The Department of Art History offers programs with courses on topics ranging from ancient to contemporary art and architecture in Europe, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Visit Art History
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The School of Visual Arts emphasizes the interdisciplinary and communal aspect of visual arts through numerous degree programs. Visit Visual Arts
There’s no religion involved in Landscape Architecture Professor Ken Tamminga’s Pittsburgh Studio, but he still compares the studio experience to a church service.
The course takes upper-class and graduate Landscape Architecture students out of their traditional stud...
Approximately 240 undergraduates received their degrees during the College of Arts and Architecture's 2013 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 4, in Eisenhower Auditorium. The commencement speaker was Steven J. Tepper, associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterp...
Phoenix Savage, the Being Humans Postdoctoral Fellow in Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, is working on collecting 5,000 "touches" through her Human Touch Project, "a participatory project translating the aesthetics of physical and ethereal h...
The Palmer Museum of Art offers a wide variety of events for patrons of all ages during the summer months, ranging from gallery talks to workshops to a special "Art after Hours" concert on the museum plaza. Summer exhibitions include drawings and watercolors by Leon Ke...
Ah, summer in Happy Valley! There's nothing better than being in State College during the summer—the green beauty of the woods, the forests and farmlands surrounding the campus viewed from atop Mt. Nittany, the dappled shade and sun by the Walters Courtyard fountain ne...
The Penn State Downtown Theatre Center will be hopping this summer, with two mainstage productions, the Penn State Nu.Musical Theatre Festival, the return of Broadway on Allen, and a new event, Your Cabernet/Our Cabaret.
The 2013-14 Penn State Centre Stage season kicks off June...
Music at Penn's Woods, the unique summer music festival showcasing Penn State students and alumni and local musicians, returns in June with two festival concerts and two chamber concerts, June 19-29. Before the festival, Music at Penn's Woods musicians will be featured i...
Charles Garoian has continued his cultural journey through the art of art education by authoring a new book, The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art: Embodied Research and Practice, published by the State University of New York (SUNY) Press, 2013.
By beginning each chapter of The Prosthe...
Katie Guida, Ph.D. candidate in art history, has been awarded the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Junior Scholar Award in Early Modern Studies for 2013-14. The award includes a semester-long residency in IAH and a stipend to support her dissertation research.
Guida’s...
Nineteen Landscape Architecture students recently won awards from the Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The awards are designed to encourage and recognize excellence in landscape architecture and to raise awareness of the varie...
Penn State Architecture students are buzzing about up-and-coming digital programs used in the profession and research, thanks to the Beehive series of workshops taught by students, for students.
Co-led by fifth-year students Kyle Schillaci and David Palmieri for the past two yea...
Eight College of Arts and Architecture undergraduates recently received academic achievement awards at the University Park Student Awards Convocation, including the Evan Pugh Scholar Award, given to juniors and seniors who are in the upper 0.5 percent of their respective classes...
Eight College of Arts and Architecture students were recently named spring 2013 student marshals, in recognition of earning the highest overall grade-point average in their respective academic units.
COLLEGE MARSHAL
Joshua Laughner, son of James and Lynn Laughner of Wadsworth,...
Laura Brown has been awarded a graduate student summer residency at the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities. The residency program provides eight advanced students in the arts and humanities from throughout the University with a $4,000 summer stipend and the use of...
What happens when a student has strong interests in two vastly different fields of study? How does the student choose a path? Josh Laughner decided not to choose and successfully pursued degrees in both chemistry and music.
Laughner, a resident of Wadsworth, Ohio, recently gradu...
School of Theatre faculty member Matthew Toronto's film, THE PACT, produced by Tarantula Entertainment, was released for purchase on Createspace.com and Amazon.com on May 11, 2013. The release was in conjunction with the film's final festival screening at the Northe...
Each year, Penn State honors several members of its faculty and staff for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. In 2013, Helen O'Leary, professor of art, was selected to receive the Faculty Scholar Medal for Oustanding Ach...
Marica S. Tacconi, professor of musicology and assistant director for research and graduate studies in the School of Music, was honored with a 2013 Achieving Women Award from the Penn State Commission for Women.
The Achieving Women Award recognizes Penn State women who have show...
Three College of Arts and Architecture faculty and staff members were honored with awards for outstanding service earlier this year: Mark Lusk, professor of music (trombone), received the Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching; Eric McKee, associate professor of music theory, re...
Langston J. Fitzgerald, III, professor of trumpet, has been awarded the 2013 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award. These annual awards publicly recognize specific teachers by spotlighting their extraordinary impact on the lives of students. Nominated by st...
Joyce Robinson, curator at the Palmer Museum of Art, and Dana Carlisle Kletchka, curator of education at the museum, were recently featured in a Research Unplugged program, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum: What Do Curators Do?" Click here for the full story and a vide...
Amara Solari, assistant professor of art history and anthropology, has been awarded a nine-month Long-Term Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, R.I., for the 2013-14 academic year. The fellowship is underwritten by the National Endowment for...
Derby Girls, a short film produced by Jennifer Crandell, who earned degrees in integrative arts and film-video in 2012, has been accepted into the FirstGlance Film Festival in Hollywood, one of the biggest and longest-running independent film festivals in North America. For...
Mary Katerman (’12 B.M.E.) has been chosen as a Fulbright Scholar for the year 2014. She will travel to Malaysia where she will teach English as a second language to students aged 11-17.
To read the full story, click here.
Congratulations to Scott Sheehan ('12 M.M.E.), who has been elected to serve as president-elect of the eastern division of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). He will begin his term in July 2013, and succeed to the presidency in 2015.
Scott is in his sixtee...
For almost 300 years, the lirone was not heard. A multi-stringed, cello-like instrument invented by Atalante Migliorotti in 1505, the lirone’s eerie, otherworldly sound was popular for more than 200 years, but then the instrument fell silent.
In 1980, while conducting rese...
When embarking on a career in art history, the possible focus areas are endless. Catherine Jolivette (’03 Ph.D. Art History), a native of Great Britain, chose to return to her roots. Today she focuses her research and teaching on British art after 1945 as an associate prof...
Larry Doran (’90 B.S.) is the recipient of the 2012 Penn State Outstanding Alumni Music Educator Award.
Larry has been the Director of Bands of the Midlothian High School (TX) for thirteen years. He is also adjunct professor of percussion at Dallas Baptist University. In a...
Tracing the paths of Dotty and Paul Rigby requires a journey across the United States, to Mexico, and back again. The journey made an important stop at the Atherton Hotel in State College April 22 when the couple, longtime financial supporters and members of the Center for the P...
With the College of Cardinals deciding when to begin the conclave to choose a new pope, KDKA2 in Pittsburgh interviewed Penn State alumnus and Pittsburgh architect Lou Astorino about the Vatican chapel he designed. To watch the video and read the full story, click here.
