May 2013
May 20 2013
Penn State Centre Stage will kick off its 2013-14 season in June with Good People, a humor-filled drama about a struggling South Boston single mom trying to make a fresh start. For more details, click...
May 13 2013
Approximately 240 undergraduates received their degrees during the College of Arts and Architecture's 2013 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 4, in Eisenhower Auditorium. The commencement spea...
May 08 2013
Eight College of Arts and Architecture students were recently named spring 2013 student marshals, in recognition of earning the highest overall grade-point average in their respective academic units....
May 08 2013
Eight College of Arts and Architecture undergraduates recently received academic achievement awards at the University Park Student Awards Convocation, including the Evan Pugh Scholar Award, given to j...
May 08 2013
Nineteen Landscape Architecture students recently won awards from the Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The awards are designed to encourage and rec...
May 06 2013
Charles Garoian has continued his cultural journey through the art of art education by authoring a new book, The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art: Embodied Research and Practice, published by the State Univ...
May 06 2013
School of Theatre faculty member Matthew Toronto's film, THE PACT, produced by Tarantula Entertainment, will be released for purchase on Createspace.com and Amazon.com on May 11, 2013. The re...
May 06 2013
What happens when a student has strong interests in two vastly different fields of study? How does the student choose a path? Josh Laughner decided not to choose and successfully pursued degrees in bo...
May 03 2013
Penn State Architecture students are buzzing about up-and-coming digital programs used in the profession and research, thanks to the Beehive series of workshops taught by students, for students.
Co-le...
Apr 2013
Apr 26 2013
Ah, summer in Happy Valley! There's nothing better than being in State College during the summer—the green beauty of the woods, the forests and farmlands surrounding the campus viewed from a...
Apr 24 2013
Developing Environmental Consciousness, an exhibition featuring photos by students in Photography and the Environment, will be on display in the Borland Gallery on the Penn State University Park campu...
Apr 23 2013
Tracing the paths of Dotty and Paul Rigby requires a journey across the United States, to Mexico, and back again. The journey made an important stop at the Atherton Hotel in State College April 22 whe...
Apr 23 2013
Mary Katerman (’12 B.M.E.) has been chosen as a Fulbright Scholar for the year 2014. She will travel to Malaysia where she will teach English as a second language to students aged 11-17.
To read...
Apr 23 2013
Amara Solari, assistant professor of art history and anthropology, has been awarded a nine-month Long-Term Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, R.I., for the 2013...
Apr 22 2013
Derby Girls, a short film produced by Jennifer Crandell, who earned degrees in integrative arts and film-video in 2012, has been accepted into the FirstGlance Film Festival in Hollywood, one of the...
Apr 18 2013
Karen Keifer-Boyd, professor of art education and women's studies, was honored with the 2013 United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA) Edwin Ziegfeld Award at the National Art Educat...
Apr 16 2013
Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, architect, urbanist, engineer and historian of art, architecture and landscape, will give a free public lecture, "The Art of the Garden and the City: From the Baroque Perio...
Apr 15 2013
The School of Music will host the biennial Thompson Symposium for music education master's students on Saturday, April 27. The symposium is named for Dr. Keith Thompson, music education professor,...
Apr 15 2013
The Ceramics Club is making bowls to raise money for the FaithCentre Food Bank in Bellefonte. The bowls will sell for $25 and include an all-you-can-eat pasta dinner on Friday, April 19, 5-7 p.m., at...
Apr 12 2013
The College of Arts and Architecture will host a screening of Raising Renee, the HBO documentary about artist and Penn State alumna Beverly McIver’s experiences caring for her mentally disabled...
Apr 10 2013
There’s no religion involved in Landscape Architecture Professor Ken Tamminga’s Pittsburgh Studio, but he still compares the studio experience to a church service.
The course takes upper-c...
Apr 10 2013
Matthew B. Swope has received the School of Music's 2013-2014 Outstanding Alumni Music Educator Award. This award recognizes alumni who are making a positive difference in the lives of their stude...
Apr 10 2013
Joyce Robinson, curator at the Palmer Museum of Art, and Dana Carlisle Kletchka, curator of education at the museum, were recently featured in a Research Unplugged program, "Behind the Scenes at...
Apr 05 2013
Congratulations to the following College of Arts and Architecture students who received awards in the 2013 Graduate Exhibition, held March 22–24:
Arts and Humanities
Second Place
Mara Culp, Musi...
Apr 04 2013
Arts Crawl 2013, an open house-style event in studios and galleries throughout the College of Arts and Architecture, will take place Friday, April 5, 5:30-11 p.m., as part of the college's 50th an...
Apr 03 2013
Katie Guida, Ph.D. candidate in art history, has been awarded the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Junior Scholar Award in Early Modern Studies for 2013-14. The award includes a semester-long res...
Apr 02 2013
Langston J. Fitzgerald, III, professor of trumpet, has been awarded the 2013 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award. These annual awards publicly recognize specific teachers by sp...
Mar 2013
Mar 29 2013
Phoenix Savage, the Being Humans Postdoctoral Fellow in Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, is working on collecting 5,000 "touches" through her Human Touch Project,...
Mar 28 2013
On the surface, The Magic Flute tells the tale of a prince out to rescue the daughter of a queen. But dig a little deeper and audiences will find there are stories within stories when Toronto’s...
Mar 28 2013
Each year, Penn State honors several members of its faculty and staff for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. In 2013, Helen O'Leary, profess...
Mar 28 2013
House of Dreams, created and performed by Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, is a virtual visit to five European homes where great masterpieces of Baroque art were displayed on the walls an...
Mar 26 2013
Laura Brown has been awarded a graduate student summer residency at the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities. The residency program provides eight advanced students in the arts and humanit...
Mar 22 2013
The Public Theater’s new production of Hair, winner of the Tony Award for best revival of a musical, energetically depicts the birth of a cultural movement in the 1960s that changed America fore...
Mar 22 2013
The Penn State chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students is hosting the northeast region conference, "From Bytes to Built," March 22-24. For more information, click here.
Mar 21 2013
Gillian Malloy came to Penn State believing that an engineering major was her career path. Halfway through her undergraduate studies, she realized that graphic design and photography were her true cal...
Mar 21 2013
The College of Arts and Architecture's e-Learning Institute recently worked with Teaching and Learning Technology (TLT) at Penn State to create an art-related open educational resource for iTunes...
Mar 20 2013
The stars are aligning at Penn State. That’s what the team of faculty members organizing the collaborative production of Leonard Bernstein MASS say must be happening to mount the massive underta...
Mar 20 2013
The College of Arts and Architecture is taking a leading role in integrating arts practices in research universities through its involvement in the newly established Alliance for the Arts in Research...
