Bard Receives $2,000,000 from the Mellon Foundation to Support Tania El Khoury
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Bard College $2,000,000 to support the research, artistic production, and curatorial practice of Tania El Khoury. The funding will allow the OSUN Center […]
SPRING 2025 NEWS & PUBLIC PROGRAM
The spring newsletter is out now. To subscribe to semesterly updates, sign up on our main page. The Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College welcomes back […]
“MASTERCLASS” AT THE FISHER CENTER THIS APRIL
Masterclass is coming to the Fisher Center April 3-6. ★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian “Damn me, it’s hilarious.” —The Sunday Independent […]
“THE SEARCH FOR POWER” AT THE HESSEL MUSEUM THIS FEBRUARY
“The Search for Power” is an interactive sound installation and a live lecture performance featuring CHRA Program Directors Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish, presented by Fisher Center LAB and […]
“LEAVE THE COMMUNITY ALONE” BECOMES SEMINAR AT THE SCHOOL OF MAKING THINKING
Isabella Indolfi (HRA ‘23) will lead an online seminar, “Leave the Community Alone: Critical Perspectives on Community Art” through The School of Making Thinking. Participants will examine the merits and […]
CHRA’s Tania El Khoury curates program at Abrons Art Center
CHRA’s director Tania El Khoury curated a program at Abrons Art Center, NYC, taking place Thursday, November 21 at 6 pm. The program is part of Kinstillatory Mappings in Light […]
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: MA in HUMAN RIGHTS and THE ARTS
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College is now accepting applications for its MA in Human Rights and the Arts program. The MA Program in […]
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: MA in HUMAN RIGHTS and THE ARTS
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College is now accepting applications for its MA in Human Rights and the Arts program. The MA Program in […]
Fall 2024 News & Public Program
The fall newsletter is out now. To subscribe to semesterly updates, sign up on our main page. The Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College enters its […]
CHRA Launches Second Book in Series
CHRA is delighted to announce Talks on Human Rights & the Arts 2: The Lawlessness of Rights is now available online and through Printed Matter, Inc. The book is the […]
CHRA Announces Fall 2024 Public Program
The Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Fall Public Program. The new line-up includes Films-Screening and an in-person Talk by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, co-organized […]
Cassils Presents “Etched in Light” Co-Supported by CHRA
Inspiring collaborations: March 31st is International Transgender Day of Visibility. This year in Washington DC, artist Cassils presented “Etched in Light.” Performers and participants in ETCHED IN LIGHT BY CASSILS, […]
Human Rights and the Arts presents thesis exhibition: Material As Witness
In April, the Center for Human Rights and the Arts presented works developed by students in the MA Program for Human Rights and the Arts. The thesis exhibition included art […]
Tania El Khoury’s Artwork Subject of New Edited Volume
CHRA director Tania El Khoury’s artwork is the subject of a newly-published edited volume. Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press) is co-edited by Laurel V. […]
Spring 2024 News & Public Program
The spring newsletter is out now. To subscribe to semesterly updates, sign up on our main page. We begin 2024 with the recognition that we live in a world of […]
CHRA Announces Spring 2024 Public Program
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Spring Public Program. The new line-up includes an in-person panel co-hosted with Forge Project, and in-person […]
Tania El Khoury’s Cultural Exchange Rate in Under the Radar Festival
Artist and CHRA director Tania El Khoury presented Cultural Exchange Rate at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn from January 11-24. This showing was part of Under the Radar […]
CHRA’s Adrienne Truscott Shows Work at Sydney Opera House
CHRA’s Adrienne Truscott is showing and performing in MASTERCLASS at the Sydney Opera House January 12–16, 2024. A collaboration between her and Dublin theatre-makers Brokentalkers, MASTERCLASS is critically acclaimed, with The Guardian describing it as “scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent […]
CHRA and Luma Foundation Organize Conference on Children’s Drawings As Evidence
On January 12–14, 2024, CHRA and the Luma Foundation will host a multidisciplinary array of practitioners, including lawyers, artists, curators, and academics, at Luma Westbau in Zurich, Switzerland to discuss […]
Applications Open for 2024-2025 CHRA Fellowship
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts invites applications for a one-year research and teaching fellowship in human rights and the arts. Scholars, artists, and activists with teaching […]
OSUN Human Rights & the Arts Fellowship for AY 2024-2025
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts invites applications for a one-year research and teaching fellowship in human rights and the arts. Scholars, artists, and activists with teaching […]
CHRA Fellow Argyro Nicolaou wins awards for new film project
Congratulations to CHRA Fellow Argyro Nicolaou who recently presented her feature film in development, Excavators, at connecting cottbus, a German co-production platform. The project won two significant awards – Audience Award for Best […]
Applications Open for 2024-2025 MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our third cohort for the MA in Human Rights and […]
Now Accepting Applications: M.A. in Human Rights & the Arts
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College is now accepting applications for its M.A. in Human Rights and the Arts program. The MA Program in […]
CHRA Announces Fall 2023 Public Program
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) is pleased to announce its Fall 2023 public programming. The new lineup, listed below, includes online and […]
