Past Exhibitions

ACCESS EXCESS | Amy Boone-McCreesh

December 5, 2023 - March 1, 2024 | HUB Gallery

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Through a pastiche of urban environments and grandiose architecture, Boone-McCreesh visually examines what ‘good’ taste looks like by pulling at the widely accepted cultural agreements about visual taste as it relates to class. The way these ideas intermingle with formal elements like color, composition, and decoration are also examined. Maximal faux luxury designs and repetitive visual motifs, all immerse viewers in a world that is inspired by spaces as intimate as the domestic and as powerful as baroque estates. She plays with design elements alongside the banality of daily life as a way to suss out who has access to beauty and how this concept has played out over history. As class disparities and social hierarchies in the United States grow more complex, Boone-McCreesh looks to the world around her as a constant informant of gatekeeping and how it relates to access to luxury spaces, goods, and even personal comfort.

Magnificare | Marguerita Hagan

September 22, 2023 - February 22, 2024 | Exhibition Cases

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Marguerita Hagan is a ceramic sculptor based in Philadelphia. Her exhibition “Magnificare” sheds light on a multiplex of senses and dimensions from the eye, mind, and heart to sustainable actions. Each series in the exhibition honors and celebrates mutually thriving communities and environments. Her play with scale makes physically visible the micro jewels of the ocean and her tributaries. In a cohesive and diverse body of ceramics, the works illuminate interdependence and engagement while magnifying our awareness, reciprocal responsibility, and protection of each other and our planet.

Invisible Bodies | Curated by The Border Gallery and Emireth Herrera Valdés

October 21, 2023 - February 18, 2024 | Art Alley

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Invisible Bodies examines the intersection of migration and labor, illuminating the often-overlooked narratives of those whose bodies remain hidden in the shadows of society. Curated by The Border Gallery and Emireth Herrera Valdés, this exhibition explores the resilience, determination, and the hierarchical structures related to immigration and race in the United States.

Featuring fifteen artists with socially engaged projects, paintings, sculptures, installations, and performances, Invisible Bodies illuminates the labor's demanding nature, its inadequate compensation, and undervaluation, while delving into the gendered and racialized dimensions of migrant bodies as non-citizen workers, crucial to constructing today's society. The gallery's green walls symbolize our support for an open immigration system, allowing immigrants to contribute to the nation's labor force.

Featured Artists: Abang-guard (Maureen Catbagan + Jevijoe Vitug), Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Brendan Fernandes, Billy Gerard Frank, Zac Hacmon, Julia Justo, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Jamie Martinez, Zahra Nazari, Michael Pribich, Lina Puerta, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Luis Alvaro Sahagun, Manon Wada

Ingress | Piper Shepard

August 7, 2023 – October 22, 2023 | HUB Gallery

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Piper Shepard’s intricately cut textiles conjure lace, wallpaper, or remnants of pattern to connect with memories and human history. Her gossamer, wall-sized textile sculptures suggest sacred spaces, and, upon closer inspection, the beauty of their surfaces reveals a mesmerizing variety of intimate, laborious handwork of employed techniques. She considers cloth a malleable and movable substance, a rich domain that is both fragile and enduring.

Anacostia Portraits | Elena Volkova

June 8, 2023 – October 13, 2023 | Art Alley

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Anacostia Portraits is a participatory art project using a historic photographic process to create a visual archive celebrating the people who make up the Anacostia region of the District of Columbia. In this revival of the 19th-century tintype, individuals with a connection to the community were invited to portrait sessions with photographer Elena Volkova at the Anacostia Arts Center. Each sitting produced two portraits, one for the participant and one for a final installation.

Volkova sees Anacostia Portraits as a way for people to shape their own representations, and to encourage a dialogue between past and present. The tintype, or wet plate collodion process makes exposures on metal plates coated with wet silver nitrate. Like a Polaroid, each exposure produces a single image. However, a single tintype takes about 15 minutes to create. Volkova uses the forced slowness to collaborate with participants, learning enough about each person to reveal their internal stories in a final portrait.

Anacostia Portraits is supported by a Corcoran Women’s Committee and ARCH Development Corporation grant.

Everyone Wants to Be a Perpetual Motion Machine | Patrick Bell

May 26, 2023 – September 15, 2023 | Exhibition Cases

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An exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Patrick Bell, Everyone Wants to Be a Perpetual Motion Machine creates self-probing entities which materialize his relationship to health and the anxieties surrounding it. Fear of intimacy, the stigma surrounding medication, and sporadic pain referenced by palpating hands, oversized pills, and inflamed tissue inform his work. Often in the absence of a body, unresolved trauma and tension become actualized scenes of disorder, while moments of intimacy or romance become confused and distant.

Patrick Bell was born in Reisterstown, Maryland, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his BFA in Ceramics with a Minor in Printmaking from Edinboro University in 2016 and subsequently spent two years studying Ceramics at Wichita State University in Kansas. Patrick then moved to Baltimore to continue teaching and making where he is currently the Lormina Salter Fellow at Baltimore Clayworks.

Center for Arts & Crafts Artists and Instructors Exhibition | Penn State

May 18, 2023 – September 15, 2023 | Exhibition Cases

The Penn State Center for Arts & Crafts’ (CFAC) artists and instructors will showcase their artwork in the first-floor Display Cases. This exhibition will feature artworks representing the range of art classes available at the CFAC.

The Center for Arts & Crafts has offered non-credit adult art classes to Penn State students, faculty, and staff during each of the university semesters and a children’s summer art camp for more than 40 years. The Center for Arts & Crafts is located in 3 Ritenour and has a ceramics studio in B8 HUB.

Unsolicited Advice | Laura Marsh 

April 20, 2023 – July 16, 2023 | HUB Gallery 

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Is it safe to say at one point in your life that you have both given and received unsolicited advice? How did that make you feel? These are the questions that Laura Marsh asks as a textile artist of humanitarian messages and social practice. The solo exhibition, Unsolicited Advice, is a phrase taken from a small banner included in the exhibition. Through textile paintings, banners, spheres, and installations, Marsh discusses larger societal issues through the use of fabric. She invites participants to sit on the spheres and provides spaces to contemplate larger text statements and interact with textiles.  

Laura Marsh (b.1982 Montrose, Pennsylvania) received her MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Marsh has exhibited nationally at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Jane Lombard Gallery, Printed Matter, Field Projects, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, Tilton Gallery in NY, Dotfiftyone Gallery, Locust Projects, and Deering Estate in Miami. In addition, she has been an artist in residence at Oolite Arts (Miami Beach, US), Mana Contemporary (Miami, US), and Siena Art Institute (Siena, Italy). She is currently represented by Dotfiftyone Gallery, Miami.  

Visual Arts Annual Graduate Research Exhibition | Penn State

March 18, 2023 – April 1, 2023 | HUB Gallery

Featuring the work of the current Master of Fine Arts candidates, the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition includes several artists working in a wide variety of mediums. Candidates are challenged to effectively demonstrate the significance of their ideas and creative research to the general public. Individuals whose works and presentations are judged best will receive monetary awards. 

The Annual Graduate Research Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields.

Sticky Mirror | Sarah Sutton

February 4, 2023 – May 30, 2023 | Art Alley

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These paintings imagine in-between spaces, scalar fluidity, and what the artist calls psychic spaces, where the private and public realm collapse. Short-term comforts and long-term consequences collide, and histories and interspecies boundaries dissolve and reappear unexpectedly.

Humans are not foregrounded but instead one small part, enmeshed and entangled in the web-like spaces. The title of this exhibition comes from Timothy Morton’s book, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World and sticky mirrors alludes to the viscous relationship between humans and objects, environmental degradation, and its ‘stickiness’ to our bodies, despite our evolutionary blind spots.

HARD CANDY TECTONICS

November 14, 2022 - May 4, 2023 | Exhibition Cases

Works by Gracelee Lawrence

Curated by Jessica Rommelt

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Glimmering and seductive surfaces blend into sensual volumes in space that together form the plastic sublime that is Gracelee Lawrence's sculpture. Her approach to objects spins somewhere off the map between a traditional sculptural legacy (in the company of reclining nudes and ornate garden fountains) and a 21st-century DIY manufacturing approach that let's one artist print off extruded plastic components that fit elegantly together. Still, with a fierce rebel sensibility, Lawrence serves the most exquisite Lego Tetris figuration you've ever seen. These sculptures usually feel like femme beings that are at once naked and armored up. Here you may find the works conjuring a rogue cyborg disco, cumquat army, digital cherry mountain with the reclining gargoyle, oil spill harvest cake on hard candy tectonics.

DREAMS | AYDO (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh)  

November 11, 2022 - March 5, 2023 | HUB Gallery 

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Through performance-based film and site-specific installation, AYDO re-imagine Korean folklore and precolonial spiritual practices to reflect personal and Asian American perspectives. They are not faithful to historical canon and transgress older traditions, regenerating them within diasporic contexts through methods of disruption and transformation.  

Dreams explores ancestral and personal dreams through sculptural and video installations. Ancestral dreams refer to the experiences of the artists' ancestors, which they recall and meditate on through spiritual ritual-based practices that center on themes of generational trauma, family, and diaspora.  

Premiere | Andrew Castañeda 

July 25, 2022 – Jan 29, 2023  | Art Alley

ARC presents Premiere, the inaugural exhibition of Andrew Castañeda’s recent photo and painting works. Organizing his work to mirror the structure of a day in TV programming, individual pieces from various ongoing series are exhibited among each other, just the way episodes of disparate tv shows run back to back every day. The range of the work presented mirrors the spectrum of television programming from documentary to cartoon, commercial break to made-for-tv movie.  

Andrew Castañeda grew up surfing and skateboarding in sunny southern California. Castañeda has work in two private collections: The American Museum of Ceramic Arts at Pomona, CA and the Kansas City Art Institute Teaching Collection. Castañeda earned his BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, his MFA from Penn State University, and is currently Harvard’s Artist in Resistance 2020-2021. 

Future Return 

May 20, 2022 - November 6, 2022 | Exhibition Cases 

Curated by Jeremy Dennis 

An exhibition in two parts, Future Return curated by Jeremy Dennis brings together beadwork, woodcarving, photography, and Shinnecock written books to share Indigenous stories. Artist and curator Jeremy Dennis creates cinematic images and places of belonging that center BIPOC artists. From Dennis' artist statement, "nowhere have Indigenous people been more poorly misrepresented than in American movies." Future Return brings together mediums of art where the creation is to continue their ancestors' tradition of storytelling and showcase the sanctity of their land. As racial divisions and tensions reach a nationwide fever pitch, it's more critical to Dennis than ever to offer a complex and compelling representation of Indigenous people. 

BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT | Sean Capone  

September 10,  2022 – November 6, 2022 | HUB Gallery 

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BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT showcases digital animation works from two of Capone’s ongoing series, Avatar Poetics and Global Illuminations. In these videos, the artist utilizes a conspicuous overabundance of motion graphics techniques and visual effects tools (including motion capture, 3D character animation and generative design software) to construct an absurdist and hallucinatory electronic landscape —a landscape illuminated by pseudo-neon glows and scrolling media feeds, and populated by logorrheic talking heads, A.I. phantasms and shapeshifting cyberpunk poets. These chimerical characters earnestly struggle to communicate while maintaining linguistic and bodily coherence within the artifice of their screen-based existence — a condition Capone refers to as “the body horror of the uncanny valley." 

Wool-hoo!!!

October 17, 2022 - November 6, 2022 | Exhibition Cases

Wool-hoo!!! was a project from Introduction to Sculpture (ART030), a course offered by the School of Visual Arts and taught by Assistant Teaching Professor Mengqi Xu. Wool felting is a craft that involves repeatedly stabbing a needle into a piece of wool or continually rubbing wool fibers together with mild soap and warm water to form a firm, felted object. Anything made of wool will have a soft, warm, and cute feeling. However, in this project, students are encouraged to build an object usually considered the opposite of cute. 

Mental Health in Higher Education  

May 20 – October 30 | Exhibition Cases, HUB-Robeson Center  

Curated by Dr. Alexandra Allen and Kayley McDonald  

Works by Dr. Alexandra Allen, Dr. William Doan, and Melissa Lesher  

Mental Health in Higher Education highlights the complexities of mental health and neurodivergence of faculty members at Penn State. Intertwined with the artworks are stories from current students of how COVID19 has impacted their academic life and wellness. Addressing both student and faculty experiences, the exhibition celebrates the ways in which student and faculty process through art and communication. 

Generous Helpings | Nikki Lau

May 27, 2022 – October 30, 2022 | Exhibition Cases, HUB-Robeson Center   

As the unofficial 6th love language a meal can be a joyous moment in someone’s day. For those who are food insecure the effects of insufficient meals or nutrients have physical and economic ripple effects. Students experiencing food insecurity also experience many intertwined social issues including financial insecurity, housing insecurity, work or family obligations, and student loan debt. Artist and alumna Nikki Lau and creator of Little Lau Shop, produces intentionally hand-made ceramics of anthropomorphic food and creatures that have big and small emotions. In 2021 Lau began to create sculptural platters of food to fundraise for various food pantries. In this exhibition these platters will be for sale; 20% of sales will go to the Lions Pantry providing food to PSU students at no cost. 

Over & Over Again   

July 22, 2022 - September 4, 2022 | HUB Gallery   

The first documented iterations of 3D printing trace back to the early 1980s, but the first practice of building through placing line on top of line is found in ceramic’s coil building technique as early as 6000 BC. Through new digital technologies artists and manufacturers can model objects in software programs. Then by using g-code, conducting test prints, and adjusting calibration settings they print objects by depositing layer on top of layer until the form is complete.    

Over & Over Again brings together 3D printed works by Penn State Faculty José Pinto Duarte, Tom Lauerman, Shadi Nazarian, and Rebecca Strzelec and Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D). The works on view highlight their commitment to working in innovative technologies, encountering new possibilities, and reimagining objects. Curated by Dani Spewak.

Happy Valley Animation Festival   

May 10, 2022 – July 17, 2022 | HUB Gallery   

An exhibition of animation reels from the second annual Happy Valley Animation Festival (HVAF 2022), a juried, international animation competition that seeks to promote the art of animation and showcase works by students, early career and practicing professional artists, designers, and filmmakers in three primary categories: Animated Films, Experimental Animated Works, and Animated Motion Graphics & Design.   

HVAF is a collaboration between organizers, volunteers, and academic partners. 2022 events are hosted by the Digital Arts and Media Design (DART) Program in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State.  

For more information: visit: www.happyvalleyanimationfestival.org  

Design for Life 

November 10, 2021 – January 26, 2022 | Art Alley   

Design for Life is an exhibition that highlights the expanse of innovative, socially responsive and community-engaged design work developed within the Stuckeman School. The Design for Life initiative was introduced by interim director Patricia Kucker as a testament to the creative practice, research and expertise of students, Staff, and Faculty. Twenty-two projects that focus on issues such as social justice, affordable housing, community engagement, health and well-being, sustainability, climate change and more will be featured in the exhibition. Works within the exhibition will also be available to view online once the show opens via Issuu.   

Altar | Kiana Honarmand

June 25, 2021 - January 26, 2022 | Exhibition Cases  

Honarmand’s installation on the exhibition cases utilizes text from the poem Gift by Iranian feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad to pay homage to the history of hiding critical commentary in Persian poetry and visual arts. Employing politically-charged writings such as news articles, propaganda, or feminist poetry, the writings are subsequently transformed into patterns using the smooth curves of Persian calligraphy. While Persian text can be associated with fear and terror in the current political climate of the Western world. Honarmand is interested in creating a sense of “home” and familiarity for these members of the Penn State Community.  

Lost Bird Project and Why Biodiversity Matters 

June 25, 2021 - January 26, 2022 | Exhibition Cases  

As the presenting sponsor, Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center has brought the Lost Bird Project to central Pennsylvania. Shaver’s Creek has been a national leader in environmental education, outdoor recreation, and conservation since 1976 by connecting people to people, and people to the natural world. Why Biodiversity Matters includes avian research and educational materials from Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center and Penn State’s Wildlife and Fisheries program. The Lost Bird Project sculptures visit Central Pennsylvania, Fall 2021–Summer 2022. Conceived by artist Todd McGrain, the project recognizes the tragedy of modern extinction by immortalizing the five most recently extinct North American birds: the Carolina Parakeet, Heath Hen, Great Auk, Labrador Duck, and Passenger Pigeon. These statues serve not only as dramatic reminders of the biodiversity lost due to human activity, but of our duty to prevent further extinction.  

Rosemarie Fiore

June 23, 2021  - January 26, 2022 | HUB Gallery

Rosemarie Fiore converts popular technology such as lawn mowers, cars, waffle irons, floor polishers, pinball machines, fireworks and amusement park rides into painting machines. Works on display in the HUB Gallery were made with pyrotechnic drawing tools produced by the artist to make marks with smoke.

Wobbles, spinning on and off, in and out of control are drawn with Fiore’s singular, artist-designed, spirographic tools. These tools engage the entire body, or many people's bodies, to move from a fixed point. Chance and chaos are tandem forces in Fiore’s work, building on the surrealistic technique of fumage as well as performance artists such as Carolee Schneeman, who worked with the limits of the body and drawing. Fiore responds to the physics of the tools she has created and their limits, since each tube or carton, once ignited, has a limited amount of pigment or painting "time" within it.

True Likeness   

February 4, 2022 – March 20, 2022 | HUB Gallery & Art Alley  

Portraits serve as expressions of identity, popular taste, social standing, and as documents of who, when, and where. Representing one’s self in the best light or seeing others in understandable terms are motives behind why we record images of each other, whether for rituals, documentation of events, art making, or as expressions of status.  

True Likeness presents an exhibition of contemporary portraits from diverse makers in a variety of media including video, photography, painting collage, installation, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Artists, some familiar, others more on the fringe of the art world, hail from all over the United States. Their own identities, and those presented through their works, provide a snapshot of who we are as a country. As the exhibition took shape over the last two years, as overt and coded hate spech became congruent with one of the most divisive elections of our time, it became apparent that highlighting and celebrating diversity was paramount.  

This exhibition was curated by Lia Newman and Tom Stanley. Heartfelt thanks to all of our interns, as well as to Russ White, Graham McKinney, & Stephanie Cash. Special thanks to project contributor Russ White, Graham McKinney, Stephanie Cash, Kayley McDonald, Grace Southern, Dani Spewak, Sarah Kipp, and Kelly Kutz.  

Visual Arts Annual Graduate Research Exhibition | Penn State

March 25, 2022 - April 17, 2022 | HUB Gallery  

Established in 1986, the Graduate Research Exhibition hosted by the Graduate School places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging students to present their work to new audiences.   

The Visual Arts option is designed for students required to create studio work as a part of their graduate degree program and gives candidates the opportunity to demonstrate the significance of their ideas and creative research to jurors from outside of their field who score the works and award prizes.  

