Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, has unveiled a historical installation to accompany the Eberly Building’s iconic mural, "The Spirit of Service" by Frank L. Melega.
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State held its first puppet creation workshop in the HUB-Robeson Center on June 27, where students were given the opportunity to help design giant, illuminated puppets made out of reused materials like bamboo, pool noodles and linen. These puppets will be showcased in the IllumiNATION parade, set for March 28, 2020.
When Yi Yang, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Penn State Abington, was a doctoral student, he frequented art museums but grew frustrated with the inability of patrons to closely examine paintings and the artists’ techniques. After some thought, he realized that a laser imaging system like the one in his lab could be used to capture the 3D surface profiles of artwork.
"Nittany Lion: Eco-Mascot," a solo exhibition by Hannah Epstein, is currently on display through Sept. 12 in the HUB-Robeson Galleries on Penn State's University Park campus.
Penn State Lehigh Valley has partnered with visiting artist Elsabé Dixon to create environmentally proactive art about the invasive spotted lanternfly through Penn State's Campus Arts Initiative.
Penn State Shenango staff and faculty will host their 4th Annual Scoop & Paint fundraiser at 1:00 p.m. on Sat., August 3, in the campus’ Great Hall, 147 Shenango Avenue in downtown Sharon.
The Center for Arts and Crafts at Penn State is now taking registrations for adult summer art classes, which begin the week of July 8. These noncredit classes are open to all Penn State faculty, staff and students.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has received "Autumn Landscape," a major work by American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900), from Hilary Peery Vesell. Vesell donated the painting in honor of her late father, Dr. Elliot Vesell, who served for 32 years as the founding chair of pharmacology at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and 22 years as assistant dean of graduate studies at the Penn State College of Medicine.
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts — the largest annual town-gown event between Penn State and the neighboring town of State College — will begin on July 10 and conclude July 14.
James Kalsbeek, Penn State professor of architecture in the Stuckeman School, has joined forces with a Brooklyn-based film crew to create a film about storytelling, loss and memory. "The Molok" begins filming in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, on July 1 and continues through Arts Festival weekend with community events being hosted at The Workshop, a collaborative space for experimental art, design and performance.
"I’ve been hammering away at the notion that if science researchers bring artists and designers to the table at the beginning, they will find that these creatives will ask new questions, will explode those questions and explode that research wide open, and will lead to new directions and new discoveries,” said Barbara Korner, dean of the College of Arts and Architecture.
Penn State Abington students are telling their personal life stories through a summer course titled "The Craft of Comics."
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced a third special exhibition for the summer, "George Miller and American Lithography," which opens June 18. The exhibition is selected entirely from the museum’s permanent collection and features 38 prints by an impressive roster of artists who worked with master printer George Miller to create some of their most memorable and recognizable works.
The Campus Arts Initiative, a project of Penn State’s Strategic Planning Seed Grant program, has announced the first eight artist collaborators, which were selected from the more than 158 applicants who responded to a national open call.
As the days heat up and summer starts, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced a full slate of programs for June, July and August that will include exhibition openings, Friday gallery talks, and Sunday afternoon docent tours, as well as several exciting family and youth programs, including Family Day, a teen photo workshop, and new drop-in workshop sessions for art lovers of all ages.
