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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming @stinahamlin, producer for @shecriedthatday, Parker Thomas-Hamlin, and Kristen Pratt, operations manager for @redsandproject for a panel discussion and film screening to commemorate and bring awareness to MMIWR Week of Action.

To learn more and get involved go to the links in our bio!

Please join us for a panel and screening of “She Cried That Day” on Wednesday, May 6th from 6-9pm in Weis Cinema, Campus Center in honor of the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.

“In 2017, the Urban Indian Health Institute found that of the 5,712 cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, only 116 of these cases were logged by the Department of Justice database. After the release of their damning report, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives or MMIWR was thrust into the spotlight. She Cried That Day is the story of a sister’s love and a family’s refusal to allow their loved one to remain invisible in the eyes of the justice system.”

We will be joined by producer of the film, Stina Thomas Hamlin, along with operations manager for the Red Sand Project Kristen Pratt, and Parker Thomas-Hamlin for a panel before the screening.

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild], Dir. Adam Khalil ‘11 & Zack Khalil ‘14, 2026, 80 min., U.S./Denmark

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.

Monday, April 27th, Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7-9PM

A Screening & Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies Alumni Speaker Series with Zack ‘14 and Adam Khalil ‘11

Co-presented by the Center for Moving Image Arts. Panel discussion will follow the film.

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild], Dir. Adam Khalil ‘11 & Zack Khalil ‘14, 2026, 80 min., U.S./Denmark

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.

Monday, April 27th, Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7-9PM

A Screening & Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies Alumni Speaker Series with Zack ‘14 and Adam Khalil ‘11

Co-presented by the Center for Moving Image Arts. Panel discussion will follow the film.

We had an amazing admitted students day here at @bardcollege 🎉This was our second such day • and the weather, vibes, info-sessions, energy, and ice cream were perfect!

#BardOEI #Bard #bard2030 #AdmittedStudentsDay

TAMARA AUPAUMUT ON THURSDAY APRIL 16TH AT 5PM RKC BITO AUDITORIUM

A presentation about the curation process around her exhibition, “People of the Waters That Are Never Still: A Celebration of Mohican Art and Culture”, and the connection with Aupaumut’s artwork.

Tamara Aupaumut is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living on Mni Sota Makoce, also known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. She descends from the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, the Oneida Nation, and is Pequot, Nehantic, and Montaukett through the Brothertown Indian Nation.

Her main focus is as a painter and sculptor, working in oil, acrylic, gouache, mixed media, printmaking, photography, papier-mâché, and fiber, as well as traditional Native disciplines of beadwork, porcupine quillwork, and birchbark.

Aupaumut’s artwork has been exhibited at All My Relations Arts and the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, regionally in the Midwest at the Watermark Art Center and Plains Art Museum, and in New York at the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies and the Stevenson Library hosted two days of powerful conversations on Indigenous information, art, and librarianship at various campus locations including the Center for Curatorial Studies, Blithewood Manor, and the Charles P. Stevenson Library.

From a keynote by Miranda Belarde-Lewis to workshops and discussions led by Vina Begay, Alexander Soto, Sandy Littletree, Marisa Duarte, and a closing keynote by Sarah Kostelecky, the symposium explored how Indigenous knowledge systems rethink libraries, archives, and museums.

Through dialogue, creative practice, and community engagement, participants reflected on representation, relationality, and the past, present, and future of Indigenous information stewardship.

PC: Gabriel Butler

The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies and the Stevenson Library hosted two days of powerful conversations on Indigenous information, art, and librarianship at various campus locations including the Center for Curatorial Studies, Blithewood Manor, and the Charles P. Stevenson Library.

From a keynote by Miranda Belarde-Lewis to workshops and discussions led by Vina Begay, Alexander Soto, Sandy Littletree, Marisa Duarte, and a closing keynote by Sarah Kostelecky, the symposium explored how Indigenous knowledge systems rethink libraries, archives, and museums.

Through dialogue, creative practice, and community engagement, participants reflected on representation, relationality, and the past, present, and future of Indigenous information stewardship.

PC: Gabriel Butler

The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies and the Stevenson Library hosted two days of powerful conversations on Indigenous information, art, and librarianship at various campus locations including the Center for Curatorial Studies, Blithewood Manor, and the Charles P. Stevenson Library.

From a keynote by Miranda Belarde-Lewis to workshops and discussions led by Vina Begay, Alexander Soto, Sandy Littletree, Marisa Duarte, and a closing keynote by Sarah Kostelecky, the symposium explored how Indigenous knowledge systems rethink libraries, archives, and museums.

Through dialogue, creative practice, and community engagement, participants reflected on representation, relationality, and the past, present, and future of Indigenous information stewardship.

PC: Gabriel Butler

The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies and the Stevenson Library hosted two days of powerful conversations on Indigenous information, art, and librarianship at various campus locations including the Center for Curatorial Studies, Blithewood Manor, and the Charles P. Stevenson Library.

From a keynote by Miranda Belarde-Lewis to workshops and discussions led by Vina Begay, Alexander Soto, Sandy Littletree, Marisa Duarte, and a closing keynote by Sarah Kostelecky, the symposium explored how Indigenous knowledge systems rethink libraries, archives, and museums.

Through dialogue, creative practice, and community engagement, participants reflected on representation, relationality, and the past, present, and future of Indigenous information stewardship.

PC: Gabriel Butler

The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies and the Stevenson Library hosted two days of powerful conversations on Indigenous information, art, and librarianship at various campus locations including the Center for Curatorial Studies, Blithewood Manor, and the Charles P. Stevenson Library.