Full Transparency | Graphic Design Capstone

April 22, 2022 – May 7, 2022 | HUB Gallery  

Full Transparency is Penn State Graphic Design’s Senior Capstone Event. The exhibition will give visitor's a view into one’s individual approach to design. Revealing the process from developing a concept to final execution will bring visitors into designers headspace and give them a peek behind the curtain.  

FRESH, emerging artists with micro works and macro dreams  

November 17, 2021 – May 17, 2022  | Exhibition Cases, HUB-Robeson Center  

Highlighting self-discovery and identity through painting, quilt making, and sculpture in order to create an open space for personal narratives, FRESH features works by Harrison Boden, Emily Furr, and Sydney Lee.  

FRESH invites viewers to look for what makes someone unique as an individual, and to celebrate each person's journey. This exhibition consciously focuses on work by emerging artists who are seeking their own voices through boldness and color.  

Curated by Alix Gaytan and Megan Gottfried  

Lunchbox Moments | Amie Bantz

January 26, 2022 – May 15, 2022 | Exhibition Cases 

Lunchbox moments are the formative occurrences in many Asian Americans’ lives where a traditional Asian meal is eaten at school or at home and the meal elicits some sort of reaction, whether it be positive or negative. “I have a lunchbox moment; my mom has a lunchbox moment; nearly all of my AAPI community members have a lunchbox moment,” said artist Amie Bantz. These stories make up a collective identity that is equal parts profound, beautiful, comical, and heartbreaking. 

In order to share these stories and empower the AAPI community in light of recent attacks on Asian Americans in the U.S., Amie Bantz presents: Lunchbox Moments: Seek Understanding. Share Stories. Stop Hate. These boxes are a collection of narratives from members of the AAPI community and are a visual representation of storytelling showcasing the Asian-American experience. These stories empower marginalized voices by providing a platform to raise awareness. This project is presented in partnership with Adult Learner Programs & Services, Residence Life, and the Sustainability Institute. 

Inside the Frames  

November 17, 2021 – May 17, 2022 | Exhibition Cases, HUB-Robeson Center  

Inside the Frames tackles the intricacies of body image and disordered eating. Art history students Emily Tse and Sidan Chen co-created the exhibition out of their Curator’s Workshop course (ART 477 taught by Lindsey Landfried, Curator and Senior Gallery Manager, HUB-Robeson Galleries) to address the anxieties surrounding these intricacies, and to promote body positivity and acceptance. Works on view by artists Mengzi Xu, Megan Gottfried, Harrison Boden, Ronan Shaw, Shaobo Liu, and Jo Megas.  

Center for Arts & Crafts Artists and Instructors Exhibition | Penn State

January 29, 2022 – May 24, 2022 | Exhibition Cases   

The Penn State Center for Arts & Crafts’ (CFAC) artists and instructors will showcase their artwork in the first-floor Display Cases. This exhibition will feature artworks representing the range of art classes available at the CFAC.    

The Center for Arts & Crafts has offered non-credit adult art classes to Penn State students, faculty, and staff during each of the university semesters and a children’s summer art camp for more than 40 years. The Center for Arts & Crafts is located in 3 Ritenour and has a ceramics studio in B8 HUB.    

Scatter Terrain   

March 25, 2021 - July 17, 2022 | Art Alley   

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The term “scatter terrain,” borrowed from role-playing and war games, refers to miniature fragments of architecture, natural features, or small props that provide a visual aid for players. This exhibition presents pockets of “terrain” – peculiar landscapes, architectural gestures, intimate domestic corners – as a metaphorical means of escape from the pandemic and connection to those who are far away. What started as a call for disparate glimpses into distant lives and locations is now shifting toward a realization that our communal sense of place is still marked by a reckoning with an ailing world and an urgent need for new perspectives. Scatter Terrain was co-curated by Anthony Cervino and Shannon Egan, features 25 artists, and first premiered at Ejecta Projects.   

Wind Spirits 

August 21 - November 7 | Art Alley 

Reception: October 26 | 5 - 7 p.m. 

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Wind Spirits is an exhibition including three artists that consider the power and delicacy of Earth’s avian creatures and the larger implications that duality poses for the natural world. Following the renovation of Art Alley this summer, this exhibition will be on view from August 21 through November 7, 2021, in Art Alley and throughout the Exhibition Cases. Works by Tatiana Arocha, Deirdre Murphy, & Rachel Sydlowski will be featured.   

Wind Spirits invites viewers to consider and enrich their ecological and ancestral knowledge and to foreground interconnectivity and interdependence rather than ownership. This exhibition was designed in partnership with Penn State’s Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center. Shaver’s Creek is currently hosting The Lost Bird Project, five memorials to extinct North American Bird species. More information is on view in the exhibition cases across from Student Activities in the HUB-Robeson Center.  

C/O Commonwealth  

Benjamin Andrew, Center for Performing Arts, Climate Art and Action, Marissa Alise Baez, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Christina Dietz, Adam Farcus, Kiana Honarmand, Corinne Jones, Kate McGraw, Ann Tarantino, and Tiara Zhané  

May 24 – July 25 | Art Alley 

Closing Reception and Gallery Talk | Thursday, July 22 | 4:30 p.m. | Art Alley 

This juried exhibition invited artists to make site-responsive and socially engaged works of local relevance and international significance charged by the HUB-Robeson Galleries Student Advisory Council. The resulting sculptures, wall drawings, murals, and installations are in care of the five pillars of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership. Exploring labor, care economies, and the collective power and colonial history integral to the term commonwealth, these works recognize the term’s connection to exploitation by looking at generational wealth, land, ownership, and the on-going impacts of these systems on the climate. 

The arts are fundamental to our humanity, to our University, and to our world. They inspire us to find understanding and beauty and help us to express our values and diversity across ethnicity, religion, and race.   

From critical conversations to writing, image-making, and any number of creative actions; C/O Commonwealth holds space for artworks and artists to use creative methods for examining unequitable structures shaping our lived realities and posits ways that we might come together.  

Thank you to the artists, jurors, and HUB-Robeson Galleries advisory council members for their contributions to this exhibition. 

Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts Annual Artist and Instructor Exhibition  

February 5 – June 20 | HUB-Robeson Center  

The Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts’ (CFAC) artists and instructors will showcase their artwork in the first-floor Display Cases. This exhibition will feature artworks representing the range of art classes available at the CFAC.  

The Center for Arts and Crafts has offered non-credit adult art classes to Penn State students, faculty, and staff during each of the university semesters and a children’s summer art camp for more than 40 years. The Center for Arts & Crafts is located in 3 Ritenour and has a ceramics studio in B8 HUB.  

Human Expectations II 

Dolores Furatado, Kris Grey, William J. O’Brien, Eun-Ha Paek, & Lilly Zuckerman   

November 6, 2020 - June 20, 2021  |  HUB-Robeson Center & Online 

Working with touch and play, the artists exhibiting in Human Expectations II search for expression and experience through material. Forms emerge from the artists’ own bodies creating monuments to life and desire. Sharing what living feels like with eyes closed, improvisations and intimate experiences become powerful and suggestive objects. Like a boulder on top of a hill – these works fill the imagination with narrative possibility. Works on view by William J. O’Brien, Dolores Furtado, Kris Grey, Eun-Ha Paek and Lilly Zuckerman.   

Happy Valley Animation Festival 

May 21 – June 13, 2021 | HUB Gallery & Online 

An exhibition of animation reels from the inaugural Happy Valley Animation Festival (HVAF), an open, international competition. HVAF seeks to promote the art of animation and showcase works by students, early career and practicing professional artists, designers, and filmakers. Categories of works include animated films, animated motion graphics and design, and experimental animated works. 

This Happy Valley Animation Festival is a collaboration between organizers, volunteers, local community sponsors, and academic partners. Happy Valley Animation Festival 2021 events were hosted by the Animation Club at Penn State and the Digital Arts and Media Design Program in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State. 

Dr. Bill Doan | The Anxiety Project

January 16 – March 14 | HUB Gallery    

A pandemic, nationwide protests and uprisings, a presidential election, and cascading challenges facing individuals and communities across the globe, many of us have struggled with our mental health. Despite the prevalence and normalcy of these feelings and experiences, stigma continues to follow mental illness.   

For Dr. Doan, drawing performing and sharing have helped him – and others – cope. These artistic outlets are therapeutic and help to alleviate symptoms, enabling him to imagine his mental health, rather than to be defined by his mental illness. The Anxiety Project invite others to draw for their mental health too. He is a Professor of Theatre in the College of Arts and Director of the Arts and Design Research Incubator at The Pennsylvania State University. Doan served as the Penn State Laureate for 2019-2020.  

Jae Won Lee & Kelly Salchow MacArthur | CARE. not convenience. 

August 2020 - January 2021 | HUB Gallery & Online

Plastic. It is convenient and pervasive, lifesaving, and the root of suffering. It is so ingrained in our lives it is hard to imagine a world without it. This imagining lies at the heart of the exhibition CARE. not convenience. Created entirely with salvaged plastic, this collaboration between an artist, designer, and an environmental sciences researcher aspired to shed light on society’s dependence and careless overuse, as well as, thoughtless disposal of plastic. The primary material used for work creation was found and collected plastic bags. The extensive exploration of this petroleum-based material has led to methods of fusing sheets of plastic with heat and making art forms with functional design capabilities (such as wearable art and hanging space dividers) and attention to minimizing waste in processes of production. Text written and selected by Lissy Goralnik. This exhibition was selected by a jury of Penn State faculty, staff, and students.

Carlos Rosales-Silva | Border Exchange   

August 24 – February 15 | Wall Case 

An installation in the HUB-Robeson Center Wall Case, Rosales-Silvas exhibition Border Exchange pairs two of the artist’s paintings with a site-responsive wall painting. Rosales-Silva’s work exists in the space between borders and between classification. A meditation on the ever-expanding histories of Brown peoples in the United States, his abstract works consider the vernacular cultures of the American Southwest, the western art historical canon, and the political and cultural connections and disparities between them. Spoken and written Eurocentric language, as a system of knowledge, has been historically weaponized against Brown communities. Rosales-Silva believes it is important to adapt to, invoke, and reimagine the weapons of colonization, utilizing art-making to reconnect with and create innovative methods of non-western communication untethered from written or spoken language. 

Human Expectations  

Natalia Arbelaez, Micaela Amateau Amato, Soojin Choi, & Malcolm Mobutu Smith  

August 24, 2020 – January 31, 2021 | HUB-Robeson Center & Online  

Human Expectations is an exhibition of four artists working throughout the U.S. in ceramic, neon, and glass. Each artist approaches the form of the human head as a map or apparition – expressing systems of knowing, disruption, and social difference. Weighty, incisive, and unflinching these works connect deeply to the worlds of emotions, feelings, and embodied knowledge. Working from their interests, stories, and origins these artists consider the limitations and possibilities of human expectations – their ignorance, perceptual limitations, and potentially their magic. On view throughout the exhibition cases in the HUB-Robeson Center.  

When the Bough Breaks

Organized By Susanne Slavick

January 16, 2021 – May 9, 2021 | Art Alley

Facing ongoing human conflict and impending climate catastrophe, the reality or representation of trees can offer solace and space—forth necessity of talking and listening. The works of these artists and accompanying poets embrace the tree —materially and conceptually—through figure and metaphor, analysis and allegory, and as record and reflection. Works by: Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Denise Burge, Zoë Charlton, Ellen Harvey, Alex Lukas, Clayton Merrell, Sarah Slavick, and Susanne Slavick.

Jae Won Lee & Kelly Salchow MacArthur | CARE. not convenience.  

August 24 - November 20 | HUB Gallery & Online

Plastic. It is convenient and pervasive, lifesaving and the root of suffering. It is so ingrained in our lives it is hard to imagine a world without it. This imagining lies at the heart of the exhibition CARE. not convenience. Created entirely with salvaged plastic, this collaboration between an artist, designer, and an environmental sciences researcher aspired to shed light on society’s dependence and careless overuse, as well as, thoughtless disposal of plastic. The primary material used for work creation was found and collected plastic bags. The extensive exploration of this petroleum-based material has led to methods of fusing sheets of plastic with heat, and making art forms with functional design capabilities (such as wearable art and hanging space dividers) and attention to minimizing waste in processes of production. Text written and selected by Lissy Goralnik. This exhibition was selected by a jury of Penn State faculty, staff, and students.  

On October 22 we hosted a student-led virtual online reception. This reception was in a Zoom webinar format, and the recording is available for viewing.  The artist's guided  us through a 360 tour, Q&A, and reflection of plastic use. 

Hostile Terrain 94 | Undocumented Migration Project 

August 24 - November 20 | Art Alley 

A global call to action hosted by the Undocumented Migration Project and HUB-Robeson Galleries, Hostile Terrain 94 is a participatory art exhibition occurring in nearly 150 cities around the globe. Aiming to bear witness to and memorialize the thousands of lives claimed by the U.S./Mexico Border since the 1990s, the exhibition invites collaborators, citizens, and community members alike to write the identifying information known about these migrants and map where their lives were lost. Hostile Terrain 94 raises awareness about the human consequences of policies such as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” The Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) is an arts-education-research collective aiming to humanize the migrant experience between Latin America and the United  States.  UMP  projects are collaborative public endeavors meant to inspire and engage participants to work towards positive social change.  

Illuminating Illusions | Penn State Museum Consortium

February 2020 - August 2020 | Display Cases and Online

Is it real or an illusion? A natural phenomenon or clever design? This collaborative exhibition presented by members of the Penn State Museum Consortium explores various facets of illusions in science, art, literature and nature. The exhibition showcases a selection of objects and illusion examples that illustrate relevance to current day culture, scientific discovery, or both. Illuminating Illusions is a collaboration of Penn State University Museum Consortium Members

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Jim Drain | Ideas! Ideas! Ideas! 

February 15 - August 11 | Wall Case

This installation uses dazzle camouflage patterns to simultaneously mask and amplify the wall case. The patterns connect and disconnect optically as viewers approach the case. Both inviting and obfuscating, peering through the pattern we find pairs of static hand gestures nestled in fur along with a lone figure. The figure, perhaps Edvard Munchs’ screamer, stares into an endless dumb, numb, void. This playful, maximalist installation puts form to subconscious experiences.

Women Photojournalists of Washington

2019 Juried Exhibition: Women Photo Journalists of Washington (WPOW)

March 9 - August 8  | Art Alley

This exhibition features standout photography and multimedia pieces by members of WPOW from the past year. The show comes to Penn State from the Hillyer Center for the Arts in Washington D.C. in collaboration with the Bellisario College of Communications. Works were selected by Rachael Strecher, Director of Storytelling Grants and Fellowships at the National Geographic Society; Jehan Jillani, Picture & Visuals Editor at the Guardian US; Melina Mara, National Political Staff Photojournalist at The Washington Post. 

Still Here

Still Here 

January 21 ­– May 10 | HUB Gallery and Online

Films by Larry Achiampong, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Third Horizon (Jason Fitzroy Jeffer), Carlos Javier Ortiz, Cinthia Marcelle, Melo-X, Helina Metaferia, and Joiri Minaya 

Still Here explores stories of migration, displacement, and survival in films by eight artists that represent a spectrum of the African Diaspora. The works in this exhibition use moving images as conduit to highlight the rituals and traditions that persevere and evolve, despite the oppressive historical ripple effects of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Through practices and tools of survival such as migrating, defending, dancing, gathering, praying, and claiming agency over one’s body, the works in this exhibition demonstrate that black and brown bodies are not here for consumption of the white gaze, nor are they passive beings upon whom actions are done or inflicted. Instead, the film’s subjects investigate and enact strategies to deeply connect with parts of their personal and collective narratives that have been overlooked or erased by dominant Eurocentric historical accounts. 

Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Dexter Wimberly and Kiara Ventura, Still Here was originally organized at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco from May 8 through August 11, 2019. 

Dannielle Tegeder | Cosmologies

November 20 - March 3 | Art Alley

A wall drawing in several acts, Tegeder’s work at Penn State expands on her ever-evolving exploration of the systems around us. The first act of the wall drawing, for the HUB-Robeson Center, will chart the marks and symbols reflected in her past 20 years of painting practice. Inspired by steamfitter's drawings, flight routes, and electrical networks, her works map points of connectivity visible and invisible while building imagined spaces or plans for futuristic environments. In its second act, the chart of marks transforms into an imagined new system, enveloping the Woskob Family Gallery inside the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center in its unique visual language.

Ghosts

October 3 - February 2 | Display Cases

Ghosts is  an exhibition of works selected from the Ceramics Area’s collection of bisqueware, known as the Bisque Library. Bisqueware is clay that has been kiln fired once and has no chemically bonded water remaining in it. Clay can be fired a second time at a higher temperature for a glaze, or glass surface, that is often referred to as “finished.”Ghosts are a colloquial way to reference ceramics made during demonstrations and workshops that were never intended to be finished. Instead, they were made as an instructional tool to show students and publics the “how to” side of the artist’s practice. This exhibition is an invitation to explore the variety of forms and numerous approaches to handling clay. Notably, none of the artists are identified- the origins of these works may only be known by the maker themselves, or in the memory of a workshop attendee. As a library for the Ceramics Area, the pots are typically kept in open, available spaces for learners to interact with. 

Claire Ashley | Strewn, Hither and Thither

November 11 – January 18 | HUB Gallery

Exploding the possibilities of painting, Ashley’s inflatable sculptures look for a space for paint to live and breath as tattooed skins on hybrid bodies. In this exhibition, kinetic boulders float and lumber throughout the gallery, irreverent and humorous. The works are both absurdist performances and spaces for play, each entangled with curiosities as numerous as expandable foam, aliens, cake frosting, wrinkled skin, and exhalation.

A Meditation on this Age of Struggle and Strife | Rudy Shepherd

August 5 – November 10 |  Art Alley

Shepherd’s content is picked from the endless stream of news we are all flooded with on a day to day basis, stories of special poignance that tend to speak to a larger trend in the culture. On display in the space are nearly 100 faces and events made present and notorious in the news cycle from 2017 to last week. A Meditation on this Age of Struggle and Strifeplaces images next to one another: criminals, victims of crime, politicians, heroes, artists and Shepherd’s friends and family. Portraits of people whose names become familiar to those following the United States, that accumulate through Shepherd’s dedicated painting practice into a monumental grid of people side by side. For instance, Megan Rapinoe, Bree Newsome, Antwon Rose, Kamasi Washington, John McCain, and Lil Peep hang together and share space in the gallery alongside a limousine burned by the Black Bloc during the presidential inauguration (2017). Part of an ongoing body of work Shepherd began investigating the poignant, sensational, and often despair filled stories of major American news outlets. Spurred from the actions of the media that perpetrate prejudice, he began to examine the “dark side of human nature, that part of all of us that cause us to mistreat and distrust one another.” 

