School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Saint Vincent College

02/25/2026

There's a new initiative at Saint Vincent College that looks to combat the nationwide teacher shortage by fast-tracking students who wish to become educators. KDKA-TV's Chris DeRose has more.

02/24/2026

We have launched a new collaborative program between the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve and the art galleries of Saint Vincent College, bringing creativity outdoors and inviting participants to experience art as part of the living landscape.

Our first session, “Forest Floor to Form: Seeing, Designing, and Building in Place,” will be hosted by the Verostko Center for the Arts and WPNR.

Together, we will:
- Walk the Reserve’s trails and observe the textures, patterns, and rhythms of the natural world
- Create temporary artworks from found natural materials
- Leave these installations behind for others to discover - an evolving gallery shaped by time, weather, and community
- Receive a take-along field guide filled with creative prompts to inspire future hikes and walks

Join us as we blur the boundary between studio and ecosystem and discover how creativity can deepen our relationship with the environments we inhabit.

02/24/2026

02/24/2026

Our upcoming guest lecturer on March 12th at 7 pm at the Verostko Center for the Arts is Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita at the College of the Holy Cross, Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Ph.D.

Her lecture resonates in a special way with the Verostko Center’s current exhibition, The Pitassi Stained Glass Studio Design Collection: A Labor in Light and Lead, which presents more than forty design drawings from the Pittsburgh-based studio and offers rare insight into the creative and historical processes behind ecclesiastical stained glass.

She has published widely on religion, stained glass, and architecture, including Stained Glass in Thirteenth-Century Burgundy (1982), Stained Glass from its Origins to the Present (2003), and The Illuminated Window: Stories across Time (2023).

A member of the International Corpus Vitrearum, Raguin has authored Stained Glass before 1700 in the Midwest United States (2002) and Stained Glass before 1700 in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum (2024).

She edited Art, Piety, and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700 (2010). She has also written exhibition catalogue essays on contemporary artists Kiki Smith (2010 and 2018) and Judith Schaechter (2020).

Raguin’s online book, Style, Status, and Religion: America’s Pictorial Windows 1840-1950, presents a broad overview of the American experience and offers 450 downloadable images:http://college.holycross.edu/RaguinStainedGlassInAmerica/Home/index.html.

The exhibition’s Gothic Revival–inspired sketches reveal how twentieth-century designers drew upon medieval sources and devotional aesthetics, ideas that closely align with Dr. Raguin’s scholarship on the historical, spiritual, and material significance of stained glass across time.

Mark your calendars!

02/24/2026

12/01/2025

***UPDATE: Due to the snow day, we have postponed this event to Thursday, December 4th, at 4pm.***

Please join us on Tuesday, December 2 at 4:00 PM at the Verostko Center for the Arts for a brief talk by Jeff Martin, a history major and current Verostko Center staff member.

His presentation will explore the concept of “Degenerate Art” - what it is, how it is classified, why it is censored, and the authoritarian philosophy it represents. The talk will focus on the painting "Dancer in Front of the Stairs" as a case study.

Day Without Art (observed today - December 1) began in 1989 as a National Day of Mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis, an acknowledgement of the devastating impact the epidemic had on the arts community.

The day is meant to remind us of what our cultural life loses when art is silenced.

In observance of this movement "Dancer in Front of the Stairs" will be covered and then revealed during Jeff's statement.

12/01/2025

Join us Tuesday Dec. 2 at 7pm for a Christmas performance by The Saint Vincent Singers & Members of SVC Opera Workshop. Admission is free and open to the public.

11/23/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Tim Kelly, winner of the Thoburn Excellence in Teaching Award! Faculty members who receive this award are nominated by graduates of the last 5-7 years. Thank you to those alumni who nominated him for the award. Please join us in celebrating Dr. Kelly!

11/19/2025

11/19/2025

11/12/2025