viewers at the Maggi art exhibition at the Loeb
Art Department
Sculpture on Vassar Campus
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Students drawing outside
Art Department

The department offers majors or correlates in Art History and Studio Art, as well as a track in architecture. Enriched by a comprehensive college art museum, both majors culminate in a one-semester senior thesis or independent studio project.

Events

Illustration of a small horned creature standing on one foot in a moonlit forest, arms raised toward a full moon. Tall, stylized trees with pastel-colored leaves surround the figure, and soft blue night tones fill the sky with scattered stars. The scene has a textured, storybook style with muted greens, pinks, and blues.

Beyond Wild Things: Maurice Sendak and the Age of the Picture Book

Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D., artist and curator of The Maurice Sendak Foundation, presents the Belle Krasne Ribicoff Lecture, examining Maurice Sendak’s artistic legacy and the evolution of the modern picture book.

This event is free and open to the public.

The cover of a book with the text "Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis, by Jennifer DeVere Brody". The cover design is brown, and shows a photo collage of a person, flowers, and a dress.

Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis, a lecture by Jennifer DeVere Brody

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In this C. Mildred Thompson lecture, Professor Jennifer Brody ’87 discusses her forthcoming book, Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis. It explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century.

This event is free and open to the public.

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