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55:718, Sebastián Barreto

Senior Projects Spring 2024

My mother is from Ecatepec, Mexico. My father is from Jaloxtoc, Mexico. I was born in Manhattan, New York in 2002. In 2005, I moved to Mexico with only one of my parents, and spent my early years growing up in the municipality of Ecatepec in the state of Mexico. I would end up leaving Mexico when I was in the 3rd grade of elementary school, and began to fully immerse myself in America.

Once in the States, in order to communicate via telephone with my mother, father, and other relatives in the United States, I would initiate this ritual …

Tilt-A-Whirl, Sadie Bernard

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Aviary, Madelyn Willa Oprica

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Mr. G And Sons Inc: An Exploration Of My Grandfather's Legacy, Scotty Andrew Georgetti Hindy

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Craters Of The Moon, Mckinlay V. Daggatt

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Craters of the Moon

When I feel like my brain has run out of storage I stand under an open sky and I imagine the room between myself and the moon. Between us is 1.26 billion miles of empty space, and I put my thoughts there so they have somewhere to go. I let the places I’ve seen, the media I’ve consumed, and the people I’ve interacted with settle into the craters of the moon. This work shows you the world I’ve built there.

I’m inspired by the landscapes around me. The difference between the natural world and the man-made …

Unable To Locate A Fire, Lily Isabel Taggart

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Conversations In The Dark, Rasheeda Janay Graham

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Heritole, Rayelle Damarus Cato

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

This project is the first few chapters of my novel in progress titled “Heritole”. The story is in the perspective of Nia Sinclair telling the story of when she attended her first year of Datiam Academy, one of the most prestigious schools for (Obsidite) witches. With the help of her new friends, Devyn and Medora, they help her navigate her first year and prepare for The Game, a competition where witches face off to see who is the best witch amongst them. Nia must make the decision …

I Went Back To Sit In The Sun, Alice Flannery Fall

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Skyward, Christian R. Griffin

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Que Dios Los Bendiga, Dahlia Celis

Senior Projects Spring 2022

My "Abuelita Mariquita" is a generous woman, the oldest of 15 siblings born to my bisabuelos. I have lived with her my entire life in la casita azul, our home humble with its mismatched furnishings. Since I can remember, I have witnessed her house several of her younger siblings from Mexico who desired temporary work in the states. No matter the outcome of their stay, she would welcome them back, her home warm and open to those who may or may not have reciprocated my abuelita's generosity. It is from my abuelita that I learned to care for my family. …

Centripetal, Hannah Rugh Nichols

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Born and raised in Seattle Washington in the Pacific Northwest, I have always had a deep appreciation for the outdoors. This love of the natural landscape has been cultivated and encouraged by my family over the years as I have grown up and explored further and further away from home.

My 35mm black and white photographic work explores distance and intimacy, both physical and emotional. I am drawn to the vastness of the Colorado mountains, the light on the back of my sister’s hair, small faraway figures hidden in the Paris landscape, and the tiny hairs on a cactus plant. …

Dreams To Remember, Seamus William Heady

Senior Projects Fall 2021

Dreams to Remember is a hybrid short film, somewhere between documentary and narrative fiction, offering a peek into the mind of my aging father, Peter. Eight years ago, Peter was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and subsequently Parkinson’s disease. As Peter’s body withers and his mind begins to betray him, he seeks refuge and redemption in his dreams.

Dreams to Remember’s candid narration, recorded in documentary style interviews with Peter, tell a story of struggle, grief, and mortality. Juxtaposing the frailty and solitude of life’s final chapter, preposterous dream sequence vignettes inject Peter’s humor and desires, allowing Peter to rewrite …

I Thank You And All The Buildings That Make Me Feel So Small, Henry Holt Hull

Senior Projects Spring 2021

I use drawing and 3D animation to access memories of intimacy and distinctive spaces of privacy. Prior to this year I primarily worked with drawing and video, but always keeping them separate. However with my most recent project, I Thank You, and All the Buildings that Make me Feel so Small, I decided to combine my practice of drawing and 3D animation. I used adobe photoshop to convert my drawings from physical objects into 3D objects in the digital sphere.

