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Ziad Abu-Rish and Tania El Khoury standing in front of an audience during The Search for Power performance. Text in arabic partially glows in neon yellow behind them.

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.

seven of Gardea's masks on a gallery wall.

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

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.

“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

Hand holding the book Talks on Human Rights & the Arts 2: The Lawlessness of Rights with autumn leaves in the background

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.”

Poster of Material as Witness Final Thesis presentations.

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

Book cover of Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production

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.

A young boy (Petrit Halilaj) shows his artwork to Kofi Annan, surrounded by a group of adults.

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.

Adrienne Truscott performing Brokentalkers.

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.

A family photo held in the artist's hand.

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.

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