Music of Bach, Liszt, Ravel & Rachmaninoff

This event is open to the public.

Join playwright Mahesh Dattani, guest playwright and author, and the student cast of Dance Like a Man, for a compelling new play reading of his new work, Dance Like a Goddess and conversation exploring the dynamic intersection of performance and politics in modern India.

This event is free and open to the public.

In this C. Mildred Thompson lecture, Professor Jennifer Brody ’87 discusses her forthcoming book, Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis. It explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century.

This event is free and open to the public.

7:00 p.m.

Campus community only, please.

Internationally acclaimed German artist Barbara Beisinghoff discusses how her work explores the subversive dimensions of the Grimms’ fairy tales.

This event is free and open to the public.

Artist Marie Watt is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians whose work draws on images and ideas from Haudenosaunee protofeminism and Indigenous teachings. Through printmaking, painting, sculpture, and textile, she explores how history, community, and storytelling intersect. 

This virtual event is free and open to the public.

Abendmusik, New York’s period instrument string band, presents a special performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s first collection of printed concerti for 1, 2, and 4 violins: L’estro armonico, Op. 3., to honor the legacy of women in music.

This event is free and open to the public.

Featuring pieces for flute by European composers Debussy, Gahn, Hindemith, and Hue.

This event is open to the public.

Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D., artist and curator of The Maurice Sendak Foundation, presents the Belle Krasne Ribicoff Lecture, examining Maurice Sendak’s artistic legacy and the evolution of the modern picture book.

This event is free and open to the public.

Battery Dance, celebrating its 50th anniversary, performs a new dance by Rosalind Newman, created during their March 2026 residency at Vassar College.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Iyoya exhibit, named after John Iyoya ’83, highlights young children’s interest in the visual arts and encourages their use of the arts to express themselves.

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

This event is free and open to the public.

An Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture by Evangelos Kotsioris, Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment and a Curator in the Department of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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

This event is free and open to the public.

Join The Loeb as we celebrate the opening of Bunmei Kaika: Political Landscape in Early Modern and Modern Japan, an exhibition featuring works by Hokusai, Hiroshige, and many others who contributed to a thriving print culture that cleverly navigated waves of political and social upheaval in 19th-century Japan. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Let Me Sing: A senior recital of original compositions for choir, chamber orchestra, and more. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Celebrate the opening of the exhibition Women’s Work: Organizing New York Independent Film & Video and the related Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts’ signature program, which together highlight the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking media collectives to pursue new forms of self-expression and advocate for political change. Come meet some of the key figures whose labor made important untold stories visible, and those who are working to preserve and continue this work today.

This event is free and open to the public.

8:00 p.m.

Campus community only, please.

Update: this event has been canceled due to the pending storm.

James Osborn, conductor

This event is open to the public.

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 third annual Bring a Friend Day, and enjoy the museum and special activities—together. The day’s offerings include art-making, engaging mini-tours, and light refreshments.

Free and open to the public.

Alcée Chriss III is widely regarded as one of the leading young organists of our time.

Free and open to the public.

Poet Gold leads an evening of spoken word, music, and conversation, followed by a book signing.

This art exhibition features several local artists who have created art pieces using images or materials from the Poughkeepsie Journal photo archive. 

Artists: Emilie Houssart, Onaje Benjamin, Xuewu Zheng

Reception: Saturday, February 21, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Rose B. Simpson is a powerful voice in contemporary art who works in various media, including—but not limited to—sculpture, performance, and poetry. Her monumental sculpture Seed is the latest permanent addition to Vassar’s campus art collection, and the first by an Indigenous artist.

Free and open to the public.

A screening of Everything Everywhere All at Once followed by a Q&A with producer Jon Read ’09.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor of Chinese Studies Liang Luo examines how the White Snake legend is being reimagined through contemporary opera, film, and theater as a framework for digital-age minority activism.

MODfest takes to the airwaves as WVKR spotlights original radio art by Vassar’s electronic music students. This special broadcast showcases the craft and sonic imagination of Vassar’s emerging artists.

MODfest 2026

Campus comes to life in a new guise with sound installations created by Vassar’s electronic music students.

Celebrate the creativity and stylistic breadth of Vassar’s emerging composers. This interactive event offers audiences a unique opportunity to engage directly with the compositional process, from first sparks to finished scores, featuring live performances and open discussion in a collaborative workshop.

MODfest 2026

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre performs works created by faculty, students, and guest choreographers, selected from the current repertory.

MODfest 2026

This talk examines how Black artists transform AI from a tool of command and control into a medium for intergenerational dialogue and alternative worlding.

This event is free and open to the public.

Please join us for The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival presented by the Vassar College Department of French and Francophone Studies.

Free and open to the public.

An evening of new compositions featuring boldly expressive works by MODfest cofounder Richard Wilson and premieres by new faculty Alan Hankers and Celeste Oram, highlighting electronic-influenced textures and interdisciplinary explorations of music, language, and cultural history.

MODfest 2026

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

Free and open to the public.

Rescoring Richter is a multimedia project pairing contemporary sound artists with Hans Richter’s 1920s avant-garde films to create new scores, documented through short films and live performances that reveal and reanimate his revolutionary cinematic imagery.

MODfest 2026

Music department students perform for internationally renowned soprano Amy Burton and composer and pianist John Musto in a master class, featuring Musto’s musical works.

MODfest 2026

The Loeb welcomes acclaimed Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña for an artist talk in conjunction with the closing of Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025. 

Free and open to the public.

7:30 p.m. on Friday, and 2:00 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday

Note: The performance on Jan 25 has been canceled due to weather.

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

MODfest 2026

Vassar is taking student play submissions for its 2025–26 Playwriting Awards (due Jan 19, 2026); winners can earn $1,000 and a staged reading.

Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, New York, and lead artist and founder of the nonprofit Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. on the Shinnecock Reservation. His work centers Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation.

This single-gallery installation features archival materials, including sound recordings, from a 1973 performance by the pioneering and provocative American artist Vito Acconci.

Vassar students put on a performance of this English Baroque opera for this one-night-only free event. Directed by Anthony Orsi.

Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this fall. 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.

This annual Advent service at the Vassar College Chapel features readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols, culminating in a candle lighting ceremony. Vassar College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Treble Chorus, and Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir will perform.

This event is open to the public.

Eduardo Navega, director

This event is open to the public. 

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

James Osborn, director

This event is open to the public.

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

Thursday, December 4 and Friday, December 5 at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, December 6 at 2:00 p.m.

Artist, writer, and publisher Paul Chan will give a lecture entitled “Content: a Postmortem,” on Monday, December 1st. The lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. and will take place in Taylor Hall, Room 102.

Drew Minter, conductor

This event is open to the public.

Program (PDF)

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

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This event is open to the public.

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