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features 28 / Celebrating the 50th Festival Arts Festival has grown from a simple idea into a cherished tradition and major event • by Tracey M. Dooms

38 / A Changing Tradition

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As the years have passed, the Arts Festival continues to welcome artists and performers, both old and new, that reflect what people want to see and hear • by Jodi Morelli

46 / Shared Experience For nearly 20 years, the Italian Street Painting Festival has become a unique part of the Arts Festival, allowing the public to see the process of artists creating their work • by Dana Ray

76 / Beyond the Festival Since it began, the Arts Festival has helped grow a diverse arts scene in Happy Valley • by Rebekka Coakley

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Special Advertising Section 53 / People of the Arts Festival As the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts celebrates its 50th edition, Town&Gown helps recognize some of the many people who have made the festival one of the best events of its kind in the nation Cover design: by Darren Andrew Weimert

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10 Letter from The Editor 12 Starting Off: The List, People in the Community, Q&A

22 Living Well: How to enhance communication in your relationships • by Meghan Fritz 24 Health: Stay hydrated to help prevent summer heatstroke • by Nicki Vithalani, MD 26 On Center: The athlete- illusionists of Pilobolus Dance Theatre perform new show • by John Mark Rafacz 86 This Month on WPSU

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What’s Happening: 4th Fest, Arts Festival, People’s Choice, WingFest, George Thorogood, Last Cruise, and more highlight July’s events

100 From the Vine: The right stuff about Riesling • by Lucy Rogers

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104 Taste of the Month/Dining Out: Renowned chef Paul Kendeffy returns to make Carnegie Inn a premier restaurant again • by Vilma Shu Danz 116 Lunch with Mimi: Art Alliance continues its work of promoting the visual arts in the region 122 State College Photo Club’s Winning Photos 124 Snapshot: New PSU laureate enjoys sharing appreciation for the arts, both old and new • by Madison Lippincott

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A Town-and-Gown Masterpiece The Arts Festival celebrates a major milestone State College had been quiet in the summer — too quiet for some. So a group of people decided that maybe holding a small arts festival would liven things up a bit here.

That’s a very abridged version of how this major event called the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts began in 1967. Safe to say, summers in Happy Valley haven’t been the same since.

Things have livened up to where now approximately 150,000 people visit Happy Valley each July for the festival.

Livened up to where there are now four other festivals in Centre County that happen around the same time each year as the Arts Festival, and, rather than competing against each other, they have complemented each other and simply made the middle of July a more magical time to be here.

This year is the 50th edition of the Arts Festival. Outside of Penn State football home games, it has become the biggest annual event in Central Pennsylvania, and it is consistently ranked as one of the best, if not the best, arts festival in the country. In fact, two of the last three years Sunshine Artist magazine has named it the top Fine Art and Design Show in America.

With the festival hitting a milestone year, this month’s Town&Gown is dedicated almost exclusively to the Arts Festival. You can read about its history in Tracey M. Dooms’s story, “Celebrating the 50th Festival,” find out about the impact its had on Centre County’s arts scene as a whole in Rebekka Coakley’s story, “Beyond the Festival,” and there’s a special advertising section, “People of the Arts Festival,” that

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profiles nearly 60 people who had a hand (or continue to have a hand) in making the Arts Festival the unique event it has become.

Town&Gown has had a special connection with the festival for 25 years (and not just because our respective offices are near each other). Starting in 1991, the magazine began publishing the festival’s official program guide.

During my first summer as a student at Penn State, I took a job working at a festival food stand that was set up on Old Main lawn.

Now, having worked on putting out the program guide for the past 10 years, it’s easy for me to see what an amazing accomplishment it is for the festival’s small staff and all of its volunteers to be able to put on this now five-day extravaganza. To have all these artists, performers, visitors, activities, food vendors, and more come together and populate sections of downtown State College and the Penn State campus without seemingly much of a hitch each year is quite the feat!

It truly has become a town-andgown masterpiece and a symbol of what the two sides of College Avenue can do together!

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The List What to know about JULY

And if it’s July 4, it’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest! Last year’s champion Matt Stonie downed 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

It’s National Ice Cream Month in July, with National Ice Cream Day on July 17!

Of course, here in the Happy Valley we have the eternal question: Meyer Dairy or the Creamery? Why agonize over the decision — go to both!

World UFO Day is July 2. It was on this day in 1947 that a supposed UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.

Happy birthday America on July 4! John Adams, the second US president, actually thought the celebration should be on July 2, when the Continental Congress voted for independence. But Adams deserves credit for how we celebrate the day, since he wrote to his wife, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires, and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

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The 50th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts takes place July 13-17. In addition to the actual festival, check out two exhibits — Arts Festival at Fifty: Stories of the Early Years at Centre Furnace Mansion and The Prints of Jules Heller at the Palmer Museum of Art. Heller was general chairman of the planning committee for the first festival.

“One giant leap for mankind” took place July 20, 1969. This year is the 47th anniversary of the Moon Landing, which is why July 20 is celebrated as Moon Day.

Who says you can’t get along with your in-laws?

Father-in-Law Day is July 30, so go on and honor the dad of your significant other!

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On June 17, the Bellefonte baseball team won its first PIAA Class AAA title with a 2-0 win over Susquehanna Township at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The Red Raiders finished the year at 16-11.

Senior pitcher Dom Masullo pitched the complete-game shutout in the title game. He struck out five and allowed just five hits.

The Red Raiders scored a run in the third on Tyler Kreger’s base hit that scored Colton Burd. They added a run in the fifth when Garrett Reiter scored on an error.

Bellefonte had started the season 1-7 before making its improbable run to the title. The Red Raiders were the last seed in the District 6 playoffs. They defeated Greater Johnstown, Somerset, and Hollidaysburg to win the district title. In the PIAA playoffs, Bellefonte beat Chartiers Valley, Erie Cathedral Prep, and Hamburg to advance to the title game.

“It’ll probably hit me tomorrow once I wake up and I just think about everything and just how far we’ve come. It’s just incredible,” Masullo told the Centre Daily Times after the win in the title game.

“I mean it was just such an amazing story and an amazing win. Amazing season, too.”

State College Boys’ Track and Field Team The State College boys’ track and field team won the PIAA Class AAA team championship for the first time in its history. At the PIAA Championships in Shippensburg, the Little Lions finished with 54 points. Downingtown West finished second with 53 points.

Individually, pole vaulter Griffin Thompson won a state title, Alex Milligan took gold in the 1,600 meter run, and the 4x800-meter relay team of Milligan, Nick Feffer, Owen Wing, and Tony Degleris not only won the state title but its time of 7 minutes, 37.25 seconds also broke a school record and was the best time in the country this spring.

“It’s awesome,” Milligan said to the Centre County Gazette. “Our school’s never even gotten a runner-up [before]. To be the first to get the hardware is awesome.”

Brooke Welsh

Brooke Welsh, division director of the American Heart Association in Centre, Blair, and Cambria counties, is releasing her first children’s book, Benito to the Rescue, in July. Eifrig Publishing published the book, and a portion of the book sales will be donated to Centre County PAWS. “I wrote the book based on the unconditional love of my rescue dog, Napolean,” Welsh says. “I hope the story will teach children the importance of acceptance, embracing differences, and building self-esteem.”

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Q&A with Karl Libhart, executive director of Central PA 4th Fest

By Madison Lippincott America is getting ready for its 240th birthday — and few places know how to celebrate it better than Happy Valley with Central PA 4th Fest.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of 4th Fest, and, with July 4 on a Monday, the event is scheduled to run over two days — July 3-4.

This also is the first 4th Fest for new executive director Karl Libhart. He takes over for Bernie Keisling, who had held the position for 13 years, and will coordinate the efforts of the allvolunteer (some 600 of them!) organization.

T&G: How did you find yourself in the position of taking over as executive director?

Libhart: I was fortunate that this fell into my lap. A year ago, I was contemplating retirement from my job at Penn State and was looking for something to do on a part-time basis and saw that this job was available. Two weeks later, they offered me the job. Before that, I’d been at Penn State for about eight years.

T&G: What sets 4th Fest’s fireworks show apart from other fireworks shows?

Libhart: First of all, we’re an all-volunteer fireworks show. People who set off fireworks have to be certified as pyrotechnicians, and we’re fortunate that we have two volunteers in our organization that are certified.

There are no fireworks displays anywhere in the world that compare to the size and scope of ours that are run by volunteers. USA Today and, I believe years ago, the Washington Post ranked us within the top five fireworks displays in the country, and we’re very proud of that.

We like to keep it growing and keep it exciting. We also like to provide the local people with a full day of activities, not just a fireworks display at night. We have a full afternoon and early evening of activities up around Beaver Stadium and the Bryce Jordan Center where families, for no charge, can eat hot dogs and birthday cake and enjoy activities and special events,

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and we have some really special things planned for this year.

We’re having the State College Roller Derby Club put on a roller derby match — they call it “Red, White, and Bruise.” Then, we’ve also contracted world record holder David Smith, the Human Cannonball, who will do two shots up at our fair. He shoots himself 60 feet in the air and 120 feet down the road!

T&G: How has 4th Fest evolved since it began?

Libhart: We continue to improve the fireworks, but we also continue to grow the other aspects of 4th Fest. In fact, since Fourth of July is on a Monday this year, we’re actually going to open on Sunday afternoon around 5 p.m. It’ll be the first time we’ve ever done a two-day 4th Fest, so people will be able to come out Sunday evening and enjoy the carnival rides and live music and food. Then we’ll still have a full day of activities on the 4th.

T&G: It seems that new things get added every year. Is there anything in the works for next year that we can expect?

Libhart: We pretty much just take it one year at a time. Last year, we took a risk with a concert

by Craig Morgan, and that was a good experience. But we did that because it was on a Saturday night. This year, it’s on Monday, so our little experiment this year is going to be opening the second day so that we can hopefully attract a crowd that will fill up some hotel rooms in town and help out the local businesses in that way. We’ll have to wait until next year to see what’s new! T&G

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• In 5 Questions, comic book historian Tim Hanley, who will be at BookFest PA during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, talks about being a feminist and the role of women in comics.

• Nittany Valley Society looks at the effort to preserve the Boogersburg and Rock Hill one-room schoolhouses.

• A recipe for cheese soufflé from Carnegie Inn & Spa. And more!

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Managing Your Expectations How to enhance communication in your relationships

By Meghan Fritz

Have you ever noticed that when you are speaking with a close friend it’s easy to listen to them with acceptance and a nonjudgmental attitude? You give them all the space they need to sort out the problem, and you are able to provide them with support and compassion.

Why is it in our romantic relationships we tend to lose this ability to simply be a supportive presence to our partner? Instead, we tend to become anxious, judgmental, and preachy in the advice we give to our partners.

It all comes down to expectations. In order for any of our relationships to be successful and flow smoothly, we have to be willing to do the homework of knowing what we want and being clear about our expectations. Most of us assume that our spouse or partner has a secret superpower that enables them to anticipate every need and want; therefore, we never have to worry about being clear in our communication styles.

This assumption is a very dysfunctional habit and will lead to frustration and negativity in your relationships.

The fact is you — and you alone — are responsible for figuring out what you need to be happy. No one person can take on that burden for you.

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a certain amount of space to sort things out.

In romantic relationships, expectations change because of the level of responsibility and accountability that comes with an intimate relationship.

Have you ever had your partner come to you with a recurring problem and you feel your anxiety level hit the roof? Their inability to effectively handle a difficult situation and move forward has made you feel frustrated, judgmental, and distant.

The more they talk about their job issues or drama with a particular friend the more you feel you want to scream and put bamboo shoots under your nails for fun.

We lose our ability to be neutral, and we begin to make our partner’s issues our own. Our own fear and anxiety begins to take over, and we feel upset that our partner can’t figure it out; or even more anxiety provoking, we wonder how their issue will affect our relationship and lifestyle.

As soon as the anxiety makes its presence known in your heart, you can be sure you stopped being a neutral presence and have made the issue at hand about you. When this happens, ask yourself, “What is my expectation of this person in this moment?” This awareness and question makes us stop, take a step back, and evaluate whether we have an agenda in the conversation.

For example, if you come home from a long day at work ready to relax and unwind and your spouse walks in the door frazzled and upset about a situation at work, this is a very important time to acknowledge and honor your expectations. Instead of listening to your spouse while feeling resentful about not enjoying your evening, communicate your expectations clearly. “I know this situation is so

upsetting to you, and I want to be offering you all the support you need. Right now, I just need some time to refuel and unwind. Can we talk about this in the morning when we are both rested and refreshed? I know if we discuss this now you will not have my full attention.”

This way of communicating acknowledges the stressful situation your spouse is in, but also communicates the clear expectations you have for the evening.

When we fail to acknowledge and honor the expectations we have of others, it’s like walking through a thick forest without a map, hoping we will stumble upon a magical waterfall.

We need clear direction and guidance to make it to our destinations. Clear expectations are the map to help you have a fantastic relationship, not a mediocre one.

Most people that are unhappy in their relationships are usually lazy about communicating clearly. Rather than sitting down to have a brutally honest discussion and plan to get back on track, some couples let the anger and distance build until it seems too far gone to make it back.

Don’t be lazy about improving your

relationships. Sort out what you need from your partner and be clear about your expectations of them.

Couples don’t fall apart overnight. Rather, a couple on their way to splitting up has had years of unclear, passive communication that has led to a relationship full of resentment and tension.

We must be willing to work on the quality of our intimate relationships daily. The daily maintenance is what takes you from mediocre to awesome. Any couple that feels connected and has fun together will tell you they work on things daily and are very clear with one another about their expectations.

If you feel that you and your partner are drifting further and futher apart, get the help you need to get back on track. Working with a third party can help you both be clear about what you need and want from one another.

Don’t settle for a mediocre relationship. Wake up and do the work it takes to create the love you want! You are worth it! T&G Meghan Fritz is a psychotherapist practicing in State College.

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Drink Up! Stay hydrated to help prevent summer heatstroke

By Nicki Vithalani, MD

Water makes up about 50 percent of your body. Naturally, during hot weather you lose some of that water due to sweating — your body’s own cooling mechanism. If you don’t drink enough water to replenish what is lost, you’ll become dehydrated and at-risk for heatstroke — a serious condition that could land you in the hospital emergency room.

Heatstroke — the threat and concern Heatstroke occurs when your body overheats to 104 degrees or above. It can be brought on by various factors that dehydrate your body when temperatures are high: • Being in a hot environment, such as a closed vehicle, for a prolonged period.

• Strenuous physical activity during hot weather.

Every year, your body needs time to adjust to hot summer weather, making you more at-risk for heatstroke during the first heatwave.

Limit your physical activity until your body is acclimated to hot, humid days.

Young children are particularly at-risk because their central nervous systems are not fully developed, making their bodies less capable of coping with changes in body temperature. People age 65 and older face increased risk as their central nervous systems begin to deteriorate. Some chronic conditions, such as heart or lung disease, can increase the risk of heatstroke, as well.

Medications also can affect your body’s ability to stay hydrated and adjust to hot weather. Those taking the following medications should be particularly careful: • Vasoconstrictors that narrow blood vessels.

• Beta blockers that regulate blood pressure by blocking adrenaline.

• Diuretics, which rid your body of sodium and water.

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Nicki Vithalani, MD, suggests to limit your physical activity during the summer until your body is acclimated to hot, humid days.

• Antidepressants or antipsychotics.

• Stimulants for attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder.

• Antihistamines for allergies.

Signs of trouble Often, people don’t recognize the first symptoms of heatstroke — headache, fatigue, feeling lightheaded — as signs that their bodies are overheated and dehydrated.

However, drinking water and cooling off at this early stage can head-off more serious symptoms, including: • High body temperature.

• Hot, dry, flushed skin.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Rapid, shallow breathing.

• Racing heart rate.

• Confusion or other altered mental state.

Being aware of the symptoms helps you to recognize when someone is in danger from heatstroke. A confused heatstroke victim might not be able to recognize their own condition. Young children may not be able to explain symptoms they’re feeling. Plus, the more confused someone becomes, the more difficult it is for them to drink fluids, so their condition can worsen quickly.

Cool off or call 911 If a person shows signs of heat-related illness but is still alert and responsive, you can take steps to prevent the condition from worsening to heatstroke. Cool the person down by moving him or her into the shade or air conditioning, removing excess clothing, or getting them into a tub or pool of cool water. Apply ice packs or cool, wet towels to the head, neck, armpits, and groin — areas where arteries can work to transfer cooled blood to the rest of the body.

Have the person rehydrate by drinking water.

When symptoms are severe — fainting, seizures, vomiting, or altered mental state — call 911. A prolonged high body temperature and dehydration can damage the brain and other internal organs.

Drink more water — and less caffeine and alcohol!

You can avoid many dangers of heatstroke by staying hydrated. Most of us know that we should drink at least eight glasses of water a day. To help you keep track of how much you’re drinking, you can download a phone app, such as iHydrate, or carry a large refillable water bottle.

On hot days and when you’re physically active, you need more fluids to replace the water lost through sweat. For every hour in the sun, drink at least eight ounces of water. Sport drinks can help replace electrolytes, but pure water is the best rehydration fluid. Try a water bottle with an infuser for fruit, if you want a drink that’s tastier than tap water.

Caffeinated beverages such as coffee, iced tea, and soda have a mild diuretic effect, so they won’t help you rehydrate. Alcohol also causes you to lose, rather than regain, body fluids.

The color of your urine is a good indicator of your hydration level. If your urine is darker than usual, drink more water.

