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Artist and Bard College Alumna Simi Stone ’24 Published in Hudson Valley One

Simi Stone ’24, Bard College alumna, artist, and musician, published a piece in Hudson Valley One about becoming a painter. Stone, who was a studio arts major while at Bard, recounts how her artistic journey has evolved throughout her life, from when she was a child drawing florals on her belongings to working during her MFA at Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, from which she graduated this year. Throughout it all, she has returned to a consistent theme of nature inspired by her hometown of Woodstock. Drawing from personal and collective histories, her work transforms memory, grief, and resilience into immersive visual narratives where flowers, landscapes, and gestures become portals to the spirit. “Like many Woodstock artists, I process all aspects of my life through making art through painting, music, the written word, or whatever other medium,” Stone writes. “The outcomes may be unique, but they stem from one family, a single electron.”

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

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Bard Alumna Jacinta Creel Vallejo ’24 to Receive Higgs Scholarship and Attend University of Edinburgh for MSc

Jacinta Creel Vallejo ’24, a Bard alumna who majored in physics and philosophy, has been accepted to the University of Edinburgh for an MSc in Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences. She has also received the Higgs Scholarship, awarded by the university’s School of Physics and Astronomy on the basis of academic merit. Creel Vallejo, who developed an interest in the field while working on her Bard SPROJ project with physicist Clara Sousa Silva, chose Edinburgh for its interdisciplinary approach. Creel Vallejo is particularly interested in how scientists can infer life on distant worlds from inherently incomplete data. “My ambition is to investigate the limits of biosignature detection by combining observational modelling with laboratory simulation of abiotic false positives, sharpening the criteria by which a detection claim can be trusted,” she said. 

The Bard Physics Program is dedicated to helping students at all levels gain a better understanding of the universe and how it works.

Post Date: 07-15-2026