About
Upcoming Exhibitions
BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

About
28th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Dr. Julius Bryant, Dr. Meredith Martin, and Katherine Purcell
Events
Wednesdays @ BGC
Join us this spring for weekly programming!





Research

Bard Graduate Center is a research institute for advanced, interdisciplinary study of diverse material worlds. We support the innovative scholarship of our faculty and students as well as resident fellows, guest curators and artists, and visiting speakers.

Photo by Fresco Arts Team.

Our Public Humanities + Research department focuses on making scholarly work widely available and accessible through the coordination of the fellowship program and public programming that combines academic research with exhibition-related events. Across the institution—from the classroom to the gallery, from publications to this website—we utilize digital media to facilitate and share original research. This section outlines current programming and provides a repository for past scholarly content.
In season three of the podcast we talk about lace in Nigerian culture. Each episode explores the making, trade, and use of lace from a unique perspective.

The podcast is accompanied by an interactive micro-exhibition featured in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery during the run of the Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen.
Items in this Collection
Research
S3E1: what makes a good lace?, part 1
Fields of the Future Podcast
September 26, 2022

Research
S3E2: lace, remade in our image
Fields of the Future Podcast
September 27, 2022

Research
S3E3: aṣọ ẹbí, the family cloth
Fields of the Future Podcast
September 28, 2022

Research
S3E4: there’s nothing new about lace
Fields of the Future Podcast
January 24, 2023