AS OF MARCH 12, 2020: Due to the uncertainty of the health crisis we currently face and the University’s decision to move classes online and cancel or postpone campus events until at least April 6, we have decided to postpone our Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit. We will focus on planning events and activities to be held during fall semester that will deepen our investigation of arts/design/health possibilities at Penn State. Please contact adri@psu.edu to express interest in a future ADRI event such as this.
Location: 125 Borland Building
4:30 p.m. Reception, Light Refreshments
5:00 p.m. Reading, Presentation, and Discussion
To close the Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit, author Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Photographer Steven Rubin will read and present their work on the book Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, followed by an open discussion. Light refreshments will be served, and Penn State Press will host a book sale, featuring Shale Play and other books on the topic of arts, design, and health.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
This is the closing event of the Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit organized by the Arts & Design Research Incubator and the Hamer Center for Community Design at Penn State: https://adri.psu.edu/news/arts-design-and-health-exploration-whats-possible-penn-state
Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of four books of poetry: Sleeping Preacher; Eve’s Striptease; Poetry in America; and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields. Her awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Great Lakes College’s Association Award for New Writing, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State, where she teaches creative writing. More at https://www.juliakasdorf.com/about
Presently an Associate Professor of Art at Penn State University, Steven Rubin worked for more than twenty years as a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer, traveling on assignment in Iraq, Rwanda, Kosovo, Pakistan, Thailand, Chile, Cuba, throughout Central America and across the United States. His photographs have been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek and The Village Voice, and internationally in Stern, GEO, Focus, L’Express and The London Independent Magazine. More at https://www.stevenrubin.com/about/
