After more than a decade of planning and a year and a half of construction, the Arboretum at Penn State’s newest garden opened to the public this week.
The 3-acre Pollinator and Bird Garden increases the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens by about 60%, creating a new space for relaxation and enjoying nature as well as for research and education.
“There are number of features here that we don’t have elsewhere, so we’ve added a great deal of variety to the experience when one visits,” Kim Steiner, founding director of The Arboretum, said on Wednesday afternoon. “And it’s attractive; we tried to make it a beautiful space. But then behind all that is some really hard science about how to attract native insect pollinators.”
The College of Arts and Architecture will host the 2021 Summer Institute on Contemporary Art, a professional development opportunity for preK–12 teachers, virtually June 21–25.
As the days grow longer and the weather warmer, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State will open Summer Light: American Impressionist Paintings from the Thomas Clark Collection. On view through August 29, this special exhibition features twenty-four paintings from the major forthcoming gift of collector Thomas Clark, whose private holdings contain some of the finest in the American impressionist genre. “We are thrilled to present a selection of works from the expansive collection of .
The second-floor galleries, which feature the special exhibition and permanent collection, will be closed through August 26 and will reopen on August 27.