Programs | Fall 2024
Scroll below to see upcoming programs through December 2024Art Beats
Take a little beat of art with these short, 15–minute guided talks and discussions focused on one or two works of art. Each date features three different Art Beats, led by a friendly and knowledgeable museum guide:
- Wednesday, November 13 | 12 p.m., 12:30 p.m., and 1 p.m.
Drop-in Guided Tours
There are plenty of opportunities to drop in and discover the Palmer’s world-class collections and exhibitions with a friendly and knowledgeable museum guide. Each tour explores a theme, lasts about one hour, and includes close-looking through discussion and experiential learning opportunities.
Upcoming tours:
- Thursday, October 31, 6 p.m. | Zombie Adventure Tour
- Thursday, November 7, 6 p.m. | Seeing Ourselves, Seeing Each Other
- Sunday, November 17, 2 p.m. | Pop & Politics
- Thursday, December 5, 6 p.m. | Art & Object
- Sunday, December 8, 2 p.m. | Art & Community
Creative Self-Care Studio Sessions
Free, drop-in sessions on Thursdays: October 17, November 7, and December 5 | 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mimi Barash Coppersmith Studio Classroom
Get creative, connect with others, move your hands, learn about self-care art techniques, and take time to relax and rejuvenate through art-making processes. Hosted by Erin E. Carter, EdD, ATR-BC, assistant teaching professor of creative arts therapies, and Erin Bolger Welsh, art educator, these sessions will focus on therapeutic art practices for self-care as well as provide a time and place to build community with other creative people.
Art After Hours: 5th Annual Halloween Spooktacular
Thursday, October 31 | 5 to 8 p.m.
Have a haunting good time at the museum during our 5th Annual Halloween Spooktacular! Partake in ghostly games, monster music, and other fiendish fun. Dare to get spooked on a Zombie Adventure Tour through the galleries and find your way out of an escape room, or else! Compete for prizes in the costume contest; arrive and register by 6:30 p.m. to participate. Art-inspired costumes will be “treated” with extra points, and separate judging will take place for adults and children under 15.
Yoga at the Palmer
Free, drop-in classes on Wednesdays, August 28–December 11 | Noon to 1 p.m. | Event Space
Join Latisha Franklin, Ph.D. (RYT 200), for yoga, mindful movement, and meditation at the museum. All bodies are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Space is limited to the first 20 participants per class. Borrow a yoga mat or bring your own! This program is presented through a partnership with Penn State Health Promotion & Wellness.
For more information about student wellness programs, visit: studentaffairs.psu.edu/health-promotion/hpw-events-programs.
WPSU Film Screening: Leonardo da Vinci
Thursday, November 7
Reception at 5:30 p.m. | Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Lobby
Screening 6 to 7 p.m. | Event Space
Free with advanced registration required: www.wpsu.org/screenings
Enjoy this advance screening prior to the televised premiere in November. Set against the rich and dynamic backdrop of Renaissance Italy, at a time of skepticism and freethinking, regional war and religious upheaval, LEONARDO da VINCI brings the artist’s towering achievements to life through his prolific personal notebooks, primary and secondary accounts of his life, and on-camera interviews with modern scholars, artists, engineers, inventors, and admirers. The film weaves together an international group of experts, as well as others influenced by Leonardo who continue to find a connection between his artistic and scientific explorations and life today. As the filmmaker and Leonardo admirer Guillermo del Toro says at the beginning of the film, “the modernity of Leonardo is that he understands that knowledge and imagination are intimately related.”
Step Afrika! @ the Palmer
Thursday, November 14 | 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Lobby and Event Space
Free, advance registration required.
The Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with the Palmer Museum, hosts Step Afrika! for an interactive, engaging program. Hear from the group’s leadership about connecting the artform of stepping to the work of renowned visual artist Jacob Lawrence and enjoy a brief demonstration by dancers in the company.
Following the program, take part in an interactive gallery experience, viewing work by Lawrence and sharing ideas and personal reflections related to migration stories.
A pre-event reception hosted by the CPA’s Student Advisory Council and the Palmer’s Student Ambassadors will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Register here for Step Afrika!Gallery Talk: Artist Fernando “Coco” Bedoya
Friday, November 15 | Noon to 1 p.m.
Barbara and Lee Maimon Teaching Gallery
Join artist Fernando “Coco” Bedoya for a conversation about his work featured in the special exhibition Re/Collecting the Andes.
As a Peruvian artist based in Argentina, Bedoya interrogates the global consumption of Andean culture via witty drawings, paintings, and sculptures using found objects. For his series Cultura Trepa-Nación, Bedoya purchases and “trepans” replicas of pre-Columbian ceramics made for tourists by Peruvian craftsmen, amputating the iconic stirrup handles that marked them as ritual objects and covering the resulting holes with Coca-Cola bottle caps—the “American” soft drink originally made from the leaves of the sacred Andean coca plant. His work asks challenging questions of the viewer: does our consumption of these works as “Andean art” insult the original intentions of the earlier Peruvian makers and replicators? Do “authentic,” “replica,” and “fake” matter when it comes to Andean aesthetics?
Art After Hours: Creative Self-Care Studio
Free, drop-in: Thursday, December 5 | 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Get creative, connect with others, move your hands, learn about self-care art techniques, and take time to relax and rejuvenate through art-making processes. Hosted by Erin E. Carter, EdD, ATR-BC, assistant teaching professor of creative arts therapies, and Erin Bolger Welsh, art educator, these sessions will focus on therapeutic art practices for self-care as well as provide a time and place to build community with other creative people.
Self-Guided Tour Brochures
Interested in exploring the galleries but feel a little intimidated by art? We’ve got you!
We’ve got you! Printed, self-guided tours and ARTify (art-music) playlists are available at the Visitor Services desk. Drop in, pick one up, and enjoy a personal art experience.