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 […]
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 […]
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 […]