Osaze Was a Freedom Fighter | Curated by Bruxas Bruxas

November 5 - November 7 | HUB Gallery

Osaze Was a Freedom Fighter is an exhibition of works by student artists and activists. These individuals are a part of Bruxas Bruxas, a student organization founded by both artists and Ph.D. candidates in Art Education, Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies, and African American studies. Bruxas Bruxas works to address race, gender, oppression, community, and allyship through its arts praxis. These student leaders are using the gallery to create space for expression and response to the tragic incident in which State College police ended the life of a 29-year-old black man, Osaze Osagie, in the spring of 2019. The exhibition will, for three days, serve as a space for members of the Penn State community to remember Osagie and to advance civil discourse surrounding police responses resulting in fatality for people with mental disabilities and people of color.

We Never Left: Artists of Southeast Indian Tribes

September 18 – November 3 |HUB Gallery

We Never Left: Artist of the Southeast Indian Tribes celebrates contemporary artists descended from American Indians who, against all odds, remained in the Southeast. They are members of tribes who continue to live in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Arts and Science, Daytona Beach, Florida and curated by Walter L. Meyer, Independent Curator. This iteration at Penn State has been supported by the Department of History and The College of Arts and Architecture.

Their highly diverse artwork reflects engagement with tradition-inspired techniques, cutting-edge technology, and pop culture, and addresses a variety of issues—cultural preservation, language revitalization, personal identity and expression, American history, community pride, and threats to homeland and the natural environment. 

Works on view by Joshua Adams, “Doc” & Spencer Battiest, Hollis Chitto, Rany Chitto, Jessica Clark, Faren Sanders Crews, Peggy Fontenot, Jerry Gibson, Shan Goshorn, Sherrell Hendrickson, Luzene Hill, Ashley Minner, Benny Mitch, Jessica Osceola, Jean-Luc Pierite, Caroleen Sanders, Sarah Sense, Monique Verdin, and Fred Wilnoty.

Hot Lava

Ling Chun, Iva Haas, Bryan Hopkins, and Andrea Marquis

May 15 – September 30  |  Display Cases

Whether molten rock or child’s play, the artists in Hot Lava utilize the material specificities and chemical changes of clay and glaze to probe phenomenological possibilities. An exhibition in five acts, each artist’s solo presentation delves deeply into their work over time or in series. Sizzling hot forms act as playgrounds for steaming glazes while perforations, deformations, and transections disobey structure. These artists’ fantastical alchemy of the elemental melts, drools, and burns.

Hannah Epstein | Nittany Lion: Eco-Mascot  

July 3 – September 12 | HUB-Gallery

Epstein, also known as Hanski, describes herself as “a feminist folklorist of the internet age” who in past works has created hooked rugs that depicted Internet memes and monsters. For the HUB Gallery, Epstein’s textiles envision the University’s sports mascot as an environmental crusader and supportive friend to the earth who is having a 90’s tabloid style meltdown. In one hooked rug, the Nittany Lion reads The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard’s climate fiction sci-fi novel, in another Hot Mama Earth sweats and cries as she faces the climate crisis.

As a trained folklorist, Epstein advocates for a deeper understanding of storytelling as a shared, connective activity, where artists can begin to code alternate realities into the social consciousness. Themes of "play" connect her multi-disciplinary practice as her work aims to turn passive voyeurs into active players. By employing game design techniques, she encourages a form of active critique- one that probes the rules structures governing all social interactions. 

it’s the new everything

Brian Alfred, Arden Bendler Browning, Trisha Holt, and Phaan Howng

May 28 – July 21 | Art Alley

In the 40 years since Art in America announced TV as the next medium, or Andy Warhol that “it’s the new everything,” artists continue to confirm the prognosis of inside and outside as defunct categories in life and in landscape. In this exhibition, artists approach digital apertures and viewfinders as tools and points of view.

Zoë Charlton | The Domestic

Curated by Shannon Egan 

April 29 – June 25 | HUB Gallery

Artist Zoë Charlton creates large-scale collages, drawings, and sculptural installations that explore the complexities of contemporary social and cultural stereotypes. Recurring imagery in Charlton's work --suburban houses, African masks, paper dolls, and lush landscapes--provides a new approach to issues and representations of black identity. "The Domestic" examines notions of care-taking across racial and class lines, the fragility and failings of a home, and the complications of gender and sexuality in relation to this intensely bodily work. This exhibition travels to Penn State from Gettysburg College’s Schmucker Gallery.

Timely Warnings

Exhibition led by Sophia Krupsha

May 6 – May 19 | Art Alley

On view are drawings, photographs, sculptures, and paintings by students and faculty at Penn State University Park.

Works by Tracin Bauman, Joy Blazofsky, Jessica Farra, Dani Fruehan, Kaitlyn Innersy, Kayleigh Quinnan, Sophia Krupsha, Kaitlyn Innerst, Elizabeth Sickles, Melisas Leaym-Fernandez, and Steven Rubin. 

Krupsha, a rising junior in the Painting and Drawing concentration of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, approached the HUB-Robeson Galleries with the exhibition idea after seeing how common artworks addressing sexual assault are in her community.  She began to ask the artists about their motivation for creating pieces such as those exhibited in this show and came across a disturbingly common shared experience of abuse amongst her peers.

“As a survivor of sexual assault myself, I felt it necessary to understand what happened to me as a call for activism and not something that I should hide or be ashamed of. Time after time I have witnessed my peers suffer the same abuse only to be doubted and shamed into silence while their abuser goes unpunished and their stories go unheard. By curating this show I wanted to give that voice back to those affected by this issue, and call to attention how frequent these crimes are.”

Artists were invited to submit through an Open Call in response to Krupsha’s exhibition idea with the goal of creating an environment that not only allows artists to share their stories but also responds to the actions Penn State has taken specifically to address the prevalence of sexual assault across all of it’s campuses.

BRIAN GINIEWSKI

December 3– May 10 | Display Case

Brian is a ceramic artist from Philadelphia, PA who produces earthenware vessels that use a colorful drip glazing process to make his “drip pots”.  Brian was a visiting Assistant professor of Ceramics at Penn State.  Purchases from his case can be made during gallery hours, please visit the gallery offices in room 241 HUB-Robeson for more information.

Constrained Surface  |  Ryoichi Kurokawa

January 4 – 20 | HUB Gallery

Kurokawa’s immersive installation deftly uses digital methods and available commercial technologies to create moments of surprise and wonder. The artist merges sensory inputs, inspired by synaesthesia, delivering a unison of light, color, sound, and movement that explores what can be experienced within the boundaries of a frame. A time-based sculptor, Kurokawa’s Constrained Surface is characteristic of the artists’ best-known works, audiovisual installations usually composed of multiple screens where abstract motifs suddenly appear from the dark and multiply or break away as if being microscopically dissected.

Lindsey Kircher

December 11 – January 19 | Art Alley

Kircher is a senior Schreyer Honors Scholar pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Drawing and Painting with minors in Spanish and Arts Entrepreneurship. Her work comes from a place of longing for an alternate reality to experiences of powerlessness as a young woman. In these works, the artist subverts situations of defeat or oppression reimagining these scenes as rituals of epic female mysticism, these women form a resilient coven, commanding us to acknowledge their presence and head their warnings asserting agency and control.

State College Area School District Annual K-12 Exhibition

January 4 – 26 | Robeson Gallery

For nearly 20 years, the HUB-Robeson Galleries have hosted the State College Area School District Annual K-12 Exhibition. Each of the district’s art teachers selects up to 10 student artworks to be included, representing a diverse array of mediums, ideas, and talent as well as many hours of skilled and creative work. This annual exhibition provides our area’s young artists with the exciting opportunity to share their artwork with the community in a highly public place that honors their work as an effective path to learning and knowledge. 

Race and Revolution: Still Separate, Still Unequal

January 29 – March 1 | HUB Gallery, Art Alley, and Woskob Family Gallery 

Race and Revolution: Still Separate, Still Unequal is curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Katie Fuller. The exhibition explores ongoing racial and economic disparity in the U.S. public school system. First presented in New York City in June 2017, the exhibit features work by 15 artists, many of whom are teachers themselves.

CSA PGH and Small Mall

The exhibition highlighting two projects of Casey Droege Cultural Productions (CDCP), CSA PGH and Small Mall. CSA PGH, Community Supported Art Pittsburgh, is part of a national artist-driven movement that commissions artists to produce edition-able works that are grouped and sold to the public as art shares. Small Mall is a concept store and experimental retail space featuring art and design objects from makers in the Pittsburgh region. Both are part of CDCP’s work to create relevant and accessible art experiences connecting Pittsburgh’s creative community to a national arts conversation while encouraging the growth of local arts economies and building diverse arts audiences.

Sustainable Studio Class (ART 297)

Works on view by a community of makers, involved in every aspect of the natural dyeing process from planting and harvesting to making and exhibiting creative and usable objects. Students have returned to the roots of the dye industry by learning about both ancient and modern production methods, combining art, science, and history with hands-on farm work. Beginning with growing the plans on the Penn State Student Farm and concluding with a semester’s research on dye-making, this exhibit is a selection of student work from throughout the class. This year’s crop included weld, woad, dyer’s coreopsis, marigolds, yarrow, black-eyed Susans, Japanese indigo, and Hopi Black Dye sunflowers.

Plug In and Turn On

Ian Brill, Kevin Clancy, and students from Penn State's Stuckeman School

February 7 - March 31 | Robeson Gallery

This exhibit is a group exhibition of artists and architects work with sound, light, and space to create environmental atmospheres. These spaces, interventions, and objects consider the potential of futures on the human scale.  Artists featured are Ian Brill, Kevin Clancy, and students from Penn State's Stuckeman School. 

School of Visual Arts Annual Graduate Research Exhibition

March 22 – April 18 | HUB Gallery

Featuring the work of the current Master of Fine Arts candidates, the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition includes several artists working in a wide variety of mediums. Candidates are challenged to effectively demonstrate the significance of their ideas and creative research to the general public. Individuals whose works and presentations are judged best will receive monetary awards. 

The Annual Graduate Research Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields. 

Robeson Gallery
January 4 – 27, 2018

The State College Area School District is honored to bring forward some of the best work from their student artists, grades kindergarten through twelve. Many two- and three-dimensional media are represented as are many hours of skilled and creative work from children throughout our community. This annual exhibition provides the young artists an exciting opportunity to share their artwork with the community in a professional setting. 

Display Cases
January 15 – March 15, 2018

As a child Suzanne Nugent was infatuated by windup music boxes where opening the drawer causes an articulated figure, most commonly a ballerina or clown, to start joyfully dancing. As an adult, she discovered Victorian sand automation toys that instead of using a windup mechanism, work by flipping the box 180 degrees so that the sand runs down and directly animates the figures. Her love of these simple music box automata significantly influence her paper puppets, which she makes entirely by hand using acid-free watercolor paper. 

Nugent’s interest in jewelry making is much more recent, beginning with buying a Shrinky Dink craft kit for her kids in early 2017. While her daughters were working on their own shrunken crafts, Nugent discovered that she could make serious pieces that she could wear herself. Since then she’s created numerous designs, incorporating her own drawings and experimenting with metallic foils and resin. Around the same time that she began making jewelry, Nugent was battling granulomatous mastitis, a rare breast autoimmune disease. The disease opened her eyes to the world of other autoimmune diseases which in turn inspired much of the blue and purple butterfly jewelry designs that honor thyroid and lupus diseases.

Display Cases
January 15 – March 15, 2018

Maria Lupo’s work is rooted in the ecological cycles of nature and one’s relationship to the natural world. The images evoke a mythopoetic relationship with nature that expresses places and creatures both real and imagined. Through the use of tactile, natural materials such as grass seed, spanish moss, topsoil, and feathers the artwork fuses ecology and mythology bearing witness to nature’s power as well as its vulnerability. 

Lupo begins her process by searching through dollar stores, toy departments, and garage sales, a process that she likens to a treasure hunt. Searching through materials starts her organic and fluid artistic process, and as she finds just the right body and nose pairing she begins mixing her topsoil and developing a name, personality, and images for her mythical creature. 

Maria Lupo was born and raised in Newark, NJ and received her BFA from Rutgers University. As part of her studies at Rutgers University, Lupo began her sculptural studies in Cennina, Italy. She continued her studies in Sculpture at Hunter College, CUNY, receiving a Master’s of Fine Arts degree. In addition to her studies as a fine artist, Lupo has completed her Post-Masters Specialization in Art Therapy from Caldwell College and is a Registered Art Therapist, holding a second Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology. Currently, she is a Doctoral Candidate in Medical Humanities at Drew University. 

Art on the Move — Old Main
January 18 – June 18, 2018

“I feel blessed to live in such a beautiful area, surrounded by mountains to explore, streams and rivers to fish, and an abundant source of inspiring landscape to paint. I hope to interpret my work, for others, that which moves me when I view the land.”

Natural elements, such as the soothing sound of a waterfall, the smell of a field of freshly baled hay, or the feel of a rocky climb, trigger Jeanne McKinney’s desire to capture their spirit in a painted image. By working directly outdoors, she not only paints the landscape, but becomes a real part of the landscape thus allowing her to express a more authentic and honest interpretation. 

 McKinney begins her artistic process by developing several studies followed by a gestural drawing in nupastel with a turpenoid wash. A variety of soft pastels are applied loosely over the under paintings working from the general to the specific. She often works with a limited palette of pastels to bring cohesiveness to a painting. 

Jeanne McKinney is a Penn State alumna and currently resides in the State College area. She is a member of several local and national professional artist groups and has studied painting workshops with numerous Juried Associate Members of the Pastel Society of America. McKinney has exhibited her paintings in juried national and regional exhibitions, and her work can be found locally at The State College Framing Company and Gallery, The Green Drake Gallery and Arts Center, and the Gallery Shop in Lemont, Pennsylvania. 

HUB Gallery
January 22 – March 1, 2018

For John McKaig, the simple act of slowing down and putting marks on a surface becomes a perfect blend of abstract and layered thought on one hand, and practical action on the other, in a way that connects him to the first primal human actions. 

By using symbols and images and giving them a new context, McKaig transforms them into a series of personal symbols describing layers of different “worlds” in order to depict his shifting identity that comes with the passage of time, his reflection of his identity and existential meaning, and to relate his experience to memories of specific events that defined him. He also layers and re-contextualizes formal elements as part of his exploration of how queer theory informs his work and his life; McKaig rejects the dominant standards in life and in imagery, and hopes that his re-contextualization of objects alludes to his exploration of his queer identity. Very often, McKaig doesn’t begin with a complete plan as to how the many layers of his works will affect each other, but takes an approach similar to that common in improvisational jazz, where he attempts to make them function on individual levels as well as in conduction with the other components. 

The nautical imagery and objects that are so prevalent in his works are McKaig’s way of exploring the idea of passage through life, the idea of always being either “outward or homeward bound,” as the nautical saying goes, and to explore the idea of escape towards a potentially invigorating but perilous situation, as happens in an active life. By incorporating theatrical elements he poetically gives emphasis or inserts misdirection, such as an element appearing both as a background and a significant component, in order to allude to a dual identity or different time relationships.

Depicting recognizable objects, spaces, and figurative elements allows McKaig to maintain a straight-forward connection to the viewers’ experiences. Because of his disdain for irony and cynicism, he endeavors to make his work approachable, but with the hope and expectation that it should be observed carefully and with contemplation. To that end, McKaig goes where his ideas take him, pushing aside ideas of over-analysis or cynicism, and exploring how to communicate a thematic approach in his work, often shifting to different media in order to explore how the inherent qualities of that media can allow him to make the viewer understand a richer connection between all the images.

Art Alley
January 22 – March 12, 2018

Elise Warfield’s painted scenes, rendered in a melange of painterly styles, are an amalgam of quotidian iconography held together by perspectives that don’t quite match. Set in a place that doesn’t shy away from being a lie, her paintings are slightly surreal but alluring enough that we might wish they were true. By filling her paintings with layered symbolism, Warfield creates an ever-elusive and constantly-transforming meaning, leaving nothing to grasp and creating a dizzying descent that provokes uneasy undercurrents beneath the idealistic suburban dream. This is a familiar place turned unpredictable: home doesn’t make sense anymore. 

Elise Warfield is currently a senior at Penn State majoring in Drawing & Painting. She has been awarded the Margaret Griffen Schoenfelder Memorial Scholarship, the Margaret Ellen Gray Trustee Scholarship, and the William J. and Lois Kesterson Leight Scholarship. Warfield has shown her work in several solo and group exhibitions in the State College area and has been published in the winter issue of Studio Visit and the 2017 print edition of Kalliope.

Art on the Move — North Halls Cultural Lounge
January 25 – April 27, 2018

There’s something fascinating about a group of friends having a conversation. The subtle flicks of fingers and matching rise and fall of voices, the undulation of the crowd. Lydia Walton draws those moments; the lounging, the talking, the tilt of a chair’s legs leaned too far away from the ground. She brings those people into her imagination, separates them from their flawed reality, and lets them spill onto the page, altered to fit a strange world of her design that features similarly altered busses, streets, buildings, and other everyday environments. Walton’s work seeks to explore pervasive themes in popular entertainment as well as the effect of popular media on social interaction. 

Lydia Walton is currently a senior at Penn State majoring in Painting and Drawing. 

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
January 29 – May 2, 2018

In this series of paintings, Claire Picard uses her experience of growing up in a structured community to illustrate the struggles of childhood. Through her use of androgynous figures and conflicting environments, Picard explores the issues of authority, body image, gender and sexuality. Common scenes of childhood and uncanny experiences are used to create deceptively creepy paintings that leave viewers with an internal struggle.

Claire Picard grew up New Canaan, Connecticut, where she started painting at a young age. Picard is an active member of the SOVA community and is currently double-majoring in Art Education and Painting and Drawing at Penn State. Presently, she is working on her Schreyer Honors Thesis investigating STEM curriculum. Picard will be hosting her first solo show in early January, involving a series of oil paintings and watercolor studies.

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
January 31 – April 30, 2018

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Art on the Move — Student Health Center
May 18 – September 14, 2018

In this series of paintings, Allison Sheppard focused on capturing familiar spaces; overlaying the real spaces of her childhood home with her memories of the space, focusing on what she remembers most.

In order to strengthen her personal connections to each painting, Sheppard built each frame and stretched each canvas herself. She then applies watered-down acrylic paint in layers and allows it to drip and behave how it naturally wants. In this process of building, stretching, and painting Sheppard lets go of her need to be pristine and perfect because memories themselves are often imperfect and rough. 

Allison Sheppard is currently a senior at Penn State majoring in Painting and Drawing.

Robeson Gallery
February 27 – April 27, 2018

This juried exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and showcases the work of our area’s many talented artists. This year’s juror is B. Stephen Carpenter II, Professor of Art Education and African American Studies; Co-Director of the Summer Institute on Contemporary Art (SICA); and Chief Executive Artist for Reservoir Studio at Penn State. 

Founded in 1968, the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization that exists to serve students, artists, and the art-loving public in Pennsylvania’s Centre County, the adjacent counties, and beyond. The Art Alliance builds bridges between teachers and art students of all ages and actively encourages community members to become involved  in diverse and ever-changing art experiences. For more information on the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, please visit their website at artalliancepa.org.

