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Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts™ State College, Pennsylvania July 12-15, 2012 ~ Children and Youth Day July 11, 2012 |
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Each year, the Arts Festival hangs over one hundred banners over the Festival route. Since each of these banners was once an entry in our Banner Competition. There’s plenty of time to join the fun and enter our 45th Banner Competition.
Entries are judged based on originality, craftsmanship and overall design. Cash prizes are award in three categories: professional, general, and youth.
Our 2011 Banner jurors are Kim Horn, Laura Millard, and Mary Moyer.
Kim Horn has lived around the corner from the Arts Fest for 11 years and always enjoys the front row seat to the hoopla. Her fine arts cred is low, but her craftiness is high, since she has been knitting and tackling other fiber arts since childhood. Her daughter is very excited to participate in the Arts Fest Kids Day for the first time this year. Kim's day job is as a typesetter for a translation company.
Laura Millard learned quilting, knitting, crocheting and weaving at her grandmother's knee deep in the heart of Appalachia at a time when those were necessary life skills more than art. Her Aunt Vada taught her to sew and since then, Laura has made wedding gowns and bride's maids dresses, men's and women's suits and competition dance costumes. Laura’s also is a jewelry maker, using beads, wire, and polymer clay.
After earning an undergraduate degree at Bucknell University, Mary Moyer taught art to grade school children in a creative arts summer program before she began a career as a family therapist. Art has always been an active part of her life, whether through teaching, creating or appreciating. Mary has experimented in many different modalities of art - including pastels, drawing and fiber arts to name a few.
The jurors will award prizes on the basis of creativity, originality, craftsmanship, durability, and design.
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts announced award winners in its 44th Banner Competition on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. First place, second place and an honorable mention were awarded to each of the entry classes: professional, general, and youth. Entries are judged based on originality, craftsmanship, creativity, durability, and overall design.
2010 Banner Winners
In the professional class, first place was won by Joanie Eyster of State College, for “Jester de los Piccaso”. The top prize in the professional class is $200.00. Ginny Cooper of Ocean View, NJ, was awarded second place for “Bargello Rhythms.” Honorable mention went to Cathleen Bradley and Dorothy Habecker of State College, for their banner “Thursday”.
In the general class, first place was awarded to Donna Queeny of State College for “Bubbling Up.” The top prize in the general category is $150.00. Second place was awarded to Cassidy Charles of Rockaway, NJ, for “Below? Look North”. Honorable mention was awarded to Lynne Heritage of Bellefonte for “Happy Volley”.
In the youth division, first place went to the Centre Learning Community Charter School in State College, Elana and Kyle’s Team, for their banner “Create”. The top prize in the youth category is $100.00. Second place went to Anna Pearl Belinda of State College, for “In Honor of Henry”. Honorable mention went to Ruthie Strauss, Jenny Groff and Emily Goodall of State College for “Pure Jeanius”.
This year’s banner judges were Barb Hunziker, Laura Millard and a junior judge, Maggie McConnell. Barb Hunziker, from Bellefonte, is a textile artist specializing in knitting. Laura Millard learned quilting, knitting, crocheting and weaving at a young age and has made wedding gowns and competition dance costumes. Millard is also a jewelry maker. Maggie McConnell of State College, the first junior judge in the competition’s history, brought a new perspective to the judging process this year.
Maura McConnell, the chair of the banner exhibition, is fiber artist living in State College. She said about the competition this year: “We are thrilled with the wonderful response to the banner competition this year, having more banners contributed than in several years past. Our entrants were varied, