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Decolonizing Vassar: Living the Land Acknowledgment

Mahikannituck, the River that is never still (Hudson River): Algonquin/Lenape
Photo: Tamar M. Thibodeau

Close crop of wild bergamot plants with green leaves and purple blossoms.

Decolonizing Vassar: Living the Land Acknowledgment

Wteehaskwal (Wild Bergamot, to be found on the Vassar Farm): Stockbridge Munsee

Photo of Casperkill Creek running down the middle framed by fall foliage

Decolonizing Vassar: Living the Land Acknowledgment

Thanakonok or Pietawickquasseick (Casperkill): Wappinnee, Wapinck, Wappinge
Photo: Tamar M. Thibodeau

Person seated behind a microphone in an art gallery facing the camera and speaking to a seated audience

New Native American Artwork Announced at Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in Collaboration with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts

Posted 5/3/2023

An innovative collaboration between the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA) will bring new, original Native American Art to the Loeb over the next three years.

Women's History Month collage - Photos from Smithsonian American Art Museum, Dulcey Lima

Focused on Native American Women, Course Offers Insight—not Stereotypes

In Associate professor Molly McGlennen’s course, Women’s Studies 262: Native American Women,” students are examining the impact of colonization on Native American nations through the brutal and intentional subjugation of Native women over the past 400 years.

Assistant Professor Whiteduck is teaching Indigenous Political Thought.

New Vassar Faculty Members Bring Unique Talents, Diverse Backgrounds to Campus

Vassar’s new faculty members bring a variety of talents and backgrounds to the campus.

Abstract or impressionist painting of birds.

“Calling it Art, not Native Art”

New York Times art review

Image: Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit, Cape Dorset, Canada, 1927–2013) and Johnniebo Ashevak (Inuit, Cape Dorset, Canada, 1923–1972)
Animals Out of Darkness, 1961
Stonecut on paper, 5/5019.5 x 21.75 inches
Reproduced with the permissions of Dorset Fine Arts