Past Events
Tita Chico ’91, University of Maryland Professor of English, will discuss the literary history of 18th-century technology.
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.
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 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.
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.
Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 discusses reimagining a new American democracy, and the role of the legal profession in defending civil rights for this year’s Norman E. Hodges Biennial Lecture.
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.
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.
Vassar welcomes family members back to campus for a weekend of panels, performances, outdoor fun, art sales, and lots more!
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.
Mondays: 7:00–8:00 p.m. (Zoom)
Wednesdays: 5:00 p.m.
Come learn how to propagate plants from cuttings, and take home your very own in a custom painted pot! No plant experience necessary.
Monica Youn is an acclaimed poet and professor, a former constitutional lawyer, and a prominent literary leader.
No reservation required. Open to the public.
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.
Celebrate the power of solar with an afternoon full of games, food, and live music.
This event is open to the general public.
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.
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.
The “Sky Woman Women” project holds space for eighteen women storytellers from Mohawk, Seneca and Tuscarora tribal affiliations (enrolled, unenrolled, and not enrolled), telling and retelling a Haudenosaunee creation story to each other. A Q&A with the artist and featured storytellers follows the screening.
Free and open to the public
Professor Patricia Zakreski, Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, specializes in women’s work, art, and authorship in the nineteenth century. She has published widely on these topics, including several co-edited volumes, and is currently completing a monograph on authorship and the decorative arts.
This event is open to the public.