Grant News

This section provides timely updates on grant activities, introducing readers to overall goals and outcomes.

 The Environmental Cooperative Theater at the Vassar Barns

The Preserve at Vassar was awarded a grant through the NYS-funded Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquaria (ZBGA) Capital Program in support of the construction of a pavilion to serve as a visible anchor for the site while providing needed shelter for education and outreach programs, including those of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project.

Tiger painted in ink on paper mounted on silk brocade six-fold screen.

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was awarded funding by Tokyo-based Sumitomo Foundation toward the restoration of a 17th-century Japanese painted screen. A rarity and a cherished work in the Loeb’s Asian art collection, the screen was painted by Unkoku Toeki in the early 1600s. Its conservation will allow it to remain a popular teaching object for Art History at Vassar.

A large open room with desks with privacy dividers.

The George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, Mass. has awarded Vassar a grant toward the Vassar Libraries’ ambitious Learning Commons project, which will renovate over 11,000 square feet in the Main Library’s north wing to repurpose and optimize available space and improve accessibility.

Front of the Taylor Hall Gate: a large stone building with the entrance to campus

Two multi-year grants from the Lumina Foundation and ECMC Foundation have been supporting research and programming at Vassar around college completion and community college students’ transfer to four-year institutions. This April 29 summit brought together higher education and foundation leaders from across the country at The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts to learn more about related outcomes and actionable items.

Black and white photo of a person seated on the floor holding a camera.

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was awarded an additional grant by The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation in support of an effort with the Center for Creative Photography (University of Arizona, Tucson) to share the collaborative exhibition Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna with audiences in the southwestern U.S. The exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the photography of illustrious Vassar alumna Rosalie (“Rollie”) McKenna, Class of 1940.

Exciting News from the Vassar Grants Office

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