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DESCRIPTION:Our fall course for the general public opens our extensive Stud
 y Collection for hands on workshops. Materials and Making is a five-week o
 bject handling course taught by our world-renowned faculty and alumni. Eac
 h session will focus on a different material\, allowing participants to di
 scover different histories of materials\, making\, and production through 
 tactile engagement with objects.The purpose of the Bard Graduate Center St
 udy Collection is to support pedagogy by providing hands-on\, close examin
 ation of objects as part of the classroom experience and includes a number
  of rare\, unusual\, and delicate objects in a range of materials.Classes 
 begin October 2Tuesdays 7–9 pm$450 adults$375 students and educatorsIndivi
 dual classes not for sale.Space is Limited.Week 1 (October 2)TextilesWith 
 Antonia Behan\, Bard Graduate Center Doctoral Candidate Week 2 (October 9)
 CeramicsWith Meredith Linn\, Assistant Professor Week 3 (October 16)Paper 
 and PrintWith Paul Stirton\, Associate Professor\, Editor of West 86th: A 
 Journal of Decorative Arts\, Design History\, and Material CultureWeek 4 (
 October 23)SilverWith Debra Schmidt Bach\, Curator of Decorative Arts\, Ne
 w York Historical SocietyWeek 5 (October 30)GlassWith Alexandra Ruggiero\,
  Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass\, Corning Museum of Gl
 assAlexandra Ruggiero joined The Corning Museum of Glass in 2012.  As Assi
 stant Curator\, Modern Glass\, Ruggiero assists with acquisitions\, exhibi
 tions\, cataloging and research of the Museum’s glass collections\, with a
  focus on glass from 1850–1945.  She curated the Museum’s current special 
 exhibition\, Glass of the Architects: Vienna\, 1900–1937\, a cooperation o
 f the MAK and LE STANZE DEL VETRO\, and co-curated the 2016 special exhibi
 tion\, Fragile Legacy: The Marine Invertebrate Glass Models of Leopold and
  Rudolf Blaschka\, with Dr. Marvin Bolt\, curator of science and technolog
 y.  Ruggiero received a bachelor’s degree in Art History from the Universi
 ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and a master’s in the History of Dec
 orative Arts through the Corcoran College of Art + Design and Smithsonian 
 Associates in Washington\, D.C.We are also pleased to extend complimentary
  need-based community tickets by request to all ticketed events. To learn 
 more\, please email public.programs@bgc.bard.edu. Leading support for Publ
 ic Programs at Bard Graduate Center comes from Gregory Soros and other gen
 erous donors
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Public Education Course: Materials and Making
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