Bard Graduate Center Institutional Archive
Series
Identifier: 2026-002
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials in print and digital format related to Bard Graduate Center’s exhibitions, academic programs, public programs, and publications. It is grouped into series by the administrative department, and further divided into subseries as follows:
- Series I: Academic Programs
- Series II: Development
- Series III: Public Humanities + Research
- Series IV: Marketing, Communications, and Design
- Series V: Department of Research Collections
- Series VI: Publications
- Series VII: Gallery
- Series VIII: Website
Series I: Academic Programs (1993-2025) AP (Academic Programs) manages student affairs at the Bard Graduate Center, including academic coursework as well as extracurricular activities. It previously organized scholarly events under the name “DP/RI” (Degree Programs/Research Institute).
- Subseries I: Course Catalogs contains printed catalogs detailing course offerings for each academic year.
- Subseries II: Handbooks contains annual student handbooks of operations and policies.
- Subseries III: Alumni Directories contains printed booklets listing BGC alumni, their occupation at time of publication, and their contact information.
- Subseries IV: Events contains printed flyers, brochures, programs, and invitations related to academic or student events at BGC, such as seminars, symposia, lectures, brown bag lunches, Materials Days, and workshops. Some event series include The Paul and Irene Hollister Seminar on Glass, the Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures, The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Seminar in the Material Cultures of the Ibero-American World, the Horowitz Seminar on New York and American Material Culture, and the Trehan Seminar in the Arts of the Islamic World.
- Subseries V: Miscellaneous contains miscellaneous materials, including course descriptions and other materials about work opportunities available to students.
Series: II Development (1994-2022) Development advances the institutional mission through major gifts, foundation partnerships, alumni engagement, and donor initiatives.
- Subseries I: Iris Foundation Awards contains invites, programs, and save the dates from most of the annual Iris Foundation Awards.
- Subseries II: Benefits includes but is not limited to invites, programs, and flyers related to events hosted by BGC including the Benefit for the Scholarship Fund gala and the Benefit for Garden History and Landscape Studies.
- Subseries III: IADF (International Art and Design Fair) contains materials from gala preview parties for the International Art and Design Fair, hosted at Seventh Regiment Armory.
Series III: Public Humanities + Research (1993-2025) PH+R (Public Humanities + Research), previuosly known as Public Programs and also as Education, develops and presents programs including gallery events, student-led labs, lecture series, and family programs. This series contains flyers, calendars, leaflets, and other printed materials related to BGC’s public programs. Some event types represented include lecture series and symposia, and exhibition-related events such as openings, family programs, and open houses for seniors.
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Series IV: Marketing, Communications, and Design (1993-2024) MCD (Marketing, Communications, and Design), which previously included External Affairs, develops strategic marketing related to academic programs, public programs, and exhibitions at the BGC.
- Subseries I: Exhibitions - Press Kits contains press kit materials from BGC exhibitions, including press releases, brochures, and invitations for previews and openings.
- Subseries II: Exhibitions - Press Coverage contains press clippings concerning exhibitions at BGC.
- Subseries III: General Press Coverage contains other, non-exhibition-related, press coverage of BGC.
- Subseries IV: Newsletters contains BGC newsletters, published seasonally.
- Subseries V: Recruitment contains materials produced for prospective students, including informational and promotional materials brochures and cards.
- Subseries VI: Year in Review contains booklets highlighting the research, scholarship and accomplishments of BGC students, faculty, curators, and fellows each academic year.
- Subseries VII: General contains press packets and clippings concerning Bard Graduate Center’s founding and opening in 1993 and 2009 expansion.
- Subseries VIII: General Advertisements contains advertisements concerning Bard Graduate Center’s academic programs, exhibitions, and related programming.
- Subseries IX: Institutional Emails contains copies of BGC email communications promoting admissions, public programs, academic programs, and exhibitions. The majority of messages were sent to external mailing lists, though some were sent to the BGC community to advertise internal events.
Series V: Department of Research Collections (1994-2025) DRC (Department of Research Collections) includes the Library, Archives, and Study Collection. It manages the BGC’s library operations, including overseeing the institution's non-circulating collection, providing research services, and the preservation and processing of special collections.
