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Hall of the Bulls in Altamira Cave in Spain

Create your own prehistoric paintings at Penn State's Arts Festival booth

6/26/18

Penn State’s “Art of Discovery” booth will feature a hands-on, family-friendly demonstration of how early humans made the paints that still adorn cave walls around the world — offering festival-goers the chance to create their own artwork from their own handmade paint between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 14.

Denice Wardrop

Explore the impacts of plastics through art at Arts Festival

6/25/18

Denice Wardrop, as a follow up to the Palmer Museum of Art’s record-breaking "Plastic Entanglements" exhibition, will join Penn State’s Art of Discovery booth at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 14, to examine humanity's relationship with plastics, its usage in art, and both its benefits and its consequences.

Julie Heffernan, "Self-Portrait as Standing My Ground"

Palmer Museum of Art presents three shows in eclectic summer exhibition lineup

6/12/18

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.

2018 Arts Festival Poser

Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts reveals 2018 poster design

6/11/18

The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts has released its 2018 collectible poster, which features elements familiar to any festival-goer: musical notes, a paintbrush and the festival jester, arranged over a background of yellows, oranges and pinks. However, this year’s poster is notable in that the festival jester is depicted as a woman for the first time.

Abington boat sculptures

Ship ahoy! Abington students sail sculptures inspired by iconic films

6/7/18

A group of first-year art majors at Penn State Abington literally sailed into summer. Enrolled in a foundational sculpture course, the students constructed 6-foot replicas of iconic ships and submarines, which they launched on the campus duck pond for their final exam.

Diebenkorn's "Man and Woman, Seated"

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.

Manual Labor

'Manual Labor' to open June 5 in the Robeson Gallery

5/30/18

“Manual Labor,” an exhibition of intricate, repetitive works by artists Jo Margolis and Kate McGraw presented by the HUB-Robeson Galleries, will be on display June 5 to Aug. 24 in the Robeson Gallery at University Park.

'Pick of the Litter' by Aurora Robson

Arboretum at Penn State hosts 'Gravity Schmavity' plastic sculpture exhibition

5/29/18

The Arboretum at Penn State invites the campus and surrounding communities to the public opening of a summer art exhibition — "Gravity Schmavity: Repurposed Plastic Sculpture by Aurora Robson" — on Saturday, June 2. The works will be displayed at three locations in the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens: the Overlook Pavilion, the Glass House in the Childhood's Gate Children's Garden, and the Poplar Court.

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