An evening of music featuring Handel, Fauré, Brahms, Heggie, and a selection of Broadway’s beloved classics.

Nicholas Adams will deliver a case-side talk about the exhibit and his collection at a reception, and an exhibition catalogue will be available courtesy of the Art Department’s Agnes Ringe Claflin Fund.

A talk by photographer Marisa Scheinfeld, author of the book The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland. A collaboration between the Loeb and Poughkeepsie Public Library, this illustrated lecture features Scheinfeld’s photographs of abandoned sites where resorts, hotels and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountains.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Eduardo Navega, director

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Join artist and researcher Sa’dia Rehman for an interdisciplinary conversation about art and architecture, ecocatastrophe, and the law, with Azra Dawood, the Loeb's Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs, and Arpitha Kodiveri, Vassar Assistant Professor of Political Science and author of Governing Forests. This program is presented in conjunction with the Loeb exhibition Water/Bodies: Sa’dia Rehman.

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, George Gershwin, Matthew Mauro, and H. Owen Reed. James Osborn, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this spring. Each date will feature different hands-on art activities inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children 5 and up.

A Night at the Opera. Choruses from operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Verdi, Offenbach, and others. Drew Minter, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

James Osborn, director

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon, Vassar Class of 2026 and 2024 Ford Scholar/Pindyck Summer Fellow at the Loeb, discusses their current Spotlight exhibition, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley. The exhibition complicates the myth of the Hudson Valley as a utopia, asking "Utopia for who?"

Join us for our 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences

Four dates of new and original plays written by Drama students who have studied the art of playwriting. Open to the public, reservations requred.

Come celebrate Earth Day by contributing to our community rock garden! No artistic skills necessary—we are just painting for fun. All ages welcome.

Sondheim’s classic American musical inspired by traditional fairy tales. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine. This production is a senior project led by Annie Brewer, Liam Oley, and Abby Wilson.

“What Can We Do?” Songs of protest and anti-war songs from the 1400s to the 1980s. Sophia Blankinship, soprano

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre presents a series of three Spring Concerts on April 17 at 7 p.m., and April 19th at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The programs feature hip-hop, ballet, modern and contemporary choreography including works by Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine as well as new pieces by faculty and students.

Join us for our 20-30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director.

Perspectives of Love: a Senior Recital by Talia Mayo, soprano. An afternoon reflection on how love changes over time featuring works by Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, and more.

A Musical Repast. What is better than food and music? Music about food! Songs about eating by Orlando Gibbons, Clément Jannequin and others. Drew Minter, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Vassar Students sing Broadway and American Songbook classics. 

Modern Pieces for Marimba. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

The screening will feature the 98-minute full version of the film, followed by a live Zoom Q&A session with director Yujiro Seki, who will share the origin story and vision behind this cross-disciplinary project. Open to the public.

Léa Greenberg, Vassar Class of 2025 and Loeb Curatorial Intern, shares insights into Where We Go, Where We Stay: Exploring Place and Identity Through Photography, an exhibition she organized on the reciprocal relationship between place and personal identity.  

Bridge for Laboratory Sciences

Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.

Exploring Cello: featuring works by J. S. Bach, Elgar, and Mark Summer.

Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor. Please note a change: This concert will start at 7:00 p.m.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Join us for our 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.

Anne Washburn’s imaginative dark comedy—a play with music featuring songs by Washburn and Michael Friedman—propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future. Reservations required.

Campus community only, please.

Harry Tabak, a multi-disciplinary artist in painting, sculpture, and dance shares the personal history that inspires his work.

Join the Loeb for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this spring. Each date will feature different hands-on art activities inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children 5 and up. 

Fresh from its U.S. tour, the Choir of Sommerville College, Oxford, joins the Vassar Choirs.

Truer Words: music and lyrics by Finley Greene.

Join curators Monique D'Almeida and Jessica D. Brier for a closer look at the exhibition, An Unfamiliar Place: Modern Landscape in East Asian and Asian American Works on Paper. This exhibition explores how photographers and printmakers help us to reconsider our surroundings using various tools and techniques.

The exhibit offers children the chance to be recognized as artists with their own points of view and the desire to express themselves. The show also highlights the positive difference art teachers can make in the lives of their students; they can encourage students to take pride in their work, as well as inspire a lifelong interest in art.

Join the Loeb for FREE drop-in family programs on select Sundays this spring. Each date will feature different hands-on art activities inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children 5 and up. 

Sugar Hill Salon is one of the first chamber music artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music. Amir Farsi, flute, Tamara Winston, oboe, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Alexander Davis, bassoon.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

A play by Robert O’Hara. Guest Director, Taylor Reynolds. Barbecue is about a dysfunctional family staging an intervention. Campus guests only, please. Reservations required.

Award-winning early music ensemble Concordian Dawn performs a concert of love songs from medieval France and Italy, preceded by a short pre-concert lecture by ensemble director Christopher Preston Thompson. Free and open to the public.

A dynamic, interactive experience that blends performance art, game-show fun, a thought-provoking lecture, and a captivating film screening—all aimed at exploring the horror and danger of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Open to the public.

At a time of both urgent need for algorithmic literacy and heightened social division, it is vital to understand the politicized grammar with which we talk and think about AI. This talk by Gerald Sim will focus on visual media whose power derives from being uniquely vivid, engaging, and visceral.

Campus community only, please.

Music by Percy Grainger, Arturo Márquez, and Aaron Copland. James Osborn, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Do you know someone who has been meaning to visit the Loeb but hasn’t made it happen yet? Or someone who thinks art isn’t for them, and you’d like to convince them otherwise? Please join us for our second annual Bring a Friend Day, and enjoy a day full of activities—together. The day’s offerings include art-making, engaging mini-tours, and light refreshments.

Gathering historic and contemporary art in various media, the exhibition invites viewers to explore how the Hudson Valley has been pictured as a place both proximate to the city and its opposite—a “great green hope” as much fantasy as reality. Artists Tanya Marcuse, Qiana Mestrich, and Lisa Sanditz will discuss how their work responds to the Hudson Valley landscape in myth and reality.