Studio Arts News
Artist and Bard College Alumna Simi Stone ’24 Published in Hudson Valley One
Stone has always returned to a consistent theme of nature inspired by her hometown of Woodstock.
Artist and Bard College Alumna Simi Stone ’24 Published in Hudson Valley One
Artist Simi Stone ’24.
The Studio Arts Program at Bard 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: 07-21-2026
Bard Scholar Julianne Swartz MFA ’03 Awarded Grant from Bobby Anspach Foundation
The grant will support Swartz’s project, Heart Flow Instrument, a large-scale contemplative environment in the form of a deconstructed fountain that functions as a body in itself, where water, sound, light, and human presence circulate through interconnected vessels.
Bard Scholar Julianne Swartz MFA ’03 Awarded Grant from Bobby Anspach Foundation
Julianne Swartz MFA ’03, associate professor and codirector of the studio arts program.
The grant will support Swartz’s project, Heart Flow Instrument, a large-scale contemplative environment in the form of a deconstructed fountain that functions as a body in itself, where water, sound, light, and human presence circulate through interconnected vessels. Each visitor becomes a component of that body, contributing vital rhythms to a shared sensory field. As visitors engage with sensors, their cardiac and neural rhythms radiate through the installation, affecting the sonic and haptic environment others inhabit.
“This generous funding will allow me to experiment with biomedical sensors to explore new thresholds of interactivity using human biorhythms to shape sound and light,” said Swartz.
The Bobby Anspach Foundation was established to carry forward the vision of artist Bobby Anspach, through the belief that art holds the power to fundamentally transform how we understand ourselves and each other. This year's flagship grants support artists whose work uses immersive technology and sensory experience to open new pathways into consciousness, empathy, and collective transformation. Throughout 2026, the foundation will spotlight the work of all grant recipients across its platforms and through foundation programming such as events, conversations, and gatherings designed to share this research across disciplines and introduce the grant recipients to new audiences.
Post Date: 07-17-2026
Bard College Artist in Residence Julia Weist Featured in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times
“What I was doing was using my abilities as an artist to circumnavigate their attempt at exercising their power and preventing me from using this exchange as material in my practice.”
Bard College Artist in Residence Julia Weist Featured in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times
Julia Weist, visiting artist in residence in studio arts. Photo by Adam T. Deen.
“In the absence of the official video, there’s something special that happens, which is that I can demonstrate the case again,” Weist told the LA Times. “What I was doing was using my abilities as an artist to circumnavigate their attempt at exercising their power and preventing me from using this exchange as material in my practice.”
Post Date: 07-15-2026
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