Past Events
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.
All are welcome. Dinner and entertainment provided. Please register in advance.
This session (the second in a two-day series) explores the experiences of all Vassar students and employees. Campus community only, please.
This session (on Monday 3/28) centers the experiences of Vassar’s Jewish community. The next day’s session (on Tuesday 3/29) explores the experiences of all Vassar students and employees. Campus community only, please.
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.
This event will be live streamed
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.
Beyond the Threshold highlights the diversity of contemporary Tibetan creative expression, presenting works from ten artists based around the world.
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.
Poet Jacqueline Osherow, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, will present this year’s annual Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture.
Brandon Schechter ’05 will discuss his most recent monograph in this C. Mildred Thompson Lecture.
Hang out with Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association astronomers and their telescopes as they showcase stars, constellations, asterisms, and more interesting items in the sky! Please register for this event.
An ecumenical service, including the imposition of ashes, hosted by the campus’s Roman Catholic and Protestant communities. Campus community only, please.
This workshop centers the experience of all students, faculty, and administrators. Facilitated by the National Coalition Building Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit leadership training organization. Campus community only, please.
This workshop centers the experience of Vassar’s BIPOC students, faculty, and administrators. Facilitated by the National Coalition Building Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit leadership training organization. Campus community only, please.