And that's a wrap!
Congrats to our 2022 Sidewalk Sale Award Winners
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is proud to award a total of $17,500 in prize money to 23 artists in the juried Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition. Our jurors return to State College to spend Thursday and Friday visiting every booth and scoring for awards. The prizes are announced at 9 am sharp at the Allen Street Stage.

Next year, these award winning artists will be invited back for 2023! The rest of the artists in the 2023 Sidewalk Sale & Exhibition will be juried in by a new team of jurors in February. To apply for next year's show, watch for the call for entries on our website around Thanksgiving. Applications will be due the third Friday of January.
Sierra Cole, Grand Rapids, MI, Fiber, Booth O-26

Awards of Merit ($550)
Bob & Ginny Mountz Award of Merit, Laura Wilder, Rochester, NY Printmaking, Booth R-17/18
John McCarthy Award of Merit in Wearable Fiber in Memory of Sharon McCarthy, Enid Kate O’Rourke, Manakin Sabo, VA, Booth B-31
Susan and Lewis Steinberg Award of Merit, David Levy, Davis, CA, Wood, Booth O-1/2
Margie Milgrub and Eileen Leibowitz Award of Merit, Amos Amit, Los Angeles, CA, Fiber, Booth M-37/38
Connections Clothing Award of Merit, Timm Chapman, Phoenix, AZ, Photography, Booth P-21/22
Rapid Transit Sports Award of Merit, Keith Andry, Baton Rouge, LA, Watercolor, Booth B-06
Maryann Schmidt, Galway, NY, Painting, Booth M-16
Z. L. Feng, Radford, VA, Watercolor, Booth R-01
Sheiko Kirby and Sarkis Chouljian, Placitas, NM, Jewelry, Booth B-15
Tomas Savrda, Kent, CT, Mixed Media, 3D, Booth A-08
 
Awards of Distinction ($700)
Shuey Family Award of Distinction in Memory of Naomi Shuey, Sidney Carter, Powder Springs, GA, Painting, Booth P-12
Joan Brower Award of Distinction, William Ortman, Columbus, OH, Glass, Booth M-19
Janet Chico, Los Angeles, CA, Fiber, Booth M-39

Awards of Excellence ($825)
The John C. Mason Award for Excellence in Jewelry Design, Wayne Werner, Havre de Grace, MD, Jewelry, Booth A-15
Honey Jaffe Memorial Award, David Benyosef, Somerville, MA Glass, Booth R-31
Mitch Lyons Memorial Award, Marie-Helene Grabman, Fort Mill, SC, Paper, Booth M-42
Duff Family Award of Excellence, Robert Flowers, Summerfield, NC Watercolor, Booth P-19
Fine Arts Award in Memory of Dick Baney ($1,750), presented by Jennifer Karch
Aileen Lampman, Pittsburgh, PA Jewelry, Booth A-38

Arete Best of Show ($2,800), presented by Linda Gall
Paveen "Beer" Chunhaswasdikul, Gadsden, AL  Ceramic. Booth P-27
Thank you to Platinum Sponsor AccuWeather for their generous financial support of the Festival Shell Stage on Old Main Lawn and the Sidney Friedman Park Stage!
Images 2022 Juried Exhibition Awards
Best of Show:  Anni Matsick, Welcome In sponsored by State College Framing Company & Gallery
William D. Davis Memorial Drawing Award:  Jennifer Kelly, Julia Googlia sponsored by the Sturtz-Davis family
Best Photograph:  Andrew Dierks, The Land Beyond sponsored by the State College Photo Club
Award of Merit:  Alex Ramos, Bramble 
sponsored by the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania
Award of Merit:  Larry Brandstatter, Spike n’ Louis sponsored by Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County
Award of Merit:  Nancy Burch Brassington, Nick in Agony sponsored by Joyce Robinson & Norman Spivey
Award of Merit:  Marty Edmunds, The Gardener sponsored by Schlow Library Foundation
Don't forget to vote for our Viewers' Choice Award until July 30! Scan the QR Code at the Images Exhibition at Schlow Library and tell us your favorite piece. You have one more week to see them before they are gone.

Please direct purchase inquiries to jshuey@arts-festival.com.
2022 Banner Competition winners
Banners have been part of the Festival since the first Festival in 1967, and there are now over 300 in the Festival’s collection. This year’s banner judges were Cindy Schultz and Laura Robinson. 

Youth Class - entrants under 18 years old
Gabrielle Graves, Beautiful Reflection
 
General Class—adults who do not work in the fiber arts
Second place: Donna Queeney, Up, Up, and Away!
First place: Ginny Cooper, Arts Festival Blooms Again

Professional Class—adults who work in the fiber arts
Second place: Marty Edmunds, Neon Rhythms from the Jester’s Flute 
First place: Joanie Eyster, Welcome Back!
Carolyn Donaldson is our Volunteer of the Year!
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts' Volunteer of the Year Award is named after Brian Ebright, our first intern, a Penn State student who was killed in an auto accident while driving to a job interview shortly after his internship ended. The award recognizes both hard work and joie de vivre. Our 2022 winner has oodles of both.

The festival staff wonders if she ever sleeps. If there’s an event in town, she’s there. And she’s not just there as a lady who lunches, smiling for the camera trying to be a bold faced name. She really pitches in and works. In addition to serving on the festival’s board, she helped out at Children and Youth Day, worked as a Sidewalk Sale ambassador, filled in on the trash crew, introduced performers, and after doing all of that, she had the unenviable task of shutting down the bar at our benefit party. And she was perennially cheerful during all of this. How does she do it? we have no idea! Ladies and gentlemen... Carolyn Donaldson.
Thank you Penn State Health
Penn State Health was proud to sponsor this year’s Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Children and Youth Day on Wednesday, July 13th. It was a wonderful opportunity for our staff to meet you, and interact with your children. We certainly enjoyed the various activities we had planned for the day at Sydney Friedman Park, and we’re thrilled with the turn-out we received with the get-well cards your families created for the kids at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. We received over 243 finished cards, and we can’t thank you enough for your heartwarming messages and beautiful designs. We can’t wait to deliver them to the children!

Our children are the future, and that’s why taking care of their health is so important to all of us. Our pediatric cardiology, dermatology, orthopaedic, and surgical specialists provide state-of-the-art care at convenient State College locations. You don’t have to be affiliated with Penn State to receive care from Penn State Health!

Penn State Health uniquely combines the expertise and research of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the Penn State College of Medicine to offer comprehensive, personalized care to all Central Pennsylvania residents. Our Primary and Specialty Care providers treat patients of all ages and are accepting new patients. Call 814-235-2480 to schedule your annual check-up or school physicals. 

Discover research-driven care close to home by visiting pshcc.org/artofcare.
Festival Fudge ice cream at Berkey Creamery
Get it before it's gone! Our special flavor is only available for the month of July.
Our sponsors are integral partners in producing the Central Pennsylvania Festival Arts. Collectively they contribute nearly $150,000 to the Arts Festival's budget plus a whole lot more in in-kind services. We would like to acknowledge all of our amazing sponsors, big and small!
Community philanthropy is also at the very heart of this organization. Friends and fans of the Arts Festival contribute another $80,000 to make this event a reality.

Plus, nearly 600 volunteers work alongside our 3 staff to get it all done. We can't thank them enough for the energy and enthusiasm! Our core team of volunteers lead critical components of the Festival with dedication and a ton of institutional knowledge. Our volunteers rock!