If you head to the HUB-Robeson Galleries this fall, it’d be tough to miss the work of artist Rosemarie Fiore.

Fiore has been collaborating with Penn State through the Career Arts Initiative since 2018. She also hosted workshops with the School of Visual Arts and the College of Arts and Architecture in February 2021.

The ongoing project “acknowledges university public spaces as potent for creative and free expression,” Lindsey Landfried, curator and senior gallery manager, wrote within the pamphlet available for guests who visit Fiore’s work.

Fiore creates smoke drawing art and makes the tools that she uses for her smoke art into art pieces themselves.

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As part of Fiore’s ongoing engagement at Penn State, she painted with smoke on the HUB Lawn back in September. This event was hosted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

The murals that resulted are hung in the HUB above Starbucks.

The tools she used as a template are also on display.

Rosemarie Fiore’s pieces will be available in the HUB-Robeson Gallery until Sunday, January 30, 2022.

In the HUB-Robeson Gallery’s art alley, available during and outside of the gallery hours, you can find Wind Spirits, pieces created by Tatiana Arocha, Deirdre Murphy, and Rachel Sydlowski.

The exhibition was designed in partnership with Penn State’s Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center.

Arocha wanted to draw attention to avian creatures through the use of textures from plants and other natural objects.

Sydowski’s two pieces in the exhibition involve intricate layering and colors, showing rarefied birds.

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Murphy uses oil paintings to explore bird migration and the effects of climate change on the environment.

A reception for Wind Spirits will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 26, in the gallery, and the pieces will remain on display until November 7, 2021.