HUB Gallery
March 23 – April 22, 2018

This juried exhibition displays the studio art portion of the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, offering students the opportunity to display their work in a professional setting. Visual Arts students will exhibit artwork in a variety of media, based on their in-progress work towards their thesis portfolio. 

The Annual Graduate Research Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields. 

Art Alley, Display Cases
March 30 – April 29, 2018

For more than 40 years the Center for Arts and Crafts has provided quality programs and services for the ever-changing social, educational and recreational needs of the Centre County Community.  Their main office and classrooms are located in Ritenour Building at the corner of Pollock and Shortlidge Roads, and the Ceramics Studio is located in the HUB-Robeson Center. 

The Center for Arts and Crafts offers a variety of non-credit adult art classes during Fall and Spring semesters, and children’s art camps in the summer.  All classes are taught by Penn State University Art majors, Art Education majors, graduate students and professional artists.

Art on the Move — Old Main
May 4  – September 21, 2018

Through abstraction of figure and space, Lindsey Kircher investigates the absurdity inherent to the social experiences of young adulthood and how she finds her place within them. Using simplified form as a tool, Kircher revisits memories and captures their generalized essence. Though these paintings are about her own life experiences, they access a greater exploration of human community and the individual's role within it. 

Lindsey Kircher is a senior Penn State Schreyer Honors scholar pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and minors in Spanish and Arts Entrepreneurship.

HUB Gallery
May 29 – July 28, 2018

A→CHROMATIC represents a comprehensive overview of painter J. Harlan Ritchey’s artistic development and coincides with the 5-year anniversary of his introduction to the gallery world. 

The subject matter of A→CHROMATIC can be divided into four broad genres: landscape, still life, floral, and abstract. Within each of these genres, Ritchey works to explore specific themes and emphasize the elements that he considers to be most conducive to those themes. In the landscape genre, those themes are a connection to perspective and place while the floral genre explores a connection to rhythm and color; the still life genre emphasizes a connection to composition and form, and the abstract genre’s theme focuses on a connection to pattern and theory. Each image carries a range of art-historical, cultural, and biographical influences but invites the viewer to arrive at their own aesthetic or critical judgments.

J. Harlan Ritchey received his BA in Filmmaking from Penn State in 1999, with Honors in Visual Arts. He is a self-taught artist and has for the past several years done fine art and illustration commissions for a range of local and national clients. Ritchey’s first public exhibition was in 2013, and in 2015 he began teaching art classes. He currently lives and works in State College, PA.

Robeson Gallery
June 5 – August 24, 2018

Kindred methodologies in mark-making techniques and appreciation for agricultural spaces bring artists Jo Margolis and Kate McGraw into the fold of artistic collaboration and formal discussion. Exacting and rigorous, each artist employs their astute sense of agency by using simple tools to mark the surface of their chosen material - paper, stone, wood or wall – while consciously allowing for the drawn forms to grow organically. Over the course of many rigorous drawing sessions, these hallowed surfaces become enveloped with careful inscriptions, serving as documents of time – evocative of sacred texts, or illuminated manuscripts.

“I am fascinated by the essence of calligraphic shapes and sacred texts.  Some of my latest work focuses on forms that emerge, the softness of clarity until we know what it is becoming. There is something in unknowing that is both humbling and hopeful.”

 – Jo Margolis

Margolis and McGraw find comradery and appreciation for agricultural life and their local landscapes of Southcentral Pennsylvania that inform their sense of place and home. As a farmer tends to the land, each artist toils over surfaces with pen, graphite, crayon or pencil in earnest cultivation. The direct action of drawing tools meeting surface is the performance and vehicle for manifestation. Experiencing the artistic process as meditative labor is an essential component to the artists’ work. Intentions transmute into textural surface planes, meandering departures and connections, and floating tapestries that consider the void in space, as well as the occupied. 

“My most recent work honors the infusion of light and spectrum as the vehicle for expansion and ascension. My studio, as it stands today, is a makeshift time machine and incubator space for off-site projects, installations and performances, paintings and drawings, sites and shiny objects.” 

– Kate McGraw 

Margolis and McGraw combine austere, monastic minimalism with the whimsical and enchanted to create atmospheres for contemplation and reflection, as well as metamorphosis and expansion. Both artists were born and raised in Southcentral Pennsylvania. Jo Margolis lives and works in Wellsville in York County and Kate McGraw lives and works in Boiling Springs, Cumberland County. Margolis earned her BFA and MFA from University of Pennsylvania. McGraw earned her BFA from Penn State and her MFA from Brooklyn College. 

Art Alley
May 14 – September 18, 2018

David Moyer’s work begins with his interest in books and the written word, which drives him to look for ways to combine his creative imagery with text. His prints explore visual and literary ideas through drawings and black and white print media. Moyer typically employs the method of wood engraving, which is deeply rooted in the history of the book arts, though he does occasionally incorporate intaglio processes lithography. 

Moyer’s technique stems from his interest in the quality of line, where his ideas are conceived as black lines on a white ground thereby focusing on the graphic quality of wood engraving rather than on the tonal quality. His preference for black-line engraving is driven by his fondness for the German print tradition and the works of Albrecht Durer, Michael Wolgemut, Lucas Cranach, Hans Holbein, and Hans Baldung Grein.

In 1988 Moyer and his wife Gretchen founded Red Howler Press in order to print handmade, limited-edition fine press and artist books. All of the books from Red Howler Press carry a message — sometimes serious, sometimes playful — but it is primarily the visual imagery that is the primary communicator in these pressed works. Moyer’s Red Howler Press books are housed in numerous libraries across the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Currently, David Moyer is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Penn College of Technology. He earned his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his BFA from the University of Delaware. Moyer has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Internationally, and is a member of The Society of Wood Engravers, The Wood Engravers Network, and The Fine Press Book Association. 

Human Figure Furniture  |  Keunho Peter Park

HUB Gallery  |  August 29 – December 2, 2018 |  Reception: October 18, 5–7pm

Park's functional wood works elevate and celebrate the meaningful spaces in the home. In this selection of works made between 2012 and 2017, Park takes inspiration from the beauty of creature and human forms, emphasizing the important roles that functional objects, such as furniture or musical instruments, play in our lives.

Rachel Eng

Display Cases  |  September 14 – November 12, 2018

Rachel Eng’s work collects and combines small, unmonumental, found, and created objects that aggregate or accumulate. For Eng, a raindrop, grain of sand, or microscopic bacterium when gathered together becoming noticeable and impacting. She makes and physically manifests biological and social relationships between the micro and macro with visual complexity.

Eng is an Assistant Professor at Dickinson College and a Penn State Alum (‘10). Her solo exhibition Even Out is on view at The Woskob Family Gallery through November 10th.

Overlap: Life Tapestries  |  Curated by Vida Sabbaghi

Robeson Gallery  |  September 17 – November 15, 2018  |  Reception, Performance, and Panel: September 20, 5–8pm

Overlap: Life Tapestries is a group exhibition of self-identified women of different social and professional backgrounds and generations. These artists find a commonality in imaginatively recreating the tapestry of their lives through their art while mapping the relationship between the personal and political.

Collective  |  Penn State Painting Club

Art Alley  |  September 27 – November 29, 2018  |  Reception: October 18, 5–7pm

A student-led exhibition, featuring the breadth and depth of artworks created by current members and recent graduates of the Penn State Painting Club. Founded in 2011, Painting Club provides creative community and collective-generated opportunities to its members, such as studio visits, lectures, field trips, peer critiques, pop-up shows, and faculty mentorship outside the classroom.

Eclectic Collections: Penn State Museums

The Penn State University Museum Consortium is a network of museum professionals committed to the unique and irreplaceable collections at a myriad of museums at University Park. This exhibit showcases a selection of items on loan from the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, Eberly Family Special Collections Library, Ecosystem Science and Management Natural History Collection, Frost Entomological Museum, Matson Museum of Anthropology, Pasto Agricultural Museum, Palmer Museum of Art, All-Sports Museum, Radiation Science and Engineering Center, Woskob Family Gallery and the HUB-Robeson Galleries. 

Robeson Gallery
January 5 – January 28, 2017

The State College Area School District is honored to bring forward some of the best work from their student artists, grades kindergarten through twelve. Many two— and three—dimensional media are represented as are many hours of skilled and creative work from children throughout our community.

Art Alley
January 13 – March 2, 2017

Helen Maser’s work explores themes and ideas through the lens of Audre Lorde’s popular writings, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House (1984). In using this framework of dismantling the master’s house, Maser uses art as a tool to speak about pressing issues and combat the patriarchy. For her, the “personal becomes political” as a form of resistance.

Through her development of memory, language, and facilitation of difficult content and conversations, Maser works in the gap of underrepresented and often silenced issues. By using imagery of self-portraiture, pipes, and sites of home improvement stores, her intertwining of rope, blurring of paint, and her resistant gaze counter not only her experiences, but reframe trauma and violence into empowerment and self-autonomy. In moments where representation turns into abstraction, she obtains liberty from the past and reclaims her own body.

Helen Maser is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently resides in State College where she is a student at Penn State working towards her Bachelor of Fine Arts in both Painting and Sculpture. Over the past four years, Maser has shown her work in several exhibitions in the State College area. She has also been awarded the Brian Bretzler Memorial Award in Visual Arts, and in 2016 was winner of Rough Intent, an exhibition juried by Richard Reinhart.

HUB Gallery
January 19 – March 2, 2017

Armed with her favorite pairs of scissors, a pair of 4” hair cutting scissors and fly-tying scissors with large finger holes, Rosenberg transforms paper and other easily-cut materials into intricate and versatile designs. In addition to being displayed as originals, her paper cuts have also been used as stencils, screen printed onto recycled clothing, projected as part of theatrical sets, and used as the design for the State College Women’s Resource Center’s holiday cards since the 1990s.

Rosenberg finds inspiration in the Lake Country where she grew up, her Finnish heritage, her travels, and the literature, music, and folk arts that she loves. While her cutting style is her own, it is more closely related to Mexican “papel picado” and Finnish and Inuit carving and printmaking than the traditional European “scherenschnitte” that is most commonly associated with paper cutting.

Rosenberg began to cut paper artistically in her 40’s. Making art from scissors and paper had already been familiar to her at a young age, due to her father’s job at a paper company and her affinity for cutting her own paper dolls. But it wasn’t until after her formal education; a degree in Music and English from St. Olaf College in Northfield Minnesota, a Masters of Education in Human Development from Penn State, and a partial degree in Theatre and additional classes in photography and printmaking, that she arrived back where she began — cutting paper.

She recalls, “When I began to carry paper and scissors in my purse, years ago, I realized that I had found my medium at last.”

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
February 1 – May 5, 2017

Misty Frederick-Ritz is a painter, jewelry maker, mixed media artist, and digital artist from State College, Pennsylvania. She has a passion for color and texture and loves spending time in her studio. She primarily works with acrylics, water colors, water soluble crayons, inks, polymer clay, beads and buttons, fabrics and fibers, and colored pencils. Frederick-Ritz’s recent works, painted in a style known as “contemporary symbolism,” best represent her as a creative and spiritual person. Frequently featuring a feminine archetype, her paintings are an “outer” representation of her “inner” self.

Frederick-Ritz has shown her work in various locations in Central Pennsylvania and is a certified “Color of Woman” teacher. She offers individual and group classes on painting, art journaling, and mixed media and creates opportunities for Central Pennsylvania women and girls to come together in groups and workshops providing community, connection, thought-provoking discussions, and activities that foster personal growth & self-discovery. Her goal is to spark creativity in others and to provide a positive and encouraging environment to help others learn to express themselves through art and writing.

Robeson Gallery
February 16 – April 28, 2017

Aaron Maybin is a retired professional football player turned artist. After retiring from the NFL in 2014, he turned his focus towards his talent for art. His paintings, photography, and writings focus on socially relevant themes and issues, including the struggle of African-Americans to be seen not just as equals but as human beings, deserving of respect and basic dignity. Maybin’s work is representative of that struggle and serves as a platform to start difficult conversations, with the hope that it can bring people from opposing sides of the spectrum together and spark important conversations that may otherwise not happen. “Art serves as a bridge between people of different backgrounds, religions, sexuality, and economic class. Such a tool is essential in the fight to break down the many social, cultural, and political barriers that divide us and bring us all to a place where we can find a true common ground in reason,” Maybin says.

While his work focuses on themes and issues that may not be positive themselves, he always begins a new piece by questioning how the messages will positively affect viewers and the community. By keeping this positive focus, Maybin is able to use his work to advocate for the issues that are important to him: racial and economic equality, arts education, and programming in underprivileged communities. Larry “Poncho” Brown, Maybin’s artistic mentor, has described his vibrant depictions of inspirations, racial strife, and communal love, hope, and disappointment as “a mix of good technical ability, ‘hip-hop flair,’ and a probing desire to depict modern black consciousness.”

Aaron Maybin is a former All-American defensive end from Penn State, where he double-majored in Communications and Integrative Arts. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills as 11th overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft and went on to play for the New York Jets and the Cincinnati Bengals before retiring from football in 2014. In 2009 he started Project Mayhem, a nonprofit foundation that provides personal and economic aid to underprivileged and at-risk youth so that they can excel beyond their current conditions.

HUB Gallery
March 24 – April 23, 2017

This juried exhibition displays the studio art portion of the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, offering students the opportunity to display their work in a professional setting. Visual Arts students will exhibit artwork in a variety of media, based on their in-progress work towards their thesis portfolio.

The Annual Graduate Research Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields.

Art Alley, Display Cases
March 24 – April 30, 2017

This exhibit will feature two- and three-dimensional artwork in media and disciplines representing the range of art classes available at the Center for Arts & Crafts. For more than 40 years the Center for Arts & Crafts has provided quality programs and services for the ever-changing social, educational, and recreational needs of the Centre County Community. Their main office and classrooms are located in Ritenour Building at the corner of Pollock and Shortlidge Roads, and the Ceramics Studio is located in the HUB-Robeson Center.

The Center for Arts & Crafts offers a variety of non-credit adult art classes during Fall and Spring semesters, and children’s art camp in the summer. All classes are taught by Penn State University Art majors, Art Education majors, graduate students, and professional artists.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
April 28 – September 10, 2017

During the mid-90s, Keith Shapiro traveled extensively, mostly by hitching rides, through Syria and Jordan where he experienced a uniquely warm welcome from strangers who acted with the affect and hospitality of friends. Despite this, he sensed a feeling of sadness and anticipation that the peace they were then experiencing was ephemeral and aimed to capture that feeling through his photography. Unfortunately, their fears about the fragility of peace were right. Much of what Shapiro saw, and some of the people he met, have been destroyed by the recent war. These photographs are a glimpse of his experience, reflecting the mixed emotions he felt then and the sadness he feels now for a rich and ancient civilization driven into despair and chaos.

HUB Gallery
May 10 – June 18, 2017

Gang Meng, Cheng Shi, and Bingyan Xue are three Nanjing graphic designers who are all well-versed in contemporary Chinese poster design and are dedicated to modernizing traditional Chinese culture in graphic design. This exhibition features a selection of their recent and daring works, in which they experiment with the shape of Chinese characters and push the boundary of Chinese type design to embody the expressive, nostalgic, and impressionistic feelings of the characters.

Gang Meng is a Penn State visiting scholar from Nanjing Tech University, Jiangsu Province, China. He has published and lectured internationally in multi-disciplinary design including, but not limited to: visual communications, packaging, advertising, computer graphics, and designing modules. Meng focuses on culture-based design, user analysis, and modernization of traditional design and has participated in several research projects including: City Image Design, Corporation Image Design, and several other provincial and school level projects.

Art on the Move – Old Main
May 12 – September 17, 2017

Fernanda Bonafini first began drawing mandalas as a way to relieve stress and balance emotions. Her first mandalas were drawn on black paper with gel pens and she later migrated to using black ink pens on white paper. More recently, she has begun working with heat transfer to add various colors of reflective foil to her original black ink mandalas.

The term mandala means “circle” in Sanskrit, however mandalas are much more than just circles to her; they also represent wholeness and inner peace. Even Ataraxiaowl, her chosen artistic name, synthesizes the message she wants to convey in her drawings, as Ataraxia means “a lucid state of robust tranquility and ongoing freedom from distress and worry,” while owl represents wisdom and the ability to navigate any darkness in life.

Bonafini draws inspiration from other contemporary mandala artists, her personal journey towards self-knowledge and self-awareness, and her affinity for geometry and symmetry. She hopes that her work can help others improve concentration, increase creativity, decrease anxiety and stress, and increase physical and emotional balance.

Fernanda Bonafini is currently a student at Penn State earning her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction — Mathematics Education and a concurrent Masters degree in Applied Statistics.

Art on the Move — Old Main
May 12, 2017 – January 17, 2018

Beverly Klucher is a prolific oil painter whose primary focus is on costal scenes and landscapes. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the Eastern United States and sold to private & Corporate collectors. Many of her pastoral scenes are reflective of the Central Pennsylvania region, while many of her beach scenes are captured while on her annual trip to Cape Cod, Florida. Regardless of the scene, the fluidity of light combined with the spontaneity of her brush strokes depicts a sense of calm in the moment.

As the daughter of a Naval officer, Klucher was blessed with the opportunity to travel extensively as a child. She quickly realized that she could visually communicate her experiences with pencil and chalk. Her talent was obvious to those around her and soon Klucher realized the importance of pursuing her love of art.

Beverly Klucher is a Fine Arts graduate of Pennsylvania State University and has completed further graduate work in Landscape Painting at Maryland Institute of Art. She and her husband currently reside in the State College area where they both appreciate the sweeping views of the Appalachian Mountains.

Art Alley
May 19 – September 7, 2017

As we move through everyday life amidst political uncertainty and fear, we search for the broken parts to reveal where we went wrong. Miranda Holmes’ work enters into this conversation through the ambiguous nature of her paintings’ narratives as well as their underlying feelings of unsettledness. By using sickly high-key colors and foggy darks to poke fun at both the absurdity of our gaffes and the dread of our more cutting mistakes, Holmes’ work addresses the culpability of human actions. She creates a sense of ambiguity in her paintings by leaving out certain clues which allows the viewer to pass judgement on where the scene went wrong.

Providing contrast to the underlying violence and irony are a variety of quieter moments, found in the form of fog-ridden trees, the glow of a campfire, or a muscular rock. These shifts between moments of clarity and hope to areas of obscurity and despair are representative of her reactions to the daily uncertainty Holmes faces as she struggles to make sense of the swift changes in her world.

Miranda Holmes is a State College native and a recent graduate of Penn State, where she earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing. She has shown her work in several exhibitions in the State College area, including the HUB-Robeson Galleries’ Art on the Move program in 2016. She was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Summer School of Art in Norfolk, Connecticut in 2016.

Robeson Gallery
June 11 – September 7, 2017

Featuring a variety of historical and novelty bicycles from the collection of Bob Swaim, artists Thomas Fainor, Ben Bowden, Kerry McLean, Eric Staller, and Tommmi Miller take the viewer on a two-wheeled tour of the art and history of bicycles.

