Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00
Student Workspaces
There are 19 studio spaces in the Fisher Studio Arts Building and 16 in the Bard Exhibition Center in Red Hook. Studios are allocated each semester at the first Senior Seminar class meeting. Senior IIs have first choice of the studio spaces they wish to occupy. Senior Is draw lots and can exchange with each other if they choose.
Fisher Studio Arts Building
The exhibition space in the Fisher Studio Arts Building permits an ambitious schedule of exhibitions, which are an integral component of the program. In addition to open student exhibitions, Senior Project shows, and Moderation exhibitions, student work on particular themes is presented at student-curated and faculty-curated shows. Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies is another on-campus site for exhibitions of contemporary art.
Bard College Massena Campus Facilities
Bard College acquired Massena Campus, a 260-acre property adjacent to Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus, in 2023. The new Massena Campus houses the program's ceramics, printmaking, and additional classroom space. The Chapel Exhibition Hall gives seniors the opportunity to present their Senior Projects in a professional space dedicated solely to the exhibition of student work.
Resources
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Senior Project installation by Colin Radcliffe ’16.The Bard College Fund for Visual Learning provides grants to students on financial aid who are taking Studio Arts courses, so that they can access the materials they need to realize their ambitions in the studio. The Fund also supports a host of campus arts enrichment initiatives, from our visiting artists series to improved access to new technologies. -
Leonora Carrington, “Self Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse),” 1937–38, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkThe Visual Resources Center maintains and provides access to Bard’s digital image and 35mm slide collections. The Center’s image collections include works of art and design, buildings, cities, and cultural objects from prehistory to the present day—a campus-wide resource for the use of visual materials in research and teaching.
