Past Events
Do you know someone who has been meaning to visit the Loeb but hasn’t made it happen yet? Or someone who thinks art isn’t for them, and you’d like to convince them otherwise? Please join us for a new tradition, Bring a Friend Day, and enjoy a day full of activities—together. The day’s offerings include art-making, engaging mini-tours, light refreshments, and a pop-up installation of art made by students from Poughkeepsie City Schools through the Saturday Morning Lights program.
The “Paracas Textile” is a pre-Columbian weaving held in the Brooklyn Museum. Each painting corresponds to one figure depicted in the artifact’s border, including warriors, shamans, flora, and fauna from the Paracas culture.
Open Auditions for students of any major interested in participating in the Drama Department productions of Skin by Naomi Iizuka and Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George.
Students only, please.
Registered students and alum and parent mentors will gather for the 10th annual Sophomore Career Connections Program featuring keynote Ilyse Hogue ’91. Learn more about the program.
OCEL is accepting donations from now until December 14 for its 33rd Annual Toy Drive for the Rural & Migrant Ministry’s Christmas Store. Drop off your contribution at the OCEL office in Main Building, N-165.
A special dance performance presenting works by VRDT, Battery Dance, and original works created for Dancing to Connect, a collaboration between Vassar and Poughkeepsie High School students.
Campus community only, please.
Sponsored by the Vassar College men's and women’s fencing teams in Walker Field House Bay 1. Walk-ins welcome, open to the public.
The Environmental Cooperative and the Preserve at Vassar will lead a short walk to harvest Japanese Knotweed before creating environmentally friendly, sustainable, and giftable wind chimes made from the plant material!
This student-produced exhibition features field research conducted by Art History and Earth Science students in Iceland this semester. Light refreshments will be provided.
As the holidays approach, the Vassar College Store on Raymond Avenue is offering special discounts. Check out the full calendar of sales!
Annual Advent service with readings, choral anthems, congregational carols and candle lighting ceremony.
A neighborhood celebration featuring live entertainment, vendors, a petting zoo, and more! Bring a non-perishable food item to donate at the Santa’s North Pole Tent. For more information, visit www.ArlingtonHasIt.org.
James Osborn, director
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
A 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Cafe.
A Philosopher’s Holiday Lecture by Kathryn Tabb, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College.
Blaeser (White Earth Nation Ojibwe) is the founder of Indigenous Nations Poets organization. This talk kicks off a year-long focus on “Methodologies of Acknowledgement” led by Anne McNiff Tatlock ’61 Chair in Multidisciplinary Studies Molly McGlennen.
A lecture by philosopher of science and religion Mary Jane Rubenstein, author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (2022).
British artist Tilla Crowne is Vassar’s Sitomer Artist in Residence this month. Her work concentrates on drawing and installation, exploring themes of identity, memory, and the body.
Drew Minter, conductor.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live