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Multiple Bard Alumni/ae Named to 2026 TIME100 Art List
Three Bard alumni/ae have been named to a list of the 100 most influential curators and artists working today.
Multiple Bard Alumni/ae Named to 2026 TIME100 Art List
Cecilia Alemani MA-CCS '05, director and chief curator of New York City's High Line, is among the three Bard alums included in the TIME100 Art list.
“Artists don’t work in a vacuum,” TIME writes. “They are supported by a massive ecosystem, from philanthropists and nonprofits who fund work, to gallerists and advisers who shape careers, to curators, museum leaders, [who] make art possible.” Asked by TIME about her work with New York’s Cultural Stability Fund, Vij said, “I was really interested in making gathering spaces where people could surface the ideas of what it looks like [to] live together differently, to govern differently, to build a different world.”
Bard’s programs include the undergraduate Studio Arts Program, which provides a breadth of expanded offerings while retaining a strong core of courses that provide a firm grounding in artistic techniques and principles. They also include Bard’s MFA Program, a two-year multidisciplinary program focused on individual process and work in progress, as each student confronts the conceptual and practical questions at the core of all artistic production.
Post Date: 09-23-2026
Visiting Artist Tschabalala Self ’12 Profiled in L’Officiel
“I’m interested in the ways people build their own worlds around my work and see a part of themselves,” Self said.
Visiting Artist Tschabalala Self ’12 Profiled in L’Officiel
Tschabalala Self ’12. Photo by Paula Virta
In an overview of Self’s artistic career, L’Officiel notes that her sculpture and textile work has appeared in exhibitions from MOMA PS1 to the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. “Self weaves figures that feel both invented and strikingly familiar,” writes Osman Can Yerebakan for L’Officiel. “In just a few years, she [has] established herself as one of the most closely watched artists of the last decade.”
Post Date: 09-15-2026
Visiting Artist Tschabalala Self’s ’12 Lady In Blue Unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square and Featured in the Guardian
The sculpture is “a beacon that could shed light into a possible future,” Self says.
Visiting Artist Tschabalala Self’s ’12 Lady In Blue Unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square and Featured in the Guardian
Tschabalala Self’s sculpture Lady In Blue.
The Guardian also featured Self in advance of Lady in Blue’s unveiling. Speaking about the sculpture, which the artist describes as an image of an everywoman striding forward into the future, and “a beacon that could shed light into a possible future,” she says, “it’s about there being space for all in places that were formerly weighted down by antiquated gestures, belief systems and impossibilities." The Guardian describes her work as “a lurid, vivid, super-colourful, mega-joyful celebration of everyday bodies” embodying “simplicity, joy, and above all freedom.” Lady in Blue will remain on the plinth for two years.
Self is a visiting artist in Bard’s Studio Arts Program, which provides a breadth of expanded offerings while retaining a strong core of courses that provide a firm grounding in basic techniques and principles, in an era when much contemporary art cannot be contained within the traditional categories and technology is transforming the production of visual images.
Post Date: 09-09-2026
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