After nearly one year of work, graduate assistant Emily Hagen has completed “How to Make a Fake,” an interactive website devoted to her comprehensive analysis of a forged triptych in the Palmer Museum of Art believed to be a work created in the 1400s by the Netherlandish painter Hans Memling.
The women of contemporary classical ensemble Sybarite5 — cellist Laura Metcalf, violinist Sarah Whitney and violist Angela Picket — are taking charge and making their own waves as they juggle musicianship and its many dynamic experiences.
With its country-rock vibe, "Hands on a Hardbody" follows the lives of 10 hard-luck Texans, when a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humor and ambition, they'll fight to keep at least one hand on a brand new truck in order to win it.
Megan Tam and Jacqueline Siry, both sophomore graphic design students at Penn State, won awards for their work in the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) Blue Ridge 2018 Flux Student Design Competition.
In a Center for the Performing Arts interview, opera star Isabel Leonard takes time to provide insight into pants roles, role models and her most intensely private role—motherhood. Leonard will perform with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor John Mauceri, in “100 Years of Leonard Bernstein” Feb. 27 at Eisenhower Auditorium.
Using geodesign to involve all stakeholders in urban land-use planning will be the subject of a web-based seminar to be offered by Penn State Extension on Feb. 20.
Singer/songerwriter Tinashe, America's first African-American astronaut speaking at Penn State Harrisburg and the 27th annual Connoisseur's Dinner and Auction are among the cultural highlights happening at Penn State this weekend and next week.
In its fourth year, the Arts Business Ideas Competition is the College of Arts and Architecture’s annual showcase of arts entrepreneurship that asks students to present an arts-based business plan that could earn entrants up to $5,000 to develop the concept.
What are some of the challenges and needs that neuro-diverse families face when they want to partake in a cultural experience outside the home? Roger Ideishi, director and professor of occupational therapy at Temple University, shared insight into best practices and venue-patron expectations at a Jan. 29 visit to the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State.
Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Penn State, is co-organizing and will participate in an international conference in London this spring that addresses scientific research, art history, archaeology, and the economics that surround the results of radiocarbon testing.
With its faculty showcase, on exhibit Feb. 4-28, the Center for Pedagogy in Arts and Design will share the research of the inaugural year of faculty Innovators in Residence. The projects of the researchers include designing teaching and learning, performing and exhibiting, and implementing pedagogical practices in both formal and informal settings.
Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Trio Arabica — in concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in Schwab Auditorium — will take listeners back to 1740, when coffee houses were the places to listen to music and share stories in both the famous trading centers of Leipzig and in the ancient city of Damascus.
The first community conversation focused on the Musser Gap to Valleylands (MG2V) project scheduled for 6 p.m. on Jan. 31 has been postponed due to forecasted inclement weather. The event has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. on Feb. 7 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County at 780 Waupelani Dr. in State College.
Senior students and faculty in the Graphic Design program at Penn State made a strong showing in the 2019 Graphis New Talent Annual Award competition with two projects earning top honors (Platinum Awards) and another eight earning Gold and Silver Awards.
Images from the 2019 Graphis New Talent Platinum Award-winning campaign by Emeritus Professor Kristin Sommese and the 19 students in the Penn State Graphic Design Class of 2019 for the program’s summer internship program.
