Perspectives of Love: a Senior Recital by Talia Mayo, soprano. An afternoon reflection on how love changes over time featuring works by Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, and more.

A Musical Repast. What is better than food and music? Music about food! Songs about eating by Orlando Gibbons, Clément Jannequin and others. Drew Minter, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Vassar Students sing Broadway and American Songbook classics. 

Modern Pieces for Marimba. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

The screening will feature the 98-minute full version of the film, followed by a live Zoom Q&A session with director Yujiro Seki, who will share the origin story and vision behind this cross-disciplinary project. Open to the public.

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.  

Bridge for Laboratory Sciences

Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.

Exploring Cello: featuring works by J. S. Bach, Elgar, and Mark Summer.

Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor. Please note a change: This concert will start at 7:00 p.m.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Join us for our 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.

Anne Washburn’s imaginative dark comedy—a play with music featuring songs by Washburn and Michael Friedman—propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future. Reservations required.

Campus community only, please.

Harry Tabak, a multi-disciplinary artist in painting, sculpture, and dance shares the personal history that inspires his work.

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. 

Fresh from its U.S. tour, the Choir of Sommerville College, Oxford, joins the Vassar Choirs.

Truer Words: music and lyrics by Finley Greene.

Join curators Monique D'Almeida and Jessica D. Brier for a closer look at the exhibition, An Unfamiliar Place: Modern Landscape in East Asian and Asian American Works on Paper. This exhibition explores how photographers and printmakers help us to reconsider our surroundings using various tools and techniques.

The exhibit offers children the chance to be recognized as artists with their own points of view and the desire to express themselves. The show also highlights the positive difference art teachers can make in the lives of their students; they can encourage students to take pride in their work, as well as inspire a lifelong interest in art.

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. 

Sugar Hill Salon is one of the first chamber music artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music. Amir Farsi, flute, Tamara Winston, oboe, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Alexander Davis, bassoon.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

A play by Robert O’Hara. Guest Director, Taylor Reynolds. Barbecue is about a dysfunctional family staging an intervention. Campus guests only, please. Reservations required.

A dynamic, interactive experience that blends performance art, game-show fun, a thought-provoking lecture, and a captivating film screening—all aimed at exploring the horror and danger of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Open to the public.

Award-winning early music ensemble Concordian Dawn performs a concert of love songs from medieval France and Italy, preceded by a short pre-concert lecture by ensemble director Christopher Preston Thompson. Free and open to the public.

At a time of both urgent need for algorithmic literacy and heightened social division, it is vital to understand the politicized grammar with which we talk and think about AI. This talk by Gerald Sim will focus on visual media whose power derives from being uniquely vivid, engaging, and visceral.

Campus community only, please.

Music by Percy Grainger, Arturo Márquez, and Aaron Copland. James Osborn, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

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 our second annual Bring a Friend Day, and enjoy a day full of activities—together. The day’s offerings include art-making, engaging mini-tours, and light refreshments.

Gathering historic and contemporary art in various media, the exhibition invites viewers to explore how the Hudson Valley has been pictured as a place both proximate to the city and its opposite—a “great green hope” as much fantasy as reality. Artists Tanya Marcuse, Qiana Mestrich, and Lisa Sanditz will discuss how their work responds to the Hudson Valley landscape in myth and reality. 

Adrian Morjean, bassoon, Alex Davis, bassoon, Joshua Hodge, bassoon, Brad Balliett, bassoon & contrabassoon, Mark Risinger, bass, Richard Wilson, piano.

Jackson has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater, and costume design.

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Audre Lorde’s manuscript archives, will give a talk on her new book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Open to the public.

Join Paul Bellino, tenor trombone and Tom Hutchinson, tenor trombone, Bill Whitaker, bass trombone, and Dan Peck, tuba, for music arranged for the low brass section of the orchestra.

The Drama Department is delighted to welcome Leigh Silverman, a two-time Tony nominated director, who will speak with Professor Amanda Culp about her varied and impressive career and reflect on the ever-evolving landscape of American theater. Open to the public, reservations required.

A dance workshop featuring Dance student participants. Open for observation, first come/first served. Refreshments will be available.

Campus community only, please.

A program of music by Unsuk Chin (in C, Grains), Richard Wilson (Diablerie) and Luciano Berio (Sequenza III per voce) will be capped by a large-ensemble performance of the aleatoric minimalist classic In C by Terry Riley. Performers include festival co-directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, violinist Marka Young, and an ensemble drawn from the Vassar College Orchestra and Choirs.

MODfest 2025

Does music shape the instruments we choose, or does the instrument determine the music? When it comes to electronic music, the answer is: both. Join Drake Andersen on a historical exploration of how new technologies for making and enjoying music developed over the past one hundred years continue to both reflect and shape our musical experiences and expectations.

MODfest 2025

Metropolis Reimagined is a new scoring of the 1984 restoration of Fritz Lang’s classic film, performed live by acclaimed pianist Po-Wei Ger and electronic artist Drake Andersen.

MODfest 2025

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre performs works created by faculty, students, and guest choreographers, selected from the current repertory. The program includes a special appearance by dancers from the Parul Shah Dance Company, whose work harnesses the expressive power of Indian classical dance to promote cultural understanding and explore questions around identity and humanity.

MODfest 2025

A case-side talk and reception with Andrea Burgay, editor, director, and founder of Cut Me Up Magazine. This exhibition represents the collaborative efforts of the guest curators and published artists, who have shaped every issue of the magazine. Open to the public.

In this lecture-performance, Alexander Bonus, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, will survey past expressions of sonic disorder in music by Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler, among others.

MODfest 2025

This musical and spoken performance weaves together an array of creatively indeterminate works.

MODfest 2025

Daniel J. Levitin, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, McGill University, will uncover the latest findings in the rapidly developing field of how music can be used to treat injury and disease and promote wellness.

MODfest 2025

Certified Feldenkrais practitioners Carolyn Palmer and Drew Minter will lead two lessons and speak about the method.

MODfest 2025

A lecture by José Perillán, Associate Professor of Physics and Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS) Director.

MODfest 2025

A performance of Stimmung, a highly influential avant-garde work that provided inspiration for the spectral composition school that emerged in Paris during the 1970’s.

MODfest 2025

Prudence Fenton ’75 will be featured at a screening of a documentary she co-produced about her partner, the songwriter Allee Willis. Open to the public.

Jess T. Dugan is a renowned photographer whose captivating family portrait, Self-portrait with Vanessa and Elinor (2 days old), is a highlight of Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency. Their work is informed by their own life experiences, including their identity as a queer and nonbinary person, and reflects a deep belief in the importance of representation and the transformative power of storytelling.

William’s sculptures, works on paper, and prints draw inspiration from music, literature, nature, and the art of the African diaspora.

MODfest 2025

A showcase featuring highlights from the fall Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) dance concert, a performance by NYC’s Battery Dance Company, and works created through Dancing to Connect, a collaboration between Vassar College and Poughkeepsie High School students. Open to the public.

This annual Advent service at the Vassar College Chapel features readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols, culminating in a candle lighting ceremony. Vassar College Choir, Chamber Singers and Treble Chorus, and Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir will perform.