Thomas Fainor, a wood and metal artist with a very strong mechanical nature and background, begins the historical aspect of The Art & History of Bicycles with his reproductions of a Hobby Horse and Boneshaker. These are followed chronologically by an unknown artist who created the Highwheeler, or Pennyfarthing, and an early Safety Bicycle, which was the precursor to bicycles as we know them today.

Ben Bowden, a British industrial designer, bridges the gap between art and history with his Bowden Spacelander. The Spacelander, when originally released in 1960, was initially considered commercially unsuccessful until the 1980s when a resurgence of interest in the Spacelander as a collectors item led two bicycle enthusiasts to purchase the rights to the name and began manufacturing reproductions.

Kerry McLean is most famous for his design, production, and use of monocycles, which are large, one-wheeled vehicles that the rider sits inside of. Accompanying the Human Powered Monocycle in this exhibit are two one-of-a-kid creations by McLean: a low-rider bicycle and a whole-body tricycle.

Eric Staller is an American artist who uses light and architecture in the creation of his works. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Art Car Movement with his 7-person Conference Bike and Love Bike Built for Two.

Tommmi Miller is an American artist from Indiana who creates artistically unique bicycles that are then used by performers. Even though Miller’s passion is for unicycles, evident in his Triple-Wheeled Unicycle, he has also created the Off-Centered Wheel Bicycle, a One-of-a-kind Tricycle, and Reverse Steering Kits for bicycles.

Bob Swaim’s collection of unique human-powered vehicles began with he first saw Tommmi Miller traveling in an old school bus to display his units at a bicycle convention in Iowa in the 1990s. Swaim’s first unique unit came from Miller, and his collection has since grown to include over 200 pieces from a variety of artists. Inspired by Miller, Swaim travels with his bikes in a 24-foot trailer to display subsets of his collection at various events, museums, and schools.

HUB Gallery
June 30 – September 12, 2017

Amanda McCavour works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. By sewing into fabric that dissolves in water, she can build up stitched lines on a temporary surface. While sewing, she crosses the threads over themselves repeatedly so that after the fabric has dissolved, the thread drawing can hold itself together despite appearing as though it could easily unravel and fall apart at any moment.

McCavour is interested in thread’s assumed vulnerability, its ability to unravel, and its strength when sewn together. Her works explore embroidery’s duality: its structural possibility vs. its fragility and its subtle quality vs. its accumulative presence. Through experimentation and creation, she investigates line in the context of embroidery, drawing and installation, and uses stitch to explore connections to home, fibers of the body, and more formal considerations of thread’s accumulative presence.

Amanda McCavour earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University where she studied drawing and, in May 2014, completed her Master of Fine Arts in Fibers and Materials Studies at Tyler School of Art. She displays her work nationally and internationally, most recently in Ottawa, Virginia Beach, and Vancouver, and has recently completed residencies at Harbourfront Centre’s Textiles Studio in Toronto, Maison des Metiers D’art de Quebec in Quebec City, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon. McCavour has received numerous awards and scholarships from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Handweavers and Spinners Guild of America, The Ontario Crafts Council, The Ontario Society of Artists, The Surface Design Association, and The Embroiderers Guild of America.

For more information on Amanda McCavour, visit her on Facebook or Instagram.

Art on the Move — North Halls Cultural Lounge
September 11, 2017 – January 15, 2018

As a photographer, Prince Spells finds that his purpose is to photograph and publish issues of civic concern in the interest of informing and educating the public. He came away from his travels in Africa with a concept that is not just specific to that part of the world, focusing on the universal themes of struggle, poverty, resilience, and the human determination to survive. He explains that “It is a utilitarian philosophy characterized by rebellion, survival, utility, and competition within a hostile environment…I believe that evidence for this concept can be found right here in the ghettos of America.”

Prince Spells was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He’s a 2008 graduate of Penn State, where he majored in Integrative Arts. Since then, inspired by the ideology of civic journalism, Spells has focused exclusively on subsistence enterprise issues; producing photo-essays in China, Italy, and the U.S. in the interest of building the foundation for The Partnering Firm, a non-profit organization that serves the public interest by stimulating the artistic and entrepreneurial agency of independent workers, worldwide, through innovative initiatives that perpetuate the mutual improvement of society.

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
September 18, 2017 – January 22, 2018

Jake Waldman first became intrigued by trains and railroads when watching the locomotives on the Hudson River near where he grew up. These photographs were all shot with a K-1000 Single Lens Reflex (S.L.R.) Camera, and many were taken onboard as a passenger en route to Florida and California. He states, “After a few rides on steam trains I was sold on the big, fire-breathing machine…the smell of the coal, the wisps of water vapor, the vibration of the ground, and the fluid movement of so many tons of steel, fire, and water.”

Waldman graduated from the Eberly College of Science in 2004 with an MS in Chemistry and has since worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a process chemist. He has always been interested in photography and received his first Single Lens Reflex camera in 1991. Even though he now uses a digital S.L.R., Waldman still applies his knowledge of F-stops, shutter speed, and manual focus to inform his photography.

Art on the Move — Old Main
September 18, 2017 – April 30, 2018

Lindsey Duffey’s photographs highlight the details of everyday objects that might otherwise go unnoticed or unappreciated. This series focuses specifically on unique bicycles from the collection of Bob “The Bike Guy” Swaim. She intentionally composed each photograph so that the viewer’s attention is directed towards a single, small component removing the context of the overall object. Duffey does this as a way of inviting the viewer to look at the bikes beyond their purpose as a form of transportation and begin looking at them as pieces of art.

Lindsey Duffey earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Applied Media Arts from Edinboro University in 2012 and currently resides in the State College area.

Display Cases
September 19, 2017 – January 5, 2018

“The aesthetics of the past and the beauty in everyday objects is something that has always fascinated me,” collector Brian Smith says. “Children’s books and toys can offer a glimpse into the past, allowing the viewer to transport back to a time when we were more youthful than we are today. There is an air of reminiscence about old toys and books, a sense of wonderment and nostalgia; however, these Playthings of a Bygone Era can also offer a more ‘proper’ purpose. One can learn a lot about the past through the writings of ‘great’ men and women. The actions of those in positions of power, and the ones who challenge that power, frequently turn up in history textbooks. But I believe that a person can learn a lot about the past through an appreciation of how a culture spends its leisure time. The toys that we play with, the stories that we read as children and the illustrations that we pour over as the book is being read to us can speak to the larger question of who we are as a society.”

Brian Smith was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He currently resides in State College with his wife and two sons and is a Social Studies teacher with the State College Area High School.

Display Cases
September 19, 2017 – January 5, 2018

Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Mary Cate Fruehan found herself intrigued by decay in the form of dilapidated houses or rusted-out cars. These ruins felt monumental and mystical to her, leaving her with a feeling of wonder not knowing their stories or who they belonged to. In a time where information is at our fingertips, wanting for more can be poignant. Fruehan’s work plays into this element of wanting more information by implying a function or narrative but with an unknown or incomplete use.

In her studio practice Fruehan begins by incrementally laying down material, allowing the forms to evolve slowly and suggest narratives of how they might work. As she negotiates with her materials and navigates these forms, their emerging logic suggests where an orifice should be, how something might navigate the interior of this space, or how this object could function.

Mary Cate Fruehan recently received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Penn State with a concentration in Ceramics. She has further studied sculpture and ceramics at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts. In Fall 2017 she will be student teaching in Pittsburgh and completing her degree in Art Education.

Display Cases
September 19, 2017 – January 5, 2018

Bradley Klem uses illustration in his work to express ideas about conservation and sustainability. Many of his ideas were developed through sharing experiences with his father both while fishing and in the mountains of Northern Arizona. He pairs this imagery with handmade pottery in order to exploit its familiarity and utilize the relationship we have with objects that inhabit our everyday lives. The illustrations then become part of the overall experience with these objects and possibly add to the conversations which may take place around them.

Bradley Klem lived much of his life in Arizona and was first introduced to clay while studying painting at Arizona State University. Since completing his undergraduate degree in 2014, Klem has been regularly exhibiting his work in national and international exhibitions as well as hosting workshops and presentations across the United States. In 2015 he partnered with Alexandra Jelleberg to co-found, coordinate, and direct GrowlerFest 2015 East and West. As a founding director of GrowlerFest it is his aim to emphasize the link between the craft brewery movement and the vitality of handmade pottery. Klem is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate in Ceramics at Penn State.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
September 20, 2017 – January 17, 2018

Much of Fernanda Bonafini’s early work was on black paper with gel pens and white paper with black ink pens but more recently she has incorporated hand drawing digital media into her work, using an Apple pencil with an iPad Pro. All of the creations presented in this exhibition are part of an larger series of polygonal animal drawings that combine the beauty of animals, the simplicity of polygonal shapes , and the intricate details of mandalas.

Bonafini draws inspiration from other contemporary mandala artists, her personal journey towards self-knowledge and self-awareness, and her affinity for geometry and symmetry. She hopes that her work can help others improve concentration, increase creativity, decrease anxiety and stress, and increase physical and emotional balance.

Fernanda Bonafini is currently a student at Penn State earning her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction — Mathematics Education and a concurrent Masters degree in Applied Statistics.

HUB Gallery
September 27 – December 10, 2017

Erica Harney’s paintings reside in the interstices of realism and abstraction. They’re about the act of creating “selective” realities, which can be literal, like the exquisitely intentional fabrications of staged theaters, or existential like the self-images we craft in an effort to help us perceive and be perceived by others. By exploiting the deceptive nature of paint, she allows remnants of the physical and intellectual process to emphasize that the images are an artifice — deliberately constructed, edited, and presented in such a way as to become its own entity.

Harney’s work is directly affected by her experiences working as a scenic artist, painting sets and backdrops for operas, plays, and musicals, where every element of the set has been carefully and deliberately chosen to express a mood, idea, or ambience. Even the word “play” has a significant double meaning to her as playfulness and whimsy propel her work and allow each piece to take on its own aesthetic and identity that is completely different from the one before.

Erica Harney is a Philadelphia-based painter who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University and a Master of Fine Arts from Penn State. She has also studied at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy and has been a resident artist at ArtScape in Toronto, Weir Farm in Connecticut, the Palazzo Rinaldi Italy, and the Vermont Studio Center. She has exhibited extensively across the United States and Internationally, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Graham Endowed Fellowship, a Daniel J. Murphy II Award for Creativity, and a Christos N. Apostle Grant.

Since 2012 Harney has worked professionally as a scenic painter for Philadelphia-area theatre and production companies, including Opera Philadelphia and Opera Delaware. She is currently the Scenic Charge at the Fulton Scenic Studios, the official production company for the historic Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Art Alley
September 29 – December 10, 2017

Matthew Hall developed this body of work through the experience of adopting a new city, building a home, and what continues to resonate after it no longer feels new. The imagery and scenes are a meditation on how affinity builds attachment and the comfort derived from that sentimentality.

Hall is a Philadelphia-based artist working with gestural drawing, books, text, and works on paper. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Penn State in 2013 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Alfred University in 2006. His work was named “Best in Show” in 2012 by juror Brook Seidlemann in Homage: Past Influences at the Target Art Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia. Hall participated in an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in June of 2013 and has designed the season graphics for Salt Lake Acting Company from 2010 – 2015. He has been represented by 3rd Street Gallery in Philadelphia since 2014.

Robeson Gallery
September 29 – November 16, 2017

Visual artists at Penn State see things many of us mostly miss — they take the chance of curiosity and meld it with the obscurity that surrounds us to yield the unpredictable and the spectacular; the playful and the purposeful. Now we see it; now we know it. The many motions of making and the private persuasion of shaping push the limits of material and matter, re-charge technologies of form fitting, re-claim the mysteries of material thinking, re-animate audacious change, and re-vision art as nothing, and as everything else.

On view is work by full-time faculty who teach visual arts and design in School of Visual Arts studios and digital labs as part of their academic and professional practice. Participants include Brian Alfred, John Bowman, Paul Chidester, Bonnie Collura, Robin Gibson, Shannon Goff, Lonnie Graham, Andrew Hieronymi, Tom Lauerman, Cristin Millet, Jerrold Maddox, Eduardo Navas, Helen O’Leary, Liz Quackenbush, Eric Roman, Carlos Rosas, Steven Rubin, Jean Sanders, Keith Shapiro, Rudy Shepherd, Ann Shostrom, Stephanie Snider, Chris Staley, Ann Tarantino, and Robert Yarber.

Robeson Gallery
January 7 – January 23, 2016

The State College Area School District is honored to bring forward some of the best work from their student artists, grades kindergarten through twelve. Many two— and three—dimensional media are represented as are many hours of skilled and creative work from children throughout our community.

Display Cases
January 16 – March 2, 2016

The A.A.U.W. State College Centennial Archives Roadshow offers a peak into the fascinating history of the A.A.U.W. State College Branch and includes several photos, handbooks, newspaper clippings, and letters which will be displayed publicly for the first time in the 100-year history of the branch. Formed on February 18, 1916, the Branch advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. In the beginning, the Branch worked with Pennsylvania State College to ensure there were athletic fields for women students, restrooms in public buildings, and a woman member on the Pennsylvania State College Board of Trustees. Over the years, Branch members became community mobilizers and leaders. Today, the Branch provides STEM programs for girls in all of the local school districts, raises $100,000+ annually at the A.A.U.W. State College Used Book Sale to provide scholarships for women and help fund dozens of community groups, and has a Penn State student affiliate group.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
January 20 – May 25, 2016

Miranda Holmes’ work is an exploration of White supremacy in the contemporary American household. The over-abundance of food, pleasure, and human listlessness is a vehicle to both make visible and critique White America’s complacency and compliance with racial inequities. Her paintings reflect her curiosity in the ways in which White privilege manifests in her life and in those around her. Through her depictions of sickeningly sugary desserts Holmes is able to portray privilege as enticing and toxic, superficially delicious but deeply damaging.

Holmes’ work also explores sexual desire in relation to power and entitlement. Are our intimate spaces inherently dictated by power imbalances? Is there a space in which bodies can merely exist, or is the definition of Whiteness inseparable from that of the consumer? While her paintings may raise more questions than the answer, Holmes hopes that they will still spark conversations among viewers who dare to examine the daydreams in which they may live.

Miranda Holmes is a State College native. She is a junior at Penn State studying painting and drawing in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program, and is currently studying abroad in Florence, Italy at Studio Art Centers International. She hopes to attend Graduate school to continue her fine arts education.

HUB Gallery
January 22 – March 3, 2016

Coded Language features sculptural installations by Penn State School of Visual Arts Graduate Student Nicole Lau, and will tackle themes of microaggression, ethnogenesis, and identity politics. Inspired by her own experiences with ambiguous racism and language hiding coded and implied meanings, Lau explores how power, privilege, and oppression are foundations for society. She seeks to explore the institutional oppression that is tightly woven into the fabric of our history and uses her work to identify how oppression is upheld through microaggressions and how one can respond with ethnogenesis. Microaggressions are the subtle ways in which verbal and body language convey oppressive ideology against marginalized identities. Ethnogenesis is a process in which a group of people acquire an identity that signifies them as an ethnic group.

Nicole Lau was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 2008, and is currently pursing her Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in Ceramics at Penn State. She is an Americorps Alumni and her work in 2011 with Public Allies/Americorps was a pivotal moment in her art practice, shifting her themes towards identity politics and social justice.

Art Alley
January 25 – March 6, 2016

Optics of the Poles is a exhibit juried by The Polar Center at Penn State Steering Committee and features a wide variety of artwork by Penn State Undergraduate and Graduate students associated with the visual arts. Each artwork is an interpretation and representation of climate change.

The Polar Center fosters creative, ground-breaking collaboration by catalyzing exchange among members with a unique breadth of expertise at Penn State, representing the life, physical, and social sciences. The Center provides a platform for powerfully forward-thinking scientific exchange with other national and international institutions through workshops and conferences focusing on polar science, and with the local community through public events and lectures ultimately communicating the rare beauty and scientific and cultural value of these regions.

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
February 3 – May 3, 2016

John Mangan was a Penn State Continuing Education Drawing and Painting Instructor who unfortunately passed away on September 9, 2014. He is remembered as being an incredibly gifted artist with a unique visionary aesthetic. Mangan was an active artist, exhibiting his work frequently at several venues throughout Central Pennsylvania. The paintings on display in this exhibit feature a variety of animals painted on old windows.

Art on the Move — Old Main
February 4 – May 1, 2016

Maryanne Fyda responds to the beauty of objects, people, and places through a variety of mediums, including pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, charcoal, mixed media, and pastels, which are her favorite. She enjoys the entire creative process from start to finish, and lives for the thrill of completing a piece. She is also makes dichroic glass jewelry and is a calligrapher.

Maryanne is a graduate of Wayne State University, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fine Arts. She now lives in DuBois, Pennsylvania, and runs her own art studio, Marianne Fyda’s Studio, where she offers classes for adults and children in drawing, watercolor, pastel, and calligraphy. Marianne is involved in numerous arts organizations, including the Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society, the Degas Pastel Society, and the Pastel Society of America.

Art on the Move — Old Main
February 4 – May 1, 2016

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Art on the Move — University Health Services
September 20, 2016 – January 9, 2017

Howie Schultz is a sports and landscape photographer from State College, Pennsylvania. Throughout his travels over the past 20 years he has been fortunate to capture powerful images of both iconic destinations and places off of the beaten path. Schultz often leads photography workshops in the State College area for beginner and intermediate photographers.

Art on the Move — North Halls Cultural Lounge
February 9 – May 5, 2016

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Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
September 13 – December 5, 2016

Alyce Ritti is a mixed-media artist who combines paper cutouts, fabric, jewelry, feathers, and other found objects to create her unique and playful collages. Each collage is created with the intention of starting a conversation with the viewer, often laced with social and political commentaries and accompanied by a touch of humor and absurdity.

Robeson Gallery
February 12 – April 22, 2016

Grace Hampton’s collection includes artwork from a wide range of artists from the United States, West Africa, and the African Diaspora. Much of the work in the collection comes from artists she has met during her travels throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa.

Charles Dumas and his wife Jo began collecting artwork 40 years ago. They have accumulated many original works from Africa, Haiti, and the African Diaspora, and they are especially fond of works by local State College and Penn State artists.

Grace Hampton is a Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Professor Emeritus in Art, Art Education, and Integrative Arts. She was also a professor at Northern Illinois University, California State University at Sacramento, and the University of Oregon in Eugene, and from 2002-2003 was a visiting professor at The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi Ghana. She was an exhibitor as well as a member of the American Delegation to the Second World Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria and in numerous visual arts and jewelry exhibitions in the United States. Although officially retired, Hampton has embarked on her next career as full-time artist and consultant in art education, the integration of the arts, and community development through the arts.

Charles Dumas is a Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Professor Emeritus in the School of Theatre. He was also a professor at Temple University, South Africa’s University of the Free State, State University of New York at New Paltz, and a Fulbright Fellow at Stellenbosch University. Dumas is also a professional writer, actor, director, and producer having appeared in over three hundred professional shows on TV, film, and the live stage. He is a past recipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellowship. He received an Ensemble Emmy for his part in Separate But Equal and a Best Actor Award from the Hollywood/Beverly Hills NAACP for B.C. Historia.

