Focus Exhibitions

In spring 2023, the Bard Graduate Center Gallery came to vibrant life with Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest and Staging the Table in Europe 1500–1800. These Focus Exhibitions, proposed and led by BGC faculty members and postdoctoral fellows, originated from their research and developed in collaboration with interested students through seminars, workshops, symposia, and “In Focus” courses that proceed from broad issues of conception and definition through the specific challenges of selection, layout, and interpretation of objects in two and three dimensions. Students were involved from genesis through execution and made substantial contributions to each project’s form and content.