Lycoming College News

Digital Media Annual held at Community Arts Center

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Digital Media Video Annual to be held at Community Arts Center

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Lycoming College will hold a Digital Media Video Annual at the Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport on Tuesday, April 26, from 7:30-9 p.m.

The free, public event will include screenings of short narrative and experimental films by students from Lycoming and Bucknell University, along with "Stage Dive" by Crossing the Frame Productions, a Lycoming student organization dedicated to the creation of videos solely by students, including pre-production, production and post-production.

The inaugural Woodruff Grand Jury Prize will be awarded at the end of the evening to the student who made the best overall film. Tom Woodruff Jr. and his wife, Tami, are both Lycoming graduates. Woodruff, a native of Montoursville, Pa., and member of the Central Pennsylvania Film Office advisory board, garnered an Academy Award for his special effects work on the Meryl Streep film “Death Becomes Her.” He also received Academy Award nominations for “Starship Troopers” and “Alien3.” In 2010, Woodruff announced plans to direct the feature film “Sideshow” in the Williamsport area, for which he has scouted locations.

Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News and World Report. Founded in 1812 in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Dance Club to hold annual show

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The Lycoming College Dance Club will hold its annual show Monday, April 18, at 9:30 p.m. in Clarke Chapel. Doors open at 9 p.m. for the event, which is free and open to the public.

The performance, themed “Just Dance,” will be hosted by Dr. Dan Miller, dean of student affairs, and Andrew Kilpatrick, director of residential life. Styles of dance will include include jazz, hip hop, swing, tap, modern, ballet, belly dancing, team, Latin and country-line.

The show will also include a performance from The Other Guys, a new Lycoming cappella group, and a comedy skit by Laugh Out Lyco, also known as LOL.

Dance Club is funded by the Student Senate of Lycoming College.

Digital Media Gallery to host exhibit

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming College will host “THERE AND BACK” by artist Andrew Stanbridge from March 31 to April 30 in the Digital Media Gallery of the Mass Communications Building.

Stanbridge will hold a free lecture in the College’s Fine Arts Lecture Hall from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, followed by a gallery opening and reception from 4-5:30 p.m. While the lecture and gallery opening are open to the public, additional viewings are by appointment only.

Stanbridge has been photographing beaten and unbeaten streets, dirt roads and superhighways in Asia for the past 12 years. Published and exhibited internationally in a straight photojournalist form, his work has addressed issues including westernization, post-conflict rehabilitation, the sex industry and environmental tragedies. He often redresses his more arcane imagery with various inks, stickers and other items he collects along the way.

For his exhibition at Lycoming College, Stanbridge will be showing digital prints of bombs, shamans and temple paintings, amongst other things. There will also be a two-channel, psychedelic bomb explosion video sequence displayed along with the two-dimensional work.

Stanbridge earned his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in Boston, Mass. He was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Research Fellowship to continue his photographic work in Thailand and has been the recipient of numerous grants.

Communication professor presents in Faculty Art Exhibition

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Leah Bedrosian Peterson, assistant professor of communication at Lycoming College, will be presenting her project "Erasure" in the Art Faculty Exhibition from Dec. 2-17 in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library. An artists' reception and gallery talk will be held Dec. 2 from 4-5:30 p.m.

The project is comprised of photographs and videos that were taken during Peterson's travels to South East Asia in summer 2010. Peterson documented the villages and cities of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam during a two-month period. The title, "Erasure," references the changes in the local traditional culture and the changes to the landscape as these third-world nations are being influenced by Western culture.

Peterson teaches Video and Theory classes at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. She studied photography at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY where she received a BFA. She received an MFA from Tufts University/The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Her work deals with issues of cultural identity and questions the role of fantasy in our daily lives. Leah exhibits her work both nationally and internationally.

College to host exhibition by Boston-based artist

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming College will host a solo exhibition titled “Becoming One With Zero,” by Boston-based artist Julie Miller in the Digital Media Gallery of the Communication Building from Nov. 11 through Dec. 18. The exhibit opening and artist’s reception will take place on the 11th from 4-5:30 p.m. That same day, Miller will give a lecture on her work from 1-2:30 p.m. in the College’s Fine Art Lecture Hall.

“Becoming One With Zero” is an exhibition of animations, drawings printed on more than 700 stickers, and works on paper that Miller says “reflect her fascination with sensation through aesthetic experience.” Her work is deceptively simple, but through the obsessive abstraction of shape and form, she engages the viewer in a phenomenological experience.

Cate McQuaid of The Boston Globe states that Miller’s work “challenge[s] ordinary assumptions about visual perception” and that “her remarkable video most dramatically throws vision into a new light [through] wild variation and hypnotic correspondences. That tension between obsessive similarity and inherent differences can make looking at her work nearly as compulsive as their creation must have been.”

Miller earned a master’s of fine arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. Her work has been reviewed by The Boston Globe and The Boston Phoenix among many other publications. She is represented by The Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, Mass., and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Alumnus and award-winning filmmaker scouts area for next project

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST

Communication professor presents project

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Leah Bedrosian Peterson, assistant professor of communication at Lycoming College, will be presenting her project "Erasure" at 33 East in Williamsport, Pa, Oct. 1 from 6-9 p.m. The project , on display through Oct. 13, is comprised of photographs and videos that were taken during Peterson's travels to South East Asia in summer 2010. Peterson documented the villages and cities of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam during a two-month period. The title, "Erasure," references the changes in the local traditional culture and the changes to the landscape as these third-world nations are being influenced by Western culture.