- Subseries I: Library Operations contains materials covering the planning and operations of the BGC Library including guides, directories, and maps, as well as files from the library’s temporary operation out of Bard Hall during the 2009 renovations.
- Subseries II: Library Programs contains printed materials for events organized by library staff, including Ex Libris Day and arts and crafts activities. This series also includes the annual DRC@BGC Department of Research Collections Zine.
Series VI: Publications (1994-2018) Publications is responsible for the publication of award-winning exhibition catalogues, books, and journals focusing on scholarship in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Materials in this collection primarily relate to West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture (previously known as Studies in the Decorative Arts).
- Subseries I: CHMW contains materials related to the series Cultural Histories of the Material World.
- Subseries II: Exhibitions contains a Japanese edition of the exhibition catalogue Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture.
- Subseries III: Studies in the Decorative Arts contains materials related to Studies in the Decorative Arts, a journal published by The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Bard Graduate Center from 1993-2009.
- Subseries IV: West 86th contains materials such as flyers and other materials related to West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, published by The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center from 2011-present (2026).
- Subseries V: Promotional contains invitations and postcards for events held by BGC’s Publications department.
Series VII: Gallery contains gallery guides for exhibitions at BGC. Bard Graduate Center Gallery produces multiple exhibitions and publications each year, serving as a vital center of learning and a catalyst for engagement in the interrelated disciplines of decorative arts, design, and material culture. Subseries I: Gallery Guides includes printed booklets handed out during Gallery exhibitions to provide interpretive context and information.
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Series VIII: Website contains digital screen captures and WARC (Web Archive) copies of the Bard Graduate Center institutional website captured at irregular intervals starting in 2017.
Dates
- 1993-2026
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access.
Conditions Governing Use
Use of the collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Biographical / Historical
Founded by Dr. Susan Weber in 1993, Bard Graduate Center (BGC) advances the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through its object-centered approach to teaching, research, exhibitions, publications, and events. BGC is an accredited unit of Bard College and a member of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH).
Extent
33.5 Linear Feet
19.13 Gigabytes (approximately 5,450 digital files)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Physical and digital materials documenting the programs, exhibitions, academic activities, and operations of Bard Graduate Center from 1993 to the present. Formats include printed ephemera, press materials, periodicals, and administrative records.
Arrangement
For much of the Bard Graduate Center Institutional Archives, the original order was lost. Records were grouped into series and subseries mirroring the departments and major activities at BGC. Organization within each subseries is largely chronological.
Provenance
Collection materials were transferred to or solicited by the Library and Archives from various Bard Graduate Center departments over a span of years beginning in 2012. Before that, files were maintained internally by individual staff or departments. In 2012, Library staff began collecting and cataloging some of these materials as the “Ephemera Collection.”
Select Glossary of BGC Programs, Projects, and Activities
- Tuesday Tea: formerly Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) and later Tuesday Lunch: a programmatic series of informal lunchtime talks by scholars. Open to BGC community members and invited guests.
- Cultures of Conservation: a multi-phase initiative–including public programming–that attempts to connect the perspective of conservation to an interdisciplinary notion of the “human sciences.” Phase one took place from 2012-2017. Phase two, generously funded by the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, took place from 2017-2022.
- Iris Foundation Awards: created by Susan Weber in 1997, these awards recognize scholars, patrons, and professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Proceeds benefit the Bard Graduate Center Scholarship Fund.
- International Art and Design Fair: exhibition of art, design, and furniture held at the Park Avenue Armory. The Fair included pop-up exhibitions sponsored by Bard Graduate Center in 2007 (Alvin Lustig: American Modernist) and 2008 (Knoll Textiles: The Designer's Vision).
- Qualifying Paper (QP) Symposium: graduating MA students present their capstone projects to the BGC community, family, and friends.
