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After its successful debut last summer, the program returned for its second year, welcoming more educators and learning specialists from across New York City.
From the art of hand embroidery to foot binding, professor Dorothy Y. Ko illuminates the intricate intersection between gender and body in China for fashion exhibits around the world.
Professor Anne Higonnet examines clothing the same way she examines art history — with curiosity and passion — and her popular fall course Clothing continues to grow as a result.
Look back at the highlights from the 2021-2022 academic year, when the College celebrated all things STEM.
After a two-year hiatus, faculty guided students through overseas programs ranging from Sustainable Communities in Ecuador to Translating Theatre in France.
Moore’s solo exhibition “WORDY” — hosted by the College’s Archives — tackles themes of race, class, and violence.
The alumna works at the nexus of art, oncology, and deep empathy.
Explore graduating seniors’ projects from the Departments of Dance and Art History.
Rebecca Capua ’03 contributes her expertise in art and science to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s conservation efforts.
Sixteen students from the Art History Department create a STEM-centered exhibit through 23 different pieces.
In Mark Santolucito’s computer science course Creative Embedded Systems, students problem-solved to produce sculptures that spin, roll, or give the illusion of flight. #BarnardYearOfScience
A yearlong partnership with local teachers began last July with a week of workshops focused on STEAM curricula.
Artist Henry Richardson’s glass sculpture was inspired by his thesis advisor, Bryn Mawr professor Maria Luisa “Weecha” Crawford, a world-renowned metamorphic petrologist.
Magdalene Pernambuco ’22 chats with her aunt and grandfather — Barnard professor Sandra Goldmark and her father, Peter Goldmark — about their newly published collaboration, Haikus for New York City.
Everyone entering Milbank Hall will now be greeted by two portraits from the famed visual artist.
In American Monument Cultures, students explore the significance of monuments throughout history, using digital humanities platforms to engage with the cultural and political power of public structures.
This fall, the art history professor will invite students to examine the wild history of apparel and fashion’s surprising trends in her class “Clothing.”
In celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Irene Mei Zhi Shum ’93 shares her favorite Barnard memories and the best advice she received.
The Brooklyn and Mexico City-based professional photographer discusses the pivotal role Barnard played in her journey as an artist and how the College continues to define her community.
Artists and transnational collaborators Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle open up about the famous monument’s long-term residency in Barnard Hall, the legacy of Mary Thomas, and the importance of filling public art space with black narratives.
Monumental sculpture I Am Queen Mary to be installed in historic Barnard Hall
From a recent graduate to a curator in charge, five alumnae share how they found their artful calling to work with museums — and sometimes with each other.
In this Break This Down interview, Professor Elizabeth Hutchinson discusses the historical and cultural issues raised in cataloging and exhibiting America’s indigenous cultural treasures.
We spoke to the director and chairs of each department, who shared what makes the end-of-year shows and performances by students in art, music, and theatre special.
Mary Sibande — one of the most significant contemporary South African artists and a major voice in the intersectional dialogue on race, culture, and labor — is this year’s Virginia C. Gildersleeve Professor.
Dance, choreography, and film legend Yvonne Rainer has been named its Lida A. Orzeck ’68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence for 2019. Rainer, an enormously influential figure who has challenged conventional forms and genres for nearly six decades, will begin her one-year residency in Spring 2019. She will lead intensive dance workshops, performances, and film events with students through Fall 2019.
Have a project idea? Come to the Design Center and see if they can help you complete it.
The exhibit is an inspiring way to learn about the Milstein's Centers.
Every year, Barnard faculty lead students on trips outside New York City—often outside the United States—to conduct research, perform, and expand teaching and learning opportunities.
Professor Elliot Paul and Professor Joan Snitzer discuss the creative process.
An afternoon of film screenings and discussions will examine the intersections of dance on film and social justice.
She and her collaborators will do research in Beijing in late March.
In celebration of Black History Month, we honor Toyin Ojih Odutola, this year's Lida A. Orzeck '68 Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, a rising star in the art world and an important contributor to racial dialogue.
Library Stack is a living collection of independent ebooks, audio files, videos and digital documents being published within the fields of contemporary art, design, media studies, cinema, architecture and philosophy.
As we come together to celebrate the light of a New Year, we are proud to bring you this year's Barnard holiday greeting.
Programming at the Athena Film Festival focused on human rights, activism, and empowering a new generation of women leaders.
In the spirit of the season, we are proud to bring you this year's Barnard holiday greeting.
Dance Historian Lynn Garafola '68 Retires After 16 Years at Barnard Dance Department
Artist Sabra Moore, a key figure in the feminist movement since the 1960s, will read from her newly released memoir Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992 (New Village Press) Nov. 1 at 12 p.m. in 302 Barnard Hall, as a part of the Barnard Center for Research on Women's Lunchtime Lecture Series.
The class “Romare Bearden: Home is Harlem” was taught in partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Students in the class “Freestyle and Displacement in Contemporary Art Practices” explored their own subjectivities in ways that intersected with the concepts examined by the artists in the museum.
Nineteen students spent the spring semester exploring how James Baldwin’s work examined “the changing geography of Harlem around race, sexuality, gender, religion, and American power."
In 2017, Barnard will offer a class in partnership with the Apollo called “Black Women, Performance, and the Politics of Style.”
Students pored over personal diaries, typescript manuscripts, and photo albums from the poet, playwright, novelist, and black feminist Ntozake Shange ’70 as part of a course on digital storytelling.
A class on art, activism, and social justice during the Harlem Renaissance, taught by English professor Monica Miller, examined formal and informal theatre.
Artist gifts her foundational works to the Barnard Archives
The performance, presented by the Barnard College Department of Theatre, is one of few Indian productions to be performed in the United States.