Name: Artist Talk with Rose B. Simpson
Start: 2026-02-12T17:30:00-05:00
Location: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

The Loeb is honored to welcome acclaimed mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson for an artist talk as we celebrate the addition of her 2024 sculpture, Seed, to Vassar’s campus art collection. Installed last fall, Seed has transformed the northwest corner of the campus, engaging the Vassar community and visitors alike in contemplation of relationships of care between people and with the land. As Simpson has written, “My life-work is a seeking out of tools to use to heal the damages I have experienced as a human being of our postmodern and postcolonial era—objectification, stereotyping, and the disempowering detachment of our creative selves through the ease of modern technology.”
Simpson will speak about her multifaceted practice, which is rooted in traditions passed down through generations of women in her family in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.
This program is free and open to the public. Everyone is also invited to a dedication ceremony for Seed at the sculpture site earlier in the day at 2:30 p.m., with the artist in attendance.
Artist Biography
Rose B. Simpson (b. 1983) is an enrolled member of the Tewa-speaking Khaʼpʼoe Ówîngeh tribe that has inhabited what is now northern New Mexico for millennia. She received a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, an MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MA in creative nonfiction writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work is owned by museums across the continent and exhibited internationally. She has had solo exhibitions at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, ICA Boston, Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, and Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe. Museum collections include The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, ICA Boston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Nevada Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum in Oregon, Princeton University Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2023, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2024, Simpson was one of four inaugural recipients of the Ruth Award through the Ruth Foundation for the Arts. Her work was also included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Currently, there is a solo exhibition featuring new work by Simpson at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and an upcoming monumental bronze sculptural commission by Simpson will be unveiled at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in January 2026. The artist lives and works in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, where she was born and raised.