News and Events
Archive
November 2009
- Service of Lessons and Carols at the Vassar Chapel, 12/6
- Experimental Theater presents the rock musical "Rent," December 12/2-5
- Architectural historian Guido Beltramini discusses the life and work of Andrea Palladio, 11/23
- Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre offers showcase performances in "Final Showings," 11/19-21
October 2009
- Art Center exhibition "Albrecht Dürer: Impressions of the Renaissance," 11/14 – 12/24
- "The River," a solo exhibition at the Palmer Gallery by artist Linda Cross, 11/5-12/17
- The Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble in special performance on 11/8
- Conceptual artist Simon Starling speaks about his current work, 10/30
- Reading in celebration of the exhibition "Poetry of the Hudson" on 10/15
- Vassar Repertory Dance Theater offers performance of works in progress on 10/9
September 2009
- Quadricentennial celebration includes exhibitions, concerts, and readings, through 12/24
- Exhibition "The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany" on view 10/1-29
- Ballerina Merrill Ashley discusses “Dancing for Balanchine” in her lecture on 10/13
- Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger performs in a free concert on 10/10
- Native American dance troupe performance on 10/4
- Chart-topping German pop star Sebastian Krumbiegel in concert on 9/22
- "A Russian Night," music by St. Petersburg composer Georgy Firtich, 9/25
- Re-opening of the Art Library celebrated with special program, 9/12
August 2009
- Department of Music presents 25 concerts during the fall 2009 semester, 8/30–12/6
- Palmer Gallery presents two exhibitions this September, 8/26-9/27
- Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance perform an selection of new work on 9/5
July 2009
- WAMC'S "The Roundtable" was broadcast live from Powerhouse Theater on 7/21
- Announcing casting of "Vera Laughed" and Inside Look play workshops
- See "Vera Laughed," "Tina Girlstar," "The Readings Festival," & "Hello! My Baby," this week at Powerhouse, through 8/2
- Discount for Powerhouse's The Burnt Part Boys for Hudson Valley residents & students, 7/17-26
- Powerhouse Apprentice Company performs Deborah Assimwe's Untitled, 7/4
June 2009
- Casting announced for Powerhouse Musicals & Anika Noni Rose joins Powerhouse gala, 6/27
- Powerhouse Summer Suppers at Café on the Quad on Fridays & Saturdays, 7/3 - 8/1
- Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger in the Palmer Gallery, 6/25 – 7/31
- Powerhouse Theater announces casting for Ninety, 6/30 - 7/12
- Powerhouse Theater’s 25th anniversary gala benefit, 6/27
- Limited balcony seating at Powerhouse’s 25th anniversary gala now available for $50, 6/27
May 2009
- Six centuries of watercolors and drawings on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 8/14 - 11/1
- Art Center exhibition features newly restored model of Eero Saarinen’s Emma Hartman Noyes House, 6/2-9/6
April 2009
- Annual summer concert series offers four concerts by world-renowned artists, 6/14-8/2
- Celebratory 25th anniversary of the Powerhouse Theater season, 6/26-8/2
- Studio Arts exhibitions at the Palmer Gallery through 5/24
- Noontime concerts at the Art Center through 4/29
- Lecture by musicologist Jessica Waldoff, 4/15, and recital and lecture with baritone Thomas Meglioranza, 4/23
- Metropolitan Museum curator, Elizabeth Milleker, discusses Roman sculpture, 4/14
March 2009
- Film screening and discussion with director Matt Wolf, 4/8
- Experimental Theater presents two plays this spring
February 2009
- Three public dance concerts offered this spring by the Department of Dance, 3/23, 4/20, & 5/6
- Powerhouse Theater Apprentice Training Program accepting applications for 2009 season
- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, will speak about her work, 4/6
- Vassar Haiti Project's eighth annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction, 4/3-4/5
- LeDerick Horne discusses living with learning disabilities, 4/1
- Outsider art with a Cuban perspective featuring paintings by Corso, 3/5-3/19/09
- Celebration of local children's art at the Palmer Gallery, 3/22-3/28/09
January 2009
March 2008
About the Arts
Powerhouse Theater
The Powerhouse Theater is a collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College. It is dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of new works for theater and film. During an intense eight-week summer residency on the Vassar campus, up to twenty different projects are publicly presented, typically engaging more than 200 professional artists and theater students. Plays, musicals, and screenplays are presented in a variety of forms: readings, workshops, and fully staged productions. Since the first Powerhouse Theater season in 1985, New York Stage and Film and Vassar have served more than 2,000 artists and over 175,000 audience members through the development and production of artistically exceptional and affordably priced performances.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Located just inside Vassar's Main Gate, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center houses the college's permanent collection, over 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares, charting the history of art from antiquity to the present. The Permanent Collection Galleries feature 350 works, ranging from the sculpted Head of Viceroy Merymose from His Outer Sarcophagus (Egyptian, c 1375 BCE) in the Antiquities Gallery to Marsden Hartley's oil on canvas Indian Composition (1914-15) in the Twentieth Century Gallery. For information on current and upcoming special exhibitions, self-guided and curriculum-based tours, and group visits, please visit the website. The art center is open to the public, and admission is free.
James W. Palmer Gallery
Located in the College Center in Main Building, the James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery presents eight shows annually, including exhibitions by renowned artists and photographers, studio art faculty and students, and local arts organizations. Recent highlights included Andrea Baldeck’s black-and-white photo exhibit, Touching the Mekong: A Southeast Asian Sojourn, organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; the Vassar Haiti Project’s annual exhibition and auction of imported arts and handcrafts; and Design Inside, showcasing the work of Vassar’s College Relations design team. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. For information on upcoming exhibitions, visit the website or call (845) 437-5370.
Music Department
Located in the Belle Skinner Hall of Music, the Martel Recital Hall is wonderfully suited, both acoustically and aesthetically, to music performance. With seating for 500, the Martel is home to the Vassar College Orchestra, Choir, Women's Chorus, Madrigal Singers, and numerous chamber groups and ensembles. The Martel concert schedule routinely includes distinguished guest artists, faculty recitals, senior recitals, and special musical events, such as last year's series of organ recitals celebrating the installation and dedication of the college's superb pipe organ, designed by masterbuilder Paul Fritts. For information on upcoming concerts and events (which are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted), please visit the website.
Dance Department
The Department of Dance sponsors several public performances each year. Among those, the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) has a series of Works in Progress showings in the fall, a winter Modfest performance in conjunction with the The Department of Music, winter galas at the 1869 Bardavon Opera House, and two All Parents Weekend performances in the spring. The department's Master Class program annually invites at least one ballet and one modern expert to campus in addition to two people in other areas of dance. Public performances and lectures are often associated with these renowned visitors. Guest artists in the past have included: Irina Kolpokova, Arthur Mitchell, Helene Alexopoulos, Gregory Hines, Anna Kisselgoff, Donald Byrd, Edward Villella, Ronald K. Brown, Irene Dowd, Allegra Kent, Gelsey Kirkland, Pilobolus w/Adam Battlestein, Suzanne Farrell, Mummenschantz, Eldar Aliev, Deborah Jowitt, Bill T. Jones, Pascal Rioult, Clinton Luckett of ABT, Bill Irwin, and Donald McKayle. Many of the department's dance performances are in the Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, located in Kenyon Hall.