Arts and Entertainment

Seven Penn State Abington art students were honored this week at the annual Bertha Lear Student Art Exhibition for work developed during the 2021-22 academic year in studio art courses.

“Perceptions, Connections and Impressions” is open to the public through April 22 in the Woodland Art Gallery.     

The interactive production “Exit: A Banquet Piece” will be staged on April 21 at 6 p.m. at Penn State Abington. It is free and open to the public. 

Acclaimed poet Shara McCallum visited Penn State Abington this week, meeting with the campus community and visiting a class focusing on women writers.

Penn State University Libraries invites Penn State students, faculty and staff to submit original short stories or poetry centered on the theme “Written in the Stars” to the spring short stories writing contest, accepting submissions from Feb. 24 to April 4.

As the second half of Black History Month begins, the University's celebration continues with events across Penn State's campuses.

"The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel" by Thomas Heise, assistant professor of English at Penn State Abington, was published as part of the Columbia University Press Literature Now series, one of the top imprints for the study of contemporary literature.  

An exhibition exploring the complexities of “masking” will take place at Penn State Jan. 12 to March 2, in 125 Borland Building, University Park campus. "MASKED" is a collaboration between William Doan, professor of theater and director of the Penn State Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) in the College of Arts and Architecture; Dr. Michael Green, professor of humanities and medicine, physician and bioethicist, chair of the Hospital Ethics Committee, director of the Program in Bioethics, Departments of Humanities and Internal Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine; and Emily Steinberg, lecturer in fine art at Penn State Abington, artist in residence at Drexel College of Medicine, and visual narrative editor for Cleaver Magazine.

The winning selections from Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ “Through the Woods” fall 2021 contest have been announced, representing five Penn State campuses. Each of the four Editorial Board winners and the People’s Choice winner will receive a $100 Visa gift card. All winning entries, including nine honorable mentions, will be added to the Libraries’ Short Edition short-story dispensers

Christina Riehman-Murphy, reference and instruction librarian at Penn State Abington Library, has accepted the Sally W. Kalin Early Career Librarianship for Learning Innovations, and Ruth Tillman, cataloging systems and linked data strategist in Cataloging and Metadata Services, has accepted the Sally W. Kalin Early Career Librarianship for Technological Innovations at Penn State.