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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]