Fall 2024 CPAD Open House Friday, Sept. 27 from 2 – 4 pm

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Fall 2024 CPAD Open House

Friday, Sept. 27 from 2 – 4 pm

Borland 113

Please join us for a collaborative AI quilt-making activity in collaboration with Teaching and Learning with Technology and Maker Commons. Participants will be invited to generate AI fabric-inspired images, which will be printed on magnets and arranged into a quilt-like wall installation.
 
You will also enjoy the work of Michael Ciaramitaro, an MFA Costume Design student and Alivia Cross, an MFA Scenic Design student.
 
“Michael Ciaramitaro was born in San Diego, California and got his Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from the University of the Incarnate Word. He has worked as a designer with the Magik Theater of San Antonio for shows such as The Magical Piñata, Bunnicula, and Mariachi Girl. He has also worked with SRO Associates in partnership with Ballet Idaho for their revamped production of The Nutcracker designed by Margaret Mitchell. Recently he designed Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 and Bernarda Alba at Penn State Centre Stage, some of those designs will be available to view at the C-PAD Open House.”
 
 
 

Alivia Cross explores eco-scenography, a sustainable approach to theatrical design that goes beyond material considerations, focusing on the interconnected relationships between people, places, and communities. Her work challenges the assumption that sustainability limits creativity in stage design. Through projects like Penn State’s Urinetown and Sweeney Todd, she reimagines the design process by replacing the traditional 3 R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) with 3 C’s (co-creation, celebration, and circulation). Alivia’s research aims to reshape how theatre production can engage in more environmentally-conscious practices, fostering a new vision for sustainability in the performing arts.

 
 
 

Above Image Info:

Drawing/Design by Michael Ciaramitaro
Title: Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova
Medium: Watercolor
Year: 2023
Photograph by Quinn McDonald
Title: Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova, “Moscow”
Set Designer: André Brandão
Lighting Designer: Mason LoPiccolo
Location: Penn State Centre Stage
Year: 2023

Images courtesy of Alivia Cross

April 26 Event – Digital Dialogues in Arts Learning: A Conversation with Dr. Luke Meeken

 

Please join us on April 26th at 12pm to hear from Penn State Alumnus Dr. Luke Meeken discuss critical pedagogies with digital materials in arts learning. He will discuss his recent research using critical digital place-crafting to address settler-colonial sensibilities of place, as well as other critical digital explorations with K-12 and higher-ed students

Online via Zoom

March 22 Event – ODL Course Showcase

Office of Digital Learning Course Showcase

March 22, 2024  |  11 AM – 2 PM

 

The Office of Digital Learning (ODL) has been designing and developing fully online courses for the College since 2006. Three instructional designers from ODL will showcase courses benefiting from ODL’s pedagogical and technological expertise upon course design, and panel Q&A will follow. Introduction to Visual Studies

Newly revised, Introduction to Visual Studies (ART 10) is a general education course created for students without previous art experience, authored and taught by Anna Divinsky. The course exposes students to a diverse selection of contemporary artists and their artworks, focusing on the process of artmaking and its evolution through multiple iterations and peer feedback. Using a virtual art gallery and a studio approach, by the end of the course students have contributed to virtual exhibits reflective of their cumulative knowledge and artistic growth.

Instructional designer Brendan Berthold will focus on his role in incorporating the virtual art gallery, equipping students to research lesser-known contemporary artists, and facilitating a student-built encyclopedia of artist knowledge that will grow larger and better with every offering of the course.

Shop Safety Training for the Stuckeman Shop

Shop Safety Training for the Stuckeman Shop is a truly unique course in our portfolio. Born out of an opportunity to shift the critically-important safety instruction from real time in the shop to asynchronous delivery, Shop Safety Training uses a wealth of videos and images to orient a user to every power tool in the shop. Students must demonstrate their mastery of all the tools before they are allowed to use the shop. The course was authored and is taught by Allan Sutley.

Instructional designer Deb Gulick will discuss the improvements in time savings and efficiency, the role of prerequisite quizzes, review-on-demand, and other benefits gained from the new approach.

Cultural History of Designed Places

Revised in 2019, Cultural History of Designed Places (LARCH 60) is an introduction to the development of designed outdoor places from the ancient past to the present day, explored through the lens of cultural values. Bonj Szczygiel authored the course, while

Shruti Dixit instructs it. The courses features narrated, visually-rich lecture videos and a number of resources and activities that foster learning and improved performance in the course.

Instructional designer Bill Rose will focus on the “Check Your Understanding” learning activity associated with every lecture in the course, which served as an instructional bridge between the considerable content presented and improved performance on module exams. Students have stated that this learning activity is one of the most helpful features of the course.