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Campus Facilities
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts is housed in the summer on the 540-acre rural campus of Bard College, bordering the Hudson River. Dormitory rooms are available to students, or they may live off campus in rental apartments in nearby towns. Each student is assigned a dedicated studio for the summer session, and every effort is made to provide space appropriate for each artist's endeavor.
The College's proximity to New York City, with its multitude of exhibitions, performances, readings, lectures, and films, is also significant for the program; many members of the teaching faculty reside in New York, and visiting artists can easily travel from the city for presentations and performances at Bard.
The M.F.A. program draws students from across the United States and abroad. Among the students have been artists from all fields, college and secondary school teachers, businesspeople, recent college graduates, journalists, and other professionals who share a dedication to the arts and a desire to learn in the unique interdisciplinary atmosphere the M.F.A. program offers. As a center of aesthetic and intellectual growth, the community provides the foundation for creativity.
Students can take advantage of all the facilities of the Bard campus during the summer sessions, including all collections of the Stevenson Library. The library provides comprehensive digital collections of images, journals, and research resources in the Stevenson collection via ArtStor, JSTOR, Project Muse, EBSCO, the Grove Dictionaries of Art and Music, and Naxos Music Library, among others. A rich source of additional information is available via ConnectNY, a 14-member library consortium for interlibrary borrowing that features 5 million additional volumes. In addition, a comprehensive image library containing both slides and digital images is located in the Richard B. Fisher and Emily H. Fisher Studio Arts building.
The Heinz O. and Elizabeth C. Bertelsmann Campus Center is a central meeting place and is often used for M.F.A. community events. It houses the College bookstore and post office, a café, a 100-seat theater, multipurpose and conference rooms, offices, recreation and meeting rooms, exhibition space, and a small computer center.
The Bard campus is also home to the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard), an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present day. In November 2006, the Center inaugurated the Hessel Museum of Art, a new 17,000-square-foot building for exhibitions curated from the Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 1,700 works. With nearly 25,000 square feet of exhibition space overall, an extensive research library and curatorial archives, and a series of free public lectures and educational programs addressing key topics in the study of contemporary art, CCS Bard is a unique contemporary arts resource open to the entire Bard community.
The renovated Bard College Exhibition Center (UBS Gallery), the former Universal Builders Supply building in the center of neighboring Red Hook, is a professional-level gallery in which M.F.A. students present their Master's Projects to the public. The 16,000-square-foot space is used as a gallery for exhibitions of paintings, photographs, and sculptures; a screening facility for films and videos; and/or a performance space for concerts and readings. In addition, Bard offers special facilities for each artistic field.
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