Late Night art at the HUB
Late night Penn State Creative Crafts is every Friday and Saturday night, where you can create a different craft each week. The program is held on the ground floor of the HUB-Robinson Center from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. This program began in 1970’s, and is focused on teaching new skills or improving your current skills. It is a place to design, create, and appreciate arts and develop creative thinking, and creative expression.
Create something new, by registering for the late night Art Classes at the HUB, designed for beginner or experienced artists, encourage development of creative skills. Classes include everything from stained glass, variety of crafts, wheel thrown pottery, oil painting, photography and more.
When you put your hands into pottery clay, there is a good chance you will never want to stop. Register for the wheel thrown pottery classes and learn techniques of wedging, centering, pulling, shaping and glazing. You can enjoy ceramic wheel pottery in a relaxed atmosphere. The class teaches techniques of wedging, centering, pulling and shaping to create bowls and cups. You have to be patient, because learning to be a successful potter requires a lot of practice. Some of the common pottery equipment is the pottery wheel, kiln, and wedging table. The pottery wheel can spin at various speeds, and the clay is attached and shaped with hands or tools as it spins. The kiln is an insulated chamber, which can reach very high temperatures and can change clay into a permanent object.
Pillows are simple and inexpensive to assemble and are a great way to practice some basic crafting skills. You start with the fabric, cutting two pieces the exact shape and size (square and rectangle are easiest). Then typically you would stitch the pillow together leaving an opening for the stuffing, but this craft tied knots along the sides to keep it together and create a fringe along the edges. The stuffing can be cotton filler, which the students found as a favorite part of the craft. Soft, fluffy cloud like fabric was stretched apart and stuffed into the pillows. The soft felt fabric, and fluffy filling resulted in a very soft pillow that some began to sleep on as others continued finishing theirs.
Late night art at the HUB offers all kinds of experiences in addition to art techniques. There is a social element to this event. Couples come to spend time together enjoying crafts, friends join the class as an outing, and others meet new friends within this relaxing and fun environment.
Emily Howe, 20, from Chester County, PA, mixed reclaim clay at the Ceramic Studio in the HUB building at Penn State on Sunday March 26, 2017. Emily is double majoring in Psychology and Art at Penn State.
Gerald Sanchez, left, 21, from Reading, PA, taught Ramina Deroee, 36, from State College how to use a needle tool to trim her clay bowl at the Ceramic Studio in the HUB building at Penn State on Monday March 27, 2017. Gerald has been teaching ceramics at Penn State for two years. Ramina is a beginner student and began taking Gerald’s classes this Spring 2017 semester.
Emily Howe, 20, from Chester County, PA, smoothed out her clay mug at the Ceramic Studio in the HUB building at Penn State on Sunday March 26, 2017. Emily spends a few hours each week working in the Ceramic Studio.
Ceramic bowels and mugs had been placed in the kiln before being fired up at the Ceramic Studio in the HUB building at Penn State on Sunday March 26, 2017. The kiln is typically used to fire pottery before they are glazed.
Taylor Bigelow, left, 25, from Syracuse, NY, looked at other student’s ceramic artwork with Emily Howe, 20, from Chester County, PA at the Ceramic Studio in the HUB building at Penn State on Sunday March 26, 2017. Taylor is a graduate student and Emily is an undergraduate student both at Penn State. Taylor and Emily both spend much of their free time working in the ceramics studio for fun.
Partha Mishra, 28, from India, applied a coat of red glaze to his ceramic coaster at the Ceramic Studio in the HUB building at Penn State on Sunday March 26, 2017. Partha is currently a graduate student at Penn State.
Katerina Bezhani, left, 20, from Philadelphia, PA tied the fabric of her pillow case next to her boyfriend Mykola Lyahovolsky, 21, also from Philadelphia at Late Night arts and crafts, in the HUB building on April 8, 2017. Katerina has lived in three different countries, while Mykola has traveled to Europe to play on a soccer team.
Mark Wallace, 21, from Lansdale, PA pulled apart cotton to stuff his pillow with at Late Night arts and crafts, in the HUB Building on April 7, 2017. Mark wants to teach others how to prevent their computers from being hacked into after he graduates from Penn State.
Yolanda Li, left, 20, from China, helped her friend Melody Zhang, 20, also from China stuff her pillow at Late Night arts and crafts, in the HUB building on April 7, 2017. Yolanda and Melody both participate in a dragon club at Penn State.
Meghan Judge, 20, from Scranton, PA rested her head on her pillow made at Late Night arts and crafts, in the HUB building on April 8, 2017. Meghan spends her time as an undergraduate student as well as an RA at Penn State.
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