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Innovation, collaboration and creativity across disciplines. Inside the studio, at a gallery, on stage or even at a local park. Projects, workshops, exhibitions and more in the College of Arts and Architecture involve faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, staff, visiting professionals and often community members. While the details and locations may vary, enthusiasm and inspiration are guaranteed.

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Abstract visual art.

Woohun Joo: Sounding the Abstract
A pair of hands holding folded and stitched colorful tracing paper.

Dispositions
Ball of dyed wool; color varies between deep greens and blues

Wine and Copper Color: Dyes by a Quaker Woman in Scotland, 1697–1723
Two geometric oil paintings on display.

Michelle Hinojosa: Summer Pop-Up
A variety of artwork on display at the 2025 Juneteenth Exhibiton.

Juneteenth Art Exhibition 2025
Geometric abstract black and white drawing

Incident & Accident: Daily Drawings
Braided Inca rope arranged in a spiral.

Hands-on History: A Community Experiment to Re-create a Lost Inca Rope
A man looks at the camera as he's hauling a large bundle of branches on his back.

A Conversation with the World
Composite image of a three-part illustration; (top) a person with their arms outstretched, with many moths flying around them in the background. Middle: Blue circular streaks around a black void. Bottom: A close-up of the top image individual with their eyes closed, with moths in the background.

Caretelling: Stories to Sustain Ourselves
Knitted tension structure on display.

Patterning with Heat and Water: Knitted Responsive Tension Structures
Abstract layered multimedia art piece.

Ryan Kough: UNDER PRESSURE | a participatory experimental art installation
A series of colorful yarn hanks hanging from strings, each bit of yarn has a small handwritten tag with information about the dye used to color the yarn.

Sad Purple and Mauve: A History of Dye-Making
1800s-vintage news clipping showing two bright orange and red powdered dyes advertised as "Just arrived and to be sold by Arent Hassart," a Philadelphia merchant.

The Political Economy of Colorants in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850
A collection of paintings on display on a wall.

Fourth Annual Juneteenth Art Exhibition
Textile art consisting of many different types of fabric.

Comadres en la Comunidad | Co-Mothering in the Community
Abstract art piece with colorful ink blots.

In Vulnerability
Closeup of a colorful image from Melissa Forkner Lesher's HIGH STRUNG sculptural installation. Vibrant colors of orange, rust, purpe and blue cascade around circuloar shapes of material.

Melissa Forkner Lesher: HIGH STRUNG | A sculptural installation
A brightly colored fish sculpture swims amongst white and black backdrop elements

Mengqi Xu: I See Fish in the Somber Woods | 林深时见鱼
The base of the MycoKnit showing the yarn-knitted textiles on which mycelium-based composites will grow.

MycoKnit
A photograph of an architectural structure comprised of mycellium-based components.

MycoCreate 2.0
Marian Bailey painting mural

Marian Bailey: patterns of a life
a photo of a balloon over a landscape

Naomi Reis: Talisman for Unknown Territories
A screenshot from Andrew Hieronymi's game

Tactile Perceptions, Two Interactive Installations
kombucha window installation at Woskob Family Gallery

Nichole van Beek: Grow Forward Together
An image from Stacy Levy's video titled Mold Garden showing mold patterns

Stacy Levy: When Art works
mural

Catie Dillon: Remain in Light
Nurse uniform from circa 1910 being photographed in a photo studio

Fashioning an Archive for School of Theatre
Fabric installation suspended from the Woskob Family Gallery's ceiling.

Megan Gottfried: Room to Room
wordcloud

Art History Dissertations and Abstracts from North American Institutions
A mosaic tiled sculpture illuminated by a back light in the dark.

Alex Russell: kaleidoscope answers
A group of colorful art installations suspended from the ceiling.

Dana Lynn Harper: Field Guides
Gallery window installation

Yeonhye Park: The Eternity of the Moment
Illustration of the character Jack looking up at a giant eyeball peering at him through a castle window, with a large vine encircling the castle wall.

Jack and the Beanstalk
Screenshot of an animated landscape with two wind turbines.

Brian Alfred: Kinda Lovely
Illustration of a light post, trash can, and mailboxes lined up in a row, casting shadows.

Joshua Frankel: Animation from A Marvelous Order
SYZYGY, an installation of colorful fabric structures by nationally recognized artist RACHEL HAYES

Rachel Hayes: Syzygy
Abstract geometric painting

Dannielle Tegeder: Seigolomsoc / Cosmologies
Panoramic charcoal illustration of central Pennsylvania's landscape on a curved wall.

Alec Spangler: Folded Section
Three African American students in a classroom, with one of said students writing on a chalkboard.

Race and Revolution: Still Separate, Still Unequal
Multi-color geometric digital wall mural.

Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy: The Speed of Thinking
Multi-color neon light fixture hanging on Woskob Family Gallery's wall.

Keith Lemley: A Theory of Everything

Sawyer Seminar: Transmission, Containment & Transformation
multi paint swirl

Virtual/Material: Color and Pigment Graduate Workshop
Complex blues and greys of clouds in a painting by realist British artist John Constable.

After Constable’s Clouds
The Ex-Convent of San Juan Bautista, Tixcacaltuyub, Yaxcabá, Yucatán, late sixteenth century

Maya Christian Churches in Early Modern Yucatán
A diagram of the different components of a building with smart materials for its exterior.

Smart Materials and Buildings
The Grammar of Siza’s Malagueira Houses by Jose Duarte shows an overhead view of 25 house design iterations.

Mass Customization and Grammar Studies
Three dimensional augmented reality spores as part of a virtual game experience within the 14th St./Union Square station of the New York City subway system.

LSD – Augmented Reality
Site assessment schematic

A Web App for Urban Pollinator Site Assessment
Marcus Shaffer wheels the completed frame through the streets of downtown State College to drop it off for Jamie Heilman in a mask and gloves.

Barrier for Outside Outpatient Testing of Heath
Photo of Guatemalan women conversing outside a house with several colorful woven containers.

Woven Water Filter
Close-up photo of textured fabric panels mounted on metal frames, backlit by sunlight.

Felt
Photo of Vernelle A. A. Noel crouched in front of her self-constructed blue dancing sail sculpture

Costuming and Dancing Sculptures
Photo of a pair or prototype leggings on a dress form.

Quantified Walk Project
Photo of a Solar Fiber Tension Structure Shade Prototype.

Woven Light
Photo of female student wearing an augmented reality headset.

Decoding and Recording Informal Settlements

Additive Manufacturing of Architectural Structures