Penn State Centre Stage's production of "Men on Boats," explorer Robert Ballard at Penn State York, "The Vagina Monologues" and two Research Unplugged events are among the cultural highlights at Penn State this weekend and next week.
Faculty and staff from the College of Arts and Architecture will present Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking play, "The Vagina Monologues," at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art. Admission is free. The play is part of the Palmer Museum of Art’s Art After Hours Third Thursday programming for this month’s theme “I Am Woman.”
Penn State President Eric Barron presented 11 awards to more than 30 graduate students in recognition of outstanding achievement during the annual Graduate Student Awards Luncheon held April 11 at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Thirteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award, Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal in recognition of their outstanding professional accomplishment and achievement in scholarly research in any of the disciplinary areas of arts and humanities; social sciences—applied and basic; physical and computational sciences—applied and basic; life and health sciences; and engineering.
Three Penn State graduate students ─ Umme Hani, Aravinth Sadagopan, and Olivia Shotyk ─ have been awarded the Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award.
Two Penn State graduate students received the 2019 Professional Master’s Excellence Award.
Ten Penn State graduate students have received the 2019 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award.
Organized by Cristin Millett, professor of art in the Penn State School of Visual Arts, the one-day symposium will bring to light the ways in which artists of all genres, along with practitioners, educators, researchers and others in the fields of health and medicine, are joining forces to explore and envision new approaches to pervasive questions in these fields.
Stuckeman School faculty within the Department of Architecture are hosting Dana Cupkova, assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture and co-founder/design principal of EPIPHYTE Lab, as a keynote speaker on April 18 in the South Forum of the Stuckeman Family Building at University Park.
The Undergraduate Exhibition, comedian Michael Che, a School of Music event dedicated to female composers and the annual Blue-White game and festivities are among the cultural highlights this weekend and next week.
The Penn State School of Music will celebrate women in music with "Empow(H)er," a concert featuring the works of female composers, at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 14, in the new School of Music Recital Hall at University Park. The program will feature a variety of works, including performances by marimba, brass, solo voice and choirs.
Tickets are still on sale for the 2019 Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art annual Gala and auction. The fundraising event on May 18 will be held at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. This year’s theme is borrowed from the major spring exhibition organized by the Palmer, "From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space," a vibrant exploration of the urban rooftop by notable American artists, on view at the museum through May 12.
Jaclyn Backhaus' "Men on Boats" will be presented April 16–20 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre. The show is a rollicking adventure tale brought thrillingly to life by a cast of diverse performers, who use carefully exaggerated theatrics to tell the story of an actual 1869 expedition led by John Wesley Powell to chart the Colorado River.
Emily Burns, assistant teaching professor of graphic design within the Stuckeman School, is curating a new exhibition by artist Kaveri Raina that opens April 12 at the Assembly Room in New York’s Lower East Side.
The Department of Art History’s Visual Resources Centre will host "Imaging Art History," an interactive installation focusing on the changing progression of visual resources that art historians have used in their teaching and research over the years, from April 9 to 19. Visitors will be invited to interact with the various examples as well as to tap into their creativity by transforming discarded slides into works of art.
