Penn State School of Visual Arts Assistant Professor Andrew Hieronymi and Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center instructor Jennifer Steigerwalt will share their research on kinesiology, new media, and psychosomatic practice in nature with an interactive journaling activity. Light refreshments will be served.

The conversation, featuring members of the sustainability and visual arts communities, will focus on functioning definitions of sustainability practices, generating sustainable practices in the arts, and intersections of both worlds and their creative outputs. Scheduled Penn State participants are Tom Hogan, Ilona Ballreich, and Peter Buckland from the Sustainability Institute; Joyce Robinson from the Palmer Museum of Art; and Leslie Pillen and Alyssa Gurklis from the Student Farm.

Light refreshments will be served.

Participate in a tai-chi demonstration to restore and clear mental or physical blocks. Light refreshments will be served.

What’s ArtOut? Penn State students of all majors, interests, and abilities are invited to connect with each other and explore a range of creative experiences during one-hour sessions. No experience necessary. Bring a friend, and plan to make a friend or two.

ArtOut is a partnership with Penn State Student Affairs.

Explore the challenges of artmaking with various mediums. Fill a canvas with your interpretation of “confusion” in advance of the Center for the Performing Arts presentation of Brooklyn Babylon. Light refreshments will be served.

What’s ArtOut? Penn State students of all majors, interests, and abilities are invited to connect with each other and explore a range of creative experiences during one-hour sessions. No experience necessary. Bring a friend, and plan to make a friend or two.

Enjoy an instrument petting zoo with some of the instruments featured in the musical theatre production ONCE. The petting zoo is set to a soundtrack of songs that have been influential in social and civic movements in the last seventy-five years. Light refreshments will be served.