The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened its second exhibition for the season, "Amazing Stories: Recent Acquisitions," on Jan. 12. The show features a diverse range of contemporary works recently acquired by the museum.
On Jan. 5, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened its first exhibition of the 2019 season, "Subjective Spaces: Drawings and Collages by Robert Reed." The intimate retrospective features 16 selections from Reed’s drawings and collages that are rich in the geometric nonobjectivity, born almost exclusively within the imagination, that marked his entire career.
In connection with Penn State’s Parents & Families Weekend, the Palmer Museum of Art will hold its annual Community Day celebration this from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20. This year’s program invites visitors to consider connections between art and the natural world via gallery talks, tours, music, and art activities inspired by two still-life exhibitions currently on view at the museum. Cider and cookies will be available.
Artist G. Daniel Massad will present a lecture titled “Yours Truly” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, in the Palmer Museum of Art's Palmer Lipcon Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Palmer Museum of Art announces the temporary closure and upcoming reinstallation of the museum’s first floor Harold L. and Edythe B. Tonkin Gallery. The Tonkin gallery will be reconfigured to display pieces from the museum’s expanding studio glass collection, as well as highlights from its existing world-class ceramic collection. The phased reinstallation will begin with the closing of the gallery on Oct. 9 and with the goal of reopening to the public by Dec. 8.
Anna Marley, curator of historical American art and director for the Center of the Study of American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, will present a lecture at the Palmer Museum of Art on Sept. 27.
"A Small Radius of Light: G. Daniel Massad, A Retrospective," a major loan exhibition featuring 72 works spanning five decades, will be on view from Sept. 25 through Dec. 9 at the Palmer Museum of Art on Penn State's University Park campus.
This month, after a national search, the Palmer Museum of Art welcomed Amber Krieg into the new role of associate director of museum membership and donor relations. Krieg began her duties on Sept. 17.
Starting this month and running through the fall and spring semesters, the Palmer Museum of Art is beginning a brand new tradition of hosting Third Thursday arts events. The monthly programs will include special performances, art-making activities, games, and other entertainment, as well as extended evening access to the Palmer galleries, exhibitions, and Museum Store on the third Thursday each month between the hours of 6 and 9 p.m.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced the opening of two fall exhibitions, "Object Lessons: American Still-Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century," and "Instinctive Gestures: Recent Gifts from the Fishman-MacElderry Collection".
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced its summer 2018 exhibition schedule. This summer, the museum will present recent large-scale paintings by contemporary artist Julie Heffernan, as well as exhibitions drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, including a display of documentary and modernist photographs of the city, and a selection of posters from the golden age of American poster art.
The Palmer Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Brandi Breslin as the new museum educator. She began her duties on June 11.
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.
