The “Sky Woman Women” project holds space for eighteen women storytellers from Mohawk, Seneca and Tuscarora tribal affiliations (enrolled, unenrolled, and not enrolled), telling and retelling a Haudenosaunee creation story to each other. A Q&A with the artist and featured storytellers follows the screening.

Free and open to the public

Join us at the Olmsted Greenhouse for a calm doodling session with Vassar's Counseling Center! No artistic skills necessary—we are just doodling for fun and to calm the mind. All ages welcome.

A leading practitioner of Iraqi maqam, Hamid Al-Saadi’s music combines classical poetry with a dizzyingly complex system of musical ornamentation, modulation and improvisation.

This event is open to the public.

Creature Feature is a survey of 20 years of Sean McCarthy’s work in drawing, painting, and comics, all featuring delicately drawn tragicomic monsters. McCarthy’s work is broadly allusive, engaging with literature, film, esoteric texts, and a wide range of art historical touchstones; it explores grotesque mysteries and uncomfortable psychological and emotional states in a language of expressive, exquisite draftsmanship.

This event is open to the general public.

Featuring over sixty works added to the Loeb Art Center’s collection between 2020–2025, Chronostasia explores various ways artworks can alter our perception of time. Free and open to the public

MODfest 2026

Presented by members of the Music Department faculty. Thomas Sauer, piano, Iva Casian Lakos, cello, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Gail Archer, organ

This event is open to the public.

This installation brings together work by the acclaimed potter Maria Martinez and multimedia artist Rose B. Simpson, whose sculpture “Seed” is the first new addition to Vassar’s campus art in nearly 20 years.

MODfest 2026

An art exhibition featuring the work of local artist Ivars Sprogis opens on August 7. A reception will be held on August 9 from 4–6 p.m. Sprogis favors the Realistic Impressionism style in his watercolor and oil paintings.

Brooklyn Museum curator Stephanie Sparling Williams shares insights into the process of creating Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, a highly innovative reimagining of how contemporary audiences experience historic American art.

This event is open to the public.

Gabriela Mikova Johnson, soprano, Chris Cantu, tenor, Susan Brown, piano, Stephen Paul Johnson, narration

Artist Caleb Stein, Vassar Class of 2017, returns to Poughkeepsie to discuss his ongoing photographic engagement with the local landscape. Several photographs from his 2020 series, Down by the Hudson, featuring scenes from local watering holes, are on view at the Loeb this summer.

Music by Mozart, Wilson and Beethoven. Featuring Joseph Genualdi, violin, and Richard Wilson, piano

Brian Mann, piano, Lou Pappas, double bass, Craig Wuepper, drums, Iain Mann, violin & guitar, James Ruff, voice

The Hudson Valley's Bachfest Chorus & Orchestra returns to perform works by Vivaldi, Telemann and Bach. Christine Howlett, conductor. Open to the public—suggested donation: $30, and free to students and members of Vassar community with ID.

The Hudson Valley's Bachfest returns with works for organ and piano. Yalin Chi, piano, Ruthanne Schempf, piano, Sarah Johnson ’16, organ, Gail Archer, organ. Open to the public—suggested donation: $30, and free to students and members of Vassar community with ID.

Six studio art majors and correlates are presenting their culminating senior projects in an exhibition running until May 25.

Music by Schumann, Strauss, and Still. Isabel Crawford, horn

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.

An exhibition by Nicholas Adams and Barry Price.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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