At the first Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre Homecoming, April 4–5, alums spoke about their real-world experiences after graduation during a panel discussion, conversed with current students and observed Vassar dance rehearsals. They even got to don their own dancing shoes!
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was awarded an additional grant by The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation in support of an effort with the Center for Creative Photography (University of Arizona, Tucson) to share the collaborative exhibition Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna with audiences in the southwestern U.S. The exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the photography of illustrious Vassar alumna Rosalie (“Rollie”) McKenna, Class of 1940.
The Terra Foundation for American Art (Chicago, IL) has made a major grant to the Loeb to support planning with a diverse group of advisors for a reinstallation of the Founding Galleries, home of the mid-nineteenth century works of the Hudson River School that were part of Vassar’s original art collection.
Vassar has made an ongoing effort to acknowledge the displacement of Native peoples from the land where the campus has been built and to build relationships with those Native nations today. The College recently hosted a visit by the Tribal Liaison from the Stockbridge-Munsee, whose ancestors were forcibly moved from the land.
A recent conference paid tribute to the vision of renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and focused on the benefits of living and working in a beautiful natural setting. Conference attendees spent a full day on the lush Vassar campus.
After over 150 years apart, Henry C. Gritten’s four paintings of Springside, Matthew Vassar’s country estate, have finally been reunited within The Loeb’s permanent collection.
