Across the College

Work by Wangechi Mutu
Speakers Benefit Students
The John M. Anderson Endowment in the School of Visual Arts sponsors leading artists and scholars who lecture, give master classes and workshops, and critique student work throughout the academic year. Dr. Anderson, known for his love of the philosophy of art and painting, was t...
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Kim Beck
Artist Envisions Ideal Cities
Kim Beck, a Pittsburgh artist, will give a free public lecture at 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Using images of architecture and landscape, Beck makes drawings, prints, paintin...
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Mehrdad Hadighi
New Architecture Dept. Head
Mehrdad Hadighi, an architect that Wallpaper called one of the 25 “most intriguing, innovative and intrepid architects” in the world, is the new head of the Department of Architecture and Chair in Integrative Design in the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckem...
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Exhibitions and Performances

Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai: Steps
Jin Xing Dance Theatre
Internationally renowned dancer and choreographer Jin Xing brings her modern company, Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai, to Penn State to perform Shanghai Tango at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Eisenhower Auditorium. Shanghai Tango, a retrospective of works by the choreographer,...
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Research and Creative Activity

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Arch & Energy Symposium
Dan Willis, professor of architecture and interim director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, is co-organizing a symposium, "Architecture and Energy,” to be held Friday, January 27, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Co-sponsored by the Stu...
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Lindberg's research project on "second responders"
Lindberg Project Honored
A research project led by Associate Professor of Architecture Darla Lindberg, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Penn State, will receive special recognition in ARCHIVE, the upcoming Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) online exhi...
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Henderson's accordion-fold sketchbook drawing of the Ise Shrine in Japan
Fellowship in Japan
Ron Henderson, professor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Penn State, has been selected for the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission’s (JUSFC) Creative Artists Fellowship, which will allow him...
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$2.5 Mil Marcellus Shale Grant
$2.5 Mil Marcellus Shale Grant
Faculty from the College of Arts and Architecture are part of a multidisciplinary team of Penn State researchers that has recently been approved for a $2.5 million education program grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Michael Arthur, co-director of the University...
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Student Spotlight

Laura March (second from left) and Stuart Shapiro (center) presenting $47,000 ch
"Blue Out" Raises Funds
A movement started by two graduate students at Penn State has resulted in $47,000 being raised for two nonprofit organizations fighting child abuse and sexual assault. Laura March, an Art Education graduate student in the College of Arts and Architecture, and Stuart Shapiro, a f...
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Penn State Students in Tanzania
Student Honored for Essay
Penn State’s University Office of Global Programs (UOGP) awarded Landscape Architecture student Kellie Waksmunski with the First Place Study Abroad Essay as part of International Education Week, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of...
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Faculty and Staff Spotlight

Henderson's accordion-fold sketchbook drawing of the Ise Shrine in Japan
Fellowship in Japan
Ron Henderson, professor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Penn State, has been selected for the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission’s (JUSFC) Creative Artists Fellowship, which will allow him...
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Mehrdad Hadighi
New Architecture Dept. Head
Mehrdad Hadighi, an architect that Wallpaper called one of the 25 “most intriguing, innovative and intrepid architects” in the world, is the new head of the Department of Architecture and Chair in Integrative Design in the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckem...
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Tony Cutler
Cutler Honored as Slade Prof
Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh Professor of Art History, is currently serving as the 2011-12 Slade Professor of Fine Art at All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. As part of this prestigious professorship, he is presenting eight lectures and four seminars, January-...
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Lindberg's research project on "second responders"
Lindberg Project Honored
A research project led by Associate Professor of Architecture Darla Lindberg, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Penn State, will receive special recognition in ARCHIVE, the upcoming Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) online exhi...
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First Street Green Art Park
Faculty Create NYC "Art Park"
In 2008, fed up with the rat-infested vacant lot next door to their New York City apartment, Penn State School of Visual Arts faculty members John Bowman and Ann Shostrom founded First Street Green (FSG), a community organization with a goal of cleaning up the lot at 33 First St...
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Alumni Spotlight

Charles Fox
Charles Fox
Charles Fox (’88 B.A. Art History, ’88 B.A. History) started his museum career as an intern at Curtin Village, a restored nineteenth-century iron works located near Bellefonte. Since then, he has mentored numerous interns from Penn State and other universities, provi...
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Patricia RaunPatricia Raun
Patricia Raun
Patricia Raun’s (’86 M.F.A. Theatre) goal, quite simply, is to help people be the best they can be. She uses her experience in theatre and as an academic administrator to help both individuals and institutions explore—and meet—their potential. “If I...
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Matthew ShawMatthew Shaw
Matthew Shaw
Matthew Shaw (’97 B.M. Music) has spent the last few years traveling throughout Europe—for his career. Although he started out as a baritone, Shaw has been singing as a countertenor—meaning his upper vocal range is equivalent to that of an alto—since 2008...
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Garth RockcastleGarth Rockcastle
Garth Rockcastle
Garth Rockcastle (’74 B.Arch.) has spent much of his career making old buildings “new” again. The architect and professor has designed the adaptive re-use of more than a million square feet in some twenty buildings over the past quarter-century, transformi...
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Judith Bernstein
Judith Bernstein
When you enter the art world in the midst of controversies about feminist art, drawings of phallic forms don’t go over so well. That’s what New York-based artist Judith Bernstein (’63 B.S., ’64 M.Ed. Art Education) quickly learned in 1974,...
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Scott Brickman
Scott Brickman
Scott Brickman ’85, B.S. L.Arch., may have joined the family business, but he has not rested on the laurels of that business’ previous successes. In the past few years, he has won Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and Lawn and Landscaping Magazin...
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Barbara deWildeBarbara deWilde
Barbara deWilde
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but there’s no denying the importance of first impressions. Graphic designer Barbara deWilde (’85 B.A. Art) has been shaping those first impressions for much of her career by designing book jackets for publishing ho...
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