MODfest features performances and exhibits by students, faculty, and guest artists. It is hosted by the Vassar College Music Department in collaboration with the Creative Arts Across Disciplines office. Some events require tickets and reservations, but all are free and open to the public.

Vassar College will host its annual “Service of Lessons and Carols,” an Advent service of readings, choral anthems and congregational carols that culminates in a candle lighting ceremony, in the College Chapel.

When the Iraq War began in 2003, then-NBC News Correspondent and Vassar College alum Chip Reid was embedded with U.S. Marines as they fought their way from Kuwait to Baghdad. On November 9, Reid will speak on the Vassar campus about the book he wrote, “Battle Scars,” that chronicles that experience and the conversations Reid had with those Marines 20 years later.

Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the exhibition Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection, on view September 30, 2023–January 28, 2024.

Hundreds of paintings and handcrafts created by Haitian artists will go on sale September 29 through October 2 during The Vassar Haiti Project’s 23rd annual Families Weekend Art Sale & Auction.

The Archives & Special Collections Library at Vassar College will present Elizabeth Bishop’s Postcards, an exhibition of the beloved poet’s extensive postcard correspondence dating from her early life to her final years, from September 18–December 15, 2023.

In honor of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s 30th anniversary and the 160th anniversary of the collection, the Loeb has published Making & Meaning, a richly illustrated 248-page catalogue featuring a diverse array of works from the museum. 

New Musical and Play Workshops, Free Readings, and Training Program for Five Weeks: June 25–July 30, 2023

An innovative collaboration between the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA) will bring new, original Native American Art to the Loeb over the next three years.