At this Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts Signature Program, students and top museum administrators from 10 colleges gathered to discuss innovative strategies for attracting a wider, more diverse audience to college museums.
Vassar renamed the Winton Evans Bridge for Laboratory Sciences on October 18, 2025, honoring Rowland W. Evans ’75 for his $28 million gift, and recognizing his family’s legacy at the College.
Soaring 18 feet high, seven sentinels made of weathered steel surround a female bronze figure that appears to emerge from the earth. This dynamic and awe-inducing public artwork, situated at the northwest perimeter of the campus, is Vassar College’s newest public art acquisition.
Students interested in fashion, entrepreneurship, and sweet kicks got an inside look at what it takes to make it in the apparel industry from luxury shoe designer Stuart Weitzman on September 25.
This fall, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar presents Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025, an exhibition that brings together more than sixty works acquired over the past five years.
Additional casting for the highly anticipated 39th Powerhouse Theater Season: Julia Murney, Tina Benko, Mike Nappi, Happy McPartlin, and Jackson Chase join James Monroe Iglehart, Dominic Sessa, and more!
With the arrival of summer, Vassar’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is rolling out the red carpet for art lovers this season with a wide range of events and exhibitions spanning improvised performances utilizing the gestural composing language of Soundpainting to exhibitions that explore the reciprocal relationship between place and person, showcase the museum’s collection of Hudson River School art, and examine images of the body fragmented into pieces.
Vassar College is thrilled to announce initial casting for the 39th Powerhouse Theater Season. Past highlights from this celebrated program include works that have gone on to win Tony®, Emmy, Pulitzer and Grammy awards, and was a developmental stop for the long-running Broadway smash Hamilton.
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.
