The graphic design talents of three students and one alumnus of Pennsylvania College of Technology have been honored in the annual Flux Student Design Competition.
Building construction has been added to the abounding schedule of pre-college initiatives offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology, hands-on summer activities that mirror the nationally renowned opportunities afforded postsecondary students.
“Our Pre-College Programs offer living and learning experiences in which students have opportunities to explore unique academic interests in a state-of-the-art environment,” said Deborah B. Wescott, manager of conference and guest relations. “It’s a chance to work and make connections with industry leaders, meet and mingle with your peers, and establish a path that could lead to all sorts of future possibilities.”
The signup deadline is May 31 for the institution’s 12 residential programs and its one day camp.
The artist strikes a pose, holding a microphone.Andrew “Andy” Caccese, a graphic design junior from Reading, shows Kelly some of his images via the camera’s back screen.Kelly’s accoutrementsWaiting their turn behind the camera, students offer enthusiastic, sideline support, including Madison P. Shrout (center), a graphic design senior from Petersburg.All the makings of a professional photography session, with Lydia G. Nugent working the camera, assisted by her instructor, Mark W. Wilson. Nugent is a graphic design junior from Watstontown.
Former “American Idol” finalist Aaron Kelly lent his time and talent to Penn College students in the Commercial Photography class. The country/pop artist, who grew up in nearby Sonestown, spent five hours on Friday in the graphic design photo studio on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center. Each student in graphic design instructor Mark W. Wilson’s class enjoyed the opportunity to go behind the camera, directing Kelly in various poses. Kelly’s music played loudly in the classroom to set a relaxed tone for the photography session. “I’m excited to work with Penn College and its students,” Kelly said. “It’s great to be an artist myself and to work with these young artists who are just starting out in their careers. We all get to create together!” Kelly will use some of the images for his marketing promotions. His manager, Connie Barger, is a sister to Sue K. Manzitti, supervisor of support services for Workforce Development. Barger arranged Kelly’s photo session with Brian A. Flynn, assistant professor and department head of art and design. “I thought it would be great for the class to work with someone who has been involved in professional photo shoots,” Flynn said. Kelly came prepared with several outfit changes and a few props, including a classic microphone. The artist divides his time between central Pennsylvania and Nashville, Tennessee, performing at various venues and events. Kelly also devotes time to numerous charitable causes with the mission of “Changing Lives One Song at a Time.”
A design textbook/workbook co-authored by two graphic design faculty members at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been published by Oxford University Press.
Released on Feb. 1, “Visual Literacy Workbook for Graphic Design and Fine Art Students” was written by David M. Moyer and Brian A. Flynn, assistant professors of graphic design.
A work by John A. Gondy, of Glenmoore, enrolled in residential construction technology and management: architectural technology concentrationOn display through Dec. 22Abstract artistry by Nowell H. Covington, a construction management student from BentonStabley’s craftsmanship
Inspired by African tribal masks, artwork by students in wood sculpture classes taught by Penn College art faculty David A. Stabley and Brian A. Flynn is on display at the Community Arts Center through Dec. 22. Each student delivered a presentation and made sketches, then created a small-scale model in clay or Plasticine. They then hand-carved their masks out of pine blocks with mallets, gouges and rasps, encouraged by faculty to incorporate the principles of form, texture, color and pattern into their abstract designs.
A second gift of $500,000 from the Tamaqua-based John E. Morgan Foundation has boosted an endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology to more than $1 million.
The John E. Morgan Scholarship gives first preference to graduates of Tamaqua Area High School who are pursuing “a degree that is not readily available from other institutions, at a comparable price, within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”
Examples of such programs offered at Penn College include, but are not limited to, culinary arts and systems, web and interactive media, building science and sustainable design, health information management, industrial design, plastics and polymer engineering technology, emergency management technology, and aviation maintenance technology.
Three works of art created by a graphic design faculty member at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be exhibited in Manhattan during November.
Wood engravings crafted by David M. Moyer, assistant professor of graphic design, have been selected for inclusion in “The Print Effect: Small Works/Big Impact” at Manhattan Graphics Center, 250 W. 40th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues in New York’s artistic garment district.
Highly regarded – literally! – for his eye-grabbing work on campus, Stabley plays to the admiring crowd below.The artist (center) describes his process.A guest snaps a cellphone photo of the work-in-progress, shown on one of the atrium’s monitors.Stabley points out the intricacy of his creation’s colored glass tiles.
A reception celebrating the magnificence of the mosaic gracing the Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center was hosted Friday evening by the mosaic’s creator, David A. Stabley, instructor of ceramics and wood sculpture. Art supporters, friends and family from Williamsport, as well as the Bloomsburg, Danville and Lancaster areas, gathered in the building’s atrium. For some, it was their first visit to Penn College and “they were very impressed with the campus,” Stabley reports. The abstract mosaic, designed to complement the atrium’s angles as well as the sunlight that streams into the space, was installed during the summers of 2017 and 2018. Stabley estimates installation took about 350 hours. The ATHS mosaic is the artist’s third large-scale mosaic created on Penn College’s main campus. He will begin one in downtown Williamsport in the spring.
