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Side-by-side portraits of musicians Susan Rotholz and Anna Polonsky.

From Bachs to Copland

Sep. 13, 2026, 3:00 p.m.

Anna Polonsky, piano and Susan Rotholz, flute. Works of CPE Bach, JS Bach, Mozart and Copland.

This event is free and open to the public.

Catherine Ramírez smiling outdoors with mountains and ancient stone ruins behind her.

“The Future of Labor and Undocumentedness: Lessons from Latinxfuturism”

Sep. 14, 2026, 5:30 p.m.

Catherine Ramírez explores race, immigration, automation, and visions of labor in Latinxfuturist works.

This event is free and open to the public.

Building nestled among trees behind a large green lawn on a sunny day.

Ford Scholars Symposium

Sep. 16, 2026, 5:00–7:30 p.m.

Join us as our Ford Scholars present their summer research projects. This event is free and open to the public.

Oil portrait of a seated man in a gray shirt, rendered with layered, textured marks.

The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist—Solo Exhibition by Joyce Polance

Sep. 17, 2026, 1:00 p.m.

In The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist, Catskill-based painter Joyce Polance reverses therapy’s usual direction of attention by turning the patient’s gaze toward the therapist. Painted in oil entirely with her fingers, the three-year series moves between likeness and disruption, testing how much close looking can—and cannot—reveal.

An observatory sits against a starry night sky, a galaxy visible in the background.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: A Powerful Eye on the Changing Cosmos

Sep. 17, 2026, 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Sandrine Thomas, Vera C. Rubin Observatory Associate Director for Summit Operation, will discuss the Observatory’s early results, its history and objectives, and the innovative system built to handle the tidal wave of data it produces.

Five musicians, three holding string instruments, arranged against a black background.

Music from Paris

Sep. 17, 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Music from Paris: Vassar faculty members—Marka Young, violin; Liuh-Wen Ting, viola; Iva Casian-Lakos, cello; Marija Ilić, piano; and Alan Hankers, electronics—perform works by Kaija Saariaho and Gabriel Fauré.

This event is free and open to the public.

Collage of seven jazz musicians with saxophone, trombone, trumpet, guitar, drums, piano and double bass.

A Program of Jazz Originals and Standards

Sep. 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m.

Members of the Vassar Music Faculty will perform a variety of jazz originals and standards.

This event is free and open to the public.

John Murphy and Ruby Funfrock stand in the Loeb's Print study room, with prints on the shelf behind them.

In Conversation: Teaching and Learning from the Straus Collection

Sep. 19, 2026, 2:30 p.m.

Join us as we mark the closing weekend of A Living Legacy: Gifts from Lynn Gross Straus with a program featuring three generations of scholars who have been impacted by Lynn's generosity: Elizabeth Prelinger, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Georgetown University; John Murphy, the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Loeb; and Ruby Funfrock, Vassar Class of 2024 and former Loeb curatorial student assistant.

This event is free and open to the public.

Two monks outside a building talking to a camera.

Screening of Minor Visions followed by a conversation with the director

Sep. 23, 2026, 5:00 p.m.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, the Film Department is hosting a screening of Vassar’s own Associate Professor of Film, Denise Iris’s Minor Visions (2001), followed by a conversation with Iris Charles H. Arndt, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, and Andreea Drogeanu, Tribeca Film Festival Programmer.

This event is free and open to the public.