Events - The Arts - Vassar College

Spanning time and geography, this focused exhibition features more than a dozen prints from the permanent collection chosen for their common medium: etching.

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Louise Bourgeois: Ode to Forgetting, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Jan24throughApr52020

Location The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

The exhibition includes 87 works and focuses on prints she made in her eighties and nineties, with a few earlier examples and a massive spiral sculpture to give additional context.

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The 2020 Tournées French Film Festival: Identities

Feb6throughFeb272020

Location Taylor Hall, Room 203

The Department of French and Francophone Studies invites you to six free French film screenings throughout the month of February.

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Spring Music Concerts

Feb14throughMay92020

Location Skinner Hall of Music

All events are free and open to the public. Presented by the Vassar College Department of Music.

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Art and Science, Making and Knowing in a 16th-Century Artisan’s Workshop

Feb255:30pm2020

Location Taylor Hall, Room 203

Why would a person in 16th-century France write down more than 900 technical and artistic procedures, including recipes, observations, and comments about the trades?

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Artist Kiki Smith to deliver a talk, “Print Possibilities”

Feb263:00pm2020

Location Taylor Hall 203

Kiki Smith, known since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and the natural world, will focus on her work as a printmaker. We will then move to the Art Center exhibition Metal, Acid, Line: Etchings from the Loeb to discuss her stunning print Bird with Stars (2005), printed by Harlan and Weaver.

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Storytime for preschoolers at the Loeb Art Center

Feb2711:00am2020

Location Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

The first in a three-part series designed for three-to-five-year-olds. Each free session includes reading a picture book and a poem, taking a mini-tour of the galleries, and making a simple hands-on art project to take home.

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“Concert & Conversation” with Peter Buffett on piano, accompanied by Michael Kott on cello

Mar35:30pm2020

Location Main Building, Villard Room

The noted philanthropist, author, and composer will perform and take questions from the audience throughout the show. This is a free but ticketed event, open to the public.

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Gallery Talk: “Louise Bourgeois and the Master Printers”

Mar55:00pm2020

Location Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Curator Patricia Phagan, organizer of the Louise Bourgeois: Ode to Forgetting exhibition at the Art Center, joins New York master printers Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression and Felix Harlan of Harlan & Weaver in a walk-through and discussion of their collaboration with Bourgeois.

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35th Annual John Iyoya Children’s Art Exhibit

Mar8throughMar132020

Location College Center, James W. Palmer III ’90 Gallery

More than 200 artworks by local nursery, elementary, and intermediate school students. Free and open to the public; opening reception on March 8.

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