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Live Listening Party with WVKR

MODfest takes to the airwaves as WVKR spotlights original radio art by Vassar’s electronic music students. This special broadcast showcases the craft and sonic imagination of Vassar’s emerging artists.

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Student Composer Symposium

Celebrate the creativity and stylistic breadth of Vassar’s emerging composers. This interactive event offers audiences a unique opportunity to engage directly with the compositional process, from first sparks to finished scores, featuring live performances and open discussion in a collaborative workshop.

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Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre performs works created by faculty, students, and guest choreographers, selected from the current repertory.

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A Talk with Tavia Nyong’o

This talk examines how Black artists transform AI from a tool of command and control into a medium for intergenerational dialogue and alternative worlding.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Black History Month Celebration

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All are invited to join us for a fun-filled evening celebration to kick off Black History Month. There will be lively performances, engaging speakers, delicious food/beverages, fun activities, giveaways, and more!

Free and open to the public.

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The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival

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Please join us for The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival presented by the Vassar College Department of French and Francophone Studies.

Free and open to the public.

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Honorary Adene and Richard Wilson Concert

An evening of new compositions featuring boldly expressive works by MODfest cofounder Richard Wilson and premieres by new faculty Alan Hankers and Celeste Oram, highlighting electronic-influenced textures and interdisciplinary explorations of music, language, and cultural history.

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Family Fun at the Loeb

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Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this winter and spring. Each date will feature a different hands-on art activity inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children ages 5 and up. 

Free and open to the public.

Poster-style graphic for a project titled “Rescoring Richter,” with the word “RICHTER” running vertically on the left, “RESCORING” across the top, and the phrases “New Sonic Environments” and “For a Master of Avant Garde Film” centered between rows of black-and-white film stills showing abstract shapes, floating hats, a group of men, raised hands, concentric circles, two faces with superimposed circles over their eyes, and a frame reading “Un film de Hans Richter,” all framed by a thin red rectangular borde

Rescoring Richter

Rescoring Richter is a multimedia project pairing contemporary sound artists with Hans Richter’s 1920s avant-garde films to create new scores, documented through short films and live performances that reveal and reanimate his revolutionary cinematic imagery.

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Master Class: Visionary Voices—Burton & Musto

Music department students perform for internationally renowned soprano Amy Burton and composer and pianist John Musto in a master class, featuring Musto’s musical works.

MODfest 2026

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Artist Talk with Cecilia Vicuña

The Loeb welcomes acclaimed Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña for an artist talk in conjunction with the closing of Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025. 

Free and open to the public.

A figure gazes upwards against a cosmic background filled with swirling galaxies and stars, creating a sense of vastness. The figure is depicted in monochrome, wearing formal attire that contrasts with the vibrant celestial hues. The facial expression is contemplative, adding depth to the pose. In the lower right corner, the text “MODfest” is displayed in bold, colorful lettering.

Computing Venus

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7:30 p.m. on Friday, and 2:00 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday

Note: The performance on Jan 25 has been canceled due to weather.

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

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Jeremy Dennis: Contested Foundations

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Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, New York, and lead artist and founder of the nonprofit Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. on the Shinnecock Reservation. His work centers Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation.

A darkened scene features two illuminated rectangular screens side by side against a black background. The left screen shows the shadow of an outstretched hand and forearm, angled upward with fingers splayed. The right screen displays the shadowy silhouette of a figure bent forward, hands clasped low and head down, partially obscured by darkness. Two small desk lamps sit below the screens, casting faint light upward.

Vito Acconci: Scenes from This Side of the Camp

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This single-gallery installation features archival materials, including sound recordings, from a 1973 performance by the pioneering and provocative American artist Vito Acconci.