Past Events
New York City-based artist Paul Pfeiffer has been working in video, photography, installation, and sculpture since the late 1990s. Known for his innovative and sculptural manipulation of digital media, Pfeiffer recasts the visual language of mass media spectacle to examine how images shape our awareness of ourselves and the world.
A book talk with award-winning Syrian writer Shahla Ujayli and translator Michelle Hartman.
Campus community only, please.
Sarah Biscarra Dilley (Northern Chumash), Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project, is this year’s Tatlock Fellow at Vassar. Come out and support Native people in our campus community!
A recital of music in, or in opposition to, the key of C. Thomas Sauer, piano.
Eduardo Navega, conductor.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
ALANA Fest makes visible, celebrates, and builds community with students of color at Vassar. This event featuring local food vendors, performances, tabling/interactive activities, and more! Free and open to all. Please RSVP.
Visual artist Mimi Czajka Graminski and poet Sarah Stern create a magnetic pull between their two art forms in this Palmer Gallery exhibit. Artists’ Reception: Oct. 10, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Hutchinson, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other awrads. Free and open to the public.
This exhibition of contemporary art explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities encountered by women and people assigned female at birth in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility. Artists Krista Franklin and Joanne Leonard will be in conversation with exhibition curators Karen Irvine and Kristin Taylor.
Sociologist and author Jennifer Patrice Sims will discuss common perceptions about racism and describe the types of personal, peer group, and university-level efforts that are needed to reject fallacies and promote critical thinking during college and beyond. This event is open to the public.
Join the Office of Student Growth & Engagement, the Engaged Pluralism program, and the Office of Community Engaged Learning-Vassar Votes, for a film screening of The Young Vote.
Celebrate the arts and artists of Poughkeepsie, NY this September! Visit over 30 local artists, makers, and creators at galleries, artist studios, and creative spaces. Learn more at poughkeepsieopenstudios.org.
A reading of a play by Foster Schrader ’25, recipient of the Marilyn Swartz Seven ’69 Annual Playwriting Award, Spring ’24. A reception will follow.
Campus guests only, please. Reservations required.
A Book talk by Professor of Sociology Seungsook Moon. The talk will be followed by a reception with good food.
Campus community only, please.
The OCEL’s Summer Community Fellows will highlight the meaningful work they did alongside their partner organizations this summer.
This special sale, sponsored by the Haiti Project, will showcase over 200 original and affordable paintings while raising funds for education programs in rural Haiti.
Vassar welcomes family members back to campus for a weekend of panels, performances, outdoor fun, and lots more!
The Vassar College Counseling staff will lead a meditative doodling session at the Olmsted Greenhouse. Come relax in our plant paradise and learn ways to use doodling to calm the mind!
Students who took part in this year’s Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) will present their faculty-mentored work in a series of talks and posters. Come celebrate the accomplishments of our talented students and faculty!
Campus community only, please.
A professor-student mixer to learn about Africana Studies courses, network with Africana Studies professors, hear from current students, and to build community.
Campus community only, please. RSVP required.