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Upcoming Exhibitions
BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

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28th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Dr. Julius Bryant, Dr. Meredith Martin, and Katherine Purcell
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Research

Bard Graduate Center is a research institute for advanced, interdisciplinary study of diverse material worlds. We support the innovative scholarship of our faculty and students as well as resident fellows, guest curators and artists, and visiting speakers.

Photo by Fresco Arts Team.

Our Public Humanities + Research department focuses on making scholarly work widely available and accessible through the coordination of the fellowship program and public programming that combines academic research with exhibition-related events. Across the institution—from the classroom to the gallery, from publications to this website—we utilize digital media to facilitate and share original research. This section outlines current programming and provides a repository for past scholarly content.
In this installment of the podcast, BGC alums Juliana Fagua-Arias and Jessie Mordine Young speak with scholars, artists, and educators working with Indigenous textiles and textile history of the southwestern United States and Mexico.
Juliana Fagua-Arias received her MA from Bard Graduate Center in 2021, where her research focused on the material culture of colonial Latin America and the transpacific trade. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University.

Jessie Mordine Young
is a Brooklyn-based artist who researches, writes about, curates, makes, and teaches textile art. She earned her MA from Bard Graduate Center in 2021. She works as an adjunct professor in the MFA Textiles Program and the School of Constructed Environments at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Items in this Collection
Research
S2E1: Kevin Aspaas—The Navajo Way of Life
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 1, 2023

Research
S2E2: Elena Phipps—Textile, Color, Culture
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 2, 2023

Research
S2E3: Nikyle Begay—The Sacredness and…
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 3, 2023

Research
S2E4: Lynda Teller Pete and…
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 4, 2023

Research
S2E5: Porfirio Gutiérrez—Color as a Form of Storytelling
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 5, 2023

Research
S2E6: Larissa Nez—On Decolonizing Institutions
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 6, 2023

Research
S2E7: Molly and Lara Manzanares…
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 7, 2023

Research
S2E8: Alejandro de Avila Blomberg—Ethnobotany
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 8, 2023