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 Kelly AuCoin, left, Anne Newhall and Amanda Axelrod are in Accomplice, which will be on stage July 21-29 with previews July 19-20 at the Playhouse Theatre on the University Park campus. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $22 for previews. For information, call (814) 863-0255 or (800) ARTS-TIX (278-7849) or check the Pennsylvania Centre Stage Web site at http://www.psu.edu/dept/PACentreStage/accomplice.html. Photo: Greg Grieco |
Tickets are now available for the Center Theatre Players Inc. production of the musical Pirates of Penzance, to be presented at Penn State Beaver as part of the Brodhead Cultural Center's summer season.
The show will be presented
at
8 p.m. July 27-29 in the Study Learning Center theatre at Penn State Beaver.
Tickets are $10 and may be purchased in 145 Administration Building at the
campus. Tickets also are available at the amphitheater before each Brodhead
Cultural Center performance or by calling (724) 773-3817.
The following exhibitions are on the University Park campus at the HUB-Robeson and Kern galleries. For more information, visit the Web at http://www.psu.edu/HUB/Galleries/ or call (814) 865-2563:
HUB Gallery
n "Quint-Essence: Five State College Artists" through July 29. Botanical serigraphs from Ginny Davis Baggett; watercolor/collages by Dorothy Grebos; the ceramics of Soon Hahn; watercolors by Ruth Kempner; and the silk batik work of Janet Lindsay form this exhibition.
Baggett is a native of Clearfield and has exhibited throughout the state. Her honors include a printmaking merit award from the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.
Grebos, originally trained as a musician, is an accomplished pianist and painter who has exhibited frequently in Pennsylvania and won numerous awards for her work, including several merit awards from the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania.
Hahn has exhibited in South Korea, Germany and throughout Pennsylvania, and won a number of awards.
Kempner has a studio and classroom in Clearfield where she has taught art for nearly 30 years. She has exhibited throughout the state, including many years at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.
Lindsay has a degree in art education from Penn State and has maintained a studio in State College for nearly 30 years.
Robeson Gallery
n "Diverse Unity In Art," featuring the works of three Pennsylvanians, is on display through Sept. 15. The art in this exhibit is representative of traditions and diversity not typically connected to Pennsylvania, but indicative of the richness different cultures bring to the Commonwealth. The works of Pete DeBonis and Stephen Carter, both ceramic artists, and Akiko Kotani, a fabric weaver and painter, are in the spotlight.
DeBonis from Beech Creek creates ceramic pieces in the ancient Japanese tradition of Anagama kiln firings, where pottery is fired without using any kind of glaze;
Carter, professor of art at the University of Vermont and a native of Chester, Pa., creates colorful contemporary ceramic art influenced from across the African Diaspora; and
Akiko Kotani, born in Hawaii but a resident of Pennsylvania for the past 20 years, produces elegant fabric weavings and brush paintings influenced by fellow artists in Asia, Europe and Central America.
n "Out of the Box: Myths and Reality. Pieces by Dori Grace Lemeh," on display through Aug. 30; an exhibit of mixed-media paintings. Lemeh received her MFA from Penn State and currently serves as coordinator of advising for the School of Visual Arts.
For more information about any of the exhibits, call the Robeson Cultural Center at (814) 865-3779.
HUB Art Alley
n "Elli Groninger Woodward: Metal Art," through October. A former California toy designer originally from Pennsylvania, Woodward is employed in the Powdered Metals Laboratory at Penn State, where she is helping to develop a bronze sculpture system in which metal can be sculpted as if it were clay.
n "Visual Serendipity: Paintings by Jaime Ursic," through Aug. 30. Ursic is completing a bachelor's degree in painting and drawing at Penn State. She has been awarded the Barbara Gohn and Edwin Zoller Scholarships from the School of Visual Arts.
n The Digital Photography Studio Student Exhibition, through July 24. The Digital Photography Studio, established in January 1997 by Gerald Lang, professor of art, can be found in the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Visual Arts. With leading-edge equipment, students from across the University are able to explore, hands-on, the role of technology in the arts. For a preview of what students are accomplishing, visit the Web at http://www.psu.edu/photography/studmenu.htm. For more information about the studio, go to http://www.psu.edu/photography/.
n "Floating World of a Woman: Paintings by Avani Patel," through July 24. Patel, born in Bombay, India, recently received her B.A. from Penn State in painting and drawing.
Kern Commons Building
"The New Berlin: Views of the City Before and after the Wall," through Sept. 22. The images in this exhibit are views of several well-known sites in Berlin as they were in 1989, when the Wall came down, and 10 years later.
Art on the Move, a program under the direction of the HUB and Kern Art Galleries, focuses primarily on the artwork of Penn State students. Current exhibits are:
n Ritenour exhibit area: "Route 550 South: Images by Kathryn Murken," through Aug. 17, a display of photographic collages inspired by things seen along a rural Pennsylvania highway. Murken is pursuing a bachelor's degree in printmaking.
n North Halls exhibit area: "Postcards from the Reconstruction: Paintings by Norman Fetter," through Aug. 15. The paintings of Norman Fetter use a southwestern landscape as a backdrop for a questioning and evaluation of American consumer culture. The artist is a recent graduate of the bachelor's degree program in painting and drawing at Penn State with a minor in English.
Explore the natural history of bird identification and migration through an Elderhostel course, Wonders of Bird Watching and Migration in Autumn Splendor, Oct. 1-6, at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, a Penn State outreach resource near the University Park campus.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn bird-watching basics that include field identification, bird behavior, bird calls and songs, and the natural history of birds. Highlight activities include early-morning songbird walks; up-close views of resident hawks, owls and eagles; and a trip to Stone Mountain. Participants can expect to be outdoors and involved in light hiking.
For information about program content and cost, call Nancy McCord, conference planner, at (814) 863-1738 or e-mail ConferenceInfo2@cde.psu.edu.