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 person with unruly white hair stands in an extremely cluttered room with large windows, smoking a cigarette while working with some parts and pieces on a table completely filled with various objects.

Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna

February 17–June 2, 2024

Group of three people in masks working on the ground in the woods.

Women at Work: Photography and Labor

January 6–March 31, 2024

Two people dancing all dressed in white. The picture is in black and white.

Spotlight: Collection Highlights

February 3–June 16, 2024

More Exhibitions

Events

A photo of a large, spacious art gallery with a display on the walls that reads "Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna" in large letters.

Exhibition curators Jessica D. Brier and Mary-Kay Lombino, joined by Loeb Director T. Barton Thurber and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Luísa Valle, will lead an exhibition tour focusing on highlights from McKenna’s prolific career.

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