Past Events

Gathering historic and contemporary art in various media, the exhibition invites viewers to explore how the Hudson Valley has been pictured as a place both proximate to the city and its opposite—a “great green hope” as much fantasy as reality. Artists Tanya Marcuse, Qiana Mestrich, and Lisa Sanditz will discuss how their work responds to the Hudson Valley landscape in myth and reality. 

Jess T. Dugan is a renowned photographer whose captivating family portrait, Self-portrait with Vanessa and Elinor (2 days old), is a highlight of Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency. Their work is informed by their own life experiences, including their identity as a queer and nonbinary person, and reflects a deep belief in the importance of representation and the transformative power of storytelling.

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation) is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist whose work has long advocated for recognition of historic and ongoing forms of oppression of Indigenous peoples in the US and globally. 

Explore technology’s impact on reproductive rights in this conversation with Kiana Tipton from Chat with Charley and Aisha Becker-Burrowes from FEMINIST. This event is organized in conjunction with the Loeb’s current exhibition, Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency.

This exhibition of contemporary art explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities encountered by women and people assigned female at birth in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility. Artists Krista Franklin and Joanne Leonard will be in conversation with exhibition curators Karen Irvine and Kristin Taylor.

Celebrate the arts and artists of Poughkeepsie, NY this September! Visit over 30 local artists, makers, and creators at galleries, artist studios, and creative spaces. Learn more at poughkeepsieopenstudios.org.

Join the Loeb Art Center for an afternoon with Bev Gibson, curator and co-founder of Ubuhle, a collective of South African women who have transformed traditional beadwork practices into a new form of art. A reception follows. 

Exhibition curators Gary van Wyk and Lisa Brittan lead an exploration of Uluso—“Against the Dark Sky” at the Loeb Art Center, featuring examples of beaded costumes and accessories from the Zulu- and Xhosa-speaking peoples of South Africa. A reception follows.

This exhibition uses objects from the permanent collection of the Loeb Art Center to examine the ways in which photography has been read, used, and manipulated as data—quantifiable, measurable “information” about the world.

Campus community only, please.

Visiting Ribicoff Professor Sean Sawyer will give a lecture on Olana, the masterwork of Frederic Church (1826-1900), America’s most famous artist of the mid-19th century.