named curator of Santa Fe’s Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. Congratulations Hadley!
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. Kinsel’s effort to restore the house has been a massive architectural undertaking and ultimately led to the house being listed on the State Register of Historic Houses in Hawai’i. It garnered acclaim from the
Historic Hawai’i Foundation and was an editor’s pick for
The Architect’s Newspaper’s
Best of Design Awards for 2023.
Assistant professor
Meredith Linn announced the release of a
living digital project about Seneca Village that she co-created.
Envisioning Seneca Village imagines what the significant nineteenth-century village might have looked like around the year 1855, shortly before its destruction for the building of Central Park.
Sydney Maresca (MA ’24) was nominated for an award for Outstanding Costume Design by the Outer Critics Circle for her work on the 2023 Broadway play
The Cottage. Congratulations, Sydney, and see you at BGC this fall when you begin the PhD program!
Brielle Pizzala (MA ’25) presented virtually at the Design History Society (London)’s Textiles and Masculinity Symposium on June 15.
Madeline Porsella (MA ’23) and
Mabel Capability Taylor (MA ’24) launched Mandylion Press to “unearth lost literary gems written by women and weirdos in the (very) long nineteenth century.” The press’s first publications, new editions of
The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich and
Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf, are now available at McNally Jackson, Stories (Los Angeles), Green Apple (San Francisco), and from
their online store.
Bailey Tichenor (MA ’18) hosted a pop-up exhibition of historic ceramics at current student
Katrin Zimmermann’s Harlem brownstone through her online gallery,
Artistoric. Many BGC alumni, staff, and students attended the opening on May 16.
Heather Topcik, dean and director of libraries at Bard College and Bard Graduate Center presented Dr. Carla Hayden, the fourteenth Librarian of Congress, with an honorary degree at the Bard College commencement. Topcik said, “I have long admired Dr. Hayden for her unwavering commitment to putting equity, access, and intellectual freedom at the forefront of librarianship.”
Congratulations to associate professor
Ittai Weinryb on the publication of
Pigments, the second volume of his book series, Art/Work. He also co-organized the conference,
Enslavement and Art: Forced Labor in the History of Art, in Berlin on June 17–18. The conference is
accessible online.
The exhibition catalogue for Cooper Hewitt’s exhibition,
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, was awarded the 2023 George Wittenborn Memorial Award for best art book.
Alexa Griffith Winton (MA ’03) cocurated the exhibition and coedited the catalogue. BGC alumni
John Stuart Gordon (MA ’03) and
Leigh Wishner (MA ’01) wrote chapters and
Stephanie Lake (MA ’00, PhD ’09) provided vital research support for the catalogue.