CHRA Announces 2023-24 Resident Fellowship Recipients
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) announces the appointment of filmmaker and scholar Argyro Nicolaou and curator Juliana Steiner as its 2023–24 resident […]
Al-Monitor article about MA graduate Adam HajYahia’s thesis project, Carnal Politics
A new article in Al-Monitor looks at MA graduate Adam HajYahia’s recent thesis project, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine. The work aims to re-imagine new […]
CHRA Releases Inaugural Volume of New Publication Series
CHRA is delighted to share its first publication, Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights & the Arts 1. This is the inaugural volume of an annual series, created as an […]
The Art Newspaper Highlights “Through the Ruins”
Recommended in the Art Newspaper’s Book Club, Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1, brings together activists, scholars, and artists working at the intersection of human rights […]
CHRA Launches First in Book Series
CHRA is delighted to share its first publication, Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights & the Arts 1. This is the inaugural volume of an annual series, created as […]
CHRA Director Tania El Khoury Receives 2023 Herb Alpert Award
Artist and CHRA Director Tania El Khoury was recently announced as one of ten recipients of the 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. The annual award recognizes risk-taking mid-career artists […]
Thesis Exhibition Spotlights Inaugural Class of MA in Human Rights and the Arts
This April 27 through May 7, the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) presents ten capstone projects of its inaugural class of the MA […]
CHRA’s Adam HajYahia Curates Public Programs Series at The James Gallery in NYC
CHRA graduate student Adam HajYahia is curating Footnotes on the Fictive Present, a public program series at The James Gallery and The Graduate Center, City University of New York from […]
CHRA’s Tania El Khoury at Sharjah Biennial 15
Artist and CHRA Director Tania El Khoury has been awarded Special Mention for the 2023 Sharjah Biennial Jury Prize, presenting two interactive installations at the Sharjah Biennial 15: Cultural Exchange Rate and The Search […]
CHRA Announces Spring 2023 Public Programs
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) is pleased to announce its Spring 2023 public programming. The new lineup, listed below, includes online talks, […]
CHRA’s Tania El Khoury Featured in Spring 2023 Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Artist and CHRA Director Tania El Khoury participated in the Spring 2023 lineup of the University of Michigan Stamps School of Arts Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. The event, on […]
MA Students Visit Mass MoCA
Over the 2022–23 winter break, CHRA organized a field trip for MA students to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts (Mass MoCA), situated on the ancestral homelands of the Muhheaconneok or Mohican people (People of […]
CHRA’s Michelle Song Opens Two Shows in New York City to Kick Off 2023
On view at the Clemente Center, Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger features artists Jaguar Mary X, Taro Masushio, Luna Luis Ortiz, and Lisa Ross. The exhibition presents photographs and videos that […]
First Year M.A. Students Present Tender Edges: Microfestival
Tender Edges is a microfestival of live art projects created by the first year M.A. students in Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College (Class of 2024). These works-in-progress […]
CHRA’s Polina Malikin at the Scope Art Fair
Artist, community organizer, educator, and CHRA’s Programming Producer Polina Malikin presented work as part of a collaborative project called PRACTICAL ARTS at the Scope Art Fair in Miami Beach (November […]
Call for Participants: “Police Aesthetics: Beyond Documentation” Workshop
Are you interested in the aesthetics of policing? Does the phrase provoke, perplex, disturb, or confuse you? Or does it correspond exactly to the research you are doing? Either way, […]
Applications Open for 2023-2024 Human Rights and the Arts Resident Fellows
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts (CHRA) invites applications for two resident research and teaching fellowships in human rights and the arts. Scholars and/or artists with teaching […]
Application Now Open: Human Rights & the Arts Fellowships for Academic Year 2023-2024
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts (CHRA) invites applications for two one-year research and teaching fellowships in human rights and the arts. Scholars and/or artists with teaching […]
Now Accepting Applications: M.A. in Human Rights & the Arts
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College is now accepting applications for its M.A. in Human Rights and the Arts program. The MA Program in […]
M.A. Students Visit The Met and MoMA PS1
In Fall 2022, our first-year M.A. students took a field trip to NYC to visit exhibitions and meet with curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and MoMA […]
Applications Open for 2023-2024 MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our third cohort for the MA in Human Rights and […]
“Common Ground” Festival Opens
The Fisher Center LAB Biennial is a thematic festival that invites and commissions artists to create new works that grapple with some of the most pressing questions of our time. […]
CHRA Director Tania El Khoury Curates Tashweesh Festival in Tunis, Brussels, and Vienna
CHRA Director Tania El Khoury recently co-curated (with Bochra Triki) Tashweesh 2022: a festival on feminist practices in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Europe. The program took place across the three […]
M.A. Students Visit Eureka! Art Center and Residency in Kingston, NY
This October, as part of their Politics of Interactive Art (HRA 501) course with Tania El Khoury, first-year M.A. students participated in a special workshop at Eureka!, an arts center […]
