Penn State's "AstroFest" program, a four-night festival of astronomy activities and stargazing, will welcome visitors for its 21st year from July 10 to 13. The program will run from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. each night during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. Events are free and will occur rain or shine both in classrooms and in the planetarium located on the fifth floor of Davey Laboratory.
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State has announced its 2019–2020 season, which includes a seven-performance Centre County premiere of the multiple award-winning Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon.”
The producers of the national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State announced today (July 8) that single tickets will go on sale July 18 starting at 8 a.m.
Penn State Centre Stage will present the ever-charming musical "A Year with Frog and Toad," with music by Robert Reale, lyrics by Willie Reale, co-directed by Travis DeCastro and Richard St. Clair, and music direction by Richard Biever, at 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. daily from July 10 to 13 at the Playhouse Theatre on Penn State's University Park campus.
"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.
Art intersected with technology, sustainability and community revitalization at the 2019 Off the Wall pARTy at Penn State New Kensington on June 14.
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.
"Albatross," a film by artist Chris Jordan, will be offered as a free public screening through Penn State Centre Stage and the Penn State Sustainability Institute at noon on July 12 and 7 p.m. on July 16 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre.
Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., winner of season six of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” will headline this year’s Penn State DuBois Benefit Celebration, slated for 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at the DuBois Country Club. Tickets go on sale July 1 for this unique event, which will see Murphy perform favorites from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and other classics.
A design by Penn State architecture student Nicholas Fudali has been selected to become the look of the new East Coast Music Hall of Fame Museum in Wildwood, New Jersey.
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.