A camper delights in her clay creation: an elephant-inspired bee house. When complete, campers can place their bee houses outside their homes to enhance bee habitat.Penn College art studios offer welcoming space for artistic expression and exploration. Here, a young camper adds finishing touches to his creation in a printmaking workshop.For outdoor fun, Varner adds detergent to a camper’s wet felting project that incorporates wool roving.A tie-dye T-shirt complements a tie-dye wool ball, which was later transformed into a felted bowl.In a needle felting session, a camper crafts a Brachiosaurus.
Creative spirits soared this week at Penn College’s Creative Art Camp, held Monday through Thursday, in the Bush Campus Center art studios. About 30 campers, entering fourth through seventh grades, explored a wide range of media and crafted objects from clay bee houses to felted bowls and animals. The day camp, coordinated by Penny Griffin Lutz, director of The Gallery at Penn College, featured three local artists/art educators as camp instructors: Deborah L. Stabley, adjunct art faculty, Penn College; Andrea McDonough Varner, art educator, Williamsport Area High School; and Holley Fuller, a 2018 art education graduate of Lycoming College.
Stabley and Andreassen: outstanding in the ATHS atriumThe mosaic art complements existing artwork and painted elements of the space.Oh, so many little details!An earlier image taken during “phase two” shows how the abstract mosaic accents mimic shadows on the wall when sunlight filters into the atrium.Coincidentally, the photographer arrived just as the duo had placed their final tile. They still need to grout the work, but decided to rest on their laurels (or their scaffolding) for this photo.
More meticulous mosaic artistry has been added in the atrium of the Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center. David A. Stabley, instructor of ceramics and wood sculpture, has placed mosaic tiles on two side walls in the space, further enhancing the “center piece” that was completed last June. He and assistant Barbara A. Andreassen, a 2010 graduate in graphic design, completed the intensive tile work Tuesday afternoon and will next grout the art to finalize it. Stabley estimates the current work features approximately 7,000 small black pieces alone, with 35,000 pieces total. The abstract lines of the artwork are meant to parallel the shadows cast into the atrium by sunlight.
Penn State is exhibiting artwork created by a Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member.
Thirty drawings by David M. Moyer, assistant professor of graphic design, are on display in the Art Alley of Penn State’s HUB-Robeson Center galleries and display areas. A reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 7; Moyer’s collection, titled “Of Man and Nature,” will be exhibited through Sept. 18.
A bowtie-accented Jonathan D. Straub, of Williamsport, fronts an array of his design work.Fingers and cellphone cameras are pointed at the students’ impressive output.Effective product placement spotlights the creativity of Austin L. Fulton, from Montoursville.Daniel T. Wrench, of Jersey Shore, engages gallery patrons in a discussion of his work.
Artwork by a dozen graphic design seniors is on exhibit in The Gallery at Penn College, the latest incarnation of a yearend campus tradition. A public reception for “Design 2018” was held Friday evening on the third floor of Madigan Library, where the portfolio display continues through May 10. Photos by J.J. Boettcher, student photographer
Twelve graphic design seniors at Pennsylvania College of Technology will exhibit their work as part of “Design: 2018,” the annual student portfolio exhibition in The Gallery at Penn College.
A public reception for the exhibit’s opening will be held Friday, April 27, from 4 to 6 p.m., in the gallery, located on the third floor of the Madigan Library. The design work will be on display April 27 through May 10.
Two works of art created by David M. Moyer, assistant professor of graphic design at Pennsylvania College of Technology, are featured in the 14th Gielniak Graphic Arts Competition at the Muzeum Karkonoskie, Jelenia Góra, Poland.
Moyer’s woodcuts “Utopia I” and “Utopia II” were selected for the prestigious exhibition.
The speaker is backed by visuals of a brooch she gave to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who used pins as her diplomatic signature.Two stories of audience engagement in the ACC AuditoriumStrzelec answers an audience member’s question as the evening’s moderator, Craig A. Miller, instructor of engineering design, looks on.At the conclusion of the talk, students and community members explore some of the artist’s jewelry designs.A former Penn State Laureate, Strzelec takes pride in her campus and community (which she pointed out to the audience is “home of the Slinky” – an excellent example of toy design).
College and community members were taken on an exploration of personal and professional layers Tuesday evening in a talk delivered by 3-D printing artist Rebecca Strzelec, as part of Penn College’s Technology & Society Colloquia Series. About 150 people gathered in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium for “Art + Engineering = Creative Problem Solving.” Strzelec, professor of visual arts and program coordinator of visual arts studies at Penn State Altoona, served as the Penn State Laureate in 2016-17. She shared artistic projects crafted in her digital studio and discussed a range of inspirations and collaborations. Earlier in the day, Strzelec visited an industrial design model-building class in College Avenue Labs and dined in Le Jeune Chef Restaurant with graphic design and industrial design students and professors. Her evening conversation featured an engaging question-and-answer session, including discussion related to The Dr. Welch Workshop: A Makerspace at Penn College, expected to open in Fall 2018. The event concluded with a reception in Wrapture. The next presentation of the Technology & Society Colloquia Series is titled “The Great War and the Forgotten Realm” and set for Nov. 8, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ending of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. Presented in collaboration with the Notre Dame Club of Greater Williamsport, the talk will be delivered by John Deak, associate professor of history at Notre Dame University, as part of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Lecture Series.
