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Palmer Museum of Art receives $100,000 foundation grant from Luce Foundation

6/5/18

This spring, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State received a major grant of $100,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to produce a catalogue that will illustrate and detail its impressive American art collection. The four-year grant will provide funding for the research and production of the catalogue, which will highlight around 100 of the most aesthetically and historically significant examples of the Palmer’s 4,500-some works of American art.

New York painter John Zinsser to lecture at Penn State on Oct. 19

10/14/09

John Zinsser, New York-based abstract painter and co-founder of the Journal of Contemporary Art, will give a free public lecture titled "The Fate of Abstraction" at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 19, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium in the Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Zinsser will critically define "iconic" examples of 20th century works in order to discuss how today's younger practitioners have reacted to this tradition in radical and redefining ways. The Penn State School of Visual Arts' John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series sponsors Zinsser's lecture.

Ceramic artist to lecture on Sept. 23 at the Palmer Museum of Art

9/16/09

Andy Brayman, ceramic artist and founder of Matter Factory, will give a free public lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium in the Palmer Museum of Art on Penn State's University Park campus. The Penn State School of Visual Arts' John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series are sponsoring Brayman's lecture.