Nicholas Adams will deliver a case-side talk about the exhibit and his collection at a reception, and an exhibition catalogue will be available courtesy of the Art Department’s Agnes Ringe Claflin Fund.

A talk by photographer Marisa Scheinfeld, author of the book The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland. A collaboration between the Loeb and Poughkeepsie Public Library, this illustrated lecture features Scheinfeld’s photographs of abandoned sites where resorts, hotels and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountains.

All are invited to join us in kicking-off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month on Monday, May 5th from 6:00–7:30 p.m. in the Villard. Join us for dinner, game night, and being in community with each other!

Campus community only, please.

NYC contemporary dance company presents works by Omar Roman de Jesus, Norbert de la Cruz III, and Jaime Carabetta—three of today’s most in-demand choreographers.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

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

Eduardo Navega, director

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

Join artist and researcher Sa’dia Rehman for an interdisciplinary conversation about art and architecture, ecocatastrophe, and the law, with Azra Dawood, the Loeb's Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs, and Arpitha Kodiveri, Vassar Assistant Professor of Political Science and author of Governing Forests. This program is presented in conjunction with the Loeb exhibition Water/Bodies: Sa’dia Rehman.

This film, created by Ahmed Moussa, takes you behind the scenes of The Garbage Monster, an innovative theatrical production that toured Cairo in June 2024, using applied theatre to spark conversation and action around climate change and garbage pollution.

Come get a first look at what the future holds after Ask Banner and our pre-reg systems are replaced! 

Campus community only, please.

Julie Riess ’82 will tell how a shared passion and commitment to educating children, training teachers, and empowering parents led to creating DAY ONE.

Ryan Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, examines how the rise and fall of the oil industry impacts post-colonial nationalist visions of the future in Trinidad and Tobago. Jobson asks us to consider if there can be a viable political and economic future for Trinidad and Tobago without oil, a question that should be relevant to us all living in a fossil fuel-based global economy.

Brahim El Guabli, Associate Professor of Arabic at Williams College, recenters TAMAZGHA—the ancestral Amazigh homeland extending from the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the oasis of Siwa in West Egypt—as a transformative geography helping to reconnect North and sub-Saharan Africa to each other.

Campus community only, please.

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, George Gershwin, Matthew Mauro, and H. Owen Reed. James Osborn, conductor

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

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

The Yale Russian Chorus (YRC) performs at Vassar’s Main Chapel in a special one-night free concert.

A Night at the Opera. Choruses from operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Verdi, Offenbach, and others. Drew Minter, conductor.

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

James Osborn, director

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

Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon, Vassar Class of 2026 and 2024 Ford Scholar/Pindyck Summer Fellow at the Loeb, discusses their current Spotlight exhibition, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley. The exhibition complicates the myth of the Hudson Valley as a utopia, asking "Utopia for who?"

Join us for our 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences