Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts™
State College, Pennsylvania

July 10-13, 2008 ~ Children's Day is July 9, 2008

OTHER ART OPTIONS

Tangocentral presents Great Tangos
Penn State Downtown Theatre Center
Lobby, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center
Wednesday, July 9 through Friday, July 11, 2008
Noon to 1:00 pm

With words dripping with life, passionate songs which get behind your thoughts and remain there, and dance with feet moving like a knife in the dark, the show Great Tangos will delight the both the tango aficionados and novices. Tangocentral features Adrian Ocneanu, voice; Katee Burago, piano and the Penn State Tango Dancers directed by Barbara Kennedy. Tangocentral will open your senses to a new world. The group presents three different shows, with music ranging from classical tangos all the way to the modern sounds of Piazzolla.
Children and Youth Day, Wednesday, July 9, noon: Romance of Tango;
Thursday, July 10, noon: Passion of Tango;
Friday, July 11, noon: World of Tango

Palmer Museum of Art

Gallery Talk: Miniature Worlds: Art from India by Joyce Robinson, curator. Friday, July 11, 12:10 p.m.

Children's Workshop: Every Building has a "Story," with Brenna Johnson. Saturday, July 12, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Every Building has a "Story"
In big cities, every building tells a story-sometimes lots of stories! In this workshop, participants will view the Richard Haas: Print and Preservation exhibition and hear about some of his favorite city buildings, then observe buildings on campus before making a print of their favorite. Artist and art educator Brenna Johnson will facilitate this workshop. Recommended for children 7-12 years old.

*A parent or adult learning partner is encouraged to accompany young attendees; participants should wear appropriate clothing for the weather and for working with materials. Workshops are free but participants must pre-register by contacting the curator of education at 863-9188 or dck10@psu.edu. Space is limited, so register early!

Exhibitions

Richard Haas: Print and Preservation
Special Exhibitions Gallery I
June 3-September 14, 2008

In the 1950s and 1960s, Richard Haas witnessed the demolition of grand buildings in numerous American cities that took place in order to make way for highways, parking lots, and other civic projects. This inspired him to embark on a mission to document the city's architectural heritage. Haas began with the now nationally protected cast-iron buildings in his SoHo, New York, neighborhood. Employing centuries-old etching techniques, he imbued these buildings with a romanticism that appealed to the growing movement for historic preservation. The effort garnered him national attention, and he soon received commissions that focused on historic buildings across the country. More recently, Haas has returned to Manhattan to chronicle landmarks of New York's modern architecture.

Haas is familiar to the Penn State community. In 2005, he completed a large mural, commissioned by the Class of 2003 for a site in the HUB-Robeson Center, which depicts the past fifty years of the University's history. The present exhibition surveys the preservationist impulse in Haas' graphic work. The twenty prints on view, executed in a variety of mediums, contribute to the historical record of America's urban architecture.

Joel Meyerowitz: Bay Sky Porch
Works on Paper GalleryJune 3-September 28, 2008

The constant change and unpredictability of the sea attracted photographer Joel Meyerowitz to Cape Cod and the city of Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the mid-1970s. After beginning his artistic career as a street photographer in New York City, Meyerowitz replaced his 35-millimeter with an 8 x 10 view camera and embraced the slower pace of life found on the Cape. The early influence of the photojournalistic snapshot did not entirely dissipate, however. A sense of immediacy and spontaneity emerges through Meyerowitz's inclusion of boats and shifting tide levels, creating a poetic tale of the languid, ever-changing life of the sea.

This exhibition presents Meyerowitz's venture on Cape Cod, a portfolio of photographs grouped collectively under the title Bay Sky Porch, published in the late 1970s. In these works, which are drawn from the Palmer's permanent collection, Meyerowitz documents the changing light and atmospheric conditions, noting the subtle changes, "the book of hours," inscribed in nature. With the sea as the constant backdrop, Meyerowitz uses objects and structures associated with the human world, including awnings, thin columns, wooden railings, and painted boats, to frame his subject. The framing devices not only create unexpected components in the photographs, but also provide a point of entry for the viewer in an otherwise intangible and enigmatic seascape.

Miniature Worlds: Art from India
Special Exhibitions Gallery II
June 15-August 10, 2008

Watercolors, drawings, and sculpture spanning 400 years of Indian history will be on view in Miniature Worlds: Art from India. Drawn from the extensive permanent collection of The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts, the exhibition illuminates various forms of Indic media from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries as well as aspects of its religion and history.

Two major painting traditions, Rajput and Mughal, are represented in the watercolors on display. Rajput paintings focus on religious themes and are painted in a native style with bold, flat colors. These earliest Indian paintings illustrate sacred Jain and Hindu texts. The establishment of the Mughal dynasty in 1526 ushered in new themes, particularly history painting and portraiture. Mughal paintings were composed by artists affiliated with the court and reflect a style based on the Persian miniature painting tradition.

The exhibition also includes diminutive three-dimensional works including a Dancing Ganesha and other sculptures depicting Hindu deities. All of the works in Miniature Worlds: Art from India are from the Leland C. and Paula Wyman Collection at The Art Complex Museum, an extraordinary collection of 300 paintings acquired by the museum in the late 1960s. Miniature Worlds is a program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Pattee Library
My Beloved Cartoonists: Original Cartoon Art from Fred Waring's America
Main Exhibit Hall, Pattee Library
Through August 15, 2008

My Beloved Cartoonists: Original Cartoon Art from Fred Waring's America is on display in Pattee Library’, main exhibit hall through August 15. The cartoons, comic strips and illustrations from the Waring Collection, are part of the Special Collections Library, Penn State's University Libraries.

Fred Waring, band leader, music publisher, entrepreneur, distinguished Penn State alumnus and personification of patriotism, whose legendary show choir and orchestra, The Pennsylvanians, dominated the Big Band era, was also a lifelong reader of newspaper comic strips and an admirer of the artists who created them.

The Sunday following his death, a strip by cartoonist and close friend, Milt Caniff, ran in the newspapers that opened with the line, "You knew Fred Waring as the famous orchestra and choral leader who thrilled people for years as he and his Pennsylvanians interpreted the world's music. You probably were not aware that Fred was one of the foremost newspaper cartoon buffs and collectors. On tour, late editions from every city were delivered to him on the bus, so he could follow the comics-all the comics!"

Beginning in 1948 and continuing for the next 28 years, Fred Waring hosted the members of the National Cartoonists Society (NCS), his "beloved cartoonists," as he called them, at his Shawnee Inn and Country Club, one weekend every year to celebrate his birthday. As a result of his long-term friendship with members of the NCS, Waring accumulated hundreds of cartoons, comic strips, illustrations and sketches drawn for him and about him by leading artists. These included Rube Goldberg, "Sad Sack;" Hal Foster, "Prince Valiant;" Mort Walker, "Beetle Bailey;" Milt Caniff, "Steve Canyon" and "Terry and the Pirates;" Walt Kelley, "Pogo;" Bil Keane, "Family Circus;" Chester Gould, "Dick Tracy;" and many others.

The exhibit includes only a sampling of the collection of more than 500 items, which is housed in the 313 Pattee Library, west, and is accessible during regular business hours. Information about the collection also can be found at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/waring/ or by calling (814) 863-2911. Research inquiries are encouraged, and many materials are available for use by music educators, researchers and community groups.

Anyone Would Have Done That: The Rescue of the 13 Jews from Ergoldsbach, Germany
Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library
Through August 22, 2008

Anyone Would Have Done That: The Rescue of the 13 Jews from Ergoldsbach, Germany is on display through August 22, 2008, in the Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library.

The exhibit documents a dramatic rescue of 13 Jews on one of the death marches from the Buchenwald concentration camp in the northeast of Germany to nowhere, at the end of World War II. Thousands perished on the march; but some 200 prisoners reached the small town of Ergoldsbach in Bavaria at the end of April 1945. Thirteen of these individuals managed to escape. They were found by Max Maurer, the local police sergeant, who-contrary to Nazi SS orders he received that very day-did not shoot them on sight.

Instead, Maurer arranged for a cart to take the emaciated men to a barn belonging to a farmer who was known for her opposition to the Nazis. Anna Gnadl hid the men in her hayloft and fed them. The following morning, they were rescued by American troops.

One of the rescued men, John Weiner, weighed only 53 pounds when he was rescued, and it took him almost a year to recover in a Regensburg hospital. He was one of the last surviving members of this group and had Max Maurer, the brave police sergeant, included among the courageous Germans honored at the memorial at Yad Vashem. Weiner was also instrumental in creating this exhibit, first shown in Ergoldsbach and Bavarian schools in 2005.

The exhibit includes images of Nazi-era Ergoldsbach and the death march plus newspaper clippings from the 1930s, translated into English that give insight into local politics, during the Nazi regime.

The exhibit was made possible through the sponsorship of the Jewish Studies Program, and with the support of the Gene and Roz Chaiken Endowment for the Study of the Holocaust; the departments of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and History; and Penn State's University Libraries.

For further information, please contact Brian Hesse, director of the Jewish Studies Program, at 814-863-8939.

Faster, Higher and Stronger: The Modern Olympic Games
Frank and Mary J. Smeal Foundation Exhibits Hall, 104 Paterno Library

Faster, Higher and Stronger: The Modern Olympic Games is on display in the Frank and Mary J. Smeal Foundation Exhibits Hall, 104 Paterno Library, June 4 through August 29. The exhibition features the personal Olympic collection of Penn State Alumnus Harold Wilson '51.

Wilson, a library leader, has developed a substantial Olympic Games Collection that includes programs, tickets, brochures, maps, pins, mascots, and medals from the 1912 Stockholm through the 2006 Torino games. Among the most notable items in Wilson's collection are a relay torch used in the 1984 Los Angeles games and a plush mascot, "Amik," from the 1976 Montreal games. The exhibit will also include University Archives collection materials about Penn Staters who have competed and participated in the Olympic Games.

Related special events include a lunchtime presentation by John Lucas, professor emeritus, Exercise and Sport Science and Official Olympic Historian, July 9, noon to 1 p.m., Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library.

A gallery talk is scheduled for August 7, 6 p.m., in 104 Paterno Library, in conjunction with First Thursday State College.

The modern Olympic Games are an international, multi-sport event held every four years, alternating between summer and winter competitions. Founded by French nobleman, Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, the first modern games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.

The games in 2008 will be held in Beijing, China, and consist of 302 events in 28 sports. The Olympic Creed states "the most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."

The most recognizable Olympic symbol is the Olympic rings: the rings represent unity of the five inhabited continents. The five colors: red, blue, green, yellow and black were chosen to represent at least one color from each national flag.

For more information, contact Jackie R. Esposito, Penn State University Archivist, jxe2@psu.edu, 814-863-3791.

Penn State Student Health Center Open House and Exhibit

University Health Services and the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, in partnership with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts^TM, invite you to the opening of an Arts Festival Invitational in Penn State’s newly-completed Student Health Center. Enjoy artwork by local artists participating in the Festival’s 42nd Sidewalk Sale and Exhibition, Sandi Garris and Pat Little, then take a tour of the new facility. Light refreshments will be served.

The public is welcome at this open house, Wednesday, July 9 and 3:30 p.m. at the new Penn State Student Heath Center.

The Student Health Center is located off Bigler Road, adjacent to Eisenhower Parking Deck and the Bank of America Career Services Center.

For additional information about this event, please call (814) 865-6555.

Pennsylvania Centre Stage
Citizens Bank Downtown Theatre
Camelot
June 15 to July 12
Citizens Bank Downtown Theatre
Book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe
This retelling of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is filled with action, romance, and some of the greatest music ever written for the stage. With Camelot tickets in hand, you’ll return to an age of jousting, wizards, grails, and heroes.

State College Community Theatre
Boal Barn Playhouse, Boalsburg
West Side Story
Wednesday through Saturday, July 9- 12, 8:00 p.m.
West Side Story, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Steven Sondheim, and Book by Arthur Laurents
For tickets call (814) 466-7141
www.scctonline.org

State Theatre
Shelby Lynne
8:00 p.m.  Tickets $32.00
The State Theatre is excited to present Shelby Lynne during this year’s Arts Festival.  Lynne’s style is so refreshingly blunt. Her honesty, combined with an Alabama drawl that's music to the ears even when she's not singing, makes for an attention-grabbing one-two punch. Her music appeals to all audiences with a wonderful blend of piano, guitar, bass and drums.

Though a critic and fan favorite, and an artist who's certainly stood the test of time, Now, she's made the choice to take the rockier road again, recording an album of covers taken from the iconic 1969 Dusty Springfield LP Dusty in Memphis, an album most listeners would agree bears no messing with. Just a Little Lovin' is Lynne's first album since 2005's Suit Yourself on Capitol Records. In the studio, Phil Ramone and Lynne have stripped the tracks nearly bare in a way that makes the outright heartbreak of the lyrics even more wince-provoking. What makes Lynne's take on these formidable songs so successful is the intensity of the signature stamp she puts on them. Where Springfield wasn't bitter, Lynne is; she's also hard-edged, stark and tough. And it works. - www.thestatetheatre.org.

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