Margarita Kuchma Project Award Selects Winners
The Margarita Kuchma Project Award selection committee has named two final winning projects: “The Columbia Project” and “Project MA3: Masanse Na Mayouthman (From Violence to Co-existence).” “The Columbia Project” is […]
CHRA Announces Fall 2022 Public Programs
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard is pleased to announce its Fall 2022 lineup of webinar talks, in-person panels and a film screening. Tuesday, September […]
CHRA Team Member and Artist Adrienne Truscott Receives Fringe First Writing Award for “Masterclass”
CHRA’s Adrienne Truscott recently showed and performed in MASTERCLASS, a collaboration between her and Dublin theatre-makers Brokentalkers, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The work received a Fringe First award which […]
CHRA Announces Its 2022-23 Residential Fellowship Recipients
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) announces the appointment of Sabine El Chamaa and Lara Fresko Madra as its 2022–23 resident research and […]
CHRA’s MA Program Visits Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX
In Spring 2022, our first cohort of MA students traveled to the Fusebox International Performing Arts Festival in Austin, Texas. The trip was part of the student’s first-year core course […]
The Margarita Kuchma Project Award
In loving memory of our MA student Margarita Kuchma, who was a Smolny College graduate, a PIE student at Bard, and part of CHRA’s inaugural cohort in the OSUN M.A. […]
Spring 2022 News & Public Programs
Read our latest newsletter here.(Copied below). To sign up to our newsletters, please add your register here. TALKS Our public program began with choreographer Bhenji Ra reflecting on her body-centered […]
CHRA Awards Grants to Twenty-Three OSUN Students & Faculty Members
This January 2022 CHRA completed selections for our 2021–22 Faculty Research Grants and Student-led Initiative Grants competitions, two of our annual grant competitions. We are pleased to announce that CHRA […]
CHRA Announces Spring 2022 Public Programs
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard is pleased to announce its Spring 2022 lineup of in-person and webinar talks, digital commissions launches, film series, and […]
Call for Fellowships (AY 2022-2023)
Deadline: January 10, 2022 The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts invites applications for two one-year research and teaching fellowships in human rights and the arts. The positions […]
Virtual Info Sessions for MA Application Process
As our Center begins to accept applications for our second cohort for the M.A. in Human Rights and the Arts program (Deadline: 10 January 2022), we will be holding several […]
CHRA Fall Program, News & Opportunities
Read our Fall 2021 newsletter here (copied below). To sign up to our newsletters, please add your register here. MA & FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS LAUNCHED Our new Human Rights & the […]
Call for Proposals: OSUN Student-led Initiative Grants
Deadline: November 19, 2020 The OSUN Human Rights & the Arts Center at Bard College invites applications for micro-grants to students pursuing campus- and community-based initiatives in human rights and […]
Call for Proposals: OSUN Faculty Research Grants
Deadline (Extension): November 19, 2020 The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts invites applications for faculty research grants at the intersection of human rights and the arts. The […]
CHRA Announces Fall 2021 Public Program
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard is pleased to announce its Fall 2021 lineup of talks series and digital commissions launch events. This term, four […]
The Entire First Season of CHRA Digital Commissions on View for the Remainder of the Summer
We are pleased to announce that all four of our first season of CHRA Digital Commissions are now available for online viewing. This Spring 2021 series included four artists from […]
CHRA Announces its 2021-22 Fellowship Recipients
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and Arts at Bard College is pleased to announce that Nadine Fattaleh and Oscar Humberto Pedraza Vargas have been selected as the inaugural (2021-22) […]
Tania El Khoury and Ziad M. Abu-Rish Interviewed by Hyperallergic
The online arts publication Hyperallergic recently featured CHRA core team members Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish. In conversation with Katie Kheriji-Watts, they discuss their relocation from Beirut to Bard […]
Launch of New M.A. Program in Human Rights and the Arts
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts announces today the launch of a pioneering M.A. program in Human Rights and the Arts, and looks forward to welcoming its […]
CHRA Inaugurates Annual Lecture Series
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural (Spring 2021) lineup for its annual lecture series in human rights and the arts. This […]
CHRA Announces Inaugural Faculty and Student Grant Recipients
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College is pleased to announce the inaugural (2020–21) recipients of grants supporting faculty research and student-led initiatives at the […]
Call for Fellowships (AY 2021–22)
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts invites applications for two one-year research and teaching fellowships in human rights and the arts. The positions are open to individuals […]
Call for Proposals: Faculty Research Grants in Human Rights & the Arts (2020-21)
The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts invites applications for research support from faculty pursuing projects at the intersection of human rights and the arts. The goal of […]
Call for Proposals: Grants for Student-led Initiatives in Human Rights and the Arts
The OSUN Human Rights & the Arts Center invites applications for micro-grants to students pursuing campus- and community-based initiatives in human rights and the arts. The goal of this grant […]