- Wednesdays@BGC: public program events held at BGC on Wednesday evenings. The content includes one-time events as well as the following series: Faculty-programmed series (Archaeological Encounters, Arts and Material Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora, Dress and Textile History, Early Modern World, Global Middle Ages, Indigenous Arts in Transition, Modern Design History); Endowed lecture series (Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture, Horowitz Book Prize: Material Culture of the Americas, Iris Foundation Awards Lectures, Leon Levy Lectures in Jewish Material Culture [concluded in Fall 2026], Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture, Lee B. Anderson Memorial Lecture on the Gothic); Exhibition-related events (lectures, conversations, commissioned programs); Alumni Spotlight (lectures by BGC alumni, one per year).
- DH/DX Salon (formerly DML Salon): End of year event that features digital work developed by students over the past academic year.
- Focus Projects: From 2010-ongoing, Faculty, fellow, and staff curated, limited-scale exhibitions, including integrated classes and workshops to develop research, content, and interpretive text with students; generally include a print publication and/or accompanying website and public programming. In 2026, the project is being rethought and updated to better reflect current BGC configuration.
- Horowitz Book Prize Symposium: Rotating faculty on selection committee; invitation-only conference/workshop organized with the authors of Horowitz Book prizes.
- Object Lab: As a space: this term is used for room 310 at 38W, the main storage room for the Study Collection. As an event: General Usage (faculty-led discussions with Study Collection objects and/or additional objects; conducted in 310 or other 38 classrooms/space; also called “Object Hours”); Workshops (staff, faculty, curator, student, fellow, or outside scholar-led discussions using Study Collection objects or additional items; conducted in 310 or other 38 spaces such as Seminar Room or Lecture Hall.
- Study Collection: Growing collection of objects to support close object study and handling within the curriculum, public programming, and exhibition program.
- Cultural Histories of the Material World: Book series formerly edited by Dean Peter Miller; currently led by a faculty editorial committee. As of 2024, has a narrower acquisitions mandate to publish books (often edited volumes) connected to BGC faculty, fellows, our hosted research events like symposia, or Levy Lectures in Jewish Material Culture (JMC), with fewer/no one-off publications by unaffiliated scholars.
- Scholarly journals: West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture (a biannual journal); Source: Notes on the History of Art (a quarterly journal).
- BGCX: Small, inexpensive, experimental publications emerging directly out of public programs (often consist of edited and introduced event transcripts).
- Fellowship programs: Visiting Fellowships (non-stipendiary residencies of up to 4 months, generally tied to the academic semester; as of 2024, specific path for Fulbright Fellows); Fields of the Future (DEAI; stipendiary residencies of up to 4 months, generally tied to the academic semester; recruitment paused in 2025; funded for AY 26-27 with Mellon funding from partners at Sylvester Manor]; BGC/AMNH Fellowship in Museum Anthropology, Discontinued/Paused in 2022; Conservation as a Human Science Fellowship, Ended in 2022 with the completion of Cultures of Conservation.
List of Iris Award Recipients 1997–2025
- 1997: Harold M. Williams, Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue
- 1998: Jayne Wrightsman, Graham Hood, Pamela Robertson
- 1999: Lord Rothschild, Peter Thornton, Ellen Lupton
- 2000: James Biddle, Anne L. Poulet, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
- 2001: The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Jules David Prown, Craig Clunas
- 2002: James R. Houghton, Geoffrey Beard, Valerie Steele
- 2003: Hélène David-Weill, Simon Jervis, Thomas P. Campbell
- 2004: Lily Safra, Hugh Honour, Paola Antonelli
- 2005: Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Jane C. Nylander, Evelyn Welch
- 2006: John H. Bryan, Jonathan Fairbanks, Dianne Harris, The Fine Art Society
- 2007: Liliane M. Stewart, Henry Hawley, Barry Bergdoll, Eric N. Shrubsole
- 2008: Phyllis Lambert, Robert Hillenbrand, David Crowley, Philippe de Montebello