During the summer, play it safe by staying hydrated and keeping cool. You’ll head off heatstroke while enjoying your fun in the sun. T&G Nicki Vithalani, MD, is a family medicine resident with the Penn State Family and Community Medicine Residency Program at Mount Nittany. She practices with Penn State Medical Group, a part of Penn State Health. To make an appointment, call Penn State Medical Group in State College at (814) 235-2480.

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The athlete-illusionists of Pilobolus Dance Theatre perform new show October 18

By John Mark Rafacz Life for a teenager is often awkward. In Shadowland, Pilobolus Dance Theater’s newest production, it’s also surreal.

Created by Pilobolus dancers and directors in collaboration with Steven Banks, lead writer for the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants, Shadowland is an imaginative detour from the traditional coming-of-age story.

“Our protagonist is a girl who longs to grow up, but can only find escape in her dreams,” writes a critic for The Sydney Morning Herald. “The liminal Shadowland she enters is full of fabulous images created with the dancers’ bodies and clever props. A godlike hand reaches down, and suddenly she is transformed. She grows a dog’s snout and ears, a silhouette created by her elbow pointing forward and hands poking up behind her head, and embarks on a journey of metaphysical self-discovery.”

Shadowland, coming to Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium October 18, incorporates multiple moving screens of different sizes and shapes to create a performance that merges projected images and choreography. The show unfolds to an original score by musician, producer, and film composer David Poe, whose work for Shadowland ranges from ballads to hard-driving rock.

“A sexy minotaur, snakes, crabs, bloodthirsty chefs, seahorses, and elephants are just a handful of the things Pilobolus Dance Theater manages to create with little more than silhouettes in this irreverent and completely mental 80-minute piece of shadow theatre,” writes a Time Out London reviewer. “… We meet a girl who shadow dreams and is transported to surreal worlds where she’s turned into a dog, gets a ride in a car, meets a seahorse, is saved by a jellyfish, and gets it on with the aforementioned minotaur — all in the best possible taste ….”

The impetus for Shadowland came from a 2007 Academy Awards appearance in which Pilobolus performers evoked classic film images in live shadow movement. That concept eventually developed into the fanciful story of a teenage girl.

“Visually and mechanically, Shadowland is deft, teeming with clever tricks of the body, scenery, and light,” relates a New York Times critic.

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Shadowland is “an imaginative detour from the traditional coming-of-age story.”

Time Out London reviewer. “… It’s a colorful, big, entertaining, and completely wacky evening.”

Since 1971, Pilobolus has been creating inventive, athletic, witty, and collaborative performance works using the human body as a medium of expression. Based in Connecticut, Pilobolus performs for stage, television, and online audiences across the globe.

The troupe has performed live shows in more than 60 countries.

“The remarkable quality of the Pilobolus dancers is that they can fulfill dual roles as both storytellers and athletic dancers,” notes a critic for BroadwayWorld.com. “They can partner with astonishing ease into the most contorted yet beautiful shapes, while also never breaking character.” T&G Shadowland includes nudity. The Passionate Supporters of Dance sponsor the performance. As of June 30, tickets for all Center for the Performing Arts 2016-17 presentations are on sale to center members, Choice buyers (four or more eligible events purchased in one transaction at a 10-percent discount), and groups (10 or more patrons buying together for a 15-percent discount). Tickets are on sale to the public July 11. For information or tickets, visit cpa.psu .edu or phone (814) 863-0255.

John Mark Rafacz is the editorial manager of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State.

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Arts Festival has grown from a simple idea into a cherished tradition and major event

By Tracey M. Dooms

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The first Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts was big news. Governor Raymond Shafer flew in by helicopter to open the festival, landing on Old Main lawn. Banners flew, artists in action showed their skills, and crowds enjoyed theater performances, films, and local bands. WPSX did live festival broadcasts.

And yet, the festival clearly was a work in progress. The Sidewalk Sale started slowly and grew day by day, as more and more artists saw what was happening and grabbed their own free display spots on tacked-up snow fencing. Someone even sold kittens. When darkness was falling on an Allen Street performance by the Nittany Knights, someone ran into McLanahan’s and bought spotlights.

The 50th festival this July 13 to 17 celebrates five decades of growth, evolution, and impact. Today, each year’s festival attracts an estimated 150,000 visitors who fill area hotels, dine in local restaurants, and shop in local stores, in addition to purchasing works of art at the Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition. In both 2013 and 2015, Sunshine Artist magazine named the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts the top Fine Art and Design Show in the country. Meanwhile, for many State College area families, Arts Festival has evolved into an annual tradition of hosting out-of-town art-loving friends, shopping among 300 artist booths, 30 - T&G July 2016

Top, the opening of the 1968 Arts Festival.

Above, current Arts Festival director Rick Bryant (left) with Phil Walz, who was director from 1991 to 2005.

and enjoying the atmosphere of an event that brings together the entire community.

Bringing shoppers downtown The festival was the brainchild of Wally Lloyd, who was president of the State College Area Chamber of Commerce in the mid-1960s, and other downtown businesspeople. Fifty years ago, Penn State had few summer classes, and the town emptied out during warmer months even more than it does

Festival Timeline Some highlight moments from the first 49 Arts Festivals

1967: Governor Shafer opens festival, lands on Old Main Lawn in helicopter. Sidewalk Sale starts on snow fence. Banner competition starts.

1971: Sidewalk Sale becomes juried show.

1974: Lanny Sommese designs his first festival poster and has been doing it annually since.

1975: Festival poetry competition starts.

1975: First Arts Festival Race — a 10-miler.

1976: Young People’s Day starts. It is now called Children and Youth Day. 1979: First appearance of hot-air balloons in the Kalins Clothing Arts Festival Balloon Rally.

1983: Young People’s Day becomes Children’s Day. 1983: Festival Jester first appears (David Garfield, who continues the role through 1986).

1986: Festival race shortened from 10 miles to 10K. 1987: Lurene Frantz steps down as managing director. David Hatfield becomes next managing director 1987: Festival Shell replaces Festival Tent.

1989: Images exhibition held for first time. Images is the festival’s juried fine art show.

1990: Festival Eyes allows sight-impaired to visit the festival with a trained guide, coproduced by the Sight-Loss Support Group of Central PA. 1991: First official program guide published by Town&Gown.

1991: First festival buttons appear, cost $1.

1991: Phil Walz becomes festival director.

1993: First chicken on a stick sold by Chan’s Golden Gate. Has been a festival staple since.

1998 (or 1999): Dumping buckets debut.

2000: Italian Street Painting Festival starts.

2005: Rick Bryant becomes festival director.

2006: Festival races renamed after local runner Sue Crowe, who died in 2006. Festival named one of top festivals in Pennsylvania by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in a multiyear marketing initiative of the Pennsylvania Tourism Office.

2009: Three sculptures by Seward Johnson are loaned to the festival by the Sculpture Foundation — “God Bless America,” based on Grant Woods’s “American Gothic” is placed at the Old Main Gate 2010: Inaugural BookFestPA, coproduced with Schlow Centre Region Library, brings author Christopher McDougall (Born to Run) to the festival.

2011: Fitness comes to the festival as yoga and Zumba are added to the calendar of events. First Pat Farrell Community Sing-a-Long is held, under the direction of Tony Leach and Douglas Miller.

2012: Historic films come to the festival as two early Fred Waring talkies are shown at the State Theatre.

2012: Pennsylvania’s Civil War Road Show visits festival.

2013: Festival named top Fine Art and Design Show in the country by Sunshine Artist magazine.

2014: Fest Zero, recycling/trash reduction effort led by volunteer Brad Fey, starts.

2015: Festival is again named top Fine Art and Design Show in the country by Sunshine Artist magazine.

1994: First Night State College founded.

1998: First sand sculpture. The worst riot in Penn State history (at that time) takes place during the festival.

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now; plus, new shopping centers were starting to lure shoppers away from downtown.

“It was a slower time for business, and they thought this would be a good time to have a lot of people come into town to visit the shops and see the artwork,” says Catherine Kresge, whose husband, Guy, helped organize the first festival.

In January 1967, in the days long before e-mail, Lloyd typed a letter to Gary Moyer, chairman of the Downtown Merchants Association, formalizing an idea he had floated a few months earlier.

“A successful festival of this kind should be fun for all,” he wrote. “It would give publicity to State College, many people would come to town because of it and hence business activity should be high.

Further, it could do much to create a favorable image of the business community in the minds of the local citizens and University students.”

By April, planning had advanced to the point where Lloyd wrote to Jules Heller, dean of Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture, asking that the university work with the business community to kick off the festival in July.

“One thing is certain, the University could hold an arts festival without any help from the

town or Chamber of Commerce; I don’t believe the reverse is very likely,” Lloyd wrote. “However, I do feel that the best possible festival would result from a cooperative effort.”

Lloyd’s widow, Patricia Lloyd, recalls that first festival as a “massive project” that entailed many kitchen-table meetings among her husband and organizers, including Kresge and Jim DeTuerk.

“Almost everything had to be done by volunteers,” she says. “There wasn’t any money.”

“We didn’t have any budget,” Lloyd recalled in 1991 as the 25th festival approached. “I just opened accounts at hardware stores and lumberyards and kept hoping we’d have enough money to do this. I think we were barely able to pay all the bills.”

Committee member Marie Doll notes, “We made some strange decisions. One of the strangest was that it was two weekends and the whole week in between.”

Artists came and went during the nine days, depending on when they needed to be at their regular jobs.

Still, the first festival was an undisputed success.

At the close of the festivities, Heller announced, “This year, we only scratched the surface. In years

to come, when people want to know what is going on in all the arts, they will come to Central Pennsylvania to find out.”

Planning began right away for the second festival. Wally and Patricia Lloyd spent the rest of the summer driving to festivals as far away as New England, to see how they operated.

Someone learned that the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, which had been formed in 1966, was giving grants, and an application resulted in a contribution of $5,000. Local businesses and individual donors helped to support the costs.

Problems and solutions The festival continued to grow each year. In 1971, the Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition became a juried show, meaning would-be exhibitors had to submit information about their artwork so that jurors could decide who would participate.

“That caused quite a ruckus because some of the people who had been in every year didn’t get in,” says Doll, who chaired that first juried sale with her husband, Clyde.

Over the years, major problems occasionally arose, but often those difficulties brought positive

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Sand sculptures first appeared at the Arts Festival in 1998 and have become a popular attraction.

changes, says Lurene Frantz, managing director from 1978 to 1987. One year, a Teamsters strike on campus left festival organizers scrambling to move the entertainment tent from Old Main lawn to a fraternity, and about 400 artist booths from campus to downtown streets.

“That’s when we realized we could have half the booths downtown,” Frantz says. “Out of that trauma, we learned so much.”

Another year, a surge in visitors resulted in more trash piling up than the borough’s professional crews could keep up with. The festival quickly organized a supplementary volunteer trash crew that remains a vital cog in the festival today, even as the focus has shifted to recycling as much waste as possible.

By the early 1980s, the festival was a much-awaited event on the region’s annual calendar, yet it still had just one part-time staff member, no office, and not much of a plan for raising the money to pay for the festival, says Karen Shute, who became the event’s treasurer around that time. Selling T-shirts, raffle tickets, and program ads were among the primary ways to raise funds.

“Frankly, I don’t even know how we pulled it off,” says Shute, who set up a budget and organized a business advisory committee. A 34 - T&G July 2016

temporary rental near Moyer Jewelers became the first office, originally just during the festival and then evolving to year-round space above what is now Growing Tree Toys and finally to the current longtime office in the Towers on South Allen Street.

In 1991, two major changes were introduced to boost festival finances. New director Phil Waltz had learned that First Night Boston sold buttons as “tickets” to performances at the multivenue event. Arts Festival venues were mostly outdoors, making it impossible to control entry, but the committee decided to sell supporter buttons for $1 each. Linda Gall, who chaired the button committee, remembers walking around Old Main lawn with a basketful of buttons, explaining to visitors why it was a good idea to buy one.

“Our goal was to sell 20,000 buttons,” she says. “We did not even come close. People had no sense that they had to help pay for the festival.”

Still, the concept took hold, and today visitors buy $10 buttons to gain entry to venues such as the State Theatre and to support the festival in general.

Also in 1991, the festival outsourced publication of the program, with Mimi Barash

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Today, Town&Gown continues to produce the program, which has contributed more than $300,000 in ad revenue to the festival over the years.

In December 1994, First Night State College introduced another major annual event for the community while helping to secure the financial stability of Arts Festival, Gall says. Until then, the festival had to pay year-round for resources such as staff and office space to handle one summer festival.

The introduction of a winter event enabled consistent use of resources and added a second revenue stream.

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The landscape on Allen Street during the Arts Festival now includes the water buckets that started in the late 1990s and have become popular for the younger visitors to the festival.

The Arts Festival races, begun in 1975, are still going strong in the July heat, with added children’s races and a return to the original 10-miler as an option, in addition to 5K and 10K races. Children and Youth Day, which officially began in 1976, is now an annual highlight for budding artists who sell their work and for the young shoppers eager to spend their allowance money.

Although the first block of Allen Street has always been pedestrian-only during the festival, landscaping that began with little more than a few purchased flower pots has grown into a professionally designed streetscape, featuring overhead dumping buckets of water that are perennial favorites among the youngest festival visitors. Advances in technology mean that artists submit work samples digitally to the Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition jurors, rather than on slides that had to be loaded onto carousels. An Arts Festival app allows visitors to access schedules, maps, and real-time information on their smartphones. A year-round paid staff of three plus about 500 volunteers work together with area businesses, the university, other nonprofit organizations, artists, and performers to put on a highly regarded festival each summer.

“We have great partnerships with the Borough of State College and Penn State for this signature event of the region,” says Rick Bryant, who has been festival director since 2005. “We are looking forward to 50 more wonderful years.” T&G Tracey M. Dooms is a freelance writer in State College and a special-projects editor for Town&Gown.

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Jewelry booths continue to be popular stops for festivalgoers.

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he Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts has come to mean many things to the many people who have experienced it. It means music, food, and getting together with old friends.

It means lounging on the lawn of Old Main and listening to a favorite local performer. It means checking out the creative offerings and exhibits of hundreds of talented artists.

But more than anything, Arts Festival means a summertime tradition that keeps people of all ages coming back to downtown State College and Penn State year after year.

Since it began in 1967, times and tastes have changed, but the sense of tradition surrounding the festival that happens each July has become only stronger through the years, according to Rick Bryant, who has served as executive director of the festival since 2005.

“Arts Fest is a huge tradition. We are trying to keep it that way,” he says.

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all exhibitors during its first four years.

“It wasn’t juried when it began,” Bryant says. “Juried means that people are weeded out, so not everyone can bring their work.”

During the first years of the festival, Bryant says that anyone could have a display, meaning that professionals and amateurs alike were selling all types and qualities of art. Along with who exhibited, people’s taste in art also has changed over the past several decades.

“Let’s say macramé and candles used to be very big. The art would reflect those tastes,” Bryant says. “Those things aren’t as big as they used to be, so we see different art on display.

Art today is very ‘of the moment.’ ” In defining what that means, he explains that anything with found objects is popular — types of art that incorporate objects or products that have nonart functions — such as pieces made out of sneakers or tires or buttons.

Other notable changes in the art scene in recent years include the emergence of robots as art and increased popularity in representational painting (paintings depicting physical appearances of reality).

“Photography has always been popular at the festival. We have just seen differences in the popularity of different subjects to be photographed through the years,” Bryant says.

Some artists, such as Dick Brown of Bellefonte, participate in the festival year after year, Bryant says. Brown, a photographer, has been at the festival all 50 years. According to Bryant, along with Brown, there are a few other artists who are regulars at the festival, including the “basket lady” Mary Jackson and broom-maker Marlow Gates, who is a “second generation Arts Festival guy.” Others include some jewelers and Robert Zarcone, who brings his leather pieces.

According to Pat Little, a photographer from State College who is a longtime exhibitor at the Arts Festival, the biggest change is the quality of work that is shown.

“The talent level has skyrocketed,” he says.

“The reason it is a premier arts festival is really the quality of the work that patrons come to see.”

Along with the changes in artistic tastes and quality, the festival has simply grown over the decades to make sure that the event has

something to offer for everyone, regardless of age or interest.

Events such as Children and Youth Day, a juried gallery exhibition, the Italian Street Painting Festival, sand sculptures, festival races, BookFestPA, and other activities have become part of the tradition and what makes the festival so special.

The festival attracts approximately 150,000 people each year, and while it continues to be a fun and high-energy event since the very beginning, the atmosphere has changed to accommodate the changing world.

“We are extremely conscious of safety. We want this to be a fun event, absolutely, but we also recognize that it’s just as important for people to feel safe,” Bryant says.

He says that doing small things, such as putting up large barricades and increasing security, are measures that the festival has taken through the years. Also, things such as recycling options and trash pickup have changed and improved the atmosphere of the festival.

Of course, the festival continues to attract young and old alike, but Bryant has noticed a bigger contingent of college students gathering to reunite during the event.

“It’s a very ‘Penn State-a-rific’ event,” he says. “Students keep coming back for Arts Fest. You see lots of young people out and about all week long.”

He says that since the festival’s beginning, life has changed in general with the digital era. He says that people are not just strolling through the festival, looking at exhibits, and listening to bands. They also are capturing it on social media — taking photos with their smartphones and showing the world what’s happening in State College and Penn State.

More changes can be seen and heard from what’s performed on the many festival stages.

The festival features local acts as well as national performers.

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anymore,” Bryant says. “We have something for everyone. Music reflects the audience demographic.”

