Fall 2019

October 1, 2019 to October 10, 2019

CAMPUS ARTS

The Campus Arts Initiative is a project of Penn State’s Strategic Planning Seed Grant program. From October 1-10, 2019 eight artist proposals for projects to be completed within the 2019 – 2020 academic year will be on display in BPS.  The display will be a culmination of several artist presentations and a panel discussion, led by Campus Arts about upcoming projects.
October 14, 2019

SUSTAINABILITY ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

OCTOBER 14 | 12:00-1:00 PM

This roundtable will be used as a forum to enhance the sustainability educational experience for those with us at Penn State.  Discussed will be the transformation and innovation of sustainability education content and pedagogy which we seek to embed sustainability competencies into courses and integrate sustainability into our culture. 
October 15, 2019 to November 7, 2019

ART AT THE CENTER: TRANSDISCIPLINARY CREATIVITY

Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Assistant Professor of Art Education | Karen Keifer-Boyd, Professor of Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | Wanda B. Knight, Associate Professor of Art Education, African American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | Aaron Knochel, Assistant Professor of Art Education | Kimberly Powell, Associate Professor of Education, Art Education, Music Education, & Asian Studies | Christopher Schulte, Assistant Professor of Art Education and Early Childhood Education

Art at the Center: Transdisciplinary Creativity is a proposal for activating pedagogical environments that envision sustainable futures. We have planned a series of events for four weeks from transdisciplinary collaborations with art at the center between art education faculty and students with colleagues outside of the School of Visual Arts. Throughout each of the four weeks, students and art education faculty members will schedule open hours to work on and invite others to join the arts-based research projects. Each week will include lectures, performances, and/or demonstrations by art education faculty in collaboration with others.
November 11, 2019

SUSTAINABILITY ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

NOVEMBER 11 | 12:00-1:00 PM

This roundtable will be used as a forum to enhance the sustainability educational experience for those with us at Penn State.  Discussed will be the transformation and innovation of sustainability education content and pedagogy which we seek to embed sustainability competencies into courses and integrate sustainability into our culture. 
November 13, 2019 to December 12, 2019

ODE TO ORDERLY JOY

Ode to Orderly Joy is in collaboration with The Penn State School of Music and faculty members from the College of Arts and Architecture.  The Penn State choir performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony — Movement IV (“Ode to Joy”). Ode to Joy has historically served as an anthem for political regimes under different representations. In today’s global political climate, this project examines, how a threat to humanity can often be masked as a guarantee of unity and socioeconomic security. This project seeks to bring to our attention the issue of social mobility as it decreases. 

Spring 2020

January 7, 2020 to January 16, 2020

CLAY CAFÉ

With Clay Café, MFA Candidates John Domenico and Andrew Castaneda expand on a project seen in 2018 in Patterson Gallery. A wide variety of ceramic objects, handmade by SoVA students, will be on view and available for visitors to explore and handle. 
January 21, 2020 to February 6, 2020

EXPERIENCING AUDITORY SCIENCE THROUGH ART

Experiencing Auditory Science Through Art brings a musical element to BPS.  Here visitors can see research demonstrations, relating to music, brain and psychology.  This project comes from Penn States Pitch Exploration Lab, a laboratory where faculty and students research layers of complexity through sound, memory and attentional flexibility.
February 10, 2020

SUSTAINABILITY ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

FEBRUARY 10 | 12:00-1:00 PM

This roundtable will be used as a forum to enhance the sustainability educational experience for those with us at Penn State.  Discussed will be the transformation and innovation of sustainability education content and pedagogy which we seek to embed sustainability competencies into courses and integrate sustainability into our culture. 
February 12, 2020 to February 27, 2020

A RETURN TO ORDER AND DISORDER

In the summer of 2018, Between Order and Disorder inhabited BPS.  During that residency, the space filled with found object collections. At the conclusion of the exhibition, the project was unmade, given away, A Return to Order and Disorder builds upon that residency. Once again, collections and second-hand furniture will fill the space, but the pace will quicken to create a vibrant collection within the exhibition timeline. Some of the collections from the 2018 summer residency will be re-exhibited, recontextualized, and reconsidered from the Wunderkammer as both theoretical and conceptual frameworks. The emphasis for this new iteration of the exhibition will be on collecting textual, material, visual, and auditory stories from all participating collectors. These narratives will be displayed alongside the objects, gathered in books, and projected on the wall and from speakers.
March 3, 2020 to March 26, 2020

CONVERGENCE: COLLEGE OF ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH EXHIBITION

BPS will host Convergence: College of Arts and Architecture Sustainability Research Exhibition. This project recognizes the sustainability researches that take place in the College of Arts and Architecture and explores sustainability research collaborations across the disciplines. The two-week exhibition will showcase the full range of sustainability research at the College of Arts and Architecture with an inclusive view of sustainability through traditional research poster presentations and poster presentations with a multimedia component.
March 30, 2020 to April 3, 2020

GOLUMBIC SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION

The Reuben and Gladys Golumbic Scholarship Award is one of the most significant awards in the College of Arts and Architecture. This award recognizes undergraduate students who have demonstrated superior design, humanistic, and performance records and who have proven their potential for significant contribution to the arts and humanities. This exhibition presents the work of the 2020 nominees. Borland Project Space hosts the projects for presentations, judging, and public viewing.
April 6, 2020

SUSTAINABILITY ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

APRIL 6 | 12:00-1:00 PM

This roundtable will be used as a forum to enhance the sustainability educational experience for those with us at Penn State.  Discussed will be the transformation and innovation of sustainability education content and pedagogy which we seek to embed sustainability competencies into courses and integrate sustainability into our culture. 
April 7, 2020 to April 16, 2020

ILHAN KOMAN: INFINITY COMPUTED-1

This project is an exhibition of photos of Ilhan Koman’s works taken by Yıldırım Arıcı (from the Ilhan Koman Foundation in Turkey). The photos depict work by Ilhan Koman that explores the intersection between science and art. The exhibition will also include a replica of Koman’s sculptural work To Infinity, fabricated using aluminum sheets.
April 21, 2020 to April 30, 2020

CAMPUS ARTS

Campus Arts visits BPS again with a follow-up display of project documentation from eight artist proposals for projects to be completed within the 2019 – 2020 academic year.  This project will involve didactic panels, images, video, and various programs for PSU affiliates.

Comprising a series of installations, video art, and interactive performance art, Serap Erincin’s residency, titled Human Rights/Human Rites, highlights legitimized human rights violations in the Western/Civilized/First world. Erincin contemplates ritual as metaphor through a constellation of affective and sensorial pieces, such as LifeWest and WishBoat, which contextualize the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, and The Time of Your Life, about the death penalty. Additionally, Erincin will host participatory events, including a workshop and a panel, that invite the community to create multimedia art and converse on issues at the intersection of social justice and aesthetics.