There is still time to register for “Labor’s Legacy: Pennsylvania Industrial Art” on May 5, 2009. (Registration fee includes symposium, lunch, reception / exhibition opening, and book signing.)

http://www.centrecountyhistory.org/eventsexhibits/symposium.html

Or call 814-234-4779

Labor’s Legacy: Pennsylvania Industrial Art

Presented by Penn State University Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery and the Centre County Historical Society

May 5, 2009

8:30 am–4:45 pm, Symposium
Location: American Philatelic Society, 100 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania

Speakers and topics include:

Betsy Fahlman (Arizona State University)—Wonders of Work: The Art of American Industry

Eric Schruers (Independent scholar)—An Eye for Art: Edward Steidle’s Artistic Legacy

Helen Langa (American University)—Heroic Men, Vulnerable Workers, Economies of Power: Re-reading American Industrial Prints from the Great Depression

Barbara Jones (Westmoreland Museum of American Art)—Born of Fire: The Valley of Work

Hedy da Costa Nunes (Muhlenberg College)—Preserving the Black Diamond Heritage: Public Monuments to the Anthracite Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania

William Pencak (Pennsylvania State University)—Pennsylvania: America’s Great Industrial State

Angela Breeden (Centre County Historical Society)—Early Industries in Centre County, Pennsylvania

David Lembeck (Centre County Historical Society, Co-curator of A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post Office Murals, The State Museum of Pennsylvania)—1930s Pennsylvania Post Office Art

Jonathan Mathews (Pennsylvania State University)—The Legacy of Coal and Its Art

Julianne Snider (Pennsylvania State University)—The Future for the Steidle Collection

Opening and closing remarks by Russell Graham, Director, Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, Penn State University

5:30 pm–7:30 pm, Reception and Exhibition Opening
Wonders of Work and Labor: The Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art
Location: Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, Ground Floor, Deike Building, Penn State University, University Park (State College), Pennsylvania

Also: Copies of the newly released book, Wonders of Work and Labor: The Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art, will be available for purchase, and for signing by the authors, Betsy Fahlman and Eric Schruers.

Want to see more? Join us the following day, May 6, 2009, on a bus trip to the PA State Museum to view the exhibition “A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post Office Murals”, ($20 addition fee).

A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post Office Murals

On Wednesday May 6^th symposium attendees will have the opportunity to visit this exciting exhibit in its final days on view.  A bus will transport visitors from State College to Harrisburg to the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Co-curators Dr. Curt Miner and David Lembeck will greet us and answer questions about the exhibit.  This is not included in the price of admission to the symposium.

In 1933, the administration of newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt launched an ambitious program to place murals and sculptures in post offices across the country. To coincide with the national 75th anniversary of the New Deal, The State Museum of Pennsylvania brings together these same artworks for the first time in this special exhibition to offer a common canvas of Pennsylvania that has faded from the landscape, but not from memory.

This exhibit includes photographs, color studies, archival images, and original artwork associated with some of the 88 artworks commissioned for Pennsylvania post offices between 1933 and 1942. Although the artworks are widely dispersed across Pennsylvania, they represent a treasure trove of public art and a unique portrait of Pennsylvania society and culture circa the Great Depression. Each artwork, whether a mural or sculpture, aimed to capture something intrinsically important about the Pennsylvania community in which they were to be installed. Given the Commonwealth’s legacy as a manufacturing state, industries such as coal and steel are recurring motifs, but the collection also reflects other traditions as well: agriculture, glass making, lumbering, historical events/individuals, Native Americans and a variety of town and streetscapes.

This exhibition, co-curated by the State Museum's Dr. Curt Miner, Senior Curator of Popular Culture, and by State College native David Lembeck, represents the first public exhibition of Pennsylvania’s collection, and will offer visitors a rare opportunity to glimpse, in one venue, what it likely the Commonwealth’s largest public art collection.

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Registration Form

Labor’s Legacy: Pennsylvania Industrial Art, May 5, 2009

Registration fee $50.00 per person (includes lunch)  An additional $20 is required for the bus trip to Harrisburg

Name(s)___________________________________________________________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________________________________________________

Telephone number____________________________________ Email address___________________________________

__ Symposium

__ Bus trip to Harrisburg

Total amount enclosed:                            

__Check enclosed, payable to Centre County Historical Society

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Please return this form with payment to: Centre County Historical Society, 1001 East College Avenue, State College, PA 16801

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Julianne Snider
Assistant Director
Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery
The Pennsylvania State University
16 Deike Bldg.
University Park PA 16802
814-571-6317

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