Palmer Museum of Art - March 2008 Calendar of Events

March 5, 2008

For a complete schedule of College of Arts and Architecture events, including performances presented by the School of Music, School of Theatre and Center for the Performing Arts and exhibitions presented by the Palmer Museum of Art and School of Visual Arts, visit the college's Web Events calendar at http://events.psu.edu/ and select College of Arts and Architecture from the scroll-down menu.
For more information regarding exhibitions and educational programing offered by the Palmer Museum of Art, go to www.palmermuseum.psu.edu.

The Museum will be open during Penn State's spring break, March 11-14. However, we will be closed on Easter Sunday, March 23.

Exhibitions
Manet and Friends
Through April 6, 2008

Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture
from the New Orleans Museum of Art
Through May 11, 2008

G. Daniel Massad: Loading the Work
Through May 25, 2008

March 5 - WEDNESDAY, 12:10 P.M.
THe Art of Poetry
James Brasfield, senior lecturer in the Department of English

FIRST THURSDAYS
First Thursday events are open to art lovers of all ages and are held in conjunction with First Thursday State College programs, sponsored by the Downtown State College Improvement District. Join us on the first Thursday of every month to enjoy a film, musical performance, gallery talk, hands-on activity, or other art-related event. The galleries open, and there is something new and exciting every month! For more information, go to http://www.firstthursdaystatecollege.org.

March 6 - THURSDAY, 7:00 P.M.
FIRST THURSDAY
Gallery Talk for Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art by Olubukola A. Gbadegesin, visiting instructor of art history. 7:00 p.m. Galleries are open from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m..

March 7 - FRIDAY, 12:10 P.M.
GALLERY TALK
Perspectives Unbound, by Charlotte Eubanks, assistant professor of comparative literature and Japanese, on Japanese traditions around the visual representation of poetic travel in woodblock prints.

March 19 - WEDNESDAY, 12:10 P.M.
THe Art of Music
Chamber Music with Strings Attached, featuring advanced string players from the School of Music.

March 21 - FRIDAY, 12:10 P.M.
GALLERY TALK
Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art, by Joyce Robinson, curator.

March 25 - TUESDAY, 6:00 P.M.
American Art Lecture
Memory and Melancholy: Marsden Hartley's Elegiac Art by Randall R. Griffey, Associate Curator of American Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Extending across Marsden Hartley's wide-ranging imagery is a persisting reliance on memory as a springboard to imagination and expression. This lecture will focus on the elegiac function that much of Hartley's most memorable art served.

March 28 - FRIDAY, 12:10 P.M.
GALLERY TALK
Manet and Friends by Patrick McGrady, Charles V. Hallman curator.

Contact: Ali Bradley, 814-863-9182, abradley@psu.edu