OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts

The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College researches and supports art and activist practices globally. At its heart is a perspective that looks beyond art institutions and nonprofit organization industries to engage with international practices of activism, art and knowledge production.

The center is committed to creating networks of collaboration and solidarity and to enriching the conversation on the political potential of contemporary art within human rights discourse. Through its postgraduate masters of art program, it opens a space for activists, artists, and scholars to colearn and cocreate. Through its public program—operating locally in New York’s Hudson Valley (occupied homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people) and internationally—the center engages with innovative art practices that investigate human rights violations and grassroots activism that uses creative tools of resistance.