According to Bryant, each and every year, there is a wide variety of performances on outdoor and indoor stages. From blues to jazz, from bluegrass to rock, from musical theater to cabaret, the Arts Festival truly offers something for each and every musical taste.

The first festival had performances from the Festival Theatre, a professional company that performed Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, Murray Schisgal’s Luv, and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? The Penn State Music Department performed three chamber music concerts.

Classical and chamber music highlighted many of the early festivals. The next year, in 1968, the festival had a piano concert by Phyllis Triolo and Bach’s Brandenberg Concerti performed by Alard Quartet and Soloists. It also had calypso singer Stan Shepard, folk musicians, and a Dixieland band.

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• A festival fiddle contest in 1976.

• The US Army Band’s performance in 1980 (that same year there was a disco dance demonstration).

• The popular Phyrst Phamly plays at the festival for the first time in 1983. The band gives its final performance in 2008.

• Cartoon holds its first reunion concert in 1984. (Three Cartoon members, Randy Hughes, Glenn Kidder, and Jon Rounds, will perform at this year’s festival July 16.)

• The Earthtones perform Sunday night for the first time in 1986 (the reggae band continues to be one of the final performances of the festival each year).

• Margaret Whiting and Sonny Rollins perform in 1989, with paid seating available on Old Main lawn.

• Penn State bands from the 1970s and 1980s — Morning Song, Backseat Van Gogh, Sweet Pain, The Rounds Brothers, and The Intrigues — perform reunion shows in 1991.

• James Taylor’s brother, Livingston, performs in 1995.

This year, the festival again has popular local acts such as My Hero Zero, Pure Cane Sugar, and Velvetta as well as regional and national acts, including Alex Meixner, Molly Ryan, River Whyless, and Dustbowl Revival.

“Let’s talk about what hasn’t changed over the years. There have always been strains of local bands writing their own music, making their own mark. There has been a continuity to the high level of quality here. It says so much about the creativity and music scene here in State College,” says Charlie DuBois, who worked for a number of years to get the word out about local musicians. He says the festival is a perfect place to get a first-hand look at the musical talent in and around State College. And, he adds, that the quality of musical talent at the festival has always been top-notch.

“It’s like the song says, ‘The heart of rock and roll is still beating.’ And in this town, like the local food movement, there is a local music movement, too,” he says.

Bryant agrees that the festival’s music scene is a big draw for area music lovers. He says that

festivalgoers often offer their input about what they want to hear from year to year.

“We get new musical acts each year,” he says. “We listen to what people want. The public tells us what they like or what they would like us to try, and we do our best to accommodate.”

J.R. Mangan will be performing at his 31st Arts Festival this year. His first performance was in 1985 with the band Space Goop, a trio featuring Mangan and brothers Mike and Dave Biddison. He has performed solo, with the group Stolyn Hours, and as a duo with various female singers through the years, including this year with Sharon Bove, who was the first female vocalist to join Mangan on stage at the festival. The two will perform July 14 at 7 p.m. on the Allen Street Stage.

“My favorite part of playing the festival, besides playing music outside with great musicians, is seeing old and new friends over the years,” he says. “I have literally watched my kids and others grow from the stage over the years. We live in such an incredible community, not to mention the extended

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DuBois himself has been a familiar face at the Arts Festival since 1969, when he moved to State College from New Jersey during festival week. He says the festival is a time for reunions and people seeing their favorite performers and artists.

“My first taste of the festival was in 1969, just a couple years into it,” he says. “I arrived in State College just in time for Arts Fest.

I thought, ‘This must be what this place is like all the time.’ Then I realized that it was special. It was tradition. And that tradition hasn’t changed in 50 years.” T&G

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By Dana Ray

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When Holly Foy talks about the Italian Street Painting Festival, she is so excited that she can’t decide where to begin. First, there is the history, rooted in Renaissance Italy. And then there is her personal history with the project. But more than any of these, she has story after story of the person-to-person connections that come when the process of art is brought into public.

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“We’ve even had two proposals at the event! It’s a place of new beginnings for so many people!” she says.

The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is full of artists and art. There are hundreds of vendors and incredible works on display, but the artists who are there are wearing their business hats. The art has been made, and it’s a time to display and sell their work. The art-making process can be this

Cleo Kesidis paints tomatoes on Hiester Street.

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mystery left unexplored behind the finished, polished works in the booths.

On Hiester Street, since 2000, the making is not hidden away in a studio. Instead, the artists are in public and demonstrate their process from beginning to end. The community also can participate.

The studio is the street and is a shared space.

“If you want to watch art happen, that is what we do,” Foy says. “It’s such a kick to see everyone covered in chalk!”

For this year’s Street Painting Festival, artists will present comedic twists on famous works. An evening promenade, La passeggiata, will be from 7 to 9 p.m. July 15. There will be special photo opportunities, music, and Italian scooters and motorcycles. All of the artists will be in attendance, so the community can talk with them about their work.

And there always has been a real sense of community and shared experience around the Street Painting Festival. When it rains, everyone helps each other cover the street in special tarps to preserve the works.

Foy, a high school art teacher in State College, has been the coordinator of the Italian Street Painting Festival for many years.

She began first as a volunteer when a friend invited her to attend a demonstration on street painting before the festival. Foy brought some of her art students with her. Together, they joined the team as street artists.

A few years later, the coordinator, James Ritchey, invited Foy to be an assistant. Now, many years later, Foy remains the beloved coordinator and brings a big heart and imagination to the project. She is quick to add that she has a great team, including cocordinator Bob Baumbach and middle school art teacher Molly Gazda.

Abby Cramer started participating in the Street Painting Festival in ninth grade after an invite from Foy, who was her teacher.

“Holly was the fun teacher,” Cramer says. “Her classroom was such a different atmosphere. We actually did things in the community, like the Street Painting Festival.”

Since she started, Cramer has missed only one Italian Street Painting Festival — when she was studying art history in Italy. Even the

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Cramer (left) and Connie Stanton work on a street painting together.

summer when she married her husband, she rearranged their honeymoon schedule so she could participate.

She grew up in the area and graduated from Penn State with a degree in art education in 2006. As an art history teacher in the Pennsbury School District, she doesn’t get to spend a lot of time on her own art. Her year is devoted entirely to introducing others to art — the way Foy did for her. Now, the Street Painting Festival gives Cramer a chance to create and practice and bring the people she loves into the event. It’s a homecoming for her.

The community aspect is what she loves about the event. Every year, friends and family do a piece of her painting.

“It’s not just my creation then, I get to share it,” she says.

Her favorite year was when her son was old enough to participate for the first time, and he painted a little corner with Cramer. Foy made a T-shirt of one of Cramer’s previous paintings for her son to wear.

“If you want to watch art happen, that is what we do. It’s such a kick to see everyone covered in chalk!”

— Holly Foy “I love that no art is for sale [at the Street Painting Festival],” Cramer says. “We just get to engage with people around our art. People come out and see art being made, rather than a finished product. It’s such a contrast to the finished art in the rest of the festival.”

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work for the high school Renaissance Fair and enjoyed bringing her art into public.

And being a public artist at the Arts Festival was significant to her as a young, creative person.

In September 2005, she was in a serious car accident and broke her pelvis in five places and shattered her femur. During her senior year of high school, she was in a wheelchair, but she wanted to participate in the Arts Festival, so her father built her a rolling cart that she could lay on and draw without straining herself.

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Some past street painters include (clockwise from opposite page, top left) Jeremy Cramer and Connie Stanton, Graham Curtis, and Abby Cramer.

It took her many years to recover, and there are still lingering effects.

Her choice to participate despite the physical barriers exemplifies the deep ties that she and other artists have had to this aspect of the festival. Making art in public has great significance to fine artists who spend much of their time creating and imagining alone.

Webster’s favorite piece that she’s drawn was a reproduction of the painting “Flaming June,” in which she changed the woman’s hair to bright blue. Many people gravitated toward it.

“I think that’s a key part of the festival,” she says. “We get to break with tradition. We get a new way of seeing old things.”

She stayed in the State College area as a Penn State student and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, drawing, and print making. Currently, she spends her days working for Strawberry Fields, a nonprofit organization that assists disabled adults and children through their “quality communitybased and residential services.” She says her daily work makes it hard to keep up with her art, but she finds a way.

Being part of community art is crucial to her work, which is one of the reasons she loves being part of the Italian Street Painting Festival. Some of her art is displayed in local schools, including the cafeteria murals in Ferguson Township Elementary, Mount Nittany Elementary, and Park Forest Middle School.

What started as a high school activity for both Webster and Cramer has become a meaningful artistic and community engagement. The Italian Street Painting Festival remains a way for visual artists and community members to be in the same place and have a sense of shared ownership of both process and product.

Foy captures this dynamic cycle when she says, “To leave your studio and have the sun and have a constant, kinetic audience — it changes the process!” T&G The Italian Street Painting Festival is 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. July 14-16, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 17.

Dana Ray works at Rowland Creative and is a wordsmith, community storyteller, and idea wrangler.

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As the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts celebrates its 50th edition, Town&Gown helps recognize some of the many people who have made the festival one of the best events of its kind in the nation

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Ray Agostinelli Sr.

Originally from Ellwood City, Ray Agostinelli came to State College in the 1950s to study accounting at Penn State after serving three years in the Army. After college, he joined McLanahan’s in 1961 as controller. In 1969, he and store manager Hubie Shirk bought McLanahan’s, which the Agostinelli family continues to operate today.

When the Arts Festival began in 1967, Agostinelli was head of the Downtown Merchants Association. He thought the new festival would bring more shoppers downtown during the summer slowdown, and he helped with everything from building stages to installing landscaping to selling Italian ice at a little stand in front of McLanahan’s to raise money for the next festival. Today, Agostinelli and his wife still enjoy attending the festival every year. “It’s a way for us to boost and show off our downtown, which we’re all pretty proud of,” he says.

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Katherine Allen

Katherine Allen is associate general counsel at Penn State and an art lover — but not an artist herself. She loves a good novel, a soulful song, a provocative painting, or a rousing musical because each has the power to touch a deep place, to move her, or to make her laugh. Her favorite time of year in State College is Arts Festival week, when over 100,000 neighbors and visitors experience art as a community. “It’s like a music festival combined with hundreds of gallery openings all at the same time and place,” she says. “I believe the real fun is experiencing art together.”

Allen has served as president of the Arts Festival board and volunteers each July as an artist ambassador, showing visiting festival artists some local hospitality. She also has volunteered in the community as board chair for the Centre County Women’s Resource Center. “We have a wonderful community of volunteers, and I enjoy doing my part,” she says.

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Bill Asbury

A former Pittsburgh Steelers running back, Bill Asbury retired from Penn State in 2003 after serving for 27 years in three capacities: Vice President for Student Affairs, Executive Assistant to the President, and Affirmative Action officer. In addition to chairing the Arts Festival board in the late 1990s, his extensive involvement with the local community has included serving as Central Pennsylvania SCORE Chair, Center for the Performing Arts community advisory council member and Committee Chair, Strawberry Fields board member, State College Elks Lodge 1600 Trustee, former board member of Leadership Centre County and State College Kiwanis Club President.

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Janet Atwood

Janet Atwood joined the Penn State faculty in 1969 in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, later served as acting department head and chairman of the Faculty Senate.

She retired in 1994 as associate professor emerita. A longtime supporter of the arts, she spent many Arts Festivals volunteering in the office and also has contributed generously to the festival. She sang in the State College Choral Society for many years and served on its board. The Janet Atwood Fund at the Centre Foundation provides ongoing support for the arts, in any form, throughout Centre County.

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Sy Barash

Sy Barash had a way of bringing people together for a common cause — in this case, a summer downtown event that would bring sleepy downtown State College to life. As an active member of the State College Area Chamber of Commerce in the 1960s, he was a natural to serve on the original Arts Festival board of directors. He continued to volunteer with the festival until his death in 1975, striving to turn the festival into the solid tradition it has become even as he battled cancer.

In return, the community dedicated that year’s Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts to his memory.

Barash and his wife, fellow Penn Stater Mimi Ungar, operated their advertising agency and billboard company in the basement of their home in 1959-1967. Morgan Signs and Barash Advertising grew to include offices in State College, Philadelphia, Johnstown, and Altoona. He volunteered countless hours to organizations including the United Way, American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society. For many years, the community gathered at the annual Beta Sigma Beta Sy Barash Regatta, which benefited the American Cancer Society while honoring his memory and community service.

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Carol Baney

Bellefonte native Carol Baney has been with the Arts Festival for 20 years and serves as director of operations. In her spare time, she creates Steampunk jewelry which she sells under the Flotsam & Jetson name at festivals in the MidAtlantic region. This is not just a creative outlet, but also gives her the opportunity to learn about the festival business from the artist’s perspective.

In 2013 and 2014, one of her dreams — to visit Africa — came true when she volunteered at the Urkundo Home and Learning Center in the Muhanga District of Rwanda.

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Susan Bedison

A Bellefonte native, Sue Bedison attended the Arts Festival every July and began volunteering on children’s day. Eventually, Lurene Frantz recruited her to serve as co-coordinator with Kathy Klins of the activity-filled day for kids in the late ’80s. They came up with the idea of Borrow a Buddy to make it easier for mothers with young children to attend.

Bedison enlisted her 14-year-old daughter’s friends plus college students to accompany parents around the festival at no charge, helping with the children. Today, Bedison is secretary/ treasurer of Joseph C. Hazel Inc., and she and her husband, Jim, enjoy taking their five grandchildren to Children & Youth Day. Sponsored by Joseph C. Hazel Inc.

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Deana Blumenthal Patricia Best

Before retiring as State College Area School District superintendent, Patricia Best served on the Arts Festival board from 2002 to 2008, where she enjoyed being part of the dedicated and enthusiastic staff, board, and legion of volunteers who make the festival come alive. “The visual and performing arts enhance our lives in multiple ways through encouraging thoughtful reflection and providing pure entertainment,” she says.

“How fortunate we are to be in a community that values the arts!” Best also has served on the PSU Center for the Performing Arts board and supports Millheim’s Green Drake Gallery.

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As a lead volunteer for the first Central PA Festival of the Arts, the late Deana Blumenthal recognized the need for an organization to provide year-round arts programming. She recruited artists, business people, students, and retirees to share her vision. By 1968, the group founded the Art Alliance of Central PA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the arts, and two years later had 191 members and was growing. Dee recognized the need for a permanent home and the Lemont Band Hall on Pike Street was purchased. Dee asked Mimi Barash, a community leader to help raise funds to renovate the upper part of the building for classes, exhibitions and sales, and excavate the basement for the Alliance’s new affiliate, the Potters Guild.

Today, the Art Alliance is a thriving organization providing art exhibitions, art education for all ages, and an extensive outreach program.

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Dick Brown

Bellefonte’s Dick Brown has sold his photographs at every single Arts Festival. The early years were casual, he recalls — artists just grabbed spots along the temporary snow fence; if you slept late the next morning, someone else might take your spot. His photographs have changed over the years as well, moving from black and white to color, although still focusing on Amish friends and Penn State. His current technique involves printing photos on canvas and then painting over them for a more vivid color.

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Mimi Barash Coppersmith (center) at the 1975 Arts Festival Pictured with her, President Oswald and College of Arts & Architecture Dean Walter Walters.

Rick Bryant

Back in high school, Rick Bryant and his friends watched movies on Old Main lawn during Arts Festival. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, toil away in the insurance business, and volunteer with the festival before joining its staff in 1999 as director of visual arts. He was named executive director in 2005.

When he’s not working on Arts Festival or First Night State College, Bryant is a famous doofus hipsterwannabe blogger at TheWanderingWahoo.com Sponsored by WTAJ-TV

Mimi Barash Coppersmith Mimi Barash Coppersmith was a workaholic volunteer behind the scenes for the Arts Festival in its early days, along with her husband, Sy Barash. In 1991, she added a business relationship when the festival decided to outsource publication of its annual program guide and Coppersmith’s Town&Gown won the contract. “I felt that we could publish the program and also make money for the festival,” she recalls.

Town&Gown continues to produce the program, which has contributed more than $300,000 in ad revenue to the festival over the years.

In the late ’90s, Coppersmith was asked to serve as president of the Arts Festival board.

Having been elected in 1991 as the first female chair of Penn State’s Board of Trustees, she helped strengthen the town-gown relationship to benefit the Arts Festival and the community.

Today, she is reminded of the festival every day, thanks to five decades of Sidewalk Sale purchases that decorate her home. “I feel special, having a view of the festival from the very first day,” she says.

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Marie Doll

Marie Doll served on the committee that planned the first Arts Festival in 1967, and then on the festival’s board, stepping up as president in 1976. She and her husband, Clyde, chaired the first juried sidewalk sale and exhibition in the early ’70s. Later, she helped organize the artists in action, who demonstrated their craft in booths on Allen Street. Today, Doll is executive director of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, founded in 1968 by volunteers at the first Arts Festival who wanted a year-round local organization dedicated to the visual arts.

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Ron Filippelli

Ron Filippelli has served on the Arts Festival Board of Directors and was president of the Arts Festival in 2007. He is an emeritus professor and associate dean of the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. Filippelli is active in the community, having served eight years on the State College Borough Council, and as a member of the board of a number of community organizations, including Schlow Centre Region Library, State College Community Land Trust, the Downtown Improvement District, and the Centre County Airport Authority.

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Patricia Farrell

A lifelong resident of State College, Pat Farrell was a State High graduate and a third-generation Penn Stater who went on to teach, conduct research, and lead at her alma mater for 30 years. She retired with emerita rank from the College of Health and Human Development and celebrated by bicycling across the United States to raise funds for the university libraries.

