Past Events

Featuring over sixty works added to the Loeb Art Center’s collection between 2020–2025, Chronostasia explores various ways artworks can alter our perception of time. Free and open to the public

MODfest 2026

This installation brings together work by the acclaimed potter Maria Martinez and multimedia artist Rose B. Simpson, whose sculpture “Seed” is the first new addition to Vassar’s campus art in nearly 20 years.

MODfest 2026

Brooklyn Museum curator Stephanie Sparling Williams shares insights into the process of creating Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, a highly innovative reimagining of how contemporary audiences experience historic American art.

This event is open to the public.

Artist Caleb Stein, Vassar Class of 2017, returns to Poughkeepsie to discuss his ongoing photographic engagement with the local landscape. Several photographs from his 2020 series, Down by the Hudson, featuring scenes from local watering holes, are on view at the Loeb this summer.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

Léa Greenberg, Vassar Class of 2025 and Loeb Curatorial Intern, shares insights into Where We Go, Where We Stay: Exploring Place and Identity Through Photography, an exhibition she organized on the reciprocal relationship between place and personal identity.  

Join the Loeb 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.