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Photo of a quilt that is also a map with countries and borders.

Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture: Joyce Kozloff

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Joyce Kozloff is an internationally recognized artist and feminist who was an originating member of the Pattern and Decoration movement. Maps are the foundation for her recent paintings which employ mutations to raise geopolitical issues and chart the sites of current wars and conflicts.

This event is free and open to the public.

Samuel Issacharoff with grey-white hair, a light grey mustache, and a slight smile and wearing a grey tweed-patterned blazer over a light blue collared shirt. The background is a gently blurred green and brown park setting with tree foliage.

Pre-Midterms Guest Speaker Series with Professor Samuel Issacharoff

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Interested in learning more about the midterm elections? Listen to the Department of Political Science’s latest guest speaker event, featuring a talk and Q&A with Professor Samuel Issacharoff on the role of the courts in the upcoming midterms.

Digital art collage on a warm terracotta background featuring a monochrome photo of a woman in sunglasses painting a yellow bird at an easel. Brightly colored illustrations surround her, including a multi-toned bird in foliage, a potted plant, a patterned blue-and-yellow butterfly, a white lily, and oversized buttons.

Still (After) Life Drawing

Everyone is welcome to drop in and sketch a still-life scene featuring plants from the Olmsted Greenhouse and unique College artifacts from the Vassar College Artifacts Project (VCAP) at your own pace.

Illustrated graphic from Question of Cities about extreme heat and women's health. Scenes show a woman cooking over a stove and another riding crowded public transit under a blazing sun, with a text bubble reading "Cooking in dingy kitchens and crammed in public spaces." Below, a visibly distressed, sweating woman in a blue headscarf is pictured alongside a resting pregnant woman, with text stating: "Higher risk of gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and hospitalisation."

Unequal Heat: A Workshop on heat, Law, and Injustice

A workshop with Ruhie Kumar, co-founder of Heatwave Action Coalition and Prof. Kodiveri, will unpack how heat, law and
lived experiences of heat impacts interact.

Campus community only, please.

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Ongoing Events

The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist—Solo Exhibition by Joyce Polance

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In The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist, Catskill-based painter Joyce Polance reverses therapy’s usual direction of attention by turning the patient’s gaze toward the therapist. Painted in oil entirely with her fingers, the three-year series moves between likeness and disruption, testing how much close looking can—and cannot—reveal.