From a keynote by Miranda Belarde-Lewis to workshops and discussions led by Vina Begay, Alexander Soto, Sandy Littletree, Marisa Duarte, and a closing keynote by Sarah Kostelecky, the symposium explored how Indigenous knowledge systems rethink libraries, archives, and museums.

Through dialogue, creative practice, and community engagement, participants reflected on representation, relationality, and the past, present, and future of Indigenous information stewardship.

PC: Gabriel Butler

Join us on Wednesday, April 1, 12pm ET online for artist and choreographer, Tanya Lukin Linklater's talk, “Tendon Thread”.

“Tendon Thread” is produced in collaboration with the Fisher Center and Fen Live Lab (فل/F’LL), an incubator for innovations in live art and performance practices. It is co-presented with the Forge Project and the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies.

The talk is moderated by Joanna Settle.

Compelled by lineages of Sugpiaq cultural work and their continuance despite imperial and colonial disruptions of lifeways, Tanya Lukin Linklater will discuss her ongoing practice of visiting the ancestral belongings of her people in museum collections. The talk will bring into focus her speculative responses to photographic documentation of Sugpiaq belongings in the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg, Russia. Coupled with her meditations on estuaries, grasses, and the customary practices of the Kodiak archipelago, these threads organize her performance commission, "A Vessel is an Atmosphere Distilled," for the Evidence festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, premiering in Fall 2026.

Registration link in bio!

Monday, April 6th from 12:30-2:50PM
*Updated Location: Campus Center North Classroom 102*

Join Priscilla Page for a discussion and presentation about the development of “Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light” and the relationships between contemporary artists and institutions.

Dr. Priscilla Maria Page is an Associate Professor in Theater at UMASS where she also directs the Multicultural Theater Certificate. She is an affiliated faculty member in the W. E. B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies and at the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Sciences. She is also a writer, performer, and dramaturg and her research areas includes Latinx Theater and Contemporary Indigenous Performance. She is currently writing about Latinx theater history in Chicago. She is a member of the Latinx Theater Commons, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America.

Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies is proud to share this information about the upcoming exhibition in Kingston. “Americans”, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, explores how deeply intertwined Native Americans are in the history, culture, and identity of the United States. The exhibition delves into familiar narratives, including Thanksgiving, Pocahontas, the Trail of Tears, and the Battle of Little Bighorn. Join us in Kingston to explore the diverse contributions that have shaped our evolving national identity. Check for upcoming programming and events here: https://ccacny.org/gallery/

Earlier this week, the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies held its 2026 symposium, “An Invitation to Interconnectedness: Indigenous Approaches to Information, Knowledge, Justice, and Belonging.” Co-sponsored by the Stevenson Library, the symposium discussed Indigenous taxonomies in libraries, archives, and museums. 📸: Gaspard Bason ‘29 (@gaspbsn)

Earlier this week, the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies held its 2026 symposium, “An Invitation to Interconnectedness: Indigenous Approaches to Information, Knowledge, Justice, and Belonging.” Co-sponsored by the Stevenson Library, the symposium discussed Indigenous taxonomies in libraries, archives, and museums. 📸: Gaspard Bason ‘29 (@gaspbsn)

Earlier this week, the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies held its 2026 symposium, “An Invitation to Interconnectedness: Indigenous Approaches to Information, Knowledge, Justice, and Belonging.” Co-sponsored by the Stevenson Library, the symposium discussed Indigenous taxonomies in libraries, archives, and museums. 📸: Gaspard Bason ‘29 (@gaspbsn)

Earlier this week, the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies held its 2026 symposium, “An Invitation to Interconnectedness: Indigenous Approaches to Information, Knowledge, Justice, and Belonging.” Co-sponsored by the Stevenson Library, the symposium discussed Indigenous taxonomies in libraries, archives, and museums. 📸: Gaspard Bason ‘29 (@gaspbsn)

Earlier this week, the Bard Center for Indigenous Studies held its 2026 symposium, “An Invitation to Interconnectedness: Indigenous Approaches to Information, Knowledge, Justice, and Belonging.” Co-sponsored by the Stevenson Library, the symposium discussed Indigenous taxonomies in libraries, archives, and museums. 📸: Gaspard Bason ‘29 (@gaspbsn)

The Stevenson Library, in collaboration with CfIS, has created a small book display featuring titles acquired through the CfIS Acquisition Project. This display illustrates how these materials would be organized using the Brian Deer Classification System, in contrast to the Library of Congress Classification System currently being used by the Stevenson Library.

Our esteemed moderator:

Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Red Hook, New York. Her writing and curatorial practice explore the intersections of history, contemporary art, and Indigeneity. She is Executive Director & Chief Curator of Forge Project, Taghkanic, New York, and Fellow in Indigenous Art History and Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She is curator of the exhibitions Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination Since 1969, at the Hessel Museum of Art, and the touring exhibitions Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, co-curated with Dylan Robinson, and ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ Double Vision, featuring textiles, prints and drawings by Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk. She was the Senior Curator for the inaugural 2019 and 2022 editions of the Toronto Biennial of Art and part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, featuring the work of the media collective Isuma; as well as documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; and Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Her notable essays include “The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier,” in the documenta 14 Reader; “Outlawed Social Life,” in South as a State of Mind; and “The Appropriation Debates (or The Gallows of History),” in Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (New Museum/MIT Press, 2020).