Farrell loved music and sang in groups including the Penn State Chapel Choir, Renaissance Singers, Madrigal Singers, and State College Presbyterian Choir. She advanced art in the community by serving as president of the Arts Festival, board member for Pennsylvania Centre Stage, and co-chair of the State College Art in Public Places Committee. Each year, the Arts Festival remembers her community leadership and her love of singing by sponsoring the free Pat Farrell Community Sing-Along, to be held this year on July 13 at 7:30 p.m. at State College Presbyterian Church.

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Margery Ann Fleming

Margery Fleming began volunteering with the Arts Festival shortly after she and her husband, Glenn, moved to State College in 1973. She chaired the Banner Competition and was office manager through the early ’80s. The community referred to her affectionately as the “t-shirt lady” for her promotion of the festival t-shirts. Each summer, the Fleming cars moved onto the driveway so the garage could store t-shirts, and she enlisted her husband and two children to help with distribution. She also served the community through organizations including St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and PEO Chapter S, providing academic scholarships for women’s education.

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Lurene Frantz

In 1971, Lurene Frantz began volunteering with the Arts Festival, helping to organize children’s artwork displays and activities. In 1978, when the organization needed a new managing director, other volunteers urged her to apply. “They thought it would be perfect for me because I loved the festival, I loved this town, and I knew whom to call if we needed help,” she recalls. For the next 10 years, according to other volunteers, she was the “superwoman” of Arts Festival and the “glue that held it all together.”

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Sidney Friedman

Born in 1920, Sidney Friedman was the youngest of eight children of Russian immigrants. He earned a degree in journalism from Penn State in 1944, funding his education by opening a bicycle rental agency and sandwich shop.

He also sold advertising for the Centre Daily Times and later was hired as the first commercial manager of State College’s new radio station, WMAJ. In 1948, he founded Nittany Advertiser, formerly Morgan Signs and Commercial Printing.

In 1963, he sold all of his independent businesses to concentrate on real estate development, going on to redevelop much of the downtown area.

The first Arts Festival in 1967 fit well with Friedman’s efforts to renew the economic and cultural vitality of the Centre Region and make its communities more livable. He served on the event’s first board of directors. Later, he and his wife, Helen, established an endowment at the Centre Foundation to support art in State College’s public places.

The couple also contributed the real estate for the redevelopment of the State Theatre as Centre County’s community performing arts center.

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Duke Gastiger

Duke Gastiger worked with master chefs at Sheraton and Hyatt Hotels for 11 years and then returned to State College to buy The Rathskeller in 1985 with a college roommate and opened Spats Café in 1987. With wife Monica, he is working to open reFarmCafé. He has served the community as vice president of the former Downtown Business Association, president of the Central Pennsylvania Convention & Visitors Bureau, and two-term president of Arts Festival, among others. “I love the festival and what it does for this town,” he says.

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Jules Heller

In 1963, Jules Heller became founding dean of Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture. One of his crowning achievements during his tenure came just a few years later, when he advocated for the university’s support of the first Arts Festival in 1967 and helped turn the idea into reality. A noted printmaker, his 1958 book Printmaking Today was the first comprehensive text on the graphic arts.

Through August 17, an exhibition of six decades of Heller’s prints is on display at the Palmer Museum of Art on campus.

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Linda Gall

In 1988, Linda Gall was busy at home with two young daughters when a neighbor decided to get her out of the house and involved with the Arts Festival. Gall volunteered by selling ads for the festival program, and a year later found herself on the board of directors. In 1991, she became vice president and also chaired the committee that introduced button sales, which meant she got to walk around Old Main lawn during the festival and ask people to buy a button for a dollar. She served as president of the festival from 1992 to 1995, a transformational time that included the debut of First Night State College under the umbrella of the Arts Festival organization.

Since 1998, Linda and her husband, Blake, have sponsored the Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition’s Areté Best of Show Award, and in 2008 they set up a fund at the Centre Foundation to endow the award. “Blake and I have had a passion for the Arts Festival for all of our years in State College,” she says. “As it is for so many families, the festival is a highlight of our summer and holds a very special place in our hearts.”

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Donald Hopkins

A violinist and then-faculty member with Penn State’s School of Music, Donald Hopkins performed at early Arts Festivals with the Alard Quartet. He also served on the festival’s performing arts committee, helping to bring in such notable performers as cellist Nathaniel Rosen and pianist Marian Hahn. Hopkins served as board president in 1976, when the festival celebrated the U.S. bicentennial by commissioning the Edward Adams sculpture The Eagle, now on display outside the State College municipal building on South Allen Street.

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Sally Kalin

Sally Kalin has been a dedicated Arts Festival volunteer for many years, having served as a board member and president, information booth co-coordinator, and 50th-festival subcommittee co-chair. As president, she initiated a strategic plan to prepare for the festival’s future. Kalin served on the jury for selection of the artist for the Centennial Pigs statue erected in the Tavern walkway to commemorate the borough’s 100th anniversary. She and her husband, Rich, funded the Downtown Eugene Brown statue outside Schlow Centre Region Library and the CATA office, commissioned by the Arts Festival.

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Mary Jackson

Fiber artist Mary Jackson of South Carolina has exhibited at the Arts Festival every year since 1983 and has won the Sidewalk Sale’s Best of Show Award. “I always feel very much at home because of the hospitality here as well as the people who come back every year to buy my work or say hello,” she says.

A 2008 MacArthur Genius Award recipient, Jackson creates intricately coiled baskets in the Gullah tradition. The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston recently honored her by naming the Mary Jackson Gallery of modern and contemporary art.

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Guy Kresge

Originally from Wilkes-Barre, Guy Kresge came to State College to run a Bostonian shoe department at Jack Harper’s. Eventually, he opened Bostonian Ltd., which he operated for 45 years. Business was slow in the summer, so Kresge joined fellow businessmen in developing the Arts Festival. He chaired the first committee, doing everything from holding meetings at his house to ordering patio tables, umbrellas, and big flower pots, most of which were sold to local residents after the festival. Kresge continued to help with Arts Fest until he passed away in 1991.

State College Photographer “Arts Fest is a celebration of community, connection, and creativity. It’s a time when the area comes alive, showcasing the spirit of a town that embraces the arts. That support has helped me to live my dream of becoming a full-time artist. While many people pass through State College, the memories of their time here forever hold a special place in their hearts. As I prepare for my 27th Arts Fest, I look forward to sharing my vision — and connecting others with their memories — of this special place.”

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Anne Layng

Anne Layng deserves special thanks and appreciation for her indefatigable record of well-rounded volunteer support of the Festival since the early 1980s. She’s made a measurable difference since the outset of the silent auction, as artist ambassador extraordinaire, and has even established one of the awards for artists.

She recalls her first experience when she and her late husband Frank co-chaired the Gala at the Nittany Lion Inn. Then, she volunteered to help lay out the Sidewalk Sale and Exhibition route.

By the mid-1980s, Anne helped with the organization to create the ambassador program. She developed long-term relationships with many artists, including Mary Jackson, whose baskets are displayed in her home collection.

She also may have provided the seed of an idea to expand the Arts Festival’s presence and mission into the winter. “I remember talking with then-director Phil Walz about a new event called First Night. He was inspired by the idea, started to do some digging, and launched our own First Night State College not too long after.”

She enjoys art and understands its value to the human spirit, but it is her relationships with the people involved with the CPFA that drive her desire to give even more. Currently serving a second term on the Board, she recently informed CPFA of her intention to include the Festival in her will. She wants to create a legacy that fosters and rewards creativity and relationships between artists and audience.

She also currently volunteers for both Juniata College and State College Presbyterian Church. She received her nursing degree from Cornell after spending two years at Juniata College, and holds a graduate degree in health policy administration from Penn State.

Juniata College is proud to claim Anne as a member of the Class of 1970.

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Pam Lautsch

Since the 1980s, Pam Lautsch has starred as the sidewalk sale coordinator. At the same time, she did everything from overseeing the transformation from jurying the slides to digital images to chasing shoplifters while seeking police backup.

A native of Lancaster with two Penn State degrees, a credentialed PMP, and she is an LCC grad, IT professional, fitness instructor, and grandmother. She is a continuing force for the Arts Festival.

Volunteer

Helen Manfull

Helen Manfull served on the Arts Festival board in the 1980s, using her theatre expertise to bring to the festival notable performers including jazz singer Susannah McCorkle, operatic tenor William DuPree, and flamenco dancer Andrea Del Conte.

She also co-organized Theatre Things, a Zoller Gallery mosaic exhibit of props and costumes, and worked with festival director Lurene Frantz, putting together the festival program at Frantz’s kitchen table. Manfull is a professor emerita in the Penn State School of Theatre.

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Wally Lloyd

In 1967, Wallis (Wally) Lloyd was President of the State College Chamber of Commerce. He had an idea, a vision, that he proposed to the Chamber Board and to Jules Heller, Dean of Penn State College of Arts & Architecture.

Wally’s idea was that Penn State and the Borough should partner in the creation of an arts festival that would give publicity to both town and gown, would advance the image of the business community, and would provide a positive, entertaining experience for everyone.

The 1967 Arts Festival was an overwhelming success and this month we are celebrating its 50th Anniversary.

A Penn State graduate, Class of 1949, Wally and his wife Patricia returned to State College in 1956. Wally taught Chemical Engineering and, in 1963, he joined the Cannon Instrument Company. In addition to joining the Chamber of Commerce, Wally served on both the State College Planning Commission and Borough Council. He also continued his involvement with the Arts Festival where he served as a volunteer for many years.

In 1992, State College Borough honored Wally Lloyd with the Legacy Award for outstanding contribution to the quality of life in the community.

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Bonnie Marshall

Bonnie Marshall has given her time to the Arts Festival very generously over the years. She has served as a board member, board president, and treasurer. A Penn State alumna, she has worked as a development professional for the College of the Liberal Arts and for Mount Nittany Medical Center. She is a past member of the Penn State Alumni Council and the College of the Liberal Arts Alumni Society.

Now retired, Bonnie volunteers for the Centre County Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Allies Network, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the State Theatre.

She and her husband, Peter Marshall, have six children.

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Sharon McCarthy

Born and raised in Elizabethtown, Sharon moved to southern California after high school and became very active in a number of Democratic political campaigns, continuing that involvement after moving to Centre County.

She lived in Washington, D.C. for 25 years, presiding for many years over her Capitol Hill shop, Moon Blossoms and Snow, that sold American-made crafts and handmade women’s clothing. In the early 2000s, she moved to Zion with her husband, John.

McCarthy soon became involved in a wide variety of nonprofit cultural endeavors, including serving on the boards of the Palmer Museum of Art, Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association, Farmland Preservation Artists, and Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County. She served on the Arts Festival board and coordinated the Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition and the Images exhibition. She also became an accomplished artist herself, working in media including pastels and photography until her death in 2012. The memory of her sparkling personality, vivacious manner, wonderful sense of humor, and genuine interest in other people endures in the Sharon McCarthy Memorial Garden at the Bellefonte Art Museum, featuring a statue by Jeanne Stevens-Sollman.

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William McHale

A graduate of Kutztown State College, William McHale received his master of education and doctor of education degrees in art education from Penn State and joined the faculty in 1962 as an arts specialist. He became associate dean for resident instruction in the College of Arts and Architecture in 1974.

He volunteered with the Arts Festival during its early years and served as president in 1973. McHale also chaired the State College Community Appearance and Design Review Board. He retired as assistant dean emeritus in the College of Arts and Architecture.

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Jackie Melander

Jackie Melander and her husband, Gene, moved to State College in the 1960s and attended the earliest Arts Festivals as shoppers, browsing the wonderful works that local artists displayed on snow fencing. Then Jackie began helping with the children’s sidewalk sale so that the youngest local aspiring artists could display and sell their works, while also connecting families with the fledgling festival. She still enjoys attending Arts Festival each year. “The festival is a nice regional emphasis on the arts and gives the region an identity that continues to grow year after year,” she says.

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Bob & Ginny Mountz

Bob and Ginny Mountz taught high school in the Twin Valley School District in Berks County; Bob taught math, and Ginny taught business. Over the years, they spent many weekends in Happy Valley at Penn State sporting events, while Bob served on the College of Education Alumni Board. The Mountzes have also established a scholarship in mathematics education in The College of Education. “It was always in the back of our minds that this is where we’d like to retire because there is so much to do,” Ginny recalls.

In 2002, the newly retired couple moved to State College, met Arts Festival Executive Director Rick Bryant at a Christmas party, and asked him if the Festival needed volunteers. Before they knew it, they were cataloguing slides submitted by artists, putting together mailings, and helping with the silent auction. For many years, they chaired the auction, the proceeds of which support the Festival. Today, the couple still helps with the auction and sponsors the Bob & Ginny Mountz Award of Merit in the Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition. During the Festival, you can usually find them in the auction building on South Allen Street.

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Barbara Palmer

Together with her husband, Jim, Barbara Palmer was an early champion of the Arts Festival, realizing how beneficial and meaningful the festival could be for the community. Today, she continues to sponsor festival performances by Essence of Joy and Essence 2, the popular Penn State choirs performing under the direction of Anthony Leach. Her influence extends to both town, where she supported the renovation of The State Theatre as a community-owned theatre, and gown, where the Palmers made the lead gift in 1986 to expand the Palmer Museum of Art. Sponsored by Mary Lou Bennett, RE/MAX Centre Realty

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Jan Phillips

“General Jan” has been a stalwart Arts Festival volunteer for almost 50 years. One of her most memorable roles was serving as a tour guide on shuttle buses from Beaver Stadium to the festival, wearing a dress and spiked heels as she promoted Arts Festival to busloads of visitors. For many years, she has staffed the office front desk during the festival, marshalling forces of volunteers and fielding calls to keep the event running smoothly. “I bleed Arts Festival,” she says. “I say to my husband on Thursday morning, ‘I’ll see you Sunday night.’ I thoroughly enjoy it.”

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Ralph Papa

Ralph Papa moved to State College in 1988 to lead Mellon Bank’s central region. He quickly discovered the Arts Festival, which he considered the “crown jewel” of State College.

Papa and his wife, Ruth Anne, volunteered in the information booths, and he served two terms on the board of directors. “There were so many dedicated people among the volunteers,” he recalls. “It was nice to see everyone working together.” Papa retired about five years ago as chairman of Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania; he and Ruth Anne are preparing to move from Pittsburgh to Florida.

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Artist & Volunteer

Grace Pilato

In 1968, Grace Pilato had just moved to State College and was pregnant with twin boys.

During Arts Festival, a pottery maker let her try throwing a pot on her wheel. “I fit my big belly next to the wheel, and it was love at first sight.

I loved the feel of the clay revolving under my hands.” That was the start of her career as an artist and ceramics teacher during which she sold her works nationally and internationally, winning awards at various exhibitions. Pilato was a Sidewalk Sale exhibitor for 35 years. She served as a festival board member for six years, secretary of the board’s Executive Committee for four years, and as a sidewalk sale juror.

Grace continues to make art, working in Clay, making prints, and teaching cooking classes.

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Bob Potter

Bob Potter’s biggest talent is getting other people involved. Decades ago while CPFA president, he helped establish the idea of artist ambassadors — volunteers who assist Sidewalk Sale artists with anything they need during the Arts Festival, from information to someone to booth-sit while they grab lunch. He also was responsible for making the trash crew fun, with highly coveted t-shirts indicating that wearers are part of “The proud, the few, the trash crew” (now the “green crew”). And his annual festival gathering at the University Club was legendary.

Bob is a cheerleader for the Arts Festival, and our community, on many levels.

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Joyce Robinson is curator of Penn State’s Palmer Museum of Art, where she specializes in contemporary art, photography, and studio glass. She is immediate past president of the Arts Festival board and is chairing its 50thanniversary committee through 2017. Under her leadership, the CPFA has partnered with the Palmer Museum and the Art Alliance of Central PA to augment the festival’s fine art offerings.

Thanks to the greasepaint in her blood, she also has helped foster the festival’s relationship with the university’s School of Theatre and the State High Thespians. Last month, she returned to the local stage as Mrs. Higgins in FUSE Productions’ My Fair Lady.

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Ruth Grier Robinson

The arts were always part of Ruth Grier Aikens Robinson’s life. She majored in art at Bradford Junior College in Massachusetts and made a point of exposing all 4 of her children to the arts, beginning with simple craft projects at home to big-city trips to museums and live performances. When illness prevented her from traveling, she sent some of her children and grandchildren to New York City with scavenger-hunt instructions to find particular paintings at the Frick Collection and report back to her with their interpretations of the paintings and why these works of art were among her favorites.

Robinson was involved with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts from its inception, serving as its president in the early years and hosting an opening-night party at her home. She also served as the first president of the Friends of the Museum of Art at Penn State (now the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art) and volunteered with the Festival Theatre (now Penn State Centre Stage).

For over 5 decades, she expressed herself artistically through needlepoint, adorning many family members and friends with needlepoint belts, handbags, and personalized pillows.

The Ruth Grier Robinson Fund at the Centre Foundation makes grants in her memory to support local culture, community, and the arts.

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Rita Roeshot

For Rita Roeshot, the early years of the Festival were memorable because it was the first event of its kind that involved so many local residents. She served on several Arts Festival committees. In particular, she fondly remembers working with other members of the Banner Committee to collect and judge banners and hang them along Allen Street.

Her oldest son, Doug, made and sold wooden candle holders and cutting boards — a festival booth that grew into today’s Spectra Wood company.

