The Arts
Past Events
James Osborn, conductor
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Featuring three new works created by Hannah Littman ’22, Nerissa Tunnessen ’22, and Lily Gee ’23. Reservations required.
Drew Minter, conductor
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Christine Howlett, conductor
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James Osborn, director
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Brintle, a self-taught artist born and raised in Haiti, will highlight often the untold stories of the brave women who stood for Haiti’s freedom. Attend in person or via Zoom.
VRDT performs new works by Guest Choreographers Desmond Richardson and Kirven Douthit-Boyd, classical ballet by Marius Petipa, Untitled by Guest Choreographer Jennifer Archibald, new student works, and faculty works selected from the current repertoire. This is a free but ticketed event.
As part of the Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture series, the Brooklyn-based artist will discuss her work.
Drawing on new archival research, this exhibition presents the contributions by three generations of the Olmsted firm to the Vassar campus. It is also the inaugural exhibition in a series about the history, preservation, and planning of the campus, organized by the Art Department.
Beijing opera is a colorful, spectacular performance art that dazzles and fascinates. Reservations required.
A 20- to 30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program every Thursday in April.
Christina Seely’s multidisciplinary photographic practice stretches into the fields of science, design, installation, and sound. This talk includes a screening of her short film Dissonance, filmed in summer 2019 on a rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet while traveling with the Institute of Arctic Studies.
Brian Mann and Friends: An afternoon of jazz featuring Brian Mann, piano, Pat O'Leary, double bass, Craig Wuepper, drums, with special guests appearances by faculty and friends.
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Very limited seating—campus guests only.
A staged reading followed by a reception.
Congratulations to the 2022 award recipients: Gabriella Kimbrough ’22, for her play True Crime, and Louis Blachman ’23, for his play Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
A solo piano recital featuring music by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Wang, and Gershwin.
Assisted by Susan Brown, piano.
Two weeks of productions of new plays written by Drama Department students. Campus community only, please.
Lichtman, a figurative painter of domestic spaces, will discuss her work. She is the Charles Bloom Professor of the Arts of Design at Brandeis University.
A rotating exhibit at the Palmer Gallery featuring student work from classes in Drawing Iⅈ Painting Iⅈ Photography; Printmaking; Sculpture Iⅈ and Video.
Shivaike Shah, Visiting Artist and Producer/Founder of Khameleon Productions (UK), will discuss the making of Khameleon’s upcoming short film on the figure of Medea, based on Khameleon’s stage production of Euripides’s Medea at Oxford in 2018, which reimagined the ancient Greek tragedy with an all-global majority cast and crew. Campus community only, please.
Mastery and Merit presents more than thirty works that demonstrate the multivalent and critical roles of Buddhist masters, as well as the rich diversity of merit-generating practices available to devotees.
Beyond the Threshold highlights the diversity of contemporary Tibetan creative expression, presenting works from ten artists based around the world.
Poet Jacqueline Osherow, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, will present this year’s annual Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture.
Works by Mahler, Wagner, Bruckner, Creston, and Tommy Peterson. Featuring Brad Ward, Tom Hutchinson, and Paul Bellino, tenor trombone, and Nick Schwartz and Jack Schatz, bass trombone.
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Eduardo Navega, conductor.
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This 29-minute film explores how climate change destroys not only a physical place, but also a psychic territory within us. Presented during “Late Night at the Loeb” in conjunction with the exhibition Cryosphere: Humans and Climate in Art from the Loeb. Consecutive screenings from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
This multidisciplinary artist will discuss his current project, which involves altering 19th century landscape engravings to include contemporaneous images borrowed from Anti-Slavery publications.
An afternoon of music featuring works by Mozart, Gorb, Ewazen, Russell Bennett. James Osborn, conductor.
This event will be live streamed
This 29-minute film explores how climate change destroys not only a physical place, but also a psychic territory within us. Presented during “Late Night at the Loeb” in conjunction with the exhibition Cryosphere: Humans and Climate in Art from the Loeb. Consecutive screenings from 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Featuring guest artists Ashley Jackson, harp, Marsha Thompson, soprano, Kyle Walker, piano, and faculty members Thomas Sauer, piano, and Ian Tyson, clarinet.
This event will be live streamed
A celebration of the American Impressions exhibition at the Loeb Art Center that will include conversations between curators and faculty members as well as music and poetry performed by Vassar students. Registration required.
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A projection kaleidoscope and soundscape presented by Rick Jones/The Vassar Light Collective
Featuring premieres of “Drastic Measures” and “Bagatelle for Solo Harpsichord” by Richard Wilson and music of Susan Botti and Jonathan Chenette. Performed by the Decoda Ensemble, Claire Chenette and Joel Evans, oboes, Anna Elashvili, violin, Marija Ilić, harpsichord, and Thomas Sauer, piano. Free tickets must be reserved.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
A performance of works selected from the current repertory by faculty, students, and guest choreographers, including a special appearance by the Battery Dance Company. Tickets are free but must be reserved.
A pop-up exhibition, located in the glass walkway of the Loeb Art Center, organized by PHOCUS, Vassar’s photography club.
A voice recital featuring award-winning duo Jacquelyn Matava ’09, mezzo-soprano, and pianist Samuel Gaskin. Registration required.
During this webinar event, students and faculty from the Drama and Music Departments’ upcoming production of Sunday in the Park with George will share their creative process of interpreting this iconic show. Registration required.
Zoom webinar
Join members of the Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble as they share their experience and strategies regarding the intersection of the arts and social justice. Registration required.
Campus community only, registration required.
Join this exciting professional ensemble in a presentation of solo and vocal choral music that celebrates artistic excellence and racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. Registration required.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
MODfest 2022 kicks off with this exhibition of photographs by Ruben Natal-San Miguel
Vassar College’s annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries returns with a dynamic collection of both in-person and online events!
A Palmer Gallery exhibition by Ruben Natal-San Miguel
An Experimental Theater of Vassar College production.
