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Vassar was the first college or university in the country to include an art museum as part of its original plan. The current 36,000-square-foot (3,300 m 2 ) facility was designed by César Pelli and named in honor of the new building’s primary donor Frances Lehman Loeb, a member of the Class of 1928.
The calendar for the 2024-25 school year is set. The first day of school in Miami-Dade schools will be Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, and the final day of classes will be Thursday, June 5, 2025, the ...
An 1861 oil portrait of Matthew Vassar by Charles Loring Elliott. Vassar was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Female College in 1861. [6] Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; [7] he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors. [8]
November 13 until February 28, 2025 - Kenny Scharf at the Brant Foundation Study Center in New York City. [42] December 5 until January 9, 2025 - Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome at the National Gallery in London. [43] December 14 until March 29, 2025 - Jean Michel Basquiat: ENGADIN at hauser & Wirth in St. Moritz, Switzerland. [44]
February 1 – C. Richard Kramlich, 89, American venture capitalist and video art collector (born 1935) [24] February 2 – Helga de Alvear, 88, German-Spanish art collector and dealer (born 1936) [25] February 3. David Edward Byrd, 83, American graphic artist (born 1941) [26] Lim Tze Peng, 103, Singaporean painter (born 1921) [27] February 5
Today, The Miscellany News continues in the tradition started by the editors of 1914, publishing every Thursday morning of Vassar's academic year. The paper is typically 16 pages long each week and consists of six sections—News, Features, Opinions, Humor, Arts and Sports—which each contain innovative and professionally reported pieces concerning issues of interest on and off campus.
The Vassar Haiti Project was founded in 2001 by Vassar College Director of International Services Dr. Andrew Meade and his wife Lila Metres Meade, and is led largely by Vassar student volunteers. It began as a small project that supported education and lunch programs at a school in Chermaitre, Haiti, before growing in membership and scope to ...
The Main Building of Vassar College is the oldest surviving building on its campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the center of academic life.It was built by James Renwick Jr. in the Second Empire style in 1861, the second building in the history of what was one of America's first women's colleges.