Past Events

Adult and child crouching and below a painting on the wall while looking at. The adult is pointing at the painting.

Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays. 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.

Detail of performance focused on a violinist actively playing.

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This event is open to the public.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Installation view showing layered mixed textiles integrated with existing wallpaper in a weathered interior room.

Elana Herzog is an installation artist and sculptor who uses material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality, entropy, pleasure, and pain, focusing on the global migration of culture and technology as seen through the lens of textiles. Herzog will give a talk on her work titled “Being Always in Relation.”

This event is open to the public.

Portrait of Thomas Sauer in profile.

A recital of works by Mozart, Chopin, Robert Schumann, György Ligeti, Unsuk Chin and Hans Abrahamsen evoking experiences of day and night. Performed by Thomas Sauer, piano, Adjunct Artist in Music.

This event is open to the public.

Alana Fest poster. A purple graphic background with decorative silhouettes of singers and dancers.

ALANA Fest is one of the Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center’s core events, and it makes visible, celebrates, and builds community with students of color at Vassar.

This event is open to the public.

Four individual portrait-style images of adults arranged in a grid layout with varied expressions and backgrounds.

A recital of idiosyncratic songs by David Alpher, exploring his settings of uniquely American poetry from the Transcendentalists to the Beat Generation. Courtenay Budd, soprano, Sharon Harms, soprano, Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, and David Alpher, composer/piano.

This event is open to the public.

Group portrait of four people standing side by side on a green lawn, casually dressed, with trees in the background.

The Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet presents original compositions celebrating 21 years together, highlighted by four European tours, a tour of Africa, and performances throughout the northeastern U.S.

This event is open to the public.

Four smiling people seated at a table with food.

The Office of Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL) Community Fellows Symposium is a gathering that celebrates and uplifts the collaborative work of our Community Fellows and their partner organizations.

A student and two parents walking on the campus during Families Weekend.

Vassar welcomes family members back to campus for a weekend of panels, performances, outdoor fun, art sales, and lots more!

Susan Rotholz

With music of Schubert, Marais and Bartok-Arma, this concert celebrates the conjunction of theme and variation in printmaking and music. Susan Rotholz, flute, Anna Polonsky, piano.

This event is open to the public.

What does it take to build a globally recognized luxury brand—and then pivot toward a new chapter? Legendary shoe designer Stuart Weitzman joins us at Vassar for an energizing conversation on creativity, entrepreneurship, and the power of reinvention.

Campus community only, please.

A plant pot with green leaves, google eyes, and a painted smile.

Come learn how to propagate plants from cuttings, and take home your very own in a custom painted pot! No plant experience necessary.

Sun Day Festival

Celebrate the power of solar with an afternoon full of games, food, and live music.

This event is open to the general public.

Child seated on the floor in a museum gallery in front of a colorful abstract painting

Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this fall. 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.

Illustration / painting of a monster's head.

Join us in the Palmer Gallery for a conversation with artist Sean McCarthy about his exhibition Creature Feature, on view September 11–October 12, 2025.

This event is open to the general public.

portrait-style image of subject holding hands together near face.

Lauded by The New York Times as a pianist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style,” pianist Soyeon Kate Lee presents a program featuring Schumann’s Carnaval and Kreisleriana.

This event is open to the public.