HUB Gallery
March 28 – April 24, 2016

This juried exhibition displays the studio art portion of the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, offering students the opportunity to display their work in a professional setting. Visual Arts students will exhibit artwork in a variety of media, based on their in-progress work towards their thesis portfolio.

The Annual Graduate Research Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields.

Art Alley, Display Cases
March 24 – April 24, 2016

This exhibit will feature two- and three-dimensional artwork in media and disciplines representing the range of art classes available at the Center for Arts & Crafts.

For more than 40 years the Center for Arts & Crafts has provided quality programs and services for the ever-changing social, educational, and recreational needs of the Centre County Community. Their main office and classrooms are located in Ritenour Building at the corner of Pollock and Shortlidge Roads, and the Ceramics Studio is located in the HUB-Robeson Center. The Center for Arts & Crafts offers a variety of non-credit adult art classes during Fall and Spring semesters, and children’s art camp in the summer. All classes are taught by Penn State University Art majors, Art Education majors, graduate students, and professional artists.

Art Alley
May 20 – September 18, 2016

Painting and sculpture can be defined by their differences in viewer interaction; a sculpture is intended to be viewed from various different perspectives and angles, whereas a painting is intended to be viewed from one side. Joe Vescovich’s work, however, can be truthfully referred to as sculptural paintings, as they do not exclusively fit either definition. Combining wood, metal, and photography with encaustic, a form of painting that utilizes melted wax, allows Vescovich to create these dynamic wall sculptures that are intended to be viewed from a variety of perspectives.

To create his encaustics, Vescovich applies a mixture of heated beeswax, pigments, and dammar resign to the sculptures. Beeswax is used specifically for its receptivity to oil paint and other pigments and its malleability; however, wax’s essential characteristic is to harden as soon as it leaves the heat source, so Vescovich must work quickly to make decisions and let the wax find its place. After the wax has cooled, he can manipulate its surface by scraping, carving, or adding more layers. Vescovich compliments this layering process with lines, textures, geometric shapes, and repetition to create dynamic patterns and an appearance of depth in order to draw the viewer’s eye into and around the surface of the piece.

Joe Vescovich’s education includes studies through the DeMazia Foundation of the Barnes Art Museum, the University of the Arts (UArts), and the International Encaustics workshop. He has exhibited his encaustics at the Philadelphia Welcome Center, at Derrek’s in Manayunk, Philadelphia, and at Abstract Expressions Gallery in Mount Holly, New Jersey.

HUB Gallery
May 27 – September 11, 2016

Kiana Honarmand’s work focuses on issues related to her cultural identity, especially the treatment of women in Iran’s society, the male gaze, censorship, and surveillance. These are difficulties that everybody living in Iran, especially women, must deal with on a daily basis.

Growing up in Iran, Honarmand felt stuck between tradition and modernity, as did many others in her generation. Iran had already been westernized before the 1979 revolution changed the culture to a more religious and traditional one. She explores and finds inspiration in the differences between the Middle East, where she grew up, and the West, where she lives now. Merging the imagery of her past with her new cultural environment allows her to address the Western perception of the Middle East.

Honarmand is a conceptual artist; all of the aesthetic and technical decisions she makes are driven by her concepts and ideas. She employs photography as her primary medium, but also includes sculpture, painting, and collage as a means to convey her ideas. She also often incorporates a number of modern technologies, such as laser cutters, C.N.C. routers, 3D scanners, and 3D printers.

Kiana Honarmand was born in Iran and moved to the United States in order to pursue her Master of Fine Arts degree from Penn State, which she completed in 2014. She has exhibited her work both in the United States and internationally. Currently Honarmand resides in Pennsylvania.

Robeson Gallery
May 17 – September 7, 2016

Examples of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism supplemented by videos and informational charts provide the viewer with a crash-course in European Art History. The featured paintings, all completed by one very adaptive painter, closely mimic the painting styles of the ‘greats’, including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dali, René Magritte, and many others.

Wolfgang and Brigitte’s collection of fine art copies began while the two were living in China. During a trip to one of the numerous Chinese art markets, the couple came across a talented young artist. Wolfgang asked her to copy one of his favorite Picassos. Shortly after, the three worked together for almost 5 years to produce around 100 paintings of various artists and movements.

Wolfgang Gunter, a native of Cologne, Germany, received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Cologne in 1976. His thirty year career in the chemical industry took him around the world, from Germany to Brussels, to the United States and China. After retiring in 2003, he returned to the United States with his wife Brigitte. Wolfgang’s love of art began at a young age, and he is now an avid art lover and collector. He is also a dive master, a hobby cook, and a close follower of astronomy and science in general.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
June 3 – September 15, 2016

Misty Frederick-Ritz is a painter, jewelry maker, mixed media artist, and digital artist from State College, Pennsylvania. She has a passion for door and texture and loves spending time in her studio. She primarily works with acrylics, water colors, water soluble crayons, inks, polymer clay, beads and buttons, fabrics and fibers, and colored pencils. Frederick-Ritz’s recent works, painted in a stye known as “contemporary symbolism,” best represent her as a creative and spiritual person. Frequently featuring a feminine archetype, her paintings are an “outer” representation of her “inner” self.

Display Cases
September 19 – December 15, 2016

Christine Smith has always had a passion for the natural environment. Graduating from Penn State with an environmental education degree, she has explored many sides of northeastern flora and fauna. Through her papercuttings, she enjoys highlighting the beauty that is constantly around us, although sometimes overlooked. She also has a fascination with the idea of made-up worlds. She finds inspiration through her two small children to investigate and to travel into these secret places. Usually, the longer you look at her pieces, the more you will discover.

Art on the Move — Old Main
September 26, 2016 – March 17, 2017

Jin Yan describes her drawings as randomized daily visions that incorporate the people and interactions she witnesses in her daily life. She finds inspiration in these common moments, whether it’s someone in line at the coffee shop, a conversation she overheard, a quote from the book she’s been reading, or simply an old photograph.

When drawing, Yan often focuses on a single person, intensely observing them. However, she doesn’t draw every line she sees; instead she bends the truth, contouring in a deliberate way by freeing her hands from accuracy and allowing her mind to lead her hand in reflecting an honest depiction of her poetic thinking. Often, Yan combines her poetry with her visuals in order to emphasize the impact of both expressions.

Jin Yan is a current Penn State student majoring in Communications and minoring in English. She describes herself as a poetry lover and a YouTube addict.

Display Cases
September 27, 2016 – January 7, 2017

Stephanie Seguin makes functional, decorative ceramic sculptures that are meant to be used and become a part of people’s lives. Decoration is important, as she wants her pieces to captivate the eye in addition to serving their functions. Her decorations are often influenced by quilts, Korean and Persian historical pottery, art nouveau design aesthetics, and she always finds inspiration in nature.

To Seguin, applying slips, carving patterns, and layering glazes is a form of meditation that she tries to pass on to her audience by encouraging viewers to explore each piece’s complexity in design and form. She also tries to provide comfort with her work; whether it is the physical comfort of how it feels in the hand or the comfort of the soul that comes from serving a family recipe in a beautiful bowl.

Robeson Gallery
September 28 – November 17, 2016

Henry Klimowicz’s sculptures do not leave the viewer with any questions about what material he uses to make each piece. Collected from multiple grocery stores, hardware stores, and shipments from other artists, Klimowicz gives new life to ordinary single-ply cardboard. He makes no effort to hide or disguise the material’s past as small tears, box creases, and even printed product letters are visible on his sculptures. “It isn’t the material that gives something to the viewer,” Klimowicz says, “it is what I put into it — my vision creates whatever image the viewer takes away from the piece.”

Klimowicz has been working with cardboard as his primary material since 1986. Armed with a utility knife and a hot glue gun, he methodically transforms it into large-scale sculptures, pushing the material as far as possible. Working with cardboard allows Klimowicz to create a dialogue between art and the natural world, and the adaptable nature of his work allows him to work freely. When he begins his sculptures Klimowicz does not set out with a clear idea of how the finished piece will look. Instead, he lets the piece develop itself, making aesthetic decisions along the way and without consciously thinking about where a piece is going or if it’s going well.

“Cardboard is simple and straightforward,” says Klimowicz. “It is also a severely limited material. It has an ever-present cultural bias related to its past uses as a container or its present use as waste. I love it when the material transcends its cultural confines. If I can make something beautiful from cardboard, I have then said that anything can be made valuable, fruitful, or hopeful. I see this work as very positive because of the lengths that have been traveled by the material from trash to beauty. It is a statement about the possible — that all things can be redeemed, often for more that what was deposited. Creativity can be that redeemer.”

Henry Klimowicz grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor in Fine Arts Degree. He earned his Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and currently resides in Millerton, New York.

Art Alley
September 29 – December 9, 2016

FaceAge is an immersive three-screen visual and audio installation which functions as the centerpiece of the FaceAge exhibit. Cross generational encounters are conveyed across six sensory-rich sections, each designed to shift the observer’s embodied experience of aging. Viewers may enter the 55 minute film loop at any point for any amount of time – each encounter will provide its own experience. This project provides a much needed space within a culture where generations tend to be dispersed physically.

Led by the power of the arts to engage communities and ideas, the FaceAge collaboration is an innovative template for cross-disciplinary research and intergenerational community engagement.

As a model for transdisciplinary arts research, FaceAge offers a timely case study for examining and exploring innovative ways in which third-space collaborations — particularly in Arts and Health — can be extended into the sphere of public engagement, with measurable outcomes and impacts. The FaceAge creators aim for a deeper understanding of the lived experience for individuals across generations and how the arts can impact people’s perceptions of aging. They are also interested in extending FaceAge as an embodied, experiential template for engaging the public in other important medical concerns such as end-of-life issues, child abuse, nutrition, and active lifestyles.

FaceAge community engagement efforts begin with the personal experience encountering the installation, witnessing intergenerational interactions on the screen, and listening to powerful stories revealed by filmed FaceAge individuals. Following their experience of the installation, visitors are invited to create their own FaceAge experience by participating in an intergenerational Story Circle.

Following this Penn State residency at the HUB-Robeson Center, FaceAge will be touring to museums, arts and film festivals, universities, and health care centers throughout the US and internationally.

FaceAge Core Partners include: Arts & Design Research Incubator, Penn State College of Arts & Architecture, Center for Healthy Aging, Penn State College of Health and Human Development, Penn State College of Nursing, and the Department of Film Studies, University of North Carolina – Wilmington.

HUB Gallery
September 30 – December 4, 2016

Utilizing clay, paper, and installation, Stephanie Seguin will create an immersive space that is not complete until a viewer is present. Her total installation not only physically immerses the viewer but is psychologically absorptive too — much like how one gets lost in an epic novel or feels fully immersed in a movie or theatre production. By giving the viewer a sense of being engulfed by a space Seguin invites the viewer to sit and spend time with the work and to focus on their relationship to the objects rather than focusing on the objects alone.

Taking into consideration the relationship of the clay and paper vessels, the proximity of the viewer, directionality of the viewer’s gaze, lighting, and shadows, Seguin attempts to create an awareness of how one’s perspective changes their perception. Her minimalist approach allows the viewer to inject their own subjectivity and perceive the work through their own projections and interpretations.

Seguin’s installation includes nearly 100 clay and paper vessels. The cast paper forms mimic the hand-built clay vessels to create a form of after-image and build tension between the differing visual textures and weights. Seguin deliberately chose to work with clay, paper, and wood in this exhibition as these materials are seen frequently through historical and contemporary design, and using them allows her to bridge the familiar with the unfamiliar.

Stephanie Seguin earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Ceramics from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2009. She has since been an Apprentice in Whitefish, Montana, Studio Assistant and Instructor at Maho Bay Clay Works on St. John, United States Virgin Islands, and Workshop and Facility Assistant at La Maridiana; International School of the Ceramic Arts in Italy. She is currently a Master of Fine Arts student at Penn State.

Robeson Gallery
January 5 – January 24, 2015

The State College Area School District is honored to bring forward some of the best work from their student artists, grades kindergarten through twelve. Many two— and three—dimensional media are represented as are many hours of skilled and creative work from children throughout our community.

Art Alley
January 7 – March 3, 2015

During his freshman year, Xiaoyi Ma discovered that while he and his fellow Chinese students were living extremely different lives than those they were accustomed to, very few other people realized or even considered what Chinese overseas students at Penn State were experiencing. Chinese Students Oversea Impressions: A Comparison began as a way to document the lives of average Chinese students and expose their inner world.

As the project progressed, it became clear to Ma that simple documentation wasn’t enough. It was then that the focus of his project shifted from documentation to expression. Ma found inspiration in his own feelings and experiences as a Chinese student, allowing him to use photography to reveal his inner thoughts and focus on what was felt rather than what was lived.

The photographs featured in this exhibition provide a side-by-side comparison and allow the viewer to experience the differences and the similarities in the lives of Chinese students both here in America and in China.

Art on the Move — Old Main
January 15 – May 10, 2015

Jennifer enjoys capturing the essence of our local landscape through her use of pastels. Vibrant and spontaneous, working with pastels gives Jennifer an almost meditative creative outlet that is a good complement to her work as the Executive Director of the ClearWater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania. She aims to enrich the viewer’s emotional connection to nature and inspire them to become involved in conservation.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
January 19 – March 4, 2015

Based on a tradition of social critique, Brian Gaither creates art that evokes humor, inspiration, introspection and discussion through an examination of the human condition. Through his work, Gaither explores the existence and interaction of ideologies that shape social institutions, the juxtaposition of group and individual identities, and the perpetuation of social conflict. Brian is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting at the Pennsylvania State University.

Art on the Move — North Halls Cultural Lounge
January 26 – April 30, 2015

“Making images with an out of date process seemed only appropriate when capturing old mechanical items that have also become out of date,” Jeremy says of this collection of photographs captured on traditional black and white film. “The relaxing approach to this photography has allowed me to hone an artistic style in all aspects of my photography life.”

HUB Gallery
January 23 – March 1, 2015

THEM: Images of Separation is a traveling exhibition from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University. This exhibit showcases items from popular culture, such as postcards, license plates, games, souvenirs and costumes, which promote stereotyping against women, poor Whites, homosexuals, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and others. THEM provides a powerful experience of how stereotyping lingers — subtly and not so subtly — today.

THEM follows up the success of the Hateful Things exhibition, hosted by the HUB-Robeson Galleries in the Spring of 2012. Hateful Things focused specifically on imagery demeaning to African-Americans. In response to the several questions asking why no objects dealing with other groups were featured, Ferris State University professor of Social Sciences David Pilgrim said, “For this show, we took our direction from Martin Luther King’s famous quote, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ This is the next logical step for the Jim Crow Museum. I’m hoping THEM shows discrimination and stereotyping is not just a black/white issue — it’s more pervasive than that.”

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is an international leader in the fight against racism. Founded on the idea that everyday racist items can be used as educational tools, the museum aims to use its thousands of Jim Crow era artifacts to teach visitors how to recognize and confront racism.

Them: Images of Separation is sponsored by the Paul Robeson Cultural Center, the University Park Allocation Committee, and the HUB-Robeson Galleries.

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
January 30 – April 26, 2015

Xin Wen is a new media artist exploring issues of self-identification among Chinese women struggling to find a balance between tradition and modern society. Her work is further inspired by the notion that images are superficial, yet powerful. Wen’s interactive feminist series, Turn Over Two Sides, leaves the viewer questioning the mask of one’s identity. Wen is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in New Media at the Pennsylvania State University.

Robeson Gallery
February 20 – April 26, 2015

This exhibition is a culmination of photographers, painters, quilt makers, curators and scholars, including work from Bayeté Ross Smith, Robert Pruitt, Terry Boddie, Malvina Latham, Rick Lowell, Kimberly Camp, Dr. Deborah Willis, Betye Saar, John Pinderhughes, Dawoud Bey and Wendell White. Also included are the works of a number of established artists from Haiti and loaned work from the collection of Dr. Eric Robertson and Hank Willis.

Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Art: A Retrospective is a retrospective of exhibitions hosted by the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Art (The Hurston) in the past decade. Founded in 1990 in Eatonville, — home of the renowned Harlem Renaissance writer and the first incorporated black community in America — the museum is committed to the philosophical legacy of Zora Neale Hurston. In the past 10 years, The Hurston has hosted multiple exhibitions featuring the work of notable contemporary African American artists, including Faith Ringgold, Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Catlett and Terry Adkins.

The Hurston’s unique mission has been to actively integrate its visiting artists into the community, establishing a reciprocity between art makers and the communities they serve. The activation of arts in communities provides a validation for the works of the artists and the method by which community members may continue to communicate and understand one another’s needs. Through the course of artist residencies, exhibitions, community projects and the annual Zora! Festival, The Hurston and its parent organization, the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, continue to activate the arts toward the cause of a universal understanding of our common humanity.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
March 12 – May 4, 2015

Leagh Anderson uses wool fibers and the ancient technique of felt making to explore a new sculptural textile form. She finds inspiration in the cycles and seasons of nature, and the colors, textures, and forms that nature takes. Leagh’s work is an intuitive process, shaped by experiences that move her. Many of her expressions have grown out of her concern for this fragile planet and her appreciation for its beauty.

Art Alley, Display Cases
March 17 – April 30, 2015

The Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts’ artists and instructors will showcase their artwork in Art Alley and the first floor Exhibit Cases. This exhibit will feature two- and three-dimensional artwork in media and disciplines representing the range of art classes available at the CFAC.

The Center for Arts and Crafts has offered non-credit adult art classes to Penn State students, faculty and staff during each of the university semesters and a children’s summer art camp for more than 40 years. The Center for Arts & Crafts is located in 3 Ritenour and has a ceramics studio in B8 HUB.

Art Alley
March 18, 2015

Bob Swaim is a man on a mission — a mission to make the Slinky the official Pennsylvania State Toy. His quest takes him all over the state to various events and venues giving presentations and demonstrations on the Slinky. On March 18th he’ll be stationed near Art Alley with an assortment of ramps, stairs and Slinkys for students to play and experiment with.

Richard James invented the Slinky in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, and the toy had it’s debut in Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia in 1945. Richard and his wife Betty, whom he had met while they were both enrolled at Penn State, continued manufacturing Slinky in Clifton Heights until the couple’s split in 1964 after which Betty James took over the company and relocated production to Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Swaim notes these Pennsylvania roots as his motivation to recognize the Slinky as the official Pennsylvania State Toy.

HUB Gallery
March 20 – May 3, 2015

This juried exhibition displays the studio art portion of the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, offering students the opportunity to display their work in a professional setting. Visual Arts students will exhibit artwork in a variety of media, based on their in-progress work towards their thesis portfolio.

The Annual Graduate Research Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields.