- 2009: Dr. Mortimer Sackler and Dame Theresa Sackler, Sir Hugh Roberts, Daniel Miller, Alexis Kugel and Nicolas Kugel
- 2010: Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Neil Harris, John Styles
- 2011: Shelley and Donald Rubin, John Harris, Juliet Kinchin, Bernard Dragesco
- 2012: The Koç Family, Hans Ottomeyer, Alisa LaGamma, Mark McDonald
- 2013: Richard Hampton Jenrette, Morrison H. Heckscher, Glenn Adamson, Adrian Sassoon
- 2014: Iris Cantor, Dame Rosalind J. Savill, Finbarr Barry Flood, Martin Levy
- 2015: Barbro S. Osher, Sir Mark Jones, Nicholas Thomas, Deedee Wigmore
- 2016: Sir Paul Ruddock, Harold Koda, Giorgio Riello, Michele Beiny-Harkins
- 2017: Sir Nicholas Goodison, Alvar González-Palacios, Marie-Louise Bech Nosch, Titi Halle
- 2018: John C. Waddell, Dr. Aileen Ribeiro, Dr. Jason Sun, Benoist F. Drut
- 2019: Marina Kellen French, Jeffrey Munger, Dr. Laurie Wilkie, Alessandra Di Castro
- 2020-2021: Dr. Stephen K. Scher, David Revere McFadden, Sanchita Balachandran, Cristina Grajales
- 2022: Deborah and Philip English, Dr. Helen C. Evans, Dr. Anne Lafont, Barbara Israel
- 2023: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, Meredith Chilton, C. M., Dr. Elizabeth Guffey, Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman
- 2024: Marilyn Friedland, Diana Scarisbrick, Dr. Wayne Modest, Eli Wilner
- 2025: Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Dr. Julius Bryant, Dr. Meredith Martin, Katherine Purcell
List of BGC Exhibitions 1993–2026
- Along the Royal Road: Berlin and Potsdam in KPM Porcelain and Painting, 1815-1848 (October 13, 1993 – January 30, 1994) curated by Winfried Baer and Ilse Baer.
- Brodures et Frises Papiers Peints (March 11 – May 8, 1994) organized by Musée des Arts décoratifs.
- Objets d’Usage and de Goût dans les Premières Années du XIX Siècle (March 11 – May 8, 1994) organized by Musée des Arts décoratifs.
- Cast Iron from Central Europe, 1800-1850 (May 25 – August 7, 1994) organized with MAK–Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. Curated by Elisabeth Schmuttermeier and Derek Ostergard.
- Baroque Splendor: The Art of the Hungarian Goldsmith (August 25 – October 30, 1994) curated by Judit Hajto-Kolba. Organized by Bard Graduate Center with The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington D.C., and the Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest.
- Crosscurrents of Modernism: Selections from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (November 18, 1994 – February 26, 1995) organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
- Arthur J. Stone 1847-1938, Designer and Silversmith (March 18 – May 14, 1995) curated by Elenita C. Chickering and Sarah Morgan Ross. Organized by the Boston Athenaeum.
- English Silver: Masterpieces by Omar Ramsden from the Campbell Collection (March 18 – May 14, 1995) curated by Lynn Springer Roberts. Organized by David A. Hanks and Associates.
- A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival (November 9, 1995 – February 25, 1996) curated by Paul Atterbury.
- Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home (May 9 – July 21, 1996) curated by Nina Stritzler-Levine, Christopher Long, Kristina Wangberg-Eriksson, and Christian Witt-Dorring.
- The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry (November 21, 1996 – March 2, 1997) curated by Gunnel Holmer, Derek Ostergard, and Nina Stritzler-Levine.
- Masterworks: Italian Design, 1960-1994 (April 10 – September 21, 1997) curated by R. Craig Miller. Organized by the American Federation of Arts.
- The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847 (October 17, 1997 – February 1, 1998) curated by Tamara Preaud. Organized by Bard Graduate Center with Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres.
- Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997 (February 27 – June 14, 1998) curated by Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine. Organized by Bard Graduate Center with the Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki.
- India: A Jewelry Spectrum (October 8, 1998 – January 31, 1999) curated by Oppi Untracht.
- Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco (March 10 – June 13, 1999) curated by Stefanie Walker.
- Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, ca. 1690-1766 (July 14 – October 23, 1999) curated by Bertrand Rondot. Organized by Musée des Arts décoratifs.
- E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer (November 17, 1999 – February 27, 2000) curated by Dr. Susan Weber.
