New York State/Annandale-on-Hudson: Division of the Arts, Bard College
Funding modalities and framework conditions
| Name: | Bard College |
| Location: | Annandale-on-Hudson, New York State |
| Department name: | Division of the Arts, Studio Arts Program |
| Accommodation: | mandatory Room & Board on campus, approximately €5,500 must be spent on accommodation, meals and insurance fees in addition to ASA funding |
| Link to college/department: | Bard College and Studio Arts Program |
| Amount of funding: | €2. 800 Euro ASA scholarship and 450 € (for a maximum of 4 months) from the DAAD mobility program PROMOS, travel allowance |
| Link to the travel advice of the Federal Foreign Office: | USA and Consulate New York |
| ASA stay: | in Fall Term (end of August to end of December) |
| HFBK application deadline: | in the winter semester |
Students must have suitable health, liability and accident insurance and be registered in the crisis prevention list of the Federal Foreign Office “Elefand” of the Federal Republic of Germany in order to participate in the exchange. If a visa is required, you may need to provide proof of financial resources. Please check the country-specific requirements in advance when preparing your application.
Experiences of participating students
CJ Chandler, stay in 2019
My aim was to glean knowledge from Professor Shore while investigating for myself what it means to live and work in the US. For the rest, I had no idea what to expect. This was my first visit, the first time I would set foot on American soil. With that, I carried this pressure of having a limited time to make work in a place I didn’t know, using gear with which I wasn’t familiar. I went in with not much more than the privelege of this pressure and the knowledge that, at least, I would be fed.
[…] I’ll say that the most noticeable difference to the teaching I had experienced at HFBK Hamburg was the sheer amount of reading, writing and production expected. I put this down to the weekly classes and the fact that, while on exchange, I was enrolled in undergraduate courses. The undergraduate level is generally more formative, where high production and class participation are given more weight than one all encompassing thesis or body of work—as may be expected at masters level. I found the courses challenging and I was able to achieve top grades in all my classes, refining my reading, writing and photographic production.