Art on the Move — Old Main
March 11, 2015 – January 17, 2016

Brienne Brown finds beauty in everyday life, the so-called “mundane.” Ordinary people going about their daily lives inspire Brown to capture a moment in time rather than a particular location. She begins her paintings by choosing a subject and lightly sketching general guidelines. As the paintings progress she begins to focus less on the details of the scene and more on her impressions of where she is.

Brienne’s formal education focused primarily on Chemistry with a second major in Art. After earning her Master’s degree, she worked in a toxicology lab until the birth of her first child. Leaving her job gave her the opportunity to paint more consistently and develop her skill. Brown has since shown her work in several juried exhibitions and won many awards, and has taught and attended numerous workshops.

Art on the Move — Old Main
May 11 – September 20, 2015

Creativity and imagination have always been a part of Nicole Packard’s everyday life. She is fascinated by the line between reality and fantasy and the duality of beauty and destruction. Much of her work deals with the idea of mapping information that isn’t easily quantified, which allows for the development of a more complex and visually rich environment. Nicole is a 2014 graduate of Penn State, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Art Education and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting.

Art on the Move —Student Health Center
May 13 – September 13, 2015

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Art on the Move —West Halls Cultural Lounge
September 24 – December 13, 2015

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Art on the Move —North Halls Cultural Lounge
September 29, 2015 – January 10, 2016

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Art on the Move — Student Health Center
September 17, 2015 – January 10, 2016

John Mangan was a Penn State Continuing Education Drawing and Painting Instructor who unfortunately passed away on September 9, 2014. He is remembered as being an incredibly gifted artist with a unique visionary aesthetic. Mangan was an active artist, exhibiting his work frequently at several venues throughout Central Pennsylvania.

HUB Gallery
May 22 – July 26, 2015

This exhibit features depictions of local farms and rural landscapes created in a variety of media by the Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania. The Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania was formed in late 2005 and is a joint enterprise of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and the Centre County Farmland Trust. Their mission is to promote the preservation and appreciation of farmland by portraying the beauty of rural landscapes, local farms, and their agricultural products, highlighting farm life and local food markets, and illustrating the issues that affect farmers and our communities. The Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania also increase support for farmland preservation through exhibitions and artwork sales.

Robeson Gallery
May 26 – July 18, 2015

John Mangan was an art instructor in Drawing and Painting for 20 years through Penn State’s Continuing Education program. Sadly, he passed away on September 9, 2014 at the age of 54. He is remembered as being an incredibly gifted artist with a unique visionary aesthetic. Mangan was an active artist, exhibiting his work frequently at several venues throughout Central Pennsylvania. He left behind an extensive collection of drawings, paintings, and prints.

John Mangan grew up in the Fordham section of the Bronx, New York as a first generation Irish immigrant and spent his childhood summers on his grandparent’s farm in Ireland. He had a strong connection to the natural world, and lived for over 25 years in the Julian Woods Community. He studied drawing and lithography at the Institute Del Arte in Urbino Italy, earned his Bachelor of Arts in Printmaking, Drawing, Sculpture, and Ceramics at the The State University of New York at Oneonta, and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Drawing at Penn State University Park. John Mangan is remembered as a true artist, a devoted teacher, and a great friend and mentor to many.

Art Alley
May 27 – September 6, 2015

Elody Gyekis finds inspiration in her travels throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia. Documenting these diverse visual stimuli through photography and memory provides Gyekis with the interesting references she uses to create her paintings.

This exhibit displays a wide range of subject matter including landscapes and cityscapes, portraits and figures, and flora and fauna. Also included is a small selection of paintings from her Mythological series, in which Gyekis pieces together well-known mythological beings from her collected references. The new versions of these creatures in their equally stunning and surreal landscapes invite the viewer to leap into the scenes and discover whatever blessing or curse these beings may bring.

Elody Gyekis earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Ceramics from Penn State and is a resident artist at the Green Drake Gallery and Arts Center in Pennsylvania. She’s exhibited her work in several cities across the country including Philadelphia, Syracuse, Tucson, and Harrisburg. Gyekis has served as a Community Arts Organizer and has painted nine murals across Pennsylvania and one mural in an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. She is currently working on a mural in Toms River, New Jersey.

HUB Gallery
September 8 – December 6, 2015

Evoking themes of memory, reconciliation, hybridity, and the bridging of identities; BorrandoFronteras/ErasingBorders is an art exhibition showcasing multi-media work by Cuban and Cuban-American artists: Jorge Elias Gil, Lino R. Menendez Loynaz, Yuniel Castillo Delgado, Karina Bermudez Ortiz, and Leslie C. Sotomayor.

Despite the expanding Cuban and Cuban-American population in the U.S. there is little acknowledgement of Cuba’s rich hybrid ethnic identities and very little awareness of Cuban-American culture beyond a few urban centers. Migration produces a fluid and often non-linear culture with multiple origins and connections that expand beyond geographical borders. As U.S. and Cuban relations continue to shift and significantly impact each other’s cultures and politics, conversations continue to emerge around diaspora.

This exhibit is the culmination of collaborations and conversations between the artists who together apply their life experiences to explore themes of identity and migration and to offer a cultural exchange that bridges these seemingly disparate communities.

Display Cases
September 15 – December 6, 2015

Janise Crow is a mixed media jewelry artist with a number of collections all consisting of one of a kind designs. Many of Crow’s designs use a multitude of techniques blended with various media from several eras. She combines a delicate balance of old and new, movement, color, texture, themes, recyclables, and memories into one piece of wearable art. Crow’s creative genre speaks for itself and appeals to women who appreciate individuality.

Crow is a resident of State College with family ties to Penn State. She is a full-time wig specialist and is a self-taught jewelry artist. She started making jewelry in 2007 with her wire sculpted pendants and beading collections. From there her nature to cherish things of the past and refurbish them into unique modern jewelry has led to the creation of her collections: artisan aluminum, which utilizes recycled soda cans, and modern vintage and sentimental jewelry, which incorporates recycled jewelry components and highly collectable vintage costume jewelry.

Art Alley
September 22 – December 13, 2015

Maggie Wolszczan, also known as Art Margaux, creates beautiful, bright, and vibrant large-scale oil paintings that feature a variety of flowers and other nature themes. Her love of traveling is instrumental to her growth as an artist and has opened her eyes to color, light, beauty, and antiquity and modernity. All of the experiences she’s had in different regions relate back to her love of art as her paintings are translations of places that she has traveled to and photographed herself.

Wolszczan was born in Poland, and resided there until the age of 5. She then spent the next 8 years of her childhood in Puerto Rico, where she found much of her inspiration to paint. After graduating from State College Area High School, Wolszczan expanded her art education at Ringling College of Art in Sarasota, Florida and Design and Art Center College of Design in San Diego, California. She has since returned to the State College Area, adopted Art Margaux as her nickname, and is now the owner of the Fraser Street Gallery in downtown State College.

Robeson Gallery
September 25 – November 19, 2015

Birth of the Painted World, curated by Dr. Stephen Hirshon, Professor of Art History, features paintings from the collections of Sanchi Gillett and Gallerie AK by Jivya Mashe, the master of the traditional art of the Warli Tribe, as well as paintings by his sons Sadashiva and Balu Mashe, his grandson and granddaughter, and other Warli artists completed between 1999–2012. Also on view are photographs of the Warlis by Martin Strasmore.

The Warli are a tribe of 300,000 people that live about 100 miles from Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra, India. They speak a language that has no written form, and for thousands of years women of the tribe rendered intricate paintings on the walls of their earthen homes during times of festivals and marriages as an invocation and blessing. When Jivya Mashe was orphaned as a young boy, he refused to speak and only expressed himself pictorially, drawing figures and scenes in the earth, using the ancient Warli painting style as his reference. As Jivya’s verbal silence continued for a number of years, his visual expression developed into an artistic voice that would soon be translated into award winning paintings on paper and canvas.

Jivya Mashe became the first man to render paintings in the traditional Warli style and has since received numerous awards and has been recognized by two Presidents of India as the leading master of Warli painting. His success has sparked a growing interest in Warli art worldwide and greater numbers of Warli children, men, and women are learning this craft. Mashe’s paintings have been shown in prestigious galleries and museums in Europe, Japan, Canada, and India. This is the first major retrospective of his works in the United States.

A hands-on participatory workshop for children and families will be taught by esteemed Warli artist Sadashiva Mashe on October 17th at 10am in the Robeson Gallery lobby. This workshop is a rare opportunity to study with an accomplished Warli artist. Sadashiva is traveling to the United States from India for the exhibition opening and will be teaching the basics of Warli art, including common Warli symbols.

Sadashiva Mashe's trip to Penn State for the reception and workshop is sponsored by Gallerie AK.

Art on the Move — Old Main
October 12 – January 17, 2015

Alyce Ritti is a mixed-media artist who combines paper cutouts, fabric, jewelry, feathers, and other found objects to create her unique and playful collages. Each collage is created with the intention of starting a conversation with the viewer, often laced with social and political commentaries and accompanied by a touch of humor and absurdity.

Robeson Gallery
January 3 – January 18, 2014

The State College Area School District is honored to bring forward some of the best work from their student artists, grades kindergarten through twelve. Many two— and three—dimensional media are represented as are many hours of skilled and creative work from children throughout our community.

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
January 24 – May 11, 2014

Michelle Holt's photographs explore the indescribable feeling of seeing her childhood neighborhood as an unrecognizable place. Returning to New Jersey to photograph the damage following Hurricane Sandy was a surreal experience with severe specifics, including exposed pipes and shattered glass, that made what was once normal look like a scene from a horror film. These images are Holt's reality, a hurricane which tore apart not only homes, but lives as well.

HUB Gallery
January 28 – March 2, 2014

Jim Mikkelsen, a sculptor, creates figurative pieces out of wood in a way that he says exposes a tree's story or "soul." Using logs from trees that have been removed by humans or uprooted by nature, Mikkelsen lets the features of the wood determine the shape of the work, lending to an organic, graceful piece.

"I feel highly motivated to preserve a piece of [a tree's beauty] rather than let it be lost to the fireplace, landfill, of even decay in its cycle of rebirth," said Mikkelsen.

Artist Sylvia Apple allows prehistoric and folk art to inspire her as she constructs her quilts. Ancient art forms and natural symbols often find their way into her compositions, which use metaphors to signify the fragile nature of our existence.

"As a young adult, I had the idea that I should create work which was completely finished and would survive indefinitely," said Apple. "Today, however, I often leave parts of my work raw or unfinished to allude to the fragmented and uneven qualities of nature."

Art on the Move — North Halls Cultural Lounge
February 10 – May 6, 2014

Danny Ferrell's paintings explore the raw sores of sexuality and the wounds of disenfranchisement. Examined through an anecdotal lens, he utilizes self-portraiture and images of his partner to demonstrate their social displacement, both as individuals and together as a couple.

Robeson Gallery
February 21 – April 20, 2014

The National Association of Women Artists, the American pioneer organization, celebrates its 125th Anniversary during Women's History Month, with this exhibition, Visions of the Mind. A juried group of living artists in the current membership, they have evolved, been influenced, and influenced — at least over the last century and a quarter of the organization's existence. The airy and spacious Robeson Gallery will feature the unique female perspective and handling of painting, drawing, printmaking, photographic, and sculpture media.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
March 18 – May 25,  August 20 – September 21, 2014

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Art on the Move — North Halls Cultural Lounge
September 3, 2014 – January 8, 2015

Leslie C. Sotomayor's work revolves around themes of memories, nostalgia, and how the culmination of our experiences build our heritage and identity. These large color field paintings are created with many layers of acrylic stains worked back and forth; they're then cropped, stretched, and re-worked. This process is similar to life experiences, which build and re-shape history, the present, and the future.

Art Alley
March 19 – April 27, 2014

Judy Chicago is one of the most daring and controversial artists of contemporary times, and is recognized as a founder of the feminist art movement. Karen Keifer-Boyd, Professor of Art Education and Women's studies, will be teaming up with Artist-in-residence Nancy Youdelman, a student of Judy Chicago in the Feminist Art Program in 1970, to teach a special topics course incorporating Chicago's feminist art teaching methodology. Course participants will use this methodology to create interactive content-based visual and performative art to engage the community in the Out of Here exhibition to be held in Art Alley.

The exhibition will begin on March 19 with an emergent form, a visual map out of here, that will grow and change over the following 5 weeks as a result of activities led by the course participants in the HUB and throughout campus, including the virtual spaces of World Campus and from contacting Penn State Alumni. 

HUB Gallery
March 28 – April 27, 2014

This juried exhibition displays the studio art portion of the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, offering students the opportunity to display their work in a professional setting. Visual Arts students will exhibit artwork in a variety of media, based on their in-progress work towards their thesis portfolio.

The Annual Graduate Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. Established in 1986, the Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields.

Art on the Move — Old Main
May 11 – September 7, 2014

Kathleen feels a particular connection to the fields, the sky, the ridges, and the woodlands surrounding her Centre County home. She often works outdoors or “en plein air,” which allows her to show the interactions between the shades and textures of sunlight with the surface of a field of wildflowers or a distant mountain.

Kathleen has been painting full-time for 17 years, and all of her knowledge has come from self-directed independent study.

Art on the Move — Old Main
May 11 – September 7, 2014

“Wandering through overgrown fields and woods throughout Pennsylvania, I’ve found beauty in things that some people see as junk, things of the past left to decay,” Abby says.

Abby, a 2010 Penn State graduate and staff photographer for the Centre Daily Times, enjoys creating images that are “completely different from [her] photojournalism work.”

HUB Gallery
May 20 – July 31, 2014

Passages arose from Kelsey’s explorations in and around Centre County and celebrate the wonder of the Centre County region’s natural areas. Many were begun on location outdoors (en plain air), using a portable easel and backpack with art supplies. “I learn so much from nature when painting outdoors — noticing colors, and sense of mass and movement, and the works have a sense of ‘what was stirring there’ —a feel of the wind, or sun, or the warmth of the day.” Kelsey discovers inspiring places during many outdoor adventures, including hiking, horseback riding, and flyfishing. In keeping with the painting’s inspirational source in the land of central Pennsylvania, the majority of works in the exhibit are presented in custom frames made from local hardwoods, including walnut, maple, sycamore, and butternut.

Kelsey’s artistic development extends from childhood sketching sessions with her grandfather, to courses in painting, drawing, and printmaking throughout high school and college. Her affinity for the natural world stems from early experiences. “I grew up in a beautiful, varied, open section of eastern Pennsylvania…I feel that this land nurtured me to be an artist — growing up my sensitivity and appreciation for color and form, and a sense of belonging to the land.” Kelsey also finds a bridging of her spiritual journey in the process of painting. “When I’m painting with a harmony of inner and outer forces, color and strokes flow with a sense of guidance beyond myself, and the painting becomes filled with ‘something more’…a ‘reservoir of Spirit.’ The process feels surprising and mysterious…a powerful tenderness. I’m so thankful to be a working artist, and to live within the carried natural areas of Central Pennsylvania which fuel my spirit and inspire me to create.”

Kelsey focuses on art full-time, and her paintings have received recognition in regional and national juried exhibitions, and are represented by several galleries.

Art Alley
May 22 – September 5, 2014

Kim is fascinated by the idea that all animals need an unconscious to survive and that our unconscious
notices things that our mind does not, and she uses her paintings as a way to explore these complexities of the unconscious. Many of the shapes that she renders in her work signify a portal between conscious and unconscious thought, and also represent the line that she crossed when she moved from representational to abstract artwork. Kim’s paintings can be divided into layers, with the under layer containing controlled and meticulous details that represent the biological or circumstantial details of our lives that we can’t control. The upper lays contain loose, spontaneous, and gestural marks that represent our individual subjective responses to those uncontrollable restraints and conditions.

Kim graduated from Penn State in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing. She has participated in two group exhibitions in the Edwin W. Zoller Gallery, and has had a solo exhibition entitled The Event Horizon in the Patterson Gallery.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
June 4 – August 14, 2014

As a child growing up in North Philadelphia, Daphne was often surrounded by drugs, sex, and violence. Instead of allowing her hands to contribute to the negativity surrounding her, Daphne chose to use them for something positive and began using art to distract herself from her impoverished state.

Daphne often depicts herself in her work, seeking to cover and uncover parts of herself through oil painting and collage. Utilizing race, religion, and gender, Daphne seeks to examine the things that are often left silent in a society of masking. She aims to create a conversation between religion and sex in order to question religious systems.

Daphne is a Penn State senior graduating in August 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting and Drawing.

Robeson Gallery
June 4 – July 13, 2014

This exhibition is a unique take on the Annual State College Area School District Exhibition as the teachers will be joining the students in displaying artwork. The students will be provided with the rare opportunity to see their work in the same exhibition as the professional artwork of their teachers.

HUB Gallery
September 5 – November 30, 2014

Linda Stein is an artist-activist who explores gender roles and stereotypes through the creation of her larger-than-life, heroic female torsos and figures. They are intended to scramble gender expectations and merge opposites: they are female and male; and everything in-between; they are strong though soft, warrior-like albeit pacifist guardians. The black leather torsos and seven-foot figures — created with buckles, zippers, and chains — are complemented by more colorful acrylicized-paper torsos featuring iconic Wonder Woman motifs. The sculptures have a unique push-pull tension: an inviting playfulness, and yet are fierce and formidable in a way that may make one want to step back.

During her talk on October 1 from 6-7pm in Freeman Auditorium, Linda Stein will discuss her work and inspiration. Her talks have been praised as being informative, humorous, and thoughtful. At the public reception following the talk, visitors will be invited to try on some of Stein’s sculpture, giving them the opportunity to change “skins” with varying gender-bending results. Participants will be able to feel new bodies, avatars, sometimes with accompanying brain changes.

The Fluidity of Gender is part of a seven-year touring exhibition, lecture, and performance that will see more than twenty-four museums and galleries through 2017.

Linda Stein is Founding President of the non-profit corporation Have Art: Will Travel! Inc. emphasizing Gender Justice and anti–bullying. She is Art Editor of On The Issues Magazine and is represented by Flomenhaft Gallery in Manhattan. For more information on Linda and her work, visit LindaStein.com and HaveArtWillTravel.org.

Art on the Move — Old Main
September 11, 2014 – January 8, 2015

Jeremy Dennis continues his Native American tradition of using stories and legends to deal with mysteries and the unknown. Using digital photography, Jeremy explores his own mysteries, including where he comes from and who his people are. His supernatural, photo-realistic images transition Native American myths and legends into a more contemporary form. Intentionally ambiguous, Jeremy’s photographic collages afford the viewer the opportunity to see a different story and meaning with each viewing.

Jeremy Dennis was born in Southampton, New York and was raised on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. In 2013, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Stony Brook University in New York.

Art on the Move — Old Main
September 11, 2014 – January 8, 2015

As part of her effort to observe and reflect what she sees and feels, Jennifer Kane creates beautiful commemorative landscape oil paintings with a palette knife. She chooses to work with a palette knife as it takes part of the control out of her hands, and leaves the painting up to chance. In doing so, a sort of magic happens in which she is guiding but not controlling.