- Roman Glass: Reflections of Everyday Life (March 23 – June 11, 2000) curated by Stuart J. Fleming. Organized by and from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference (November 15, 2000 – April 8, 2001) curated by Pat Kirkham.
- Print, Power and Persuasion: Graphic Design in Germany 1890–1945 (May 23 – August 26, 2001) organized by The Wolfsonian-FIU. Curated by Jeremy Aynsley of the Royal College of Art, London, and Wolfsonian curator Marianne Lamonaca.
- William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent (October 18, 2001 – January 6, 2002) curated by Philip Hewat-Jaboor and Bet McLeod. Organized by Bard Graduate Center with Dulwich Picture Gallery.
- Utopia and Reality: Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960 (March 14 – June 16, 2002) curated by Cecilia Widenheim and Eva Rudberg.
- Hungarian Ceramics from the Zsolnay Manufactory, 1853-2001 (July 17 – October 13, 2002) curated by Éva Csenkey.
- Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and Photography, 1907-1922 (November 22, 2002 – February 23, 2003) curated by Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg. Organized by Bard Graduate Center with the Langmatt Museum.
- Quiet Beauty: Fifty Centuries of Japanese Folk Ceramics from the Montgomery Collection (March 27 – June 15, 2003) curated by Robert Moes and Rupert Faulkner. Organized by Art Services International.
- Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer (July 17 – October 19, 2003) curated by Dr. Susan Weber, founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center, and Catherine Arbuthnott, consulting curator of exhibitions at the Bard Graduate Center.
- Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture (November 21, 2003 – February 15, 2004) curated by Marianne Aav.
- The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth (March 17 – June 20, 2004) curated by Nicolas Barker. Organized by Art Services International.
- Vasemania–Neoclassical Form and Ornament in Europe: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (July 22 – October 17, 2004) curated by Stefanie Walker and William Rieder. Organized by Bard Graduate Center with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry (November 18, 2004 – February 6, 200) co-curated by Dr. Susan Weber, founder and director of the BGC, and Dr. Stefanie Walker, special exhibitions curator at the BGC and a specialist in jewelry history.
- Cherished Possessions: A New England Legacy (March 10 – June 5, 2005) organized by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and curated by Nancy Carlisle, a graduate of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and curator at SPNEA for over 16 years.
- Georg Jensen Jewelry (July 14 – October 16, 2005) curated by David A. Taylor.
- Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945 (November 18, 2005 – February 12, 2006) curated by Jacqueline Marx Atkins.
- American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow (March 16 – June 11, 2006) curated by David A. Hanks, Curator, Stewart Program for Modern Design, and Dr. Martin Eidelberg, former Professor of Art History, Rutgers University.
- Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor (July 12 – October 15, 2006) curated by Nina Stritzler-Levine.
- Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table (July 12 – October 15, 2006) curated by Peter Barnet; Michel David-Weill, Curator in Charge, the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Pete Dandrige, Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713-1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (November 16, 2006 – February 18, 2007) curated by Dr. Susan Weber, Founder and Director of the Bard Graduate Center and a specialist in British design.
- Bruno Mathsson: Architect and Designer (March 22 – June 10, 2007) organized by The Bruno Mathsson Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Värnamo, Sweden, and curated by Hedvig Hedqvist, renowned Swedish art critic and design historian, and Karin Åberg Waern, curator at the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm.
- A Brass Menagerie, Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement(July 12 – October 14, 2007) curated by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio. Organized by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
- Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63 (November 15, 2007 – February 10, 2008) curated by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, curator of The Arnhold Collection, Dresden/New York.
- Shaker Design: Out of This World (March 13 – June 15, 2008) curated by Jean Burks, senior curator at Vermont’s Shelburne Museum.
- Thomas Hope: Regency Designer (July 17 – November 16, 2008) curated by David Watkin, Reader in the History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, England; Philip Hewat-Jaboor, art consultant and expert on Thomas Hope; Daniella Ben-Arie, independent scholar and researcher.
- English Embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1580–1700: ’Twixt Art and Nature (December 11, 2008 – April 12, 2009) co-curated by Melinda Watt, assistant curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum, and Andrew Morrall, professor at the Bard Graduate Center.
- Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick (September 18, 2009 – January 24, 2010) curated by New-York Historical Society’s Marybeth De Filippis and Bard Graduate Center Associate Professor Deborah L. Krohn.
- Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (January 26 – April 17, 2011) curated by Béatrice Quette of the Musée des Arts décoratifs.
- Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast (January 26 – April 17, 2011) curated by Aaron Glass, Bard Graduate Center Associate Professor.
- Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010 (May 18 – July 31, 2011) curated by Earl Martin, associate curator at the Bard Graduate Center; Paul Makovsky, editorial director, Metropolis magazine; Angela Völker, Curator Emeritus of Textiles at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; and Susan Ward, an independent textile historian.
- Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones (September 15, 2011 – April 15, 2012) curated by Oriole Cullen and Stephen Jones. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- American Christmas Cards, 1900–1960 (September 21 – December 31, 2011) curated by Bard Graduate Center Professor Emeritus Kenneth L. Ames.
- Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke (January 18 – April 8, 2012) curated by Michele Majer, Bard Graduate Center Assistant Professor.
- The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking (September 21, 2012 – January 27, 2013) curated by Visiting Assistant Professor Nina Samuel.
- Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010 (September 21, 2012 – February 3, 2013) curated by Matthew Wittmann.
- Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935 (April 4 – August 3, 2013) curated by Erin L. Hasinoff, Bard Graduate Center–American Museum of Natural History postdoctoral fellow in museum anthropology.
- Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (April 4 – August 11, 2013) curated by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, curator of European decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum; Deborah L. Krohn, BGC associate professor; and Ulrich Leben, BGC special exhibitions curator and visiting professor.
- William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (September 20, 2013 – February 9, 2014) curated by Susan Weber, Bard Graduate Center founder and director, and Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1928 (September 27, 2013 – February 2, 2014) curated by Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, Associate Curator, Bard Graduate Center.
- Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas (April 10 – August 3, 2014) curated by Nicola Sharratt, Bard Graduate Center–American Museum of Natural History postdoctoral fellow in museum anthropology.
- Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture (April 10 – August 10, 2014) curated by José Roca with Alejandro Martín.
- Visualizing 19th-Century New York (September 19, 2014 – January 11, 2015) curated by David Jaffee, Professor and Head of New Media Research, Bard Graduate Center.
- Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life (September 19, 2014 – January 11, 2015) curated by Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing (April 3 – July 19, 2015) curated by Kimon Keramidas, Assistant Professor and Director of the Digital Media Lab, Bard Graduate Center.
- Fashioning the Body: An Intimate History of the Silhouette (April 3 – July 26, 2015) organized by Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and curated by Dr. Denis Bruna, curator, Fashion and Textile department, Musée des Arts décoratifs, and professor at the École du Louvre.
- Revisions—Zen for Film (September 18, 2015 – February 21, 2016) curated by Hanna Hölling, Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor, Cultures of Conservation, at Bard Graduate Center.
- Swedish Wooden Toys (September 18, 2015 – February 28, 2016) curated by Susan Weber, Bard Graduate Center founder and director, and Amy F. Ogata, professor of art history at the University of Southern California and former professor at Bard Graduate Center.
- Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania (April 22 – September 18, 2016) curated by Shawn C. Rowlands, Bard Graduate Center–American Museum of Natural History postdoctoral fellow in museum anthropology.
- Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World (April 22 – October 2, 2016) curated by Bard Graduate Center Gallery Director Nina Stritzler-Levine, a recognized scholar of modern architecture and design, and Juhani Pallasmaa, a prolific writer on modern and contemporary art and architecture, and an architect and professor.
- Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions (November 18, 2016 – February 12, 2017) curated by Jean-Philippe Garric, professor of history of architecture at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and organized by Bard Graduate Center Gallery, the Réunion des musées nationaux—Grand Palais, and the château de Fontainebleau.
- Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli tu (March 24 – July 30, 2017) curated by François Louis, Associate Professor, History of Chinese Design and Visual Culture, Bard Graduate Center.
