The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is free and open to all. The Loeb Art Center enhances and supports the College’s goals of leadership, scholarship, and integrative learning.

The Loeb achieves this through the preservation, documentation, interpretation, presentation, and development of its collections; and through a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions and educational activities aimed at diverse audiences. Art should stand “boldly forth as an educational force,” declared founder Matthew Vassar. His college was the country’s first to be founded with a gallery and teaching collection.

Exhibitions

A photo collage showing a yellow pear with two legs, placed on a white paper background.

Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency

September 28, 2024–February 2, 2025

A monochrome photo of a person looking up, smiling, their hand on their neck. They are wearing a dark long-sleeved sweater over a white shirt.

Care Everywhere: Photography and Print as a Lens on Care

September 21, 2024–January 5, 2025

A square artwork with a colorful geometric design on it.

My Grandmother’s Whispers: Indigenous Prints and Beadwork

September 14, 2024–February 2, 2025

More Exhibitions

Events

Photo taken in a hospital of nonbinary adult looking at the viewer while holding a newborn dressed in a white gown.
Jan. 23, 2025, 5:30 p.m.

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.

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