CHRA Alumni Spotlight: On Nubian Dispossession
Leil Mortada Zahra is showing their The Land, not a film by Youssef Chahine as part of AL.Berlin’s 2025 AL.FESTIVAL.
CHRA Fall 2025 Newsletter
The Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College is pleased to welcome back its graduate students for a new academic year and share some highlights from the Center’s activities.
CHRA Graduates Go On To PhD Programs
Some have returned to their existing practice and trajectory, energized and newly oriented and equipped. Others utilize their two-year, full-time, and in-person matriculation as an opportunity to pivot.
Argyro Nicolaou Joins CHRA for 2025–26 Academic Year
Scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou is joining CHRA as Visiting Faculty for the 2025–26 academic year.
CHRA’s El Khoury and Abu-Rish at Kyoto Experiment 2025
Kyoto Experiment will present CHRA Director Tania El Khoury and MA Program Director Ziad Abu-Rish as part of its 2025 program.
CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Performative Politics of Black Bodies
Suga’N’Tanks, performed at the Nonchalant Gallery in Catskill, NY furthers their research and live art practice around the performative politics of Black bodies.
CHRA Alumni Spotlight: The Rights of Mother Nature
Elie Arden presented “Sacrifice Zones: The Rights of Mother Nature, or, Becoming Indispensable” at the 5th Conference on Latin American Political Ecology.
CHRA’s Oscar Gardea Presents Work at Two Exhibitions
CHRA graduate and artist-in-residence Oscar Gardea has shown artistic work across a number of exhibitions
CHRA Student Spotlight: Exploring Hindu Temples in the UAE
CHRA MA student Lubnah Ansari showed work as part of Domestic Departures: (Im)mobility, Loss, and Resilience in An Uncertain World.
Spring 2025 News & Public Programs
The Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College welcomes back its students and wider community to a new term of public programming from around the world, new publications, student creations, and faculty and staff art productions.
“Masterclass" at the Fisher Center this April
This award-winning Masterclass blends together the comic discourse of Adrienne Truscott with the dramaturgy of the internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers. Masterclass is coming to the Fisher Center April 3–6, 2026.
CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Leave the Community Alone
CHRA graduate Isabella Indolfi is an independent curator and currently runs the Seminaria Biennale of Public Art in Maranola, Italy.
“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 CCS Bard at the Hessel Museum this February.
"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.
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 and Dark Matter series.
Fall 2024 News & Public Program
The Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College enters its fifth year with a new international cohort of MA students, a multidisciplinary public program, two book launches, and ongoing collaborations with activists, artists, and scholars from aro
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 second volume of talks by activists, scholars, and artists from around the gl
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.”
Human Rights and the Arts presents thesis exhibition: Material As Witness
CHRA presented works developed by students in the MA Program for Human Rights and the Arts. The thesis exhibition included art installations, performances, and a reading room, and reflects the culmination of students’ research and artistic prac
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. McLaughlin and Carrie Robbins.
Spring 2024 News & Public Program
We begin 2024 with the recognition that we live in a world of great injustice and we remain in awe of those that persevere and struggle in order to exist and challenge the hierarchies of this world.
CHRA Announces Spring 2024 Public Program
The new line-up includes an in-person panel co-hosted with Forge Project, and in-person and online talks by Robin Frohardt, Molemo Moiloa, and Argyro Nicolaou.
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 festival.
CHRA and Luma Foundation Organize Conference on Children's Drawings As Evidence
The conference takes its cue from the 2007 ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to admit childrens' drawings as contextual evidence of war crimes.
CHRA's Adrienne Truscott Shows Work at Sydney Opera House
The piece is a satirical performance interrogating gender and power structures in today’s world, with theatre as a metaphor.
Applications Open for 2024-2025 CHRA Fellowship
Scholars, artists, and activists with teaching experience and a research project are eligible to apply.
CHRA Fellow Argyro Nicolaou wins awards for new film project
Excavators is a contemporary story exploring intergenerational trauma and the painful process of looking to the future despite the buried burdens of the violent past.
Applications Open for 2024-2025 MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts
The MA Program in Human Rights & the Arts offers a graduate-level two-year interdisciplinary curricular experience that takes stock of the growing encounter between human rights and the arts as fields of both academic knowledge and professional work.
CHRA Announces Fall 2023 Public Program
Guadalupe Maravilla, New Red Order, Fehras Publishing, Juliana Steiner, Brian Lobel.
Bard Receives $2,000,000 from the Mellon Foundation to Support Tania El Khoury
El Khoury is the Founding Director of CHRA, and a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
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.
CHRA Releases Inaugural Volume of New Publication Series
Talks by Faustin Linyekula, The White Pube, Cassils, Emily Johnson, Border Forensics, Ashmina Ranjit, Mark Sealy, and Hamed Sinno.
The Art Newspaper Highlights "Through the Ruins"
Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1, brings together activists, scholars, and artists working at the intersection of human rights and the arts.
CHRA Launches First in Book Series
CHRA is delighted to share its first publication, Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights & the Arts 1.
CHRA Director Tania El Khoury Receives 2023 Herb Alpert Award
The annual award recognizes risk-taking mid-career artists in each of the fields of dance, music, film/video, theater, and visual arts.
CHRA's Adam HajYahia Curates Public Programs Series at The James Gallery in NYC
The series explores political imagination of the past and speculations of an emancipatory future.
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
CHRA Announces Spring 2023 Public Programs
Danielle Purifoy, The Laab, Baha Hilo, Eliane Raheb, Lara Fresko Madra, ECCHR, and more.
CHRA's Tania El Khoury Featured in Spring 2023 Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
The series was in tandem with the opening of her interactive installation Cultural Exchange Rate at the University of Michigan’s The Stamps Gallery.
MA Students Visit Mass MoCA
Students also attended a screening of Shadows, by Back To Back Theater.
CHRA Announces Fall 2022 Public Programs
Nuruddin Farah, Ilija Trojanow, Aleksandar Hemon, Ghassan Halwani, Zayaan Khan, Juliana Steiner, Michael Rakowitz, Jumana Manna, and Nicholas Galanin.
CHRA Announces Spring 2022 Public Programs
Bhenji Ra, Kendall Thomas, Mohammed El-Kurd, Nadine Fatteleh, Layli Long Soldier, Oscar Pedraza Vargas, Damj, Ernesto Pujol, Last Exit Kabul, and Ama Josephine Budge.
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