SHARON, Pa. — Penn State Shenango hosts the "Drawing with Light: Creating Community with Movement, Light, & Time” participatory artmaking workshop featuring 2023-24 Penn State Laureate Lori Hepner on Monday, Feb. 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Auditorium located at 147 Shenango Ave. in Sharon. 

Hepner, a professor of integrative arts at Penn State Greater Allegheny, will lead a hands-on artmaking workshop where everyone is invited to “draw with light” using programmable LED light devices, including wearable LEDs and a 6’ tall light stick, to visualize movements in real-time projections. 

The movement- and light-based, digital artmaking requires no prior skills in either visual art or technology. According to Hepner it is intended to bring communities together to create imagery collaboratively that will be used by Hepner in public art displays across Penn State campuses. 

Hepner’s “Drawing with Light” practice was featured in the 2018 WQED documentary, “Visible,” and has been performed at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios, in Durban, South Africa, the InLight Richmond Festival in Richmond, Virginia, and at the Luminaria Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Her community-based projects often include movement drawings, silhouette portraits, and the invisible ways that we can connect with each other, communities, and the world around us. 

The “Drawing with Light Workshop” is a drop-in style event that is free and open to the public.