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Metal, Acid, Line: Etchings from the Loeb

Jan16throughApr122020

Location The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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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Self-taught and Outsider Art from a Private “Teaching Collection”

Jan21throughFeb162020

Location College Center, James W. Palmer ’90 Gallery

Works created by highly motivated individuals with no formal art training, curated by an art history professor, collector, and artist. Reception on January 30, 5:00pm.

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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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Modfest 2020

Jan30throughFeb92020

Location Multiple campus venues

Vassar College’s annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries—featuring performances, lectures, exhibitions, and more! All events are free and open to the public.

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Reflect: Back from India

Jan307:00pm2020

Location Skinner Hall of Music

Modfest 2020 opens with a performance by the Vassar Chamber Singers, Choir, and Women’s Chorus. Reception to follow in the Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.

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Film Screening: Black to Techno & Space Jam

Jan317:00pm2020

Location The Rosenwald Film Theater, Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film

The evening will begin with a brief introduction by Visiting Professor of Film and Vassar alumnus Jack Kroopf ’10.

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Project: Community Arts Panel

Feb11:30pm2020

Location Thekla Hall (Room 400), Skinner Hall of Music

This panel and conversation will engage current practices and future hopes for community engagement and the arts; featuring Chris Silva, Executive Director of the Bardavon, and other members of Vassar and local organizations.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger, “Reflect: An Artist’s Life, Onstage and Off”

Feb13:00pm2020

Location Martel Theater, Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film

Tony Award-winning performer will share stories about Broadway, acting, and art. Reservations required.

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Honorary Adene and Richard Wilson Concert

Feb23:00pm2020

Location Skinner Hall of Music

Featuring Vassar College faculty members and the Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble New York Polyphony.

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“Secret Games”: Wendy Ewald presents this year’s Clafin Lecture

Feb45:00pm2020

Location Taylor Hall 203

Wendy Ewald’s work challenges the concept of who actually makes an image, who is the photographer, who is the subject, who is the observer, and who is the observed.

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