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Donna Ford Grover, visiting associate professor of literature and American studies. Photo by Chris Kayden
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The Family Programs Office sends out a monthly e-newsletter, Annandale Insider, as well as important messages from the College and news on networking events, student and faculty achievements, and more.
The Family Programs Office sends out a monthly e-newsletter, Annandale Insider, as well as important messages from the College and news on networking events, student and faculty achievements, and more.
News and Events
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
Spencer Vazquez ’22 Awarded a Residency from Visual Studies Workshop
“Vazquez's work explores the intersection of memory, digital media, and the everyday image,” writes Broadway World.
Spencer Vazquez ’22 Awarded a Residency from Visual Studies Workshop
Spencer Vazquez ’22. Photo by Zayira Ray
Vazquez graduated from Bard’s Film and Electronic Arts Program, which encourages interest in a wide range of expressive modes in film and electronic arts including animation, narrative and non-narrative filmmaking, documentary, performance, and installation practices. The program emphasizes imaginative engagement and the cultivation of an individual voice that has command over the entire creative process.
Post Date: 09-08-2026