Penn State Centre Stage will launch its return to professional summer theatre with "The Last Day," June 12–22, at the Penn State Downtown Theatre, with music by Mike Reid, lyrics by Sarah Schlesinger and book by Reid and Schlesinger. John Simpkins directs, with musical direction by Jennifer Peacock. Reid is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter and former Penn State defensive lineman.
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.
A new exhibition at Penn State Lehigh Valley features works by both professional and first-time artists.
The 2019 Penn’s Woods Music Festival kicks off June 11 with Music in the Gardens at The Arboretum at Penn State, featuring the Altoona Brass Collective, with the festival orchestra and chamber music concerts taking place in the School of Music’s new recital hall starting June 16. For the first time, the season will include opera and jazz, along with the classical music festival audiences know and love.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book will participate in Route One Reads, a roadtrip-inspired reading list that explores various genres through the network of state Center for the Book affiliates located along U.S. Route 1. In 2019, the theme of the reading will be cookbooks and other food-related books.
Penn State Scranton Instructor in Art Corianne Thomson recently shared her passion for using marine life in her art work at a Lunch and Learn lecture this spring, highlighting where she finds inspiration and how she works the unique features of echinoderms into her artwork.
Two posters designed by Ryan Russell, associate professor of graphic design, have been accepted into the 2019 Bienal del Cartel Bolivia BICeBé, a biennial elite international design event in Bolivia.
The "it’s the new everything" -- a group exhibition by Brian Alfred, Arden Bendler Browning, Trisha Holt, and Phaan Howng -- will be on display in the HUB-Robeson Galleries on Penn State's University Park campus. A free, public reception with light refreshments will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. June 25.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus will host The PettyBreakers at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 on campus.
A short video, created almost entirely by Penn State University Libraries student staff and interns, was honored at the 2019 Association of Research Libraries Film Festival. The Libraries’ submission, “Giving Tuesday Thank You,” won the award, called an ARLie, for best reflection of diversity.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced the openings of two remarkable summer exhibitions that bring the rich visual culture of 20th-century Mexico to life. "Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography," will be on view June 1 through July 28, and "Myth Meets Modernism: The Manuel Álvarez Bravo Portfolio," will run June 11 through Aug. 4.
Award-winning potter and political activist Roberto Lugo began his art career on the streets, and now he’s taking his work to the streets of Rome. Lugo, a 2014 master of fine arts alumnus of the Penn State School of Visual Arts, is a 2019–20 winner of the Rome Prize, which supports advanced independent work in the arts and humanities.
State College youth in the Roots of Life performing arts ensemble joined with members of the Foxdale Village chorus for a unique intergenerational performance on Saturday, May 11. Titled “Imagine: Songs of Hope and Peace,” the performance featured individuals from under 10 to over 90.
With extra layers of art outreach, The Gallery at Penn College is hosting a unique exhibit titled “The Hundred Dresses Project: We Are All in This Together,” set for June 4 through July 23.
Penn State student organization WORDS (Writers Organized to Represent Diverse Stories), took home the championship title at this year’s College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational held by the Association of College Unions - International at the University of Houston.
