"Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal"
is on display through Dec. 8 at the Palmer Museum of Art
on the University Park Campus. The exhibit showcases the
art used in home rituals, including Krishna, an 11-inch brass
statue, left, and Shalagrama stand, a 23-1/4 inch piece.
The items, from the collection of the Newark Museum,
are gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Nalin.
Performing with Durran will be faculty members Marylene Dosse, piano; Timothy Hurtz, oboe; June Miller, harpsichord; and students David Moore, oboe; and bassoonists Katherine Jones, Matthew Schell and Melissa Etling.
Durran is a member of the Pennsylvania Quintet, principal bassoonist of the Pennsylvania Centre Chamber Orchestra and has served as principal bassoonist of the Music at Penn's Woods Festival. This summer he performed with the Festival of Two Worlds Orchestra in Spoleto, Italy. In addition to teaching at Penn State, Durran has taught at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Mich., and the American Band College, Ashland, Ore.
Spivey is assistant professor of voice and voice pedagogy. Before his appointment at Penn State, he was a Fulbright scholar in Paris.
Hatten is associate professor of music theory. His book, Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation and Interpretation was published in 1994.
Richard Page, assistant professor of German, will give introductory remarks.
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The photo exhibit, "Lewis, Untangling Strings," is a dramatic and sensitive series of black and white photographs of Lewis, a man with Parkinson's disease.
Stainton studies at Cumbria College of Art and Design. He has worked in Scotland, England and West Wales; and gained 11 years of experience at Llarnarth Pottery, one of the finest potteries in Wales. He is a working potter in Pennsylvania.
The Kern Exhibition Area is on the first floor in Kern Graduate Building. Hours are 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday; and noon to 11 p.m., Sunday. The exhibits are open to the public.
Kauhanen-Katz won the 1996 Penn State Creative Achievement Award from the School of Arts and Architecture. As a Penn State BFA student, she exhibited paintings in four shows and has studied in Finland and the United Kingdom.
Grebos' exhibit is marked by a multi-layered complexity and expresses certain themes: sea life and the landscape of New Mexico.
In his Shaker-style box exhibit, Strouse combines his strong interest in the elegance of the Shaker style with the beauty of Pennsylvania hardwoods. The exhibit also includes original designs by Strouse.
The HUB's Art Alley is on the first floor of the Hetzel Union Building and is open during all HUB operating hours.
Moore is a professional artist and teacher for 30 years. After she completed her applied and fine arts degree at Penn State, she studied with Ray Loos, Frank Webb, Ed Whitney, Skip Lawrence and Miles Batt. Moore exhibits extensively and among her awards is the Pittsburgh Waterworks, 1994. "Geography of the Unconscious" is her most recent collection.
The HUB's Formal Gallery is on the first floor of the Hetzel Union Building. Gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; noon to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday.
Noiman fuses painting and sculpture to communicate stimulating, thought-provoking subject matter. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in the aftermath of World War II, he says his art is a monument to the graves of his family. Educated at Carnegie Mellon University and Fountainebleu School of Fine Art in France, Shalom completed his master's of fine arts in painting and sculpture.
His art is in numerous collections throughout the world including the Museum of Art in Nice, France; Art Institute of Pittsburgh; Museum of Art, New York City; Paco Das Artes, San Paulo, Brazil; and The Guggenheim Museum.
The HUB's Browsing Gallery is on the first floor of the Hetzel Union Building.
"Cooking for the Gods" showcases the art used in these home rituals. A home shrine is recreated incorporating the shiny brass vessels and painted pottery used to present food for the gods' delight.
The paintings are part of an art collection devoted to Pennsylvania's mineral industries that was established by Edward Steidle during his tenure as dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, from 1928 to 1953.
A majority of the paintings focus either on the mining and preparation of coal, or depict those industries -- particularly the production of iron and steel -- whose economic success was directly linked to the vast bituminous fields in western Pennsylvania. Other industries represented in the exhibition include oil and natural gas production, stone quarrying, glass manufacturing and railroads.
A free public lecture about the collection, "Coal, Oil and Steel: Edward Steidle and the Art of Industry," will be offered by Eric Schruers, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History, at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium. Gallery talks: "Some Thoughts on the Steidle Collection," by Patrick McGrady, curator of education, will also be given at 2 p.m. Sept. 20, Oct. 17 and Nov. 1. Gallery talks begin in the Chistoffers Lobby of the museum.
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