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Palmer Museum of Art announces 2013 workshops

6/11/13

The Palmer Museum of Art has announced summer 2013 workshops for children, youth, adults and teachers. Workshops are free, but participants must preregister by contacting the curator of education at 814-863-9188 or dck10@psu.edu. Space is limited -- participants are encouraged to register early.

Penns Valley-based band The Chicken Tractor Deluxe to perform at Palmer Museum

6/11/13

The Palmer Museum of Art will present The Chicken Tractor Deluxe during Art After Hours event from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, on the Palmer plaza on Penn State's University Park campus.

‘Four Seasons’ exhibit on display through July 28 at New Kensington gallery

6/5/13

A collection of Bud Gibbons paintings, on loan from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, is on display during June and July in the Art Gallery at Penn State New Kensington. Four 8-feet by 10-feet acrylic on canvas pieces constitute the exhibit, “Four Seasons,” which are landscapes of the annual weather patterns of Westmoreland County in Western Pennsylvania. The New Kensington show features all four seasons together, which is a break from the museum’s traditional showing of each painting during its corresponding season.

Palmer Museum displays 'Mezzotints from the Permanent Collection'

6/4/13

The Palmer Museum of Art is presenting "La Manière Anglaise: Mezzotints from the Permanent Collection," which is currently on view at the Palmer Museum of Art through Aug. 25.

Palmer Museum shows drawings, watercolors by Leon Kelly

6/4/13

The Palmer Museum of Art is presenting "Suspended Contemplation: Drawings and Watercolors by Leon Kelly," which is currently on view at the Palmer Museum of Art through Aug. 11.

Artwork featuring a photo of faculty member Anna Divinsky.

A Q&A on the launch of Penn State's first MOOC

5/29/13

Penn State launched its first massive open online course (MOOC), Introduction to Art: Concepts and Techniques, yesterday – an effort that has been three months in the making. Anna Divinsky, lead faculty member of the Digital Arts Certificate Program at Penn State, has been instrumental in creating the first of the five courses that Penn State is offering this year on the leading MOOC platform, Coursera.

Exhibit celebrates 50 years of plant pathology

5/28/13

"Healthy Plants for a Healthy World: 50 Years of Plant Pathology at Penn State,” an exhibit, will be on display June 5 to Sept. 17, in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, Penn State University Park. General exhibit hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday–Thursday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. The exhibit also will be open during the special events times. Call 814-865-1793 to confirm times.

Sessions available in Summer Art Camp

5/28/13

The Center for Arts & Crafts at Penn State has openings in its Summer Art Camp program for 6- and 7-year-olds, and 11- to 14-year-olds.

A colored lithograph of Bellefonte, Pa., from 1878.

Palmer Museum to display prints from the O’Connor-Yeager collection

5/28/13

The Palmer Museum of Art is excited to present "From Your Town to Ours: Pennsylvania Prints from the O’Connor-Yeager Collection Revisited," which will be on view at the Palmer Museum of Art June 4 through Aug. 11.

High school students who are interested in the visual arts will learn how to make a portfolio of their work during the week-long camp.

Campers develop skills at Penn State’s youth summer camps

5/22/13

New this year, the School of Visual Arts Summer Art Camp (July 7 to 12) will teach high school students who are interested in the visual arts how to create a portfolio of their work. The camp’s theme, “Portfolio Processes,” underscores the goals of the program – to show campers how to create exciting artworks in different media and to develop a digital portfolio. The camp coincides with the 2013 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

Gallery exhibit 'Techno-LOVE' begins May 30

5/21/13

The Gallery at Penn State Lehigh Valley will host a new exhibition, "Techno-LOVE," from May 30 to June 27. An opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. June 4. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Harrison's Wine Grill holding Palmer Museum fundraiser

5/20/13

The Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art and Harrison's Wine Grill are holding a fundraiser to benefit Penn State's art museum.

Local talent on display at ‘Art Alive’ exhibit at Penn College

5/15/13

Twenty-four area artists will show their work as part of the Lycoming County Juried Art Exhibition – titled “Art Alive!” – May 30 to June 28, at The Gallery at Penn College. The gallery is on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Madigan Library.

HUB-Robeson Galleries to showcase watercolors, photographs and other works

5/10/13

The HUB-Robeson Galleries at Penn State will hold three spring/summer exhibitions.

Art educator’s memory, history leads readers through journey of teaching art

5/6/13

Charles Garoian has continued his cultural journey through the art of art education by authoring a new book "The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art: Embodied Research and Practice," published by the State University of New York (SUNY) Press this year.

Video: Curators give talk, tour at Palmer Museum of Art

4/3/13

At a recent Research Unplugged program at Penn State's Palmer Museum of Art, curators Joyce Robinson and Dana Carlisle Kletchka presented a talk and tour, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum: What Do Curators Do?"

Robinson, curator of art and affiliate associate professor of art history, is a specialist in modern American and European art, and teaches courses primarily on African American art.

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