- New York Crystal Palace 1853 (March 24 – July 30, 2017) curated by the late David Jaffee, Professor and Head of New Media Research, Bard Graduate Center.
- John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London (September 15, 2017 – January 7, 2018) curated by Susan Weber, Founder and Director, Bard Graduate Center, and Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity (February 23 – July 8, 2018) curated by Georgios Boudalis, Head of the Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece; Research Fellow, Bard Graduate Center, Spring 2015; and Visiting Professor, Bard Graduate Center, Fall 2016.
- Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles (February 23 – July 8, 2018) curated by Urmila Mohan, Bard Graduate Center/AMNH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology.
- Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place (September 14, 2018 – January 6, 2019) curated by Ittai Weinryb, Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center, with Marianne Lamonaca, Chief Curator, and Caroline Hannah, Associate Curator, Bard Graduate Center Gallery.
- A View from the Jeweler’s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements (February 14 – July 7, 2019) curated by Sasha Nixon, who received her MA from Bard Graduate Center in May of 2018.
- Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars (February 14 – July 7, 2019) curated by Paul Stirton, Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center.
- The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology (February 14 – July 7, 2019) curated by Aaron Glass, Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center.
- French Fashion, Women, and the First World War (September 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020) curated by Maude Bass-Krueger (PhD, Bard Graduate Center), Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden University, and Sophie Kurkdjian (PhD, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Research Associate, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (CNRS).
- Eileen Gray (October 13–28, 2020) curated by Cloé Pitiot. Organized by Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with Bard Graduate Center.
- Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 (September 24, 2021 – January 2, 2022) curated by Susan Weber, Founder and Director, Bard Graduate Center, Jo Briggs, Jennie Walters Delano Associate Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Art, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and Laura Microulis and Earl Martin, Bard Graduate Center. Organized by Bard Graduate Center Gallery and the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
- Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object? (March 25 – July 10, 2022)
- Conserving Active Matter (March 25 – July 10, 2022) part of Cultures of Conservation, a multi-year initiative generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen (September 16, 2022 – January 1, 2023) curated by Emma Cormack, associate curator, Bard Graduate Center; Ilona Kos, curator, Textilmuseum St. Gallen; and Michele Majer, professor emerita, Bard Graduate Center.
- Staging the Table in Europe 1500–1800 (February 17 – July 9, 2023) curated by Deborah L. Krohn, associate professor and chair of academic programs, Bard Graduate Center.
- Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest (February 17 – July 9, 2023) curated by Hadley Jensen, BGC/AMNH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology, in consultation with Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas.
- SIGHTLINES: on Peace, Power and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa (September 29 - December 31, 2023) curated by Drew Thompson, associate professor of visual culture and Black studies at Bard Graduate Center and Bard College. Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood, principals of the architecture firm AD—WO, designed the exhibition and served as curatorial advisors. The project was managed by Laura Microulis, research curator, Bard Graduate Center.
- Sonia Delaunay: Living Art (February 23 - July 7 2024) curated by Waleria Dorogova, independent curator; and Laura Microulis, research curator, Bard Graduate Center.
- Sèvres Extraordinaire!: Sculpture from 1740 until Today (September 10 - November 16 2025) curated by Tamara Préaud, former archivist of the Sèvres Manufactory, Soazig Guilmin, Sèvres, Manufacture et Musée nationaux, head of the registrar’s department (Service de Récolement et du Mouvement des Oeuvres), Charlotte Vignon, former director of the department of patrimony and collections (Département de Patrimoine et des Collections), Sèvres, Manufacture et Musée nationaux, and Susan Weber, founder and director, Bard Graduate Center.
- Art museum education
- Art schools — New York (State) — New York
- Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
- Decorative arts — Study and teaching (Higher)
- Design — History — Study and teaching (Higher)
- Material culture — Study and teaching (Higher)
- Museums — Public relations
- advertisements
- booklets
- clippings
- course catalogs
- exhibition catalogs
- exhibitions (events)
- graduate schools (institutions)
- institutional records
- invitations
- newsletters
- press releases
- printed ephemera
- Title
- Bard Graduate Center Institutional Archive
- Author
- Mike Satalof
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY Repository