By: Linda  Struble

The Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials  exhibition will be in the Palmer Museum of Art Feb. 13 – June 17, 2018. To celebrate the opening of the exhibition there will be a
campus-wide party at the Palmer from 7–9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15. All are welcome. If you attend Plastic Entanglements, you will see Katrin Hornek’s Title Search on Plastic*s that was created with the help of the University Libraries in 2016 and utilized close to two thousand books from our collections.  The photograph of the assemblage that will be in the exhibition will become part of the Palmer’s permanent collection due in part to the generosity of the University Libraries and Dean Dewey.

The University Libraries is also sponsoring some of the plastics related programming happening around the exhibition:

Iranian born artist Morehshin Allahyari will be speaking in Foster Auditorium at 10 a.m. on Friday, Apr. 6.  Her talk “On Digital Colonialism and Monstrosity” will be available via MediaSite Live to encourage participation by the campuses and our global sister libraries.

The film series Plastics@theHUB will feature 3 documentaries from the University Libraries’ collection of environmental DVDs. The films will be shown at the Flex Theatre in the HUB as well as at the Foxdale Village Auditorium.

In addition, a series of children’s films relating to sustainability, to be shown outdoors at The Arboretum at Penn State, is in the works for this summer.

Please see the opening invitation, here: Plastics opening invitation-2bz60ty and Calendar of Events, here: Plastics calendar of events-qutr85 for more information.