The basis of her paintings is to create a lasting, interpretive portrait of a given time and place, serving as a form of historical preservation. She aims to bring awareness through visual depiction and celebration of the landscape as home, as sacred, as something priceless to be tended with care.

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
September 18, 2014 – January 8, 2015

“Making images with an out of date process seemed only appropriate when capturing old mechanical items that have also become out of date,” he says of this collection of photographs captured on traditional black and white film. “The relaxing approach to this photography has allowed me to hone an artistic style in all aspects of my photography life.”

Jeremy Drey is a 2006 Penn State graduate and is staff photographer for the Reading Eagle.

Robeson Gallery
September 25 – November 28, 2014

In 2010, photographer Mariana Cook set out to discover why some people have the courage to look injustice in the face when so many others avert their gaze. Her quest took her all over the world to capture both the well-known and the lesser-known faces of the people who felt so passionately about fairness and freedom that they risked their livelihoods and their lives to pursue justice.

Each black and white photographic portrait is coupled with a short first-person account describing what compels each of these human rights activists to fight. Represented in the exhibition are judges, lawyers, politicians, sociologists, anthropologists, clergymen, physicians, and writers – including former President Jimmy Carter, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kofi Annan, and Richard Goldstone. The exhibition encompasses numerous countries and causes such as the struggle for civil rights in South Africa, the documentation of war atrocities in Serbia, and the championing of women’s rights in Zimbabwe.

Mariana Cook is the last protégé of internationally known American photographer Ansel Adams. Cook’s works are held in numerous collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Paul Robeson Cultural Center.

Art Alley
October 2 – December 7, 2014

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Art on the Move — Student Health Center
October 6 – November 30, 2014

Criss-crossing the state on multiple faculty-led field trips, students of diverse backgrounds, interests, majors and experiences investigated and photographed an array of effects from hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking - a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale rock layers deep within the earth.

Interacting with and learning from industry professionals, geologists, environmentalists, and landowners, students photographed drill sites, farms, state forests, businesses, landowners, shale workers, training programs, small towns and protest rallies both for and against gas development. Seeking to document diverse experiences among those occupying divergent viewpoints about the energy and economic benefits of the gas boom and its social, health, and environmental costs, the overarching goal of this project is to generate dialogue and reflection amidst a larger discussion about energy production, consumption and sustainability.

The images were produced by students enrolled in the courses Photo 402: Photographic Narratives and Photo 497D: Photography and the Environment during the Spring 2014 semester, with additional field trips extending into the summer. Steven Rubin, Associate Professor of Art in the School of Visual Arts’ photography program, and Co-PI and creator of the Photo 497D: Photography and the Environment course Katarin Parizek oversee this project in collaboration with David Yoxtheimer of the Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research. Funding has been generously provided by the Sustainability Institute’s Reinvention Fund, with assistance from the School of Visual Arts and the Palmer Museum of Art.

In addition to the HUB exhibit, Storied Images: Marcellus Shale will be on display in various venues throughout Penn State’s University Park campus and the surrounding community during the Fall 2014 semester. All of these exhibitions are timed to coincide with the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project, a major exhibition on display at the Palmer Museum of Art, September 23 - December 14, 2014.

Display Cases
October 6, 2014 – January 14, 2015

This collection, begun in 2001 and completed in 2014, is inspired by the weaving traditions of many cultures. The handbags and wall hangings in this exhibit were all influenced and inspired by designs, motifs, and weave structures from Japan, Mexico, Guatemala, Bhutan, Peru, Bolivia, and Indonesia. Looms used include four-harness floor loom, back-strap loom, marudai (Japanese Braiding Loom), cardboard loom, and tablet loom. This exhibit explores a small part of the wide array of possibilities using these simple tools.

Julia was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Modern Dance Performance and Choreography. After retiring from her career in dance, Julia’s first experience in weaving came in Mesa, Arizona where she learned traditional Navaho weaving. She moved to the Central Pennsylvania area in 1994 where she continues to explore new weaving techniques and is an active member of the State College Weavers Guild.

Display Cases
October 16 – December 7, 2014

Uniforms and jeans from veterans and community members are shredded, beaten, pressed into screens, then embellished with pulp to become powerful works of art. The stories within the fibers are explored, creating the opportunity for the community to own their collective experience with conflict, service, and community, and to learn lessons of the past.

This exhibit features works created during a free and open-to-the-public workshop hosted by visiting artist Patrick Sargent held in the HUB-Robeson Center on October 14, and in Wagner Drill Space on October 15 and 16. ART-illery is supported by Adult Learner Programs and Services in Student Affairs.

Robeson Gallery
January 4 – January 19, 2013

The State College Area School District is honored to bring forward some of the best work from their student artists, grades kindergarten through twelve. Many two— and three—dimensional media are represented as are many hours of skilled and creative work from children throughout our community.

Art on the Move — Old Main
January 21 – April 23, 2013

The photographs were taken in Tehran. My work tends to focus on the society and culture of the my home country, Iran. I believe people’s personalities and lifestyles reflect not only in their appearance and behavior, but also in every detail surrounding them. In this series, I have taken pictures of seemingly unimportant details from the street, to show what type of society there is in Tehran. By showing only details, I have limited what the viewer sees, alluding to the censorship that is imposed be Iran’s government.

Art Alley
January 16 – February 24, 2013

The HUB-Robeson Galleries presents In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez, an exhibition of photographs and autobiographical reflections produced by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In His Own Words is made possible by a We the People grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Art on the Move — Old Main
January 30 – May 5, 2013

I have always lived in rural areas, and feel deeply connected to the forms and forces within the landscape. Working primarily in oil and pastel, I strive to convey the atmosphere of a particular time and place, the depth of the moment which caught my eye. I’m especially inspired by the every-changing nuances of light and color in the landscape, as they transform with phases of the day and season. I enjoy working on location with a backpacker french easel and minimalist supplies, as well as in the studio from memory and evoked images.

Alice Kelsey is a full-time painter residing in central Pennsylvania. Her artistic development extends back to childhood sketching sessions with her grandfather, through outstanding art instruction in high school, and courses in painting and printmaking throughout college. Alice Kelsey has exhibited her work and received awards at regional and national shows, and is a juried member of the Maryland Pastel Society.

HUB Gallery
January 31 – March 12, 2013

An invisible boundary exists around human beings. Between people and people, nature and nature, people and nature, civilization and civilization, wilderness and wilderness, civilization and wilderness, and so forth. People living in a certain boundary are also the same. Are people in the boundary between science and non-science, who say a certainty and/or uncertainty of the boundary? Where is a painting (art) located between science and non-science? Is the painting a science or not?

Robeson Gallery
February 14 – April 21, 2013

This exhibition celebrates the 45th Anniversary of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and showcases the work of the area's many talented artists. "Our community supports and values our artists and has made it possible for the Art Alliance to reach this important milestone in our history," says Marie Doll, Executive Director. The juror for this show is Leo Mazow, associate professor of art history at the University of Arkansas.

HUB Gallery
March 22 – April 21, 2013

This juried exhibition displays the studio art portion of the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, offering students the opportunity to present their work in a professional setting.

Art Alley, Display Cases
March 28 – April 28, 2013

The Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts instructors will showcase their artwork. The Center for Arts and Crafts has offered non-credit adult art classes to Penn State students, faculty, and staff during each of the university semesters and a children's summer camp for more than 30 years. The Center for Arts and Crafts is located in 3 Ritenour and has a ceramics studio in B8 HUB.

HUB Gallery
May 14 – July 28, 2013

A member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Marlee has been painting since she was very young, and describes her process as an intense experience that takes her "to a different dimension."

"I've always been in love with color," Marlee says. "When I paint flowers, I want to feel their color, not just see it." The display will feature twelve of her large-scale watercolor paintings of flowers.

Art Alley
May 21 – September 4, 2013

The sibling photographers will be displaying 24 prints together. Abby, a 2010 Penn State graduate and staff photographer for the Centre Daily Times will display 12 color photographs that were captured over the last several years at various locations. Jeremy, a 2006 Penn State graduate and staff photographer for the Reading Eagle will display 12 photographs captured on traditional black and white film.

Robeson Gallery
June 5 – July 14, 2013

Images 2013 is a component of the 47th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. Images 2013 is a juried show open to all artists residing in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and the District of Columbia. Eligible categories of work include paintings, drawings, hand-pulled prints, photography, mixed media, fiber, ceramic, and small sculpture.

HUB Gallery
September 11 – December 8, 2013

Dr. Stephen Hirshon and Professor Yongtaek Lee met by chance as the result of an English as a Second Language class. Dr. Hirshon’s son Elliot, the teacher, connected with David Lee, one of the students. Later, the two young men encouraged their families to share a traditional American Thanksgiving and a traditional Korean dinner. While facing some difficulties communicating in their native languages — English and Korean — Dr. Hirshon and Professor Lee, the two patriarchs of the families, discovered that they could understand each other by sharing their respective photographs and paintings.

In Dr. Hirshon’s photographs, the playful dance of light and shadow, and enigmatic convergence of form and space reveal a rich, inward reality. In Professor Lee’s paintings, the variety of feathered and invisible brushstrokes, weightless and dense forms suggest a fluid sense of time peopled by traces of ambiguous memories and experiences. Together, Dr. Hirshon and Professor Lee envision their first joint show as an opportunity to learn more about each other through their art.

Art Alley
September 17, 2013 – March 4, 2014

Joanne Landis' paintings are large-scale narrative murals featuring bold strokes, textures, and patterns. She states, "I don't plan the painting. I start with an idea. The painting starts to direct me. It's kind of like a dream, where you find things as you go and things just happen." Much of the selected work was completed during a month-long residency at Ireland's Tyrone Guthrie Centre for the Arts.

Robeson Gallery
September 27 – December 1, 2013

This exhibit features many pieces, created in a wide range of mediums including ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures, all of which are housed in the personal collections of School of Visual Arts faculty members.

Michaela Amateau, curator of the show, states: “Many of us faculty have acquired paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, and photographs from our students over the years, that we believed were brilliant, breathtaking, and absolutely had to have. Over the years these works have been a tremendous source of pleasure for us, and have offered us great insight into how students have developed their professional work.”

Display Cases
September 27, 2013 – January 14, 2014

Shawn Davis blends artistic fly tying and goldsmithing to create truly unique jewelry art. Many of Davis’ flies are patterns he has created himself, which he describes as being “uncompromising technically and understated artistically.” Davis hand-fashions hooks from 18-karat gold, then dresses them with silks and feathers in just a few complementary colors, doing so because beauty does not need to be complicated, and because impact can be much more powerful when suggestive rather than overt.

Shawn Davis began creating fly tying jewelry art in 2002, and released his first pieces to the public in 2007. He has been a featured tier at the International Fly Tying Symposium and the Anglers’ Club of New York, and his work has been featured in various fly tying and jewelry arts magazines, including American Angler, Lady Angler Life, Danica, The Drake, and Adornment. Davis has also been a featured artist on the Anthropologist by Anthropologie.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
December 9, 2013 – March 2, 2014

Stephen Cohen’s work explores the varying relationships between our environment and everyday social standards. Cohen’s goal is to make everyone recognize the social phenomenon of focusing attention on hand held devices rather than our surroundings. He paints trees not only because of their brilliance, but also because of how trees relate to all of us; as they grow, they eventually branch out and experience life in all different directions. People follow the same pattern.

Art on the Move — Old Main
December 9, 2013 – May 18, 2014

Leslie C. Sotomayor's work revolves around themes of memories, nostalgia, and how the culmination of our experiences build our heritage and identity. These large color field paintings are created with many layers of acrylic stains worked back and forth; they're then cropped, stretched, and re-worked. This process is similar to life experiences, which build and re-shape history, the present, and the future.

Robeson Gallery
January 4 – January 21, 2012

The State College Area School District is honored to bring forward some of the best work from their student artists, grades kindergarten through twelve. Many two— and three—dimensional media are represented as are many hours of skilled and creative work from children throughout our community.

Art on the Move — North Halls Cultural Lounge
January 12 – March 14, 2012

Everything is composed of lines, whether they are straight, curvy, fat, skinny, rigid or flat. This display features linear, abstract paintings with a figurative underpinning. The subjects of the paintings are simplified, yet the repetition of line produces a feeling of motion and vibration. Kim Kalinoski is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing and Painting from Penn State University.

Art Alley
January 16 – March 11, 2012

As he draws inspiration from his own encounters, Shimoyama looks beyond the surface and reveals the repression and rejection felt by America's urban youth. His use of mixed media allows for the representation of traumatic, life-altering experiences and the forms of healing that follow.

Art on the Move — West Halls Cultural Lounge
January 16 – April 29, 2012

Lauren’s intaglio prints express the stories of her family, a constant influence in her life. The prints create a push and pull between color, lines and understanding. Lauren is currently a senior at Penn State, acquiring her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking with a minor in Business.

HUB Gallery
January 18 – February 26, 2012

Hateful Things is a traveling exhibit from Ferris State University's Jim Crow Museum. Featuring a collection of material objects that trace the history of racism in America, this exhibit seeks to stimulate the scholarly examination of racism. The 39-piece exhibition consists of items of popular culture from the late 19th century through the present day. These objects now serve as powerful reminders of America's racist past, as well as promotions for racial understanding and healing.

Sculpture Corner
January 26 – May 6, 2012

Katelyn Monahan’s most recent sculpture embodies the spirit of collage but on a much larger-scale format. This work consisted of building a girl’s framework to scale using rebar and plaster casts for limbs and head. Once the framework was complete, Katelyn was able to hone in on any additional materials that could further drive home the conceptual significance of the piece, which she finished with vanilla icing and baby’s breath.

Art on the Move — Old Main
February 20 – May 2, 2012

Kostelnik’s passion for sports and action photography has inspired her to capture a collection of photographs featuring horses and their riders.

Robeson Gallery
February 14 – April 22, 2012

Althouse's photographs feature cryptic assemblages of found and fabricated objects that relate to significant life events. Althouse captures both positive and negative attributes of humankind with an emphasis on human experiences and interactions. Each image contains unique metaphors laced with visual autobiographical narrative themes.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
March 17 – May 6, 2012

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Art on the Move — Old Main
May 10 – June 1, 2012

Luke is a sophomore majoring in Integrative Arts and Biochemistry. During a research internship in Germany this past summer, he had the opportunity to photograph many unique places across multiple countries. He focused on photographing surreal architecture, especially abandoned and ruined buildings, including an orphanage in Belgium, a Nazi military base outside Potsdam, a soap factory in the heart of Berlin, and a hospital that treated Hitler in Beelitz, Germany.

HUB Gallery
March 23 – April 24, 2012

This juried exhibition displays the studio art portion of the Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, offering students the opportunity to present their work in a professional setting.

Art Alley, Display Cases
March 30 – April 22, 2012

The Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts' instructors will showcase their artwork. The Center for Arts and Crafts has offered non-credit adult art classes to Penn State students, faculty, and staff during each of the university semesters and a children's summer camp for more than 30 years. The Center for Arts and Crafts is located in 3 Ritenour and has a ceramics studio in B8 HUB.

Art Alley
May 14 – August 1, 2012

On the last day of 2003, Yurman took a photo and posted it to his website. He has continued to post one photograph every day for the past eight years, capturing over 3000 unique stories. On his website, Yurman describes his project as "part diary, part sketch pad." His photographs allow the viewer to see the world from his perspective. The subjects of his pieces are extremely varied, ranging from serious news events to playful celebrations.

Art on the Move — Student Health Center
May 18 – August 29, 2012

Lacy’s pieces are hazily influenced by nature. Scenes of summer are the main focus of this exhibit. Fascinated by digital manipulation, Lacy embraces the vast possibilities available with modern photographic technology.

HUB Gallery
May 31 – July 29, 2012

This exhibit features 30 American railroad artists from all parts of the country. Special attention has been paid to Pennsylvania artists and Pennsylvania subjects. The works offer a variety of mediums, from West Virginia wood burning artist Paul Ends, to a massive wood carving by Virginia artist David Cunningham, and the drilled wood paintings of Doris Jean Silva. Other portrayals are executed in oils, watercolors, and line art. Individually, the works depict all manner of railroading settings and activity. Collectively, they present the viewer with an overview of the many ways railroads have influenced our history, setting, and culture.

Robeson Gallery
June 5 – July 15, 2012

Images 2012 is a component of the 46th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. Images 2012 is a juried show open to all artists residing in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and the District of Columbia. Eligible categories of work include paintings, drawings, hand-pulled prints, photography, mixed media, fiber, ceramic, and small sculpture.

Art Alley
August 31 – December 2, 2012

Ofori's exhibition harnesses mixed media to explore tacit themes of corruption, deception, ignorance, and a modern moral poverty. Kofi states, "It's easy to point the finger and ignore the importance to stay educated and take responsibility for ourselves in an environment where pointing the finger is generally preferred. Violence and money, or is it violence for money or money for violence? Our future is being destroyed right under our noses with the poor getting poorer and staying uneducated and the rich getting richer. We should all fear the future. Money can't be trusted, neither can mankind."

Art on the Move — North Halls
September 5 – December 2, 2012

Spending the first part of her life with her face in the water, Kaeley uses her years swimming to help look at art differently. She taps into several aspects of physical representation to search for what constitutes a painting. By using the idea of erasure, she poses certain questions about the disintegration of human interaction. As a consequence Kaeley’s work has evolved and become less and less visible itself. For this exhibition Kaeley used scale and medium to envelop the viewer and pose as a commentary on typical “portraiture.”

HUB Gallery
September 7 – December 9, 2012

This exhibition will display Julie Tremblay's nine, life-size, figurative sculptures, made out of salvaged, stamped-out sheets of tin plated steel, used to make bottle caps. The sculptures are a reflection on humanity and our contemporary society. This body of work shown in the gallery was started in 2007 and completed in 2008.

Display Cases
September 21 – December 12, 2012

Memorabilia from the College of Arts and Architecture in celebration of their 50 Year Anniversary will be on display in the HUB.

Fifty years ago, education in the arts and design at Penn State took a huge leap forward with the establishment of the College of Arts and Architecture. From disciplines formerly housed in the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, and Liberal Arts, the College of Arts and Architecture has diversified and expanded, enjoying a prominent role in the cultural and artistic community of Penn State and far beyond.

The work of talented faculty, students and alumni make the College of Arts and Architecture what it is today — an exciting and inspiring place to perform, research, study, and create.

Robeson Gallery
September 28 – November 18, 2012

This multi-media exhibition will feature State College Area School District alumni (1982-2012) who are working professionally in a variety of art careers. State High alumni, who have continued their art training and graduated from an art school or university, will be featured. The exhibit will be a group show. State High alumni are art educators, architects, landscape designers, photographers, graphic designers, animators, illustrators, sculptors, filmmakers, artists, and current art students at a variety of art schools and universities. State College alumni are working at Disney, Pixar, Adidas, and their own design companies. The exhibition will showcase the rich art foundation that the students have gained from the dedication of the State College Area School District's art faculty.