"The Gilded and the Faded," an exhibition featuring photographs by Luke Brezovec, a sophomore at Penn State majoring in integrative arts and biochemistry, will run Feb. 20 to March 2, in the Borland Gallery, Room 125, on the University Park campus. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. There will a free public reception in the gallery from 3 to 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24. (more)
Laura Hansplant, a landscape architect specializing in sustainable design and planning, will give a talk at noon Feb. 15, in 101 Stuckeman Family Building on the University Park campus of Penn State. The lecture is supported by the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. (more)
Brooklyn artist Valerie Hegarty will give a free public lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Her work often recreates, destroys, and transforms the gallery, objects of art, and the constructs of image-making using fragile materials such as paint, paper and glue. Hegarty's lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. (more)
Michelangelo Sabatino, associate professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, will give a talk from noon to 2 p.m. on Feb. 3 in the jury space at the Stuckeman Building on Penn State's University Park campus. Titled "Topographies of the Modern: Architectural Environments of Arthur Erickson," Sabatino's talk will focus on the evolution of the style of Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. This marks the second lecture of the "Outside Looking In" series. (more)
An Intimate Exhibition, an exhibition featuring photographs by Jenna Ferraraccio, 2011 Penn State University graduate with a B.A. in Integrative Arts, will run February 6-17, 2012, in the Borland Gallery, Room 125, on the University Park campus. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Ferraraccio describes her exhibition as "a series of abstract, black and white photographs that explore the relationship between the natural and human landscape." (more)
Mehrdad Hadighi, an architect that Wallpaper called one of the 25 "most intriguing, innovative and intrepid architects" in the world, is the new head of the Department of Architecture and Chair in Integrative Design in the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, effective spring 2012. (more)
Martin Kaltwasser, co-founder of Folke Koebberling / Martin Kaltwasser and guest scholar at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, will speak 6 p.m. on Jan. 25 in Penn State's Stuckeman Family Building jury space. Kaltwasser's talk kicks off the "Outside Looking In" lecture series. (more)
Kim Beck, a Pittsburgh artist, will give a free public lecture at 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Using images of architecture and landscape, Beck makes drawings, prints, paintings and installations that survey peripheral and suburban spaces. Her work urges a reconsideration of the built environment -- the peculiar street signs, gas station banners, overgrown weeded lots, and self-storage buildings -- bringing the banal and everyday into focus. Beck's lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. (more)
The Penn State President's Concert has come full circle. The sixth annual event, designed to showcase School of Music ensembles to alumni and prospective students, will feature the Penn State Glee Club, Opera Theatre and Philharmonic Orchestra Feb. 28 at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, the site of the first such concert in 2007. "The Penn State President's Concert is an event our students anticipate every year, because it gives them the opportunity to perform in a major concert hall to an audience of alumni and prospective students," said Sue Haug, director of the School of Music. "It's an opportunity you just don't get at most universities." (more)
Penn State's Art Education program will offer Saturday art classes this spring for students ages 4 to 18. Interested participants may register now for the eight-week session, which takes place from 9 to 11 a.m. beginning Feb. 11 and concludes with a show of student work on April 21 (no classes on March 3 and 10). Classes are taught by advanced art education students, in collaboration with art education faculty and graduate teaching assistants. They will be held in studio classrooms in Patterson Building and the Arts Cottage on the University Park campus. Class activities will be tailored to students at each age/grade level. Registration is $65 per student. For more information or to request a registration form, call 814-863-5349. (more)
