The Daily Collegian Local bands free outdoor By Julie Mastrine COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER State College residents had the chance to enjoy free music Thursday night when local bands The Rustlanders and Pure Cane Sugar played in the first First Thursday event of the semester, an out door concert on Heister St. The performance, free and open to the public, was part of the Downtown State College Improvement District’s First Thursday Concert Series. The initiative aims to attract residents to downtown State College through art exhibits, con certs and other business promotions on the first Thursday of each month, said Katie O’Toole, First Thursday coordinator. The First Thursday Concert Series has brought other popular artists to State College in the past, including Matt Pond, Mike Doughty and The Cast of Beatlemania, said Jody Alessandrine, executive director of the State College Downtown Improvement District. Opening act Pure Cane Sugar took the stage at 7 p.m. The State College-based folk band, which featured a fiddle player and incorporated a tambourine, played songs from its new album “Come Back Home.” Local act The Rustlanders, which opened for Keith Urban at the Bryce Jordan Center in May, came on at 8 p.m. and played songs from its self-titled album. The band played a mixture of rock and folk music, and three of the five members of the band took turns singing. The crowd included State College resi dents of all ages, and some attendees said free acts like the ones First Thursday brings to State College are a good opportu- Amanda August/Collegian Miranda Hofelt talks about a photographic collection that she assembled entitled “Corsets and Cameras," which is being displayed in the Pattee Library through Dec. 31. Exhibit commemorates history of ‘new woman’ By Karina Yiicel COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The Poster Auditorium in the Patemo Library was filled with young and old, all waiting to learn about the “new woman.” Corsets and Cameras: Photography, Bicycling, and the New Woman in TUm-of the-Century America is one of many exhi bitions put together by Heinz K and Bridget A. Henisch. The Henisch’s collections cover all types of photography and every photographic process. The collections consist of ama teur photographers instead of well-known photographers, depicting everyday people living their everyday lives. Miranda Hofelt, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago and lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago, started her lec ture on the exhibition by making a special point to say that she liked that the collec tion was opened on the week of the 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment. The 19th amendment prohibits any state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their sex. Sandra Stelts, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Special Collections Library, said she was very pleased with the turnout. The exhibit is off of the Patemo Family Humanities Reading Room, a room Stelts said is “kind of hard to find.” “But if you stumble in here, you’re going to find a treat,” she said. The collection ranges from photographs to advertisements to books all from the time period. The books were attempts to really promote the idea that women are as good as men, Hofelt said. “You can be ladylike and ride a bike, you can be a “new woman” and a woman,” Hofelt said, quoting what the books sum marized. “Free concerts are definitely necessary for poor college students.” Lanie Mangan freshman - division of undergraduate studies nity for residents to see bands they may have to pay a lot of money to see else where. “There’s no stress about the money, and you can come and go as you please,” Lanie Mangan (freshman-division of undergradu ate studies) said. “Free concerts are defi nitely necessary for poor college students.” State College residents of all ages were in attendance, and many said they enjoyed the family-friendly atmosphere. “Concerts like these are a great oppor tunity for all kinds of people to come together,” said Elody Gyekis, Class of 2009. “It’s a nice way to cross communities and bring them together, which sometimes doesn’t happen as often as it should.” Some students said they would encour age others to attend performances like the one held Thursday, even if they may not be familiar with the artists. “Bands like this are kind of like local secrets,” said Molly Reese (sophomore rehabilitation and human services). “Some people may have a favorite place to shop that’s not very well-known, and some of these local bands are well-kept secrets in much the same way. Students should try to see the acts regardless of whether they’re familiar with them or not.” “There were a lot of popular advertise ments that depicted the women as carica tures while lampooning her and making fun of her,” she added. The “new woman” is associated with the bike and the portable camera. Bikes and cameras were seen as machines, and machines were perceived to be masculine. What the camera did for women was give women a way to find their own identi ties, Hofelt said. Frances Benjamin Johnston was a woman photographer who took pictures of women doing radical things, like smoking cigarettes, Hofelt said. “The camera offered everyday women the opportunity to be like [Johnston] and play with identity through cameras,” Hofelt said. ] With the advent of the Kodak girl in 1893, women were able to use cameras without being seen as masculine. These were girls that were fashionable, glamorous, and used the camera as a fashion accessory, Hofelt said. Cody Goddard, Class of 2010 and media specialist, is a photographer himself. Cody’s job for this collection was to take the oldest cased images and put them online. “After seeing a lot of the collection, I have a bigger understanding of how the pictures were shot,” Goddard said. Goddard recently featured one of the photographs in the Corsets and Cameras in his own exhibit. “What is really interesting is that I included it because it has a painted back drop. Different specialties and interests can look at the same photographs and get totally different ideas.” The exhibition will be on display from now until December 31. You TRUST The Dally Collegian with Your NEWS, Why not with yon FOOD? 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