The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents Double Take: the Class of 2026 Thesis Exhibition, which brings together the culminating work of third-year MFA candidates at the Bard Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook, New York. Thesis events will begin with performances at Olin Hall on the Bard College campus on Friday, July 11. The exhibition’s opening reception at UBS Gallery will take place on Saturday, July 12, 1–4pm, after which the show will remain on view through Sunday, July 20.
Bard MFA Class of 2026
Juan Cisneros, Antonio Darden, Caroline David, Quinha Faria, Talia Fox, Lizzy Gabay, Shem Goldman, Bryce Hackford, Zoe Hamersly, Jeffrey Heiman, Rosa Maria de los Heros, Adrien Howard, Estefanía Landesmann, Alma Laprida, David Lindsay, Jonas Monka, Frances Grace Mortel, Daisy Noyes, Martha Schnee, Cameron Sneddon, Maia Taber Ayerza, Maria VMier
Double Take
July 11–20, 2025
Thesis Performances: Friday, July 11, 6pm
Olin Hall, 35 Henderson Circle Drive, Red Hook, New York 12571
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 1-4pm
UBS Gallery, 29 O’Callaghan Lane, Red Hook, New York 12571
Thesis Exhibition Coordinator Mike R. Curran is a curator and arts writer originally from Maine who has lived in the Twin Cities for the past decade. He is now based in Kingston, New York, where he is a master’s candidate at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Founded in 1981 as a pioneering low-residency MFA program, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts brings together students and faculty across six disciplines: Moving Image, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. Students are immersed in a diverse and interdisciplinary community of artists for three 8-week summer sessions on the Bard College campus, interspersed with independent study periods.
To learn more, visit bard.edu/mfa.
