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the arts the arts play an integral role in vassar’s curriculum and culture. just 90 minutes away, new york city is a compelling backdrop to vassar’s vibrant arts and culture scene.

  • art

    the art department offers majors or correlates in art history and studio art, as well as a track in architecture. enriched by a comprehensive college art museum, both majors culminate in a one-semester senior thesis or independent studio project.

    art history

    the art history program offers courses that encompass topics and periods ranging from the arts of the ancient world to those of asia, africa, early modern europe, and contemporary art in a global environment. it provides students with knowledge of significant works of art, and architecture and their historical developments.

    studio

    the studio program offers classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and video. it introduces the practices of the artist and the creative process by emphasizing ways of seeing and conceptualizing the processes entailed in making art.
  • collections

    the frances lehman loeb art center

    vassar was the first college or university in the country to include an art museum as part of its original plan. called “a symphony of architecture” by the new york times, the frances lehman loeb art center is home to one of the finest teaching collections in the nation.

    palmer gallery

    situated between the north atrium and the retreat cafeteria, the james w. palmer iii gallery is at the heart of the college center. serving as an exhibition space for artwork created within and beyond the vassar community.

    archives and special collections

    the catherine pelton durrell ’25 archives and special collections library is the principal repository of the college's noteworthy collections of rare books, manuscripts, archival records of vassar college, and other special materials.
  • creative arts across disciplines

    caad is an experimental laboratory for trying out new models of research, pedagogy, and practice, that foreground critical making and doing as complementary activities to critical thinking. caad programming is loosely organized around the senses, with 2014-15’s theme of “vision,” 2015-16’s theme of “sound,” and 2016-17’s theme of “touch.”

    the collaboratory

    the collaboratory is a retrofitted art trailer used for site-specific performance or installation, gallery-style project display, film screening, and all manner of creative workshops.
  • dance

    the dance department offers a range of courses in movement, ballet, modern dance, jazz, and choreography. the vassar repertory dance theatre, a performing company of ballet, modern, and jazz dancers, is a credited course offering experienced dance students opportunities to perform in a variety of professional repertory as well as present their own choreography in the dance theater and off campus.
  • drama

  • the drama department balances the practice of theater-making with the study of theater history, theory, and dramatic literatures. vassar’s study of theater is multidisciplinary and requires students to engage politics, social sciences, and philosophy, as well as other art forms.
  • film

    the film department is international in scope, stressing a diverse canon ranging from silent films to television to webisodes. as film majors, students are grounded in film history and theory and then take intensive courses in documentary and narrative production in 16mm and digital, as well as screenwriting for shorts or feature films.

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