Presentations

2024 Interfaith Center’s Dare to understand Award

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June 6, 2024 – “Understanding” was created in 2017 and gifted to the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. It was used on the cover of their annual report, and a limited edition print was created to gift to winners of the Dare to Understand award 2023, Imam Quaiser D. Abdullah, PhD, The Reverend Jesse B. Garner, Marjorie N. Scharf, The Very Reverend Judith A Sullivan, Walking the Walk Alumni and Partners. (Understanding, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

2023 Interfaith Center’s Dare to understand Award

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March 2, 2023 – “Understanding” was created in 2017 and gifted to the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. It was used on the cover of their annual report, and a limited edition print was created to gift to winners of the Dare to Understand award 2023, Valarie Kaur. (Understanding, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

2022 Interfaith Center’s Dare to understand Award

May 12, 2022 – “Understanding” was created in 2017 and gifted to the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. It was used on the cover of their annual report, and a limited edition print was created to gift to winners of the Dare to Understand award 2022, Monsignor Michael Carroll and Sister Maria Hornung, MMS. (Understanding, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

2021 Interfaith Center’s Dare to Understand Award

May 26, 2021 – “Understanding” was created in 2017 and gifted to the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. It was used on the cover of their annual report, and a limited edition print was created to gift to winners of the Dare to Understand award 2021, NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci and Black Doctor’s COVID-19 Consortium founder Dr. Ala Stanford. (Understanding, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

2020 Interfaith center’s Dare to understand award

August 25, 2020 – “Understanding” was created in 2017 and gifted to the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. It was used on the cover of their annual report, and a limited edition print was created to gift to winners of the Dare to Understand award 2020, Rev. Steven Lawrence and Elder Milan Kunz. (Understanding, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

2019 Interfaith Center’s Dare to Understand Award

April 28, 2019 – “Understanding” was created in 2017 and gifted to the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. It was used on the cover of their annual report, and a limited edition print was created to gift to winner of the Dare to Understand award 2019, NPR’s “On Being” host, Krista Tippet. (Understanding, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

2018 Interfaith Center’s Dare to Understand Award

April 12, 2018 – “Understanding” was created in 2017 and gifted to the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. It was used on the cover of their annual report, and a limited edition print was created to gift to winners of the Dare to Understand award 2018: PECO; Husnaa Hashim, poet laureate of Philadelphia; and Jane Golden, Executive Director for the Mural Arts Program. (Understanding, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

AJC Human relations Award

June 21, 2017 — Krista Bard created the AJC Human Relations Award “Star of David” to honor Tammy Hertzbach. Within the Star of David shape is a quote from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, “Let the good in me connect wthe good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.” (Star of David, 10” x 12.5”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

2017 Archdiocese of Philadelphia Multicultural Mass

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March 28, 2017 – Krista Bard presented “Names of God” to Archbishop Chaput as a gift from all the international parishes in the metropolitan region, as a part of the 2017 Multicultural Mass. The work of art depicts the word “God” in over 100 languages. Limited edition prints are also available. (Names of God, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

Dare to Understand Awards 2017

March 7, 2017 – Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) (www.ifcy.org) was presented Krista Bard’s “Koran” by the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia (www.interfaithcenterpa.org) as their 2017 Dare to Understand Award, at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. (Koran, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine

Alleluia

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December 2016 – Curator Marsha Moss selected Krista Bard’s “Alleluia” to be part of the Perelman Medical Center’s Permanent Collection. (Alleluia, 44”x44”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

AJC Murray Friedman Memorial Lecture

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April 11, 2016 – Felice Gaer, director of the AJC Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, received the 2016 AJC Murray J. Friedman Memorial Award – her favorite quote in Krista Bard’s calligraphy. The work is a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: “Where after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are part of the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” (Eleanor Roosevelt, 11.5”x17”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)

Psalm 122

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March 1, 2016 – Krista Bard presented “Psalm 122” to Leah Daughtry, Reverend and CEO of the 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee. Psalm 122 reads “I rejoiced with those who said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. Our feet are standing in your gates, Jerusalem. Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together. That is where the tribes go up – the tribes of the Lord – to praise the name of the Lord according to the statute given to Israel. There stand the thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels. For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, peace be within you. For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your prosperity.” Leah Daughtry gave limited edition prints of this work to VIP volunteers at the Democratic National Convention. (Psalm 122, 23”x23”, ink and oil pastels treated with essential oils and holy water)