Past Events
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.
Members of the Vassar Music Faculty will perform a variety of jazz originals and standards.
This event is free and open to the public.
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.
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.
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.
Join us as our Ford Scholars present their summer research projects. This event is free and open to the public.
Catherine Ramírez explores race, immigration, automation, and visions of labor in Latinxfuturist works.
This event is free and open to the public.
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.
Poughkeepsie-based artist Julia Whitney Barnes joins us to share insights into her wide-ranging artistic practice, which is based in reverent observation of the natural world. Whitney Barnes’s work is a highlight of the Loeb’s exhibition The Botanist at Vassar, on view through October 4.
This event is free and open to the public.
All students are welcome! This event is the perfect opportunity to gather tons of helpful career information, while also meeting the Center for Career Education staff. We’ll have raffles, photo ops, ice cream, candy, and more! A professional photographer will be taking FREE LinkedIn headshots all afternoon.
Campus community only, please.
Join our science librarian, Isabel, and Greenhouse manager, Alicia, for a cyanotype print-making event at the Olmsted Greenhouse. Registration required.
Campus community only, please.
Classics and Creations: The trio of Nick Hetko (piano), Rich Syracuse (bass), and Jeff Siegel (drums) presents a set of American Songbook classics alongside their modern jazz originals for piano trio.
This event is free and open to the public.
The Distortion of Memory: Guitarist Trevor Babb, performs a recital length work for solo guitar by 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, James Romig.
This event is free and open to the public.
Vassar’s traditional opening of the academic year will feature a choir performance, a Convocation address by Mita Choudhury, and much more!
Presented by members of the Music Department faculty.
This event is free and open to the public.
On the occasion of the Loeb’s exhibition Atelier 17: Myths in Motion, we are delighted to welcome Christina Weyl, Executive Director of the nonprofit Atelier 17 Project, who will offer new perspectives on the history of the avant-garde printmaking workshop as its centennial approaches.
This event is free and open to the public.
A screening of Bacurau, followed by a faculty discussion connecting the film to their research, creative practices, and Film Department courses.
Campus community only, please.
New Student Orientation 2026 will be in-person on campus.
Several exhibitions and a book fair will be held at Vassar in conjunction with Making Meaning: A Collage Symposium, a three-day symposium at the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts.
The following events are free and open to the public.
A live performance featuring Soundpainting creator Walter Thompson and international artists using real-time multidisciplinary composition through gesture-based improvisation.
Tickets are free and can be reserved by calling the Powerhouse Box Office at (845) 437-5599.