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Pamela Ruest

Pam has been a longtime supporter of the Arts Festival and has served as president of its board of directors. Most recently, she helped plan this year’s special celebration as a member of the 50th Anniversary Committee.

In January 2008, she began serving as the first female Centre County Common Pleas Court judge. She is a member of the Pennsylvania State Trial Judges Ethics Committee, United Way Women’s Leadership Group, Friends of the Palmer Museum, and Child Access Center Board, and chairs the Centre County Children’s Roundtable.

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William Ryan

A research scientist in Penn State’s Department of Meteorology, Bill Ryan started hauling Arts Festival trash about 15 years ago as part of the Balmoral cap-wearing East Highlands Neighborhood Trash Crew and eventually advanced to coordinator. He organizes about 100 volunteers each year — Rotary Club members, Boy Scouts, Penn Staters, and so many more — into three-hour shifts of patrolling the festival and emptying trash and recycling containers. Ryan himself is on duty from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., greeting volunteers, handing out t-shirts, and otherwise “walking around looking for trouble.”

In 2011, Ryan received the festival’s Brian Ebright Memorial Award for cheerful volunteerism above and beyond the call of duty. “He can make trash collecting more fun than anyone east of the Mississippi,” says Rick Bryant, festival director. Ryan has wholeheartedly embraced the transition from trash crew to green crew, directing his legion of volunteers in collecting organics, traditional recyclables, lemonade cups, and more.

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Gallery Director

Ann Shields

Ann Shields has been gallery director for the HUB-Robeson Galleries at Penn State for the last 26 years. For many years, the Robeson Gallery was home each summer to the Arts Festival’s Images juried exhibition of works by Mid-Atlantic artists. Throughout the year, Shields oversees, organizes, and designs the gallery spaces, which house displays of contemporary and multicultural art. She has been responsible for initiating popular university-wide exhibition programs including Art on the Move, The Art Alley, and the Sculpture Corner.

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Jennifer Shuey

Before becoming Arts Festival director of development in 2015, Shuey served almost 15 years as executive director of ClearWater Conservancy. Now her professional life revolves around art, showing her pastel landscapes of Central Pennsylvania and helping Arts Festival supporters find the best ways to make a difference in the community as part of the festival family. Still committed to conservation, she chairs the Millbrook Marsh Nature Center Advisory Committee and serves on the boards of the Centre County Farmland Trust and the Mount Nittany Conservancy.

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Lanny Sommese

Just a few years after graphic designer Lanny Sommese joined the Penn State faculty in 1970, an Arts Festival committee member stopped by his office and asked if he would design a poster for the event. He said yes, and a new tradition was born.

This year’s festival poster is Sommese’s 43rd. Each one has set the tone for the visual identity of that year’s festival, from buttons to signage. Some posters feature the iconic festival jester, while others are more abstract.

1978 Poster He created some with color pencil, others in paint, and others using computer design.

Several have won awards in national or international competitions.

Today, Sommese is a distinguished professor emeritus of graphic design in the College of Arts and Architecture, where he is also a fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanities.

His work is included in collections including the Museum for Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin; Muzeum Plakatu w Wilanowie, Warsaw; and the Library of Congress National Poster Collection, which has more than 100 of his posters.

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Karen Shute

Karen Shute began volunteering with the Arts Festival by organizing information booths in the early ’80s and then served as a board member and treasurer, drawing on her professional experience as a financial advisor. In those days, she recalls, the festival operated from the volunteers’ kitchen tables and had just one part-time staff member.

Karen established a budget and started a business advisory committee, pulling in the town’s movers and shakers to advise volunteers on how to stabilize long-term operations. Today, she continues to support the festival and serves the community as a board member of Mount Nittany Health.

Susan Steinberg

Susan Steinberg began volunteering with the Arts Festival back when the office was upstairs at Beaver and Allen, across from Danks. In those pre-computer days, her job was to formulate lists of viable volunteers, “which was pretty much impossible.” After the festival office moved to its current location on South Allen Street, each year she would receive the slides submitted by each artist and organize them into carousels for review by the judges. Currently, Steinberg is an artist ambassador and serves on the 50th Festival Committee.

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Jeanne Stevens-Sollman

Sculptor Jeanne Stevens-Sollman exhibited her work in the Arts Festival’s Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition for 29 years.

“I grew with the festival,” she recalls, from early shows of little clay pieces on a simple table on the Old Main mall to larger sculptures under an official white canopy tent. Her husband and partner, artist Phil Sollman, supported her at every festival as well as participating in a few early festivals himself. Today, they enjoy attending the Arts Festival as spectators, visiting with new artists and old friends.

Stevens-Sollman is known for her bronze medallions and relief work, ceramics, and bronze sculptures. For many years, she exhibited in the International Sculpture Invitational in Loveland, Colorado, as well as in the International Medallic Sculpture Society, FIDEM (Federation International de la Medaille). Since 2012, she has been an advisor to the U.S. Mint on design proposals relating to coinage and national medals. Her “Puddles” sculpture is a much-petted bronze cat on display in the children’s department at Schlow Centre Region Library. The Heron is installed in the Children’s Garden at the Penn State Arboretum.

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Sharon Teaman

Sharon Teaman has been participating in the Arts Festival’s Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition since the early ’80s, and she enjoys reconnecting with other artists and clients every year, as well as making new friends. A master goldsmith and certified gemologist, she has had her work featured on the runway at Couture Fashion Week in New York and in fine art and jewelry shows across the country. She is a State College resident and a Penn State alumna and has given back to her hometown festival by serving on its board of directors.

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Phil Walz

Phil Walz served as Arts Festival executive director from 1991 to 2005. One of his major accomplishments was launching First Night State College in 1994 to complement the summer festival, making year-round use of resources and providing the community with another major event. Also introduced during his tenure were the Arts Festival’s grand procession in 1992, sand sculpture in 1998, and Italian Street Painting Festival in 2000. Since leaving State College, Walz has done development work for community and arts organizations in Maine, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

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Bob Trump

Bob Trump was one of the consummate longtime Arts Festival volunteers, co-chairing the performing arts committee and helping with just about everything. He loved and lived the festival — both figuratively and literally, since at one point he moved into a camper behind the festival shell on Old Main lawn for the duration of the event to make sure performances ran smoothly.

Trump was a performer himself, singing ’50s and ’60s music with the a capella group Doo Wopp Inc. under the Old Main tent or on the Allen Street stage. As a festival board member, he came up with creative ideas and then made them happen. One year, he developed a railroad crossing sign that would light up every time someone made a donation during the festival. Whether it was championing ideas or carrying boxes from one festival office to another, Trump got things done.

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The Managing Directors Cathy Zangrilli

Cathy Zangrilli first got involved with the Arts Festival in the 1970s, and has been a volunteer for more than 25 years. She was a board member of CPFA for 8 years and acted as secretary for a year while Bob Potter was president. She, along with Pat Farrell, was in charge of the Juried Sidewalk Sale for many years. Cathy staged the first fundraiser at Centre Hills Country Club and also was the chair for a juried exhibition of banners in the Zoller Gallery on the Penn State Campus. The Italian Street Painting festival was sponsored for the first 6 years of its inception by her husband Andrew Zangrilli & Dante’s.

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The Arts Festival began as an all-volunteer, grassroots operation but by the early ’70s had grown enough to require a professional managing or executive director. Here are the women and men who have steered the festival and its legion of dedicated volunteers toward ongoing success for the past 45 years: 1971 .......................................................... Judy Hobbs 1972 .......................................................... Gloria Newton 1973-1975 .............................................. Pat Thomas 1976-1977 .............................................. Marilyn Keat 1978-1987 .............................................. Lurene Frantz 1987-1990 .............................................. David Hatfield 1991-2005 .............................................. Phil Walz 2005-present ......................................... Rick Bryant

Steven Watson

Steve Watson grew up in Centre County but didn’t make the Arts Festival a habit until he was a Penn State student. More recently, as university planner with Penn State’s Division of Campus Planning and Design, he began serving on the university’s Outdoor Public Art Committee with Joyce Robinson, who also served on the Arts Festival board and suggested that he get involved.

Now Watson is Arts Festival board president. “I love that the festival is a cooperative effort between community and university,” he says. “I’m very thankful for all of the volunteers and the fantastic staff who work to make this one of the best festivals in the country.” Watson volunteers during the festival as an artist ambassador, often with the assistance of his two daughters. And, every day, he is reminded of those college visits to the festival when he drinks from the coffee mug his wife, Valerie, bought him from a festival artist during their dating days.

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Thirty years ago, Diane Maurer-Mathison packed her car full of hand-marbled papers, scarves, and her other works of art and drove to State College from Philadelphia. A mixed media artist, she was exhibiting her pieces at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. She had no idea that displaying her work at the festival would change her life significantly “When I drove here to deliver my work to the show, I fell in love with the area,” she says about why she relocated to Spring Mills, where she’s lived for the past 27 years. “And having a booth at the festival [every year since] has led to several local and national magazine articles about my work, including a photo spread in Country Living magazine. An invitation to demonstrate my paper marbling in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution also came from being seen demonstrating at the festival. I have met many of the artists whom I have featured in the art books I have written there, and a number of galleries have also asked to show my work after they saw it at the festival.”

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The Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania started the year after the first Arts Festival and helps promote the arts year-round, including with a variety of art classes.

Each July, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts draws a crowd of about 150,000 attendees to downtown State College and Penn State’s University Park campus. Since the festival began in 1967, its impact on artists and the arts scene in Centre County goes beyond those five days in July.

The Palmer Museum of Art now features 11 galleries and usually nine new exhibitions each year.

Even within those days in July, the festival’s impact is felt beyond downtown State College and the Penn State campus. According to executive director Rick Bryant, the festival has been the basis for the creation of the People’s Choice Festival in Boalsburg, Heritage Days in Philipsburg, and Lemont Fest in Lemont — each of which runs during the same week as the Arts Festival.

The People’s Choice Festival, held on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, started in 1993 and now attracts more than 110,000 visitors each year. It has nearly 200 artists, two dozen food vendors, and 40 acts on two stages.

In Philipsburg, members of the town’s bicentennial committee wanted to hold an annual event that would take place at the same time as the Arts Festival and would bring more attention to the community.

The group started Philipsburg Heritage Days in 1998. Each year, the committee picks a theme centered around their town’s history

or people. Attendance is estimated at about 15,000 each year for the five-day event.

Lemont is home to the newest jubilee, Lemont Fest, an emerging arts festival that began in 2015. Hosted by the Lemont Village Association, the festival takes place in the Granary and on the Lemont Village Green and is another opportunity for local artists, musicians, and food vendors to showcase their creativity. About 25 artists sell their wares at Lemont Fest, while local restaurants bring food and beers. Proceeds benefit the Lemont Village Association’s Granary Project.

Beyond that week of festivals in July, the Arts Festival has been a force in creating several artistic organizations in the area and has simply enhanced the region’s arts scene.

Marie Doll, executive director of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization serving students, artists, and the art-loving public in the area, says that some of the same people that supported the first festival envisioned having 2016 July T&G - 79

Fuse Productions is coming off a successful run of its production of My Fair Lady in June.

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a nonprofit organization in the area to promote the arts yearround, and they founded the Art Alliance in 1968.

“Arts Fest was absolutely responsible for the Art Alliance,” she says. “It brought these people together to talk, get to know one another, and create a plan together and implement it in order to promote art in our community.”

The Art Alliance, located in Lemont, offers a variety of art classes for children and adults and are taught by local artists.

Additionally, it holds several exhibits during the year, giving novice artists and professional artists alike an opportunity to show their work, and community members a chance to view and appreciate the visual arts.

Amy Frank, founder and owner of the Makery, an arts and crafts studio in State

College that specializes in creative classes, parties, and events and also has a marketplace for local artists, says the Arts Festival is a wonderful event for the arts scene in State College.

“It gives us that creative artistic element every year that reminds us just how important our community is. We have all this creativity happening in State College year-round, and this reminds us about what’s going on,” she says. “We’re trying to do that at the Makery — create this celebration of the arts in State College every day.”

While the Makery first opened its doors in Boalsburg, Frank says she wanted to move to downtown State College, where she says that arts are really thriving, and closer to galleries such as the Frasier Street Gallery and the Douglas Albert Gallery. She also wanted to be a part of First Friday events in downtown State College that feature art, music, and various forms of entertainment. She says that while the Arts Festival reminds people that State College has a thriving arts scene, as the years go by, it’s

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more evident that the arts play a large role in the community, not just during the week of the festival.

Bigger venues for the visual arts also have opened up since the first Arts Festival, namely the Palmer Museum of Art, which opened as the Museum of Art in 1972. It has gone through renovations and expansions in 1993 and 2002, and it now has 11 galleries, a print study room, a 150-seat auditorium, a garden for large-scale contemporary sculptures, and more.

The Bellefonte Art Museum is celebrating its ninth year as an arts institution, and it has several galleries, a children’s creativity center, and more.

It isn’t just about the fine arts, either, when it comes to the impact of the Arts Festival. Every day during the festival, a variety of musical acts can be seen and heard at various venues. From jazz to bluegrass to country to rock, music is a big part of the festival — and the local music scene has grown and become a bigger part of Happy Valley.

From a fledgling event designed to bring a little extra foot traffic to downtown State College during the slow summer season, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts had grown into one of the region’s top annual events. More than 125,000 people come to State College and Penn State each July to celebrate the arts. The festival has also gained national recognition, with Sunshine Artist magazine ranking CPFA No. 1 on its list of the best outdoor fine art and fine craft fairs in the United States.

Congratulations to the Arts Festival on holding your milestone 50th festival this month!

We look forward to continuing our partnership and growing the festival for the next 50 years.

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The People’s Choice Festival, held during the same week as the Arts Festival, attracts more than 110,000 people to Boalsburg each year.

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In 1967, a small group of local musicians got together to perform at the first Arts Festival. Business owners, professors, retirees, students, physicians, and homemakers formed the Nittany Valley Symphony.

Diane Toulson, a flutist for the symphony, was a founding member of the group. She says the group, originally called the Music Guild, performed at the first Arts Festival on the recital hall stage. The Music Guild was a small group playing classical chamber music. By the end of the performance, the group had already decided to form a local symphony orchestra.

“I think the educated people of this town know and appreciate what classical music does for community members, namely it makes us calm in spirit and serves as a form of therapy,” Toulson says.

“Once we became a symphony, we started performing on the steps of Old Main each year. It was a pops concert of show tunes and more, and we always drew a huge crowd.”

She says the group also performed in Schwab Auditorium several times during past festivals, and attendance was always high.

While the symphony no longer performs at the festival, these days it’s popular enough to stand on its own, performing its season’s worth of concerts in Eisenhower Auditorium.

Since the first festival, the chamber and classical music scene in Happy Valley has grown to include Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, which celebrated its 25th anniversary season last year, and the Music at Penn’s Wood concert series that went from 1986 to 2002 and then was reinstated in 2008 after budget cuts had suspended the series.

Another musical group that had its start at the Arts Festival is the State College Area Municipal Band, which first performed at the 1976 Arts Festival, according to its records.

Each year, the band has concerts celebrating Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Veterans Day, and it still plays at the Arts Festival (it will perform 11 a.m. July 16 at the Festival Shell on Old Main lawn this year).

The music scene, besides the local acts that have emerged, has seen the JazzPA Summer Jazz Celebration in Bellefonte (the event is taking this year off) and Summer’s Best Music Fest, which this year expanded to a two-day event.

The theater scene also has grown since the Arts Festival began. Students from Penn State’s musical theater program will perform several times during this year’s festival, and other local theater groups have scheduled performances during the same time as Arts Festival, including Nittany Theatre at the Barn with its production of All Shook Up at the Boal Barn Playhouse.

“Even though Arts Fest puts more of a focus on fine arts and music, it’s great because anytime the arts gets attention, it benefits all the arts,” says Richard Biever, producing artistic director of Fuse Productions in State College. “I’d love to see even more theater produced during Arts Fest, maybe more adventuresome pieces that aren’t done during the regular season.”

Congratulations to the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts on your

50 th festival!

Thank you for bringing beauty and joy to our community.

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Biever, who was the executive director of the State Theatre in 2012, started Fuse in 2013. Last year, Fuse had a production of Les Miserables at Eisenhower Auditorium, and in June, it had a successful two-week run of My Fair Lady at the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.

Speaking of the State Theatre, after being closed for several years, it reopened in 2006 and shows movies and hosts performances of all kinds, including during the Arts Festival.

As it prepares to celebrates its 50th edition, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts also can celebrate the fact that it has helped create a thriving arts scene in Happy Valley.

“Art is an important part of everyone’s life,” Doll says. “There’s a famous quote, ‘Art helps explain the world to us,’ and I think it’s just so true!

It’s just so important to make art available to the public, and the Arts Fest does that.” T&G Fuse Productions presented Les Miserables last year at Eisenhower Auditorium.

Rebekka Coakley is a freelancer writer living in State College.

We salute the volunteers and staff who have sustained and grown one of the top Festivals in the country.

Thank you, Central PA Festival of the Arts

Happy 50 th

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2016 People’s Choice

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Publishing July 7th, 2016 in the Centre County Gazette We cover what’s important to you!

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Our Town Marathon Monday, July 4, noon–4:30 p.m.

Featuring: Port Allegany, Somerset, Brockway, Johnsonburg, and Geistown Experience for yourself what makes each of these small towns such a great place to live, through stories of history, culture, and community ties as told by their residents.

