Upcoming Events
Curated by Yixuan Wang ’25, this exhibition explores Asia through relationships shaped by history, communities, infrastructure, and nature.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
An Evening of Carnatic Raga: Featuring Sumanth Manjunath (violin), accompanied on mridangam.
This event is free and open to the public.
The AAVC honors Katrine “Cage” Ames ’69 and Katherine “Gig” Babson ’69 for their outstanding service to Vassar.
Campus community only, please.
A talk by Anita Varma ’08 based on her 2026 Columbia University Press book Solidarity in Journalism, about journalism and social justice. The talk will explore how conventional journalistic norms discourage reporters from taking sides; journalists are supposed to remain neutral, impartial, and objective.
This event is free and open to the public.
Join us for a fireside chat or online via Zoom with Eric Marcus ’80, the 2026 AAVC Spirit of Vassar Award recipient, in conversation with Miriam Cohen, Evalyn Clark Professor Emerita of History.
This event is free and open to the public.
National Book Award finalist, Michael L. Printz Award recipient, Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, and New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon talks with the audience at Vassar College.
This event is free and open to the public.
Falguni Sheth examines how racialization shapes South Asian American identity through narratives of “good” and “bad” immigrants.
Campus community only, please.
Join us at the Olmsted Greenhouse for a calm doodling session with Vassar’s Counseling Center! No artistic skills necessary—we are just doodling for fun and to calm the mind. All ages welcome.
This event is free and open to the public.
Celebrate Halloween with unusual plants, taxidermy, a hands-on activity, seasonal treats, and a costume contest.
This event is free and open to the public.
Ongoing Events
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.