The video you first encounter upon walking into my studio 400 Chambers and the video projected onto the ground Ivans …

I Can Speak For You, Tchad Kayla Ross

Senior Projects Fall 2021

This novella is about a queer Caribbean- American young woman named Nessa struggling with her relationship with her mother. A death occurs that leads Nessa to discover her mother may not be who she previously thought she was. This coming of age story confronts the delayed state of self actualization that occurs when Caribbean culture meets queer identity.

...And Other Drugs I Haven't Told You About, Tatyana M. Rozetta

Senior Projects Spring 2021

...and other drugs i haven't told you about is an exploration of friendships, family, and the self while blurring the line between the past and the present. Although it is very specific to my own life and stories from my past, it manages to constantly hold a mirror to the audience leaving them feeling full and nostalgic for a time they may have never known.

The Language Of Loss, Liam Ainslie Mayo

Senior Projects Spring 2021

After an old man, Jeremy Haskell, dies in a small town, the people important in his life have to reckon with what his passing means for them. Three in particular receive letters from his death bed: Abigail, the woman who took over the hunting store that he ran, Rys, his grandchild, and Randolph, the Grim Reaper with whom he shared a long and mysterious past. Through the letters, those three come to a new understanding of who Jeremy was, and the place he had in all of their lives.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of …

Thanks To You, I'M Alive, Antonio Scott Nichols

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Antonio Nichols

Artist Statement:

In this project I am using figurative painting to explore the meaning of relationships/emotion and my connection to the people I am painting. I question what this means and how each individual’s identity ties to mine and why it may or may not matter. “Thanks to You, I’m Alive,” the title of this project, encompasses the message I am sending not only to the individuals I painted but also to the viewer because there is a certain exclusivity in who I decided to paint.

I want the connection I have with these people to not only …

I'D Rather See You Dead At My Feet: Familial Failure In "The Well Of Loneliness" And "The Paying Guests", Zoe Trudel Terhune

Senior Projects Spring 2018

What does it mean for a relationship to be strange? How do we define a normal relationship? Primarily using Radclyffe Hall’s “The Well of Loneliness” and Sarah Waters’s “The Paying Guests,” this project is an analysis of familial dynamics in lesbian novels that take place in the early 20th century. Focusing on the mother-daughter relationship, this project grapples with the ideas of the normal and the strange, or the expected and the unexpected, within the family structure. What emotions, expressions of love, and interactions do we anticipate seeing between mother and daughter? Do these maternal relationships meet these expectations? If …

The View From The House By The Ocean, Chloe Maxine Scala

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Why The Sky Stays Up, Brigid G. Fister

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Malus Pumila, Andrew N. Warner

Senior Projects Fall 2017

Land can be passed in time through generations, just as the presence of family and friends remain. Ive been raised on my family’s land, while watching my relatives with a distinct eye. I have had the privilege of living on old familial ground, coming from my great grandfather to my grandparents, and now handed down to my mother and her siblings. I grew up in Virginia on a farm situated in the countryside with fields, horses, and apples orchards. These places have evolved in time and I have grown with them; though the trees still grow, the land stays the …

Plus One, Sofia Marta Ortiz

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Snake Eyes, Abigail Rose Freaney

Senior Projects Spring 2017

A novella about a family roadtrip that takes a detour through one of the Mojave's darker dimensions.

O Is For Olive, Anna Rose Kornfeld

Senior Projects Spring 2016

The suicide of a young woman’s brother results in her return home to mourn his loss. She is forced to reconnect with family members as she explores the past and tries to grapple with the future.

Quant' Sei Bell': A Narrative Based On The Transatlantic Love Letters Of Gennaro Valvano And Serafina Savignano, John Francis Cherichello

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Flashbacks, Lies And Butterflies, Theresa Q. Holmes

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.