PBS Convention Coverage — A NewsHour Special Report Republican National Convention: July 18–21, 8–11 p.m. nightly Democratic National Convention: July 25–28, 8–11 p.m. nightly Veteran journalists Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff anchor complete live coverage of both national political conventions, from opening gavel to official close, including interviews from newsmakers, analysis and perspective, plus insights from presidential historians and others.

A Capitol Fourth Monday, July 4, at 8 p.m.

Jazz at the Palmer This musical celebration features top performers and the greatest display of fireworks anywhere in the nation, broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, before an audience of hundreds of thousands, millions more at home, and our troops watching around the world on the American Forces Network.

(Repeats at 9:30 p.m.)

Keystone Crossroads: Preservation Innovation Sunday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m.

Historic buildings add character and value to cities, but require maintenance in order to house new residents and businesses. When should we preserve these pieces of the past, and when is it best to start over? Explore the topic with this fifth television episode in the Keystone Crossroads series.

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Monthly, beginning Thursday, July 28

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For each concert, doors will open to the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at 7 p.m., and performances will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Attendance is FREE and limited to four seats per address.

Reservations for each concert will open at 8 a.m. on the first day of the month of the concert.

July 28 — Eddie Severn Quartet August 25 — Rick Hirsch 3 September 22 — Ryan Kauffman Trio October 27 — Penn State Student Ensemble wpsu.org/jazzatthepalmer

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Photos: A Capitol Fourth courtesy of Capital Concerts/Keith Lamond via Shutterstock, Eddie Severn courtesy of eddiesevern.com

Coming to Bryce Jordan Center/Medlar Field at Lubrano Park

JULY 1-3 Spikes vs. Mahoning Valley Medlar Field at Lubrano Park 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 6:05 p.m. Sun. 3-4 Central PA 4th Fest 8-10 Spikes vs. Auburn Medlar Field at Lubrano Park 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 6:05 p.m. Sun. 13 BJC BBQ Bryce Jordan Center 11 a.m.

14-16 Spikes vs. Mahoning Valley Medlar Field at Lubrano Park 7:05 p.m.

21-23 Spikes vs. Auburn Medlar Field at Lubrano Park 7:05 p.m.

29-30 Spikes vs. Williamsport Medlar Field at Lubrano Park 7:05 p.m.

31-August 2 Spikes vs. West Virginia Medlar Field at Lubrano Park 6:05 p.m. Sun., 7:05 p.m. Mon., noon Tues.

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what's happening

4 Celebrate America’s birthday at Central PA 4th Fest, which is actually July 3-4 this year.

5-23 The music of Elvis Presley lives on in Nittany Theatre at the Barn’s production of All Shook Up at the Boal Barn Playhouse.

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Penn State’s NU. Musical Theatre Festival presents Deep Water Ballad at the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.

Celebrate butterflies, bees, and blossoms at Wings in the Park at the Snetsinger Butterfly Garden.

14-17 The People’s Choice Festival returns to the PA Military Museum in Boalsburg and features nearly 200 artists from Pennsylvania.

26 George Thorogood & The Destroyers visit the State Theatre.

28-31 7-10 Rhonda Vincent & The Rage headline this year’s Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival at the Grange Fairgrounds.

15-17 Lemont Fest returns for a second year at the Lemont Village Green.

21 13-17 The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts celebrates its 50th festival!

Tussey Mountain brings the heat as it begins its WingFest competition.

State College Community Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prizewinning play The Heidi Chronicles at the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.

31 Downtown State College hosts the Last Cruise Car & Motorcycle Show, benefitting Centre County Youth Service Bureau.

To have an event listed in “What’s Happening," e-mail dpenc@barashmedia.com.

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Children & Families 1 – BE: The Future (ages 6-12), Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 9 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

1-2, 5-9, 12-16, 19-23, 26-30 – Music Together free trial class for children 0-5, Oakwood Presbyterian Church, SC, 10:30 a.m.

Thurs.-Fri., 9:30 a.m. Tues., Wed., & Sat., 466-3414.

2 – Block Party, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – Saturday Stories Alive, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 11 a.m., schlowlibrary.org.

5-8 – STEAM-tacular (for girls only), Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 9 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

5, 12, 19 – Zoom into Nano, Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 1 p.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

5, 12, 19, 26 – Discovery Day, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 11 a.m., schlowlibrary.org.

6 – Read It, Watch It Series: Ratatouille, State Theatre, SC, noon, schlowlibrary.org.

9 – Workshop for Children & Youth: Celebrate the Arts through Printmaking, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10:15 a.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

16 – Workshop for Children & Youth: Arts Festival Mini-Banners, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10:15 a.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

20 – Read It, Watch It Series: Stuart Little, State Theatre, SC, noon, schlowlibrary.org.

20 – Ready, Set...Doodle!, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

21 – It Ended with a Story, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

25-29 – Faster, Father, Fancier (ages 3-5), Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 9 a.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

25-29 – Solar Car Challenge (ages 10-13), Discovery Space of Central PA, SC, 1 p.m., mydiscoveryspace.org.

27 – Read It, Watch It Series: Hugo, State Theatre, SC, noon, schlowlibrary.org.

27 – Backyard Beekeeping, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

28 – Alex and the Kaleidoscope, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

Classes & Lectures 2 – “Maintaining Beauty in the Summer Garden” by Chris Igo, Tait Farm, Centre Hall, 2 p.m., taitfarmfoods.com.

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The Read It, Watch It Series continues at the State Theatre with three films in July, including Hugo July 27.

3 – Docent Choice Tour: “Bible Stories in Baroque Paintings” by Dotty Ford, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 2 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

5 – Central PA Civil War Round Table: “Civil War in the Far, Far, West” by Lynn and Julianna Herman, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 7 p.m., pamilmuseum.org.

5, 19 – “A Joint Venture,” information session on hip or knee replacement, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 11 a.m.

July 5, 7 p.m. July 19, 278-4810.

8 – Gallery Talk: “American Art in the Shadow of World War I” by Adam Thomas, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

9 – “Summer Pops, Ices, & Sorbets” by Cindy Law, Tait Farm, Centre Hall, 2 p.m., taitfarmfoods.com.

10 – Docent Choice Tour: “Peeling Onions: Looking at Four Living Artists”

by Nancy Weinreb, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 2 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

15 – Gallery Talk: “Still Moving: The Photographs of Steve McCurry” by Dana Carlisle Kletchka, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

17 – Docent Choice Tour: “Art and Literature”

by Susan McCartney, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 2 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

22 – Gallery Talk: “Summer Is for Learning: Focus on the Collection” by Laura Beyerle, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

23 – Workshop for Adults: Sculpting Our Everyday Lives, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, noon, palmermuseum.psu.edu.

23 – “Cooking from the Summer Garden”

by Cindy Law and Kim Tait, Tait Farm, Centre Hall, 2 p.m., taitfarmfoods.com.

24 – Docent Choice Tour: “So, Who’s Looking” by Joanne Bennett, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 2 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

29 – Gallery Talk: “Summer Is for Learning: Focus on the Collection” by Jo Megas, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 12:10 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

31 – Docent Choice Tour: “Contemporary American Art” by Dotty Ford, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 2 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

Club Events 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – Chess Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – Go Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

5, 12, 19, 26 – State College Rotary Club, Nittany Lion Inn, PSU, 5:30 p.m., statecollegerotary.org.

6 – Teen Book Club: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 3:45 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

6, 13, 20, 27 – State College Sunrise Rotary Club, Hotel State College, SC, 7:15 a.m., kfragola@psualum.com.

6, 20 – Outreach Toastmasters Meeting, The 329 Building, Room 413, PSU, noon, kbs131@psu.edu.

7, 14, 21, 28 – State College Downtown Rotary, Ramada Inn & Conference Center, SC, noon, centrecounty.org/rotary/club/.

7, 14, 21, 28 – Comics Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 3:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

13 – 148th PA Volunteer Infantry Civil War Reenactment Group, Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, SC, 7:30 p.m., 861-0770.

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16 – Lego Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

18 – Knitting Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 5:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

18 – Parrot Owner’s Group, Perkins SC, 7 p.m., 237-2822.

19 – Evening Book Club: The Widow by Fiona Barton, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 6:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

21, 28 – Embroidery Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 5:30 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

23 – Boardgaming Meetup, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 10 a.m., schlowlibrary.org.

27 – Afternoon Book Club: Afternoon Book Club, Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 2 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

27 – Applique Club, Schlow Centre Region Library, SC, 6 p.m., schlowlibrary.org.

Community Associations & Development 14 – CBICC Business After Hours: State College Spikes, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 5:30 p.m., cbicc.org.

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19 – Spring Creek Watershed Association, Patton Township Municipal Building, SC, 7:30 a.m., springcreekwatershed.org.

27 – Patton Township Business Association, Patton Township Municipal Building, SC, noon, 237-2822.

Exhibits Ongoing – Columbus Chapel and Boal Mansion Museum, Boalsburg, 1:30-5 p.m.

Tues.-Sun., boalmuseum.com.

Ongoing – Underground Railroad: A Journey to Freedom, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, noon-4:30 p.m.

Fri-Sun., bellefontemuseum.org.

Ongoing-31 – Gardening in Central Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, noon-4:30 p.m. Fri.Sun., bellefontemuseum.org.

Ongoing-August 7 – American Art in the Shadow of World War I, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m.

Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

Ongoing-August 14 – The Prints of Jules Heller, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Tues.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

Ongoing-October 15 – Arts Festival at Fifty: Stories of the Early Years, Centre County Historical Society, SC, 1-4 p.m. Sun., Mon., & Wed., centrehistory.org.

Health Care For schedule of blood drives visit redcross.org or givelife.org.

Still Moving: Photographs by Steve McCurry continues at the Palmer Museum of Art through September 18.

Ongoing-September 7 – Artes Exempli, Robeson Gallery, PSU, studentaffairs.psu.edu/ hub/galleries.

Ongoing-September 11 – Kiana Honarmand, HUB Gallery, PSU, studentaffairs.psu.edu/hub/galleries.

Ongoing-September 18 – Art by Vesco, Art Alley, PSU, studentaffairs.psu.edu/hub/galleries.

Ongoing-September 18 – Still Moving: Photographs by Steve McCurry, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tues.Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

3, 14 – Juniper Village at Brookline’s Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group, Nittany Lion Inn, PSU, 1 p.m. Sun., 6:30 p.m.

Thurs., 231-3141.

12 – Brain Injury Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 7 p.m., 359-3421.

13 – The Fertility Issues and Loss Support Group, Choices (2214 N. Atherton St.), SC, 6 p.m., heartofcpa.org.

18 – Cancer Survivors’ Association, Pink Zone Resource Center in the Cancer Pavilion at Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 11:30 a.m., 238-6220.

20 – Alzheimer’s Support Group, Elmcroft Senior Living, SC, 6:30 p.m., 235-7675.

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21 – Better Breathers Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 2 p.m., 842-6026.

21 – Parents-to-be Orientation, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 6:30 p.m., 231-3132.

24 – Neuropathy Support Group of Central PA, Mount Nittany Medical Center, SC, 2 p.m., 531-1024.

25 – Heart Healthy Support Group for Heart Failure, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421.

26 – Stroke Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 4 p.m., 359-3421.

26 – Multiple Sclerosis Support Group, HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Pleasant Gap, 6 p.m., 359-3421.

Music 1 – Concerts of the Village Green: Blind Horse Wagon, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., lemontvillage.org.

3 – South Hills Music Picnic Series: Dan & Galla, South Hills School of Business & Technology, SC, 6 p.m., southhills.edu.

3 – Summer Sounds at the Gazebo: Ron Burrage, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, 7 p.m., bellefontearts.org.

8 – Concerts of the Village Green: The Puddintown Roots, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., lemontvillage.org.

8 – Jazz in the Attic: Ryan Kauffman’s Trilogy, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

10 – South Hills Music Picnic Series: The Little German Band, South Hills School of Business & Technology, SC, 6 p.m., southhills.edu.

10 – Summer Sounds at the Gazebo: Tussey Mountain Moonshiners, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, 7 p.m., bellefontearts.org.

15 – Concerts of the Village Green: Carpal Tunnel String Band, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., lemontvillage.org.

17 – Summer Sounds at the Gazebo: Tommy Wareham, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, 7 p.m., bellefontearts.org.

21 – Thursday Afternoons with the Second Winds, American Ale House & Grill, SC, 3 p.m., 237-9701.

22 – Concerts of the Village Green: Ride the Song, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., lemontvillage.org.

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24 – Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra presents Seven Mountains Summer Music Fest, Seven Mountains Wine Cellars, Spring Mills, 2 p.m., centreorchestra.org.

24 – South Hills Music Picnic Series: State College Municipal Band, South Hills School of Business & Technology, SC, 6 p.m., southhills.edu.

24 – Summer Sounds at the Gazebo: Dan Stevens, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, 7 p.m., bellefontearts.org.

26 – George Thorogood & The Destroyers, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

27 – Justin Townes Earle, State Theatre, SC, 8 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

28 – Jazz at the Palmer: Eddie Severn Quartet, Palmer Museum of Art, PSU, 7:30 p.m., palmermuseum.psu.edu.

29 – Concerts of the Village Green: OverheaD, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, 7:30 p.m., lemontvillage.org.

31 – South Hills Music Picnic Series: Jay Vonada Quartet, South Hills School of Business & Technology, SC, 6 p.m., southhills.edu.

31 – Summer Sounds at the Gazebo: Repascz Band, Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, 7 p.m., bellefontearts.org.

Special Events 1 – First Friday, Downtown State College, 5 p.m., firstfridaystatecollege.com.

1, 8, 15, 22, 29 – Downtown Farmers’ Market, Locust Lane, SC, 11:30 a.m., visitpennstate.org.

2 – K9 Karnival, Ag Progress Days Site, PA Furnace, 11 a.m., mndtc.org.

2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – Bellefonte Farmers’ Market, Gamble Mill parking lot, 8 a.m., visitpennstate.org.

2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – Millheim Farmers’ Market, Old Gregg Mills Farmers’ Market, Spring Mills, 10 a.m., visitpennstate.org.

2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – North Atherton Farmers’ Market, Home Depot parking lot, SC, 10 a.m., visitpennstate.org.

3-4 – Central PA 4th Fest, Beaver Stadium area, PSU, 4thfest.org.

4 – Kids Day II: Dress Up and Discover!, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 10 a.m., pamilmuseum.org.

5, 12, 19, 26 – Tuesdays State College Farmers’ Market, Locus Lane, S.C., 11:30 a.m., visitpennstate.org.

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FarmFest 2016 takes place at the Grange Fairgrounds in Centre Hall July 29-30.

5, 12, 19, 26 – Boalsburg Farmers’ Market, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, PA, 2 p.m., visitpennstate.org.

6, 13, 20, 27 – Lemont Farmers’ Market, Lemont Granary, Lemont, 2 p.m., visitpennstate.org.

7-10 – Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival, Grange Fairgrounds, Centre Hall, remingtonryde.com.

12-17 – Philipsburg Heritage Days, Philipsburg, philipsburgheritagedays.com 13-17 – Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Downtown State College and Penn State campus, arts-festival.com.

Penn State’s annual Lift for Life is July 16 at the Penn State Lacrosse Field.

14-17 – People’s Choice Festival, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, peopleschoicefestival.com.

15-17 – Lemont Fest, Lemont Village Green, Lemont, lemontvillage.org.

16 – Lift for Life, Penn State Lacrosee Field, PSU, 11 a.m., gopsusports.com.

21, 28 – WingFest, Tussey Mountain, Boalsburg, 5:30 p.m., tusseymountain.com.

23 – Pedal, Splash, and Dash CRPR Youth Triathlon, Welch Pool, SC, 8 a.m., crpr.org.

23 – Wings in the Park, Snetsinger Butterfly Garden, SC, 10 a.m., snetsingerbutterflygarden.org.

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23 – Friends of Black Moshannon State Park Summer Festival, Black Moshannon State Park, Philipsburg.

23-24 – Vietnam Revisited Living History Combat Bivouac, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 10 a.m., pamilmuseum.org.

23-24 – Tactical Patrol Ambush Demonstration, PA Military Museum, Boalsburg, 1:30 p.m., pamilmuseum.org.

29-30 – FarmFest 2016, Grange Fairgrounds, Centre Hall, noon, farmfest.paorganic.org.

31 – Registration Deadline for the Foundation for Mount Nittany Medical Center Bridgearama, 237-0649.

31 – Alphabet Marsh Family Scavenger Hunt, Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, SC, 1 p.m., crpr.org.

31 – Last Cruise Car & Motorcycle Show, Downtown State College, 1 p.m., ccysb.com.

Sports For tickets to the State College Spikes, call (814) 272-1711 or visit statecollegespikes.com.

The State College Spikes have 15 home games in July.

1-3 – Spikes/Mahoning Valley, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 6:05 p.m. Sun.

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The Royal Shakespeare Company’s performance of Hamlet can be seen in HD at the State Theatre July 8.

8-10 – Spikes/Auburn, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 6:05 p.m. Sun. 14-16 – Spikes/Mahoning Valley, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 7:05 p.m.

21-23 – Spikes/Auburn, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 7:05 p.m.

29-30 – Spikes/Williamsport, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 7:05 p.m.

31-August 2 – Spikes/West Virginia, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, PSU, 6:05 p.m.

Sun., 7:05 p.m. Mon., noon Tues.

Theater 1, 8 – Penn State Centre Stage presents Broadway on Allen, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, noon, theatre.psu.edu.

5-23 – Nittany Theatre at the Barn presents All Shook Up, Boal Barn Playhouse, Boalsburg, 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. matinees Sun. & July 23), nittanytheatre.org.

8 – Royal Shakespeare Company in HD presents Hamlet, State Theatre, SC, 7 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

10 – Metropolitan Opera Encore in HD Summer Series: 0, State Theatre, SC, 2 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

14-16 – Penn State Centre Stage presents NU. Musical Theatre Festival: Deep Water Ballad, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, 8 p.m. Thurs., 2 & 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat., theatre.psu.edu.

24 – Metropolitan Opera Encore in HD Summer Series: La Boheme, State Theatre, SC, 2 p.m., thestatetheatre.org.

28-31 – State College Community Theatre presents The Heidi Chronicles, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, SC, 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., scctonline.org. T&G

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The Right Stuff about Riesling From different countries to different tastes, the popular wine is more diverse than some think

By Lucy Rogers

What do you know about Riesling? If someone asked you, “What is Riesling?”, how many of you would say, “It’s a sweet white wine from Germany”?

While it’s true that Germany produces 60 percent of the world’s Riesling, the grape also is grown all over the world — Canada, Alsace (France), upstate New York, Washington State, Austria, and Australia have all had success with Riesling.

One of the oldest known wine grapes in the world, Riesling is a hardy grape that needs cool to cold climates to really express its trademark acidity, which then translates into a unique, delicate lightness. Its structure is complemented by the mouth-wateringly delicate flavors of fresh ripe peaches, apricots, and melons, sometimes with a vibrant mineral quality.

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complex and layered with notes of apple, lime blossom, lemon zest, lychee, peach, and commonly petrol/diesel. It is said that the scent of burnt rubber/petrol/diesel is a result of Riesling being grown under the right conditions — very ripe grapes, lots of sunshine, warm soils, and cool to cold climate — and that the fuel-like smell is often considered to be an indication of a higher quality wine.

So don’t ever be put off by a Riesling that reminds you of your car in a not-so-good way — it’s generally considered a good sign and typical of the grape.

But let’s get back to the “it’s a sweet white wine” part of our discussion. It is true, Riesling can indeed be quite sweet. But it can just as easily be bone-dry and often beautifully elegant. And this is probably the biggest conflict facing Riesling producers in this day and age — people have one experience with Riesling and categorize it based on that one experience, falsely assuming all Rieslings are the same, which couldn’t be further from the truth! While some of the same flavor profiles will likely always be present in most Rieslings — green apple and some citrus, with varying degrees of peach, nectarine, lychee — the way those flavors present themselves can be vastly different.

In Alsace, France, the Rieslings produced are quite dry, perhaps not as delicate as the dry Rieslings from Germany. They are fuller-bodied with flavors of gunflint, mineral, and even steel — beautifully mingled with peaches, plums, and limey citrus.

In Germany, dry Rieslings are finely carved, elegantly nuanced, relatively low in alcohol, with bracing acidity that is balanced by just the right touch of sweetness.

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The International Riesling Foundation developed the sweetness scale to help consumers know how dry or sweet a particular bottle of Riesling is.

In the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, Rieslings are light in body and flavor and often quite crisp. (For an excellent example of a dry Finger Lakes Riesling, try Hermann J. Wiemer 2014 Riesling Reserve Dry — the nose was full of canned peaches/fruit cocktail and papaya; on the palate, it was mediumbodied with flavors of honeydew, quince, but the finish was clean and lovely due to its perfectly balanced acidity.)

But knowing Riesling can be both sweet and dry is where the real confusion begins.

How does one know whether the wine inside the bottle labeled “Riesling” is very dry or very sweet, or somewhere in between? Well, back in the day, if you picked up a German Riesling, you had to know that wine labeled “trocken” was dry, “spatlese” was sweeter than trocken but not necessarily sweet, per se; “Auslese” is typically semisweet or sweet, made from very ripe, hand-selected bunches of grapes; and “beerenauslese” signified a rich, sweet dessert wine. As for Rieslings from other countries, you might find the words “off-dry” or “semisweet” to help you out, but to what degree these wines are sweet or dry remained somewhat subjective.

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In 2008, Riesling producers from around the world gathered to form the International Riesling Foundation (IRF) to combat this very confusion in the wine market. Their solution was to come up with the IRF sweetness scale.

The scale appears on the back label of more than 30 million bottles of Riesling in the US market, so that consumers can see the level of sweetness of the wine inside the bottle simply by looking at the back of the bottle. The scale ranges from “dry” to “sweet,” with “medium dry” and “medium sweet” markers in between. The level of sweetness of such wines is indicated somewhere on the scale, and, as a consumer, all you have to do is look at the back label to see where on the scale the wine falls. The value of such a scale is obvious — consumers can more confidently purchase the wine they want because they are better informed. But it’s important to know the level of sweetness of a Riesling because there’s more to it than whether you just like dry or sweet wines. That is, Riesling is arguably the best varietal wine to pair with food, whether the wine is dry or sweet, but depending on the cuisine, one would want to know the level of sweetness in the wine and purchase accordingly.

Dry Rieslings can pair with seafood and poultry, pastas with light sauces, but you’d want a sweeter Riesling to pair with spicier foods. Heavily seasoned or spiced cuisines such as Cajun, Thai, and Mexican are well-served by being paired with a medium-sweet Riesling — the spice really makes the wine’s flavors explode in the best possible way. Very sweet Rieslings can be served as dessert by themselves or are good to pair with less sweet desserts, such as angel food cake and cheesecake, or paired with flavorful soft cheeses.

With warm weather finally here, and as you prepare deck parties and picnic fare, do yourself a favor and pick up a bottle of Riesling.

Serve it with food — and if you’ve given some thought to the pairing, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. In fact, I think there’s a good chance you’ll be quite impressed, and maybe Riesling won’t be such a stranger to you anymore. T&G Lucy Rogers is the tasting room manager for Big Spring Spirits in Bellefonte. She can be reached at lucy@bigspringspirits.com, or you can find her in the tasting room.

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Taste of the Month Back to the Start Renowned chef Paul Kendeffy returns to make Carnegie Inn a premier restaurant again

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Halibut with new potatoes, reduced Port wine, and chive blossoms

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or the ultimate foodie, a seat at the chef’s table at the Carnegie Inn & Spa, located at 100 Cricklewood Drive in State College, is truly an unforgettable dining experience.

Sitting in a busy kitchen used to be less than desirable, but diners today are intrigued by the behind-the-scenes look at the action in the kitchen, and chefs push the boundaries of the culinary arts to create dishes that utilize the highest quality ingredients with as much locally sourced produce as possible, beautifully plated and exquisitely delicious.

Chef’s tables are now found in Michelinstarred restaurants and other upscale fine dining establishments. The origins of the chef table date back to nineteenth-century France, when invitations were reserved for friends or family of the chef. The concept has evolved

Spring rack of lamb, asparagus puree, and baby turnips

into an exclusive, private dinner to mark a special occasion, and many celebrities and foodies alike have enjoyed the opportunity to have a one-on-one culinary tasting with the executive chef in the kitchen.

The chef’s table at the Carnegie Inn & Spa is a table for two available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings starting at 6 p.m., with at least 48-hours notice needed.

“Most people usually give us a week’s notice because it’s for a special occasion,” says executive chef Paul Kendeffy. “Once your reservation is made, I call to check on any food allergies and any particular dislikes.”

For $125 per person, Kendeffy creates the 10 courses — or as many courses as you can eat — using the best ingredients available to him. For an additional $50, wines are paired with each course to complement the flavors in the dishes.

Some of the courses that diners have sampled include butter poached oysters served over celery root puree, topped with caviar; black Italian truffles shaved over potato puree with an emulsion of edible 23-karat gold dust in olive oil drizzled on top; and spring rack of lamb with asparagus puree and baby turnips.

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Chef Paul Kendeffy Kendeffy returns to the kitchen where he began in State College more than 15 years ago. He worked at the Carnegie Inn from 1998 to 2001 before he became a partner in a restaurant group that owned Zola New World Bistro, the Gamble Mill, and Alto’s.

“After the properties were sold and resolved, I was two weeks from moving my family to Florida when one of the owners of the Carnegie Inn called me and asked if I would come take a look at the restaurant and help out before I left,” he says. “The restaurant was in bad shape, and the kitchen was in no condition to cook in. I have a personal attachment to this place, and as a chef, either you do it or you don’t; I couldn’t just help out.”

In the summer and fall of 2015, Kendeffy assisted in the renovation of the kitchen, and a Carnegie garden was built in the back of the restaurant to grow baby lettuce, edible flowers, herbs, scallions, radishes, turnips, tomatoes, kale, and beans.

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“The goal was to bring the Carnegie Inn & Spa back to its glory days in the late 1990s, when it was the premier restaurant in the area,” explains Kendeffy. “We take food very seriously, and it’s great to get produce this fresh, with no chemicals, from our garden and serve it tonight to our guests.”

In addition to the chef’s table, the Carnegie Inn & Spa is open only for dinner service Monday through Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. It is closed Sundays. With seating for 40, reservations are highly recommended. The menu changes every four weeks and features items such as whole roasted squab, homemade agnolotti pasta with spring peas and asparagus, and seared scallops with American sturgeon caviar.

“We try to use a lot from our garden, but offer dishes that you wouldn’t normally want to cook at home or ingredients that you may not be able to find at the grocery store,” says Kendeffy.

The third Thursday of the month, the Carnegie Inn offers a wine or spirits tasting event. Alternating between wine and spirits, the themed dinners are $75 per person and include five to six courses with wine or spirit pairings. Make your reservations now for the Southern Africa Wine Adventures dinner on July 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Carnegie Inn. T&G The Carnegie Inn & Spa offers special accommodations, dinner, and spa packages. For more information, visit carnegieinnandspa.com, and for reservations, call (814) 234-2424.

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All restaurants are in State College or on the Penn State campus, and in the 814 area code unless noted.

Full Course Dining bar bleu, 114 S. Garner St., 237-0374, bar-bleu.com. Socializing and sports viewing awaits at bar bleu. Don’t miss a minute of the action on 22 true 1080i HDMI high-definition flat-screen monitors displaying the night’s college and pro matchups. The bar serves up 16 draft beers in addition to crafted cocktails, including the “Fishbowl,” concocted in its own 43-ounce tank! Pub fare featuring authentic Kansas Citystyle barbecue is smoked daily on-site. AE, D, DC, ID+, MC, V. Full bar.

Barrel 21 Distillery & Dining, 2255 N. Atherton St., 308-9522, barrel21distillery.com.

A new dining experience brought to you by Otto’s Pub & Brewery, Barrel 21 presents a tapas menu featuring fusion cuisine highlighting our local resources. Menu inspirations will celebrate new culture and cuisine brought to Central PA from around the world. Tapas-style dining from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Sundays, brunch is served from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and tapas from 4 to 9 p.m. Closed on Mondays. The distillery is in full operation and the tasting room is now open with our bottled craft spirits available for purchase during the restaurants hours of operation.

AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

Carnegie Inn & Spa Restaurant, 100 Cricklewood Drive, 234-2424. An exquisite boutique hotel offering fine dining in a relaxed yet gracious atmosphere. Your dining experience begins with a wide array of appetizers and entrees that compare to the best restaurants of the largest cities in the United States. Additionally, the Carnegie Inn & Spa Restaurant wine list is one of the best in the area and features a wide variety of wines from California, France, and other countries. Reservations suggested. AE, MC, D, V. Full bar.

Cozy Thai Bistro, 232 S. Allen St., 237-0139. A true authentic Thai restaurant offering casual and yet “cozy” family-friendly dining experience. Menu features wide selections of exotic Thai cuisine, both lunch and dinner (take-out available). BYO (wines and beer) is welcome after 5 p.m. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. 108 - T&G July 2016

The Deli Restaurant, 113 Hiester St., 237-5710, The DeliRestaurant.com. Since 1973, The Deli has served up New York-style deli favorites on an American menu offering everything from comfort food to pub favorites, all made from scratch. Soups, breads, sauces, and awardwinning desserts are homemade here early in the morning folks. Look for its rotating menu of food- themed festivals throughout the year. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

The Dining Room at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave., 865-8590. Fine continental cuisine in a relaxed, gracious atmosphere. Casual attire acceptable. Private dining rooms available.

AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Duffy’s Boalsburg Tavern, On the Diamond, Boalsburg, 466-6241. The Boalsburg Tavern offers a fine, intimate setting reminiscent of Colonial times. Dining for all occasions with formal and casual menus, daily dinner features, specials, and plenty of free parking. AE, MC, V. Full bar.

Faccia Luna Pizzeria, 1229 S. Atherton St., 237-9000, faccialuna.com. A true neighborhood hangout, famous for authentic New York-style wood-fired pizzas and fresh, homemade Italian cuisine. Seafood specialties, sumptuous salads, divine desserts, great service, and full bar.

Outside seating available. Sorry, reservations not accepted. Dine-in, Take out. MC/V.

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Galanga, 454 E. College Ave., 237-1718.

Another great addition to Cozy Thai Bistro.

Galanga by Cozy Thai offers a unique authentic Thai food featuring Northeastern Thai-style cuisine. Vegetarian menu selection available.

BYO (wines and beer) is welcome after 5 p.m.

AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. The Gardens Restaurant at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd., Innovation Park, 863-5090. Dining is a treat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in The Gardens Restaurant, where sumptuous buffets and à la carte dining are our special- ties. AE, CB, D, DC, MC, V. Full bar, beer.

Gigi’s, W. College Ave, on the corner of Cato Ave., 861-3463, gigisdining.com. Conveniently located 5 minutes from downtown State College, Gigi’s is a farm-to-table dining experience inspired by the hottest southern trends. Outdoor Patio. Lunch & Dinner. Full Bar. AE, D, MAC, MC, V.

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The Greek, 102 E. Clinton Ave., 308-8822, thegreekrestaurant.net. Located behind The Original Waffle Shop on North Atherton Street.

Visit our Greek tavern and enjoy authentic Greek cuisine. From fresh and abundant vegetables to the most succulent kebabs, each dish has been perfected to showcase genuine Greek flavors. When we say “authentic,” we mean it. Full service, BYOB. D, MC, V. Herwig’s Austrian Bistro, “Where Bacon Is An Herb,” 132 W. College Ave., 272-0738. Located next to the State Theatre. Serving authentic Austrian home cooking in Central PA. Ranked #1 Ethnic Restaurant in State College for 8 years in a row. Eat-in, Take-Out, Catering. Glutenfree options available. Bacon-based dessert.

Homemade breads, BYO beer or wine all day.

Sense of humor required. D, MAC, MC, V.

Hi-Way Pizza, 1688 N. Atherton St., 237-0375, HiWayPizza.com. The State College tradition for nearly 50 years, nobody does it better than HiWay! Offering more than 29 varieties of handspun pizzas made from scratch offer an endless combination of toppings. Its vodka “flaky” crust and red stuffed pizzas are simply a must have.

Hi-Way’s menu rounds out with pasta dishes, calzones, grinders, salads, and other Italian specialties. Eat-in, Take-out, or Hi-Way delivery.

AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

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India Pavilion, 222 E. Calder Way, 237-3400.

Large selection of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes from northern India. Lunch buffet offered daily. We offer catering for groups and private parties. AE, D, MC, V.

Each month, Town&Gown highlights a local place to eat and offers a glimpse into the great dining of our community.

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Inferno Brick Oven & Bar, 340 E. College Ave., 237-5718, InfernoBrickOvenBar.com.

With a casual yet sophisticated atmosphere, Inferno is a place to see and be seen. A fullservice bar boasts a unique specialty wine, beer, and cocktail menu. Foodies — Inferno offers a contemporary Neapolitan brick-oven experience featuring a focused menu of artisan pizzas and other modern-Italian plates. Lunch and dinner service transi- tions into night as a boutique nightclub with dance- floor lighting, club sound system, and the area’s most talented resident DJs. AE, D, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Legends Pub at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd., Innovation Park, 863-5080. Unwind with beverages and a casual lounge menu. AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

Mario’s Italian Restaurant, 272 N. Atherton St., 234-4273, MariosItalianStateCollege.com.

Fresh specialty dishes, pasta, sauces, hand-tossed pizzas, and rotisserie wood-grilled chicken all made from scratch are just a few reasons why Mario’s is authentically Italian! At the heart of it all is a specialty wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie that imparts rustic flavors that can’t be beat! Mario’s loves wine and is honored with six consecutive Wine Spectator awards and a wine list of more than 550 Italian selections. Mario’s even pours 12 rotating specialty bottles on its WineStation® state-of-the-art preservation system. Reservations and Walk-Ins welcome. AE, D, DC, LC, MC, V. Full bar.

Otto’s Pub & Brewery, 2235 N. Atherton St., 867-6886, ottospubandbrewery.com. State College’s most awarded craft-beer pub and brewery featuring more than a dozen fresh, house-brewed ales and lagers on tap as well as fine, affordably priced, local American food with vegan and vegetarian offerings, a kids’ menu, weekly features, and seasonal menu. Open for lunch and dinner in a family-friendly, casual atmosphere. AE, D, MC, V. Full bar.

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Philipsburg Elks Lodge & Country Club, 1 Country Club Lane, Philipsburg, 342-0379, philipsburgelks.com. Restaurant open to the public! Monday-Saturday 11-9, Sunday 9-3.

Member-only bar. New golf-member special, visit our Web site for summer golf special. AE MC, V. Full Bar (members only).

The Tavern Restaurant, 220 E. College Ave., 238-6116. A unique gallery-in-a-restaurant preserving PA’s and Penn State’s past. Dinner at The Tavern is a Penn State tradition. Major credit cards accepted. Full bar.

Whiskers at the Nittany Lion Inn, 200 W. Park Ave., 865-8580. Casual dining featuring soups, salads, sandwiches and University Creamery ice cream. Major credit cards accepted.

Full bar.

Zola Kitchen & Wine Bar, 324 W. College Ave., 237-8474. Zola Kitchen & Wine Bar features ingredient-driven, seasonal, new American cuisine paired with an extensive wine list, certified wine professional, and exceptional service. Zola’s also features a new climatecontrolled wine room, premium by-the-glass wine pours, fine liquor, and craft beer at its fullservice bar. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Reservations recommended. Catering.

Free parking after 5:30 p.m. AE, D, DC, MAC, MC, V. Full bar.

Good Food Fast Baby’s Burgers & Shakes, 131 S. Garner St., 234-4776, babysburgers.com. Love poodle skirts, a jukebox playing the oldies, and delicious food cooked to order? Then Baby’s Burgers & Shakes is your kind of restaurant! Bring the entire family and enjoy a “Whimpy” burger, a Cherry Coke, or delicious chocolate shake, and top it off with a “Teeny Weeny Sundae” in our authentic 1947 Silk City Diner. Check out Baby’s Web site for full menu and daily specials! D, MC, V, MAC, Lion’s Cash.

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Barranquero Café, 324 E. Calder Way, 954-7548, www.barranquerocafe.com. A locally owned coffee shop specializing in authentic Colombian coffees and specialty drinks. Works closely with its coffee suppliers in Colombia to ensure that it receives only the highest quality coffee beans the region has to offer. Also serves fresh fruit juices, empanadas, and more! Hopes to bring a little piece of Colombia to Happy Valley! Summer Hours: Tues.-Sat. 8a.m.-8p.m., Sun. 10a.m.-5p.m. Closed Monday.

Fiddlehead, 134 W. College Ave., 237-0595, fiddleheadstatecollege.com. Fiddlehead is a soup-and-salad café offering soups made from scratch daily. Create your own salad from more than 40 fresh ingredients.

Serving authentic Colombian coffees

fresh juices, empanadas and more!

Come relax at 324 E. Calder Way, Downtown State College

Tues-Sat 8-8, Sunday 10-5, Closed Monday

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HUB Dining, HUB-Robeson Center on campus, 865-7623. A Penn State tradition open to all! Enjoy 13 different eateries in the HUB-Robeson Center on campus. Jamba Juice, McAlister’s Deli, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Burger King, Higher Grounds, Sbarro, Soup & Garden, Diversions, Blue Burrito, Mixed Greens, Panda Express, and Sushi by Panda Express.V, MC, LC. Irving’s, 110 E. College Ave., 231-0604, irvingsstatecollege.com. Irving’s is State College’s finest bakery café serving awardwinning bagels, espresso, sandwiches, salads, and smoothies.

Meyer Dairy, 2390 S. Atherton St., 237-1849. A State College Classic! Meyer Dairy is the perfect choice for a quick, homemade lunch with fresh soups and sandwiches or treat yourself to your favorite flavor of ice cream or sundae at our ice cream parlor. Fresh milk from our own dairy cows (we do not inject our cows with BST), eggs, cheese, ice cream cakes, baked goods, and more! Plus, Meyer Dairy is the best place to pick up your Town&Gown magazine each month! T&G

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Where Artists Come Together Darren Andrew Weimert

Art Alliance continues its work of promoting the visual arts in the region

Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania executive director Marie Doll (left) chats with Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash Coppersmith at the Corner Room in State College.

Since its incorporation in 1968, the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization that exists to serve students and artists in Centre County, the adjacent counties, and beyond.

Today, the Art Alliance has approximately 350 members, all of whom are dedicated to recognizing, developing, and supporting visual arts. It has art exhibitions, art education for all ages, and an extensive outreach program.

Adult classes, workshops, and short-term exhibits take place in the Art Center building at 818 Pike Street in Lemont. Children’s classes and summer camps are held in the walkout lower level of the adjacent building at 824 Pike Street.

Marie Doll has been executive director of the Art Alliance since 2005 and is responsible for raising funds through grants and donations from individuals and businesses. Originally from Lansdale, she came to State College when her husband, Clyde, was finishing his bachelor’s degree in business at Penn State in 1959. Clyde, who has since passed away, was a wood sculptor and a sidewalk sale artist for many years in the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

In addition to her work with the Art Alliance, Doll is a board member of Penn State Centre Stage and a committee chair for the Pennsylvania Special Olympics Summer Games.

Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash Coppersmith sat down with Doll at the Corner Room in State College to discuss the first Arts Festival, the people who helped make it happen, and how the Art Alliance evolved from it.

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Mimi: Welcome Marie! You’re here because we both survived long enough to remember the first festival.

This is the 50th edition of the Arts Festival, so why don’t we start with you briefly telling us some of the little details that you remember from that first festival.

Marie: When I think back to that first festival, it was kind of a joyful time when a lot of talented people put their heads together to get this first festival in the books. The Pennsylvania Council of the Arts had just been formed the year before, and they offered grants to communities that wanted to do an arts festival.

So people from the College of Arts and Architecture got together with the Chamber of Commerce and they decided that they would have a festival — it would be a town-andgown event.

Mimi: Two important names are Jules Heller, who ended up being very famous, and Wally Lloyd, who achieved his own fame in this community.

Marie: Right. So it’s really amazing when you think that they started from zero and, in just a few months, had put this event together.

Mimi: Now did they get the grant?

Marie: $2,000, which today seems like a drop in the bucket. You couldn’t do much with it today, but boy they did! Of course, because of the university, there was already a lot of art going on — the visual arts, dance, music, theater — so it just needed to be transported to the event.

Mimi: The only thing I clearly remember from that first festival was the row of booths. We’re sitting in the Corner Room and I’m pointing to the row of booths along that part of College Avenue in front of Old Main, and it went from Allen to Pugh — and that was it.

Marie: And that was it! And there was a fence all along, and fortunately

the wall was available for 3D work. And some of the artists, instead of hanging their paintings on the fence, just stood them up against it — and it worked out beautifully.

Mimi: I remember Bill Coleman was in the first spot. I was told by one of the people who has exhibited at every festival, Dick Brown, that you had to get there early in the morning at the earlier festivals, so you got a good spot.

Marie: There were no spots assigned. My husband was a wood sculptor, and so he exhibited in that first festival. We would arrive as early as possible, toting all four kids, and set up his booth.

Mimi: When did the festival go up Allen Street and down Fraser? When did all that happen?

Marie: It just kind of grew each year, particularly as the Sidewalk Sale grew. Not only did local people know about it, but artists from other communities that wanted to come and exhibit here.

Mimi: Sy Barash, Guy Kresge, Wally Lloyd — people jumped into the fold early. The dream was, “Let’s get some people to State College in the summer.” It was dead!

Marie: Now for some reason we decided to do

it nine days. It was two weekends and then the weekdays during the week. Well during the week for most people, this was like their second job, so there weren’t a lot of artists there during the week. … One of the most exciting things was that Ray Shafer, governor of Pennsylvania, came to open the first festival and landed in a helicopter on Old Main lawn.

Mimi: Well Ray Shafer loved to come to State College. He was here a lot, especially during the football season.

Marie: That’s why many people come to State College, but now they have another reason to come: the Arts Festival!

Mimi: Getting back to the beginning. I have always believed in my heart that Dee Blumenthal really was the person that got the festival going.

In her lifetime, she has never really been formally acknowledged. And if nothing else, this column will do that. Talk a little bit about Dee Blumenthal and her art.

Marie: She was a wonderful artist, in her own right. She was a painter, and painted I think what she would call abstract paintings, but they were very strong, they were very deep, and they

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just hit you right in the face. She was friends of some of the people in the College of Arts and Architecture and other visual arts people. So when this idea came about, they were smart enough to bring Dee into that.

Mimi: I’m not sure that she wasn’t the one that brought the idea to the table. Apparently my recollection is that they had an arts festival in Altoona, and she came to some meeting and said, “If they can do it in Altoona, we can certainly do it in State College.”

Marie: I can certainly hear her saying that. And she may have found out that there were grants available, and the new Pennsylvania Council of the Arts was encouraging communities to do this.

Mimi: Out of her passion for art evolved, after the festival, the Art Alliance. How did that happen?

Marie: There were several people, including Dee, after the Arts Festival who said we should have a year-round nonprofit community-art organization dedicated to the promotion of the visual arts. Of course, she took the ball and ran with it. About 12 people met in her living room.

She had recruited these people. Some were artists,

some were business people. So the idea for the Art Alliance was formed, and she quickly decided that we needed a building.

Mimi: That’s where I come in.

Marie: That’s where you come in. What she really wanted was that big stone house on Pike Street that has now been made into apartments.

It’s directly across from the building we got, but we didn’t have the money for it. But we did find this little building that had belonged to the Lemont Band Association. It had originally been the YMCA building on campus, behind Old Main.

We had a picture — you could see the back of Old Main and this little building on campus and a big sign, YMCA. At some point, they didn’t need the building anymore. The Lemont Band bought it, and it was cut in half and moved from behind Old Main to Pike Street in Lemont.

Mimi: There was a story about this in Town&Gown a great number of years ago.

Marie: And community bands at that time, and this was in the early 1900s, were very popular. Every community had a band that played at everything.

The old-timers in Lemont can remember in the

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summer [the band] would leave the door open when they were inside practicing, and people would just sit on the grass.

Mimi: Like it was a concert.

Marie: That was before Pike Street became the busiest street in the county. But at some point the band disbanded, and the building was not really used for many, many years. It was used as a voting precinct for a while, but then it was pretty dilapidated. It was for sale for $5,500, so Dee and I went to the bank in Bellefonte.

Mimi: I think it was Bellefonte Trust. And who was the man we met?

Marie: Mahlon Robb.

Mimi: President of Bellefonte Trust, which is now M&T Bank.

Marie: He said, “Well, what’s your collateral?”

And Dee just sat up real straight and said, “We have 120 paying members.” Like that was collateral. And he said, “Okay!” I’m sure he had to take it back to their board or whatever.

Mimi: How much did we need to raise to remodel it?

Marie: It was $7,000.

Mimi: I think we raised more than that.

Marie: It was so sorely needed because the heating system was an old furnace that no longer worked. There was no kitchen or bathroom.

There was an outhouse! The floors needed to be redone. Everything needed to be redone — everything you could possibly do to a building.

Some of it we did with volunteer help. In fact, my oldest son, who walked into the Art Alliance recently, said, “I remember as a kid I helped paint the inside of this building!”

Mimi: I think many art organizations hold together because of the passion of the people involved, and I think Art Alliance is an expression of the passion that exists in creative minds and bodies.

Marie: It really is, and the networking between the artists is a beautiful thing to see. I often get a call from someone who says, “I’m moving to State College and I’m an artist, and I want to meet other artists.” So we invite them in, either to a class or to one of our receptions, and right away they network with people.

Mimi: So with the anniversary of the Arts Festival, something incredible to celebrate, it’s also incredible to celebrate how all of the artists are stepping up to the plate here. Why do you think

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Steve Maruszewski: The physical side of the 4th Twenty-four campuses, 22,000 acres of land, 32 million square feet of buildings… and space to set off more than 10,800 fireworks shells on July 4. That’s what Steve Maruszewski and Penn State’s Office of Physical Plant’s workforce of 1,350 professional, technical service, and administrative employees steward. As the assistant vice president for physical plant, Maruszewski oversees daily maintenance, facility design and construction, environmental sustainability, and much more.

“I love being able to interact with individuals across the institution, whether carpenter, custodian, professor, or president,” he says.

A Penn State architectural engineering alumnus, Maruszewski began working for the university in 1995. He gives back to both town and gown as an advisor for the student food pantry, co-leader of the Common Food pantry in Worth Township, board member for ClearWater Conservancy, and advisory board member for Millbrook Marsh.

Maruszewski’s office handles physical arrangements for all major events on campus, including this month’s volunteer-led Central PA 4th Fest. “Basically, I worked to help simplify the process, finding out what was most effective for the Office of Physical Plant to do, to make the 4th Fest as economical as possible.” On the evening of July 4, he and Donna, his wife of 36 years along with their extended family will be among the thousands of people enjoying the results as they watch the fireworks.

The Penn State Bookstore thanks Steve Maruszewski and all faculty and staff who carry out the university’s mission every day.

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that happened?

Marie: I think it’s because of the people who live here, and when you have a museum like the Palmer Museum, which is, as everyone knows, such an outstanding museum. When you’re looking at that kind of quality … that is why I am not surprised that our Arts Festival is considered one of the best in the United States, and it’s still here 50 years later and still doing great. It doesn’t surprise me in the least, and it’s because of the people in this community.

Mimi: We keep integrating new people who rise to the task, which doesn’t always happen.

Marie: Our younger, new members are wonderful.

Mimi: How can the festival get even better?

Any thoughts?

Marie: I think it’s fun when new ideas come into the festival, and I think that’s really important because many people, not just people in Centre County but people from everywhere, come every year.

Mimi: What are the challenges facing arts organizations going forward?

Marie: All nonprofit organizations face financial

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challenges. When the economy tanked, funds were cut from the National Endowment for the Arts, affecting state art organizations such as Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and that trickled down to cuts on the local level. We all depend on support from individuals and businesses, and in this community, they are very generous. We wouldn’t be at this level without them.

Mimi: A lot of the businesses are tremendously generous to the arts. They wouldn’t be at the levels that they are without them. They encourage more people to participate in the organizations that make this a great place to live, work, and play.

Marie: Because that gets you involved in the community. Even though you just moved here, you’re suddenly part of the community.

Mimi: On behalf of the whole community, I want to thank you as one of a number of great leaders of the arts community in Happy Valley.

And as we celebrate the 50th festival, you and I can bask in the glory that we were here when it really started!

Marie: Thank you! This has been fun! T&G

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State College Photo Club’s

Winning Photos

The State College Photo Club provides photo enthusiasts with the opportunity to share their passion for photography with others and to provide an environment for learning and developing new skills. The club welcomes individuals from amateurs to professionals. The club also holds a bimonthly competition.

Town&Gown is pleased to present the winning images from the club’s competition.

Shown this month are the first-place winners from the judged April photo-essay competition.

Each photographer was asked to submit one photo representative of an entire body of work from their multimedia photo essay. Themes for each photo essay are of the photographer’s own choosing.

“A Gallery of Infrared Photographs from Around Centre County”

by Ernest Erdeky

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April Photo Essay First Place

“My photo essay was a collection of 27 infrared photographs, which were taken this past year. The essay was a slideshow presentation set to music, and each photograph was framed using a software program. One of the photographs was this picture of Egg Hill Church.”

“Americana” by Kathy Smith April Photo Essay Second Place

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“A photo essay based on two local events, the Huntington Rodeo and the Pow Wow held in Boalsburg. The essay, set to music, captures the emotions of pride and defeat. This picture, titled ‘Hard Fought,’ was included in this essay.”

A copy of many photos taken by members of the State College Photo Club may be obtained with a $75 contribution to the Salvation Army of Centre County. Contact Captain Charles Niedermeyer at (814) 861-1785 for more information.

The State College Photo Club meets on the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Foxdale Village Auditorium.

Visit statecollegephotoclub.org for more information about how to join.

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An Artist of Many Dimensions New PSU laureate enjoys sharing appreciation for the arts, both old and new

By Madison Lippincott As a student at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Rebecca Strzelec started as a painting major. In her classes, however, she soon realized she might need to change her major.

“I realized I wasn’t as good as I thought I was at painting,” she says. “Everyone around me was so good, and I was just OK. So I started experimenting with all of the various majors at the school. I majored in almost everything at Tyler and then changed my mind. That’s how I ended up in metals.”

Strzelec earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in metals, jewelry, and CAD-CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing). Besides exhibiting her work in more than 65 exhibitions, she is a professor of visual arts at Penn State Altoona and, as of July 1, is the Penn State laureate for the 2016-17 academic year.

Established in 2008, the Penn State laureate is a fulltime faculty member in the arts or humanities who is assigned half time for one academic year to bring greater visibility to the arts, the humanities, and the university as well as his or her own work.

“I’m honored to have been selected because I get to share my work and what’s going on in the arts at the university for a whole year,” Strzelec says. “It presents an awesome opportunity. I don’t think many people understand what artists do in academia when it comes to their research and creative activity. I’ll be able to define that, speak to my role in teaching young people to make and appreciate art as well as demonstrate how artists use technology, science, and narrative all at once.”

Strzelec’s work focuses on investigating the ways wearable objects interact with the surfaces of the body and includes the creation of these objects through computer-aided design or 3D printing. Recently, Penn State Altoona started a lab, the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Printing, or The CAMP, which has a collection of digital input and output technologies, including 3D printing and 3D scanning.

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to just anyone who will listen,” she says. “I also love teaching a 100-level intro class with zero technology.

Most of my students are from Central Pennsylvania, and their art viewing experience may be limited to the Altoona area. So you’re their museum, and you get to bring them everything!

It’s so exciting to be their resource.”

She says she wants to have the lab play a role in her year as laureate. She also, as one of the responsibilities in her position as laureate, will visit all 20 commonwealth campuses and hold various forms of talks, presentations, and exhibits. She also plans to reach out to different demographics.

“I’m going to do a course for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,” she says. “I’m really excited about outreach events. I love working with people who have little or no experience with 3D modeling on the computer. It is inspiring to see someone get excited about what I have to share. In a short amount of time, we can make something together and then I can 3D print it back at The CAMP at Penn State Altoona. It’ll be very cool for them to get their piece back in the mail. That’s what this is really about — demonstrating what we do and connecting new ideas.” T&G