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Visiting the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
The best time to visit and get a feel for the M.F.A. program is while the summer session is in progress. To schedule a summer visit, contact the M.F.A. office at 845-758-7481 or e-mail mfa@bard.edu.
An Open House for all of Bard's Graduate Programs will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 from 11am - 2pm in the Multi-purpose Room of the Bertlesman Campus Center. At the Open House you'll have the chance to pick up a catalogue, speak with staff about the program, and enjoy refreshments. Following the Open House, at 2:30pm, a campus tour of MFA facilities will start at the Fisher Studio Arts building.
There is no need to register for the Open House; however, it is requested that you sign up in advance for the campus tour.
The tour will be led by Susan Tveekrem, Managing Director of the MFA program. It will begin at the Fisher Studio Arts building at 2:30pm and will last approximately one hour. Facilities for all disciplines will be included, and you will also have the opportunity to see the current exhibition at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) gallery/museum.
For those who are interested, following the tour at 4pm there will be a presentation by An-My Lê, a Vietnamese-American artist based in New York City, sponsored by CCS. For more information on the presentation and their current exhibitions, go to www.bard.edu/ccs.
Another campus tour will be held in December, date TBD.
To sign up for the November 12th tour, or to be added to our database to receive an email announcement about the December tour (once scheduled), please send an email to mfa@bard.edu with your name, phone number, and discipline(s) of interest.
Directions to Bard College:
Bard College is in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 90 miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest of Boston.
By automobile
- From southern Connecticut, follow I-84 to the Taconic State Parkway, take the Taconic north to the Red Hook/Route 199 exit, drive west on Route 199 through the village of Red Hook to Route 9G, turn right onto Route 9G, and drive north 1.6 miles.
- From northern Connecticut, take Route 44 to Route 199 at Millerton, drive west on Route 199, and proceed as from southern Connecticut.
- From Massachusetts and northern New England, take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit B-2 (Taconic Parkway), take the Taconic south to the Red Hook/Route 199 exit, and proceed as from southern Connecticut.
- From New York City, New Jersey, and points south, take the New York State Thruway (I-87) to Exit 19 (Kingston), take Route 209 (changes to Route 199 at the Hudson River) over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge to Route 9G; at the second light, turn left onto Route 9G and drive north 3.5 miles.
- From Albany, take the New York State Thruway to Exit 19 and proceed as from New York City.
From 9G, turn at the light onto River Road. Keep right at the fork and merge onto Annandale Road. Turn left onto N. Ravine Road (following signs for Admissions) and park in the first lot on the left. You will see a large brick building adjacent to the parking lot (Fisher Studio Arts). To it's right is a small, unlabeled metal-sided building. This is not a storage shed, it is Fisher Annex. The Milton Avery Graduate School office is located in Fisher Annex, room 118, last door on the right.
For the Open House on November 12th, the Bertlesman Campus Center is located just behind the Fisher Studio Arts building, at the end of N. Ravine Road (large brick building overlooking a field). The Multi-purpose Room is located on the first floor at the opposite end of the building from the parking lot.
By train: Amtrak provides service from Penn Station, New York City, and from Albany to Rhinecliff, about 9 miles south of Annandale. Taxi service is readily available at the Rhinecliff station.
By air: Bard College is accessible from Kennedy and LaGuardia airports in New York City; and from the airports in Newark, New Jersey, and Albany and Newburgh, New York.
Bard cannot provide on-campus accommodations for visitors. Click here to search for local accommodations.
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