Something About the Sky
A new series by artist Lori Hepner
February 5–April 27 2024
Please join us for gallery events, Free and open to the public:
All events take place at The Ronald K. DeLong Gallery at Penn State Lehigh Valley
Artist Reception:
Tuesday, February 6, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Gallery talk:
Wednesday, February 7, 9:30–10:30 a.m.
Drop-in workshop:
Wednesday, February 7, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Drawing with Light: Creating Community with Movement, Light, & Time
Join Professor Lori Hepner, the 2023-24 Penn State Laureate, in a hands-on art-making workshop where everyone is invited to Draw with Light. This movement and light-based digital artmaking requires no prior skills in either visual art or technology and is intended to bring Penn State communities together to create collaboratively. Art and technology experience NOT required.
There is always, “Something About the Sky,” that allows people to vocalize their wishes and to make dreams for their futures while gazing at light that has traveled from as far away as distant galaxies or as close as a neighboring Pittsburgh hilltop’s streetlight. My project is inspired by and uses the same title of a 1956 Rachel Carson television audio/visual essay, “Something About the Sky,” that spoke about cloud formations over film footage showing the beauty of clouds.
Lori Hepner
2023-24 Penn State Laureate, Professor of Integrative Arts, Penn State Greater Allegheny
Lori Hepner is an artist working primarily in photography, new media performance, and public art in community centered projects. Her practice, Drawing with Light, aims to make the invisible visible through movement, light, and time using programmable LEDs in devices that
use photographic images in a light-based paint-brush visualized through movement in real-time projections