
Arts & Culture


The mixed-media artist, teacher, and program director at Chinatown Soup chatted with us about the freedom of hand-building objects and making art at the Barnard Clay Collective.

Celebrating Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (Class of 1916), a dedicated crusader for women's rights, who led a suffrage march through New York City's streets.

In her teaching of women’s suffrage, scholar Marilyn Sanders Mobley ’74 brings the critical contributions of women of color into view.

Wit & Whimsy: A humor column by writer and comedian JiJi Lee ’01

Author, Barnard professor, and transgender activist Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her latest memoir and what our canine companions can teach us about ourselves and love.

The author of All-American Muslim Girl tells us about her writing process, favorite Barnard professors, and the books currently on her nightstand

The graphic artist and art director gives us a glimpse into her creative process and talks feminist zines, fine paperstock, and sketching under the magnolia tree

Lynne Sharon Schwartz ’59 pays tribute to lifelong friend Tobi Tobias ’59, whose career as a dance critic started with a story on Twyla Tharp ’63 in Barnard Magazine


The Athena Film Festival caps a milestone as an international forum for stories by and about fearless women

During Hardwick’s 20-year tenure at Barnard, she wrote some of her most important work and inspired a generation of talented writers

A collection of letters edited by Professor Saskia Hamilton paints an illuminating portrait of the marriage of two literary greats: writer Elizabeth Hardwick, who taught at Barnard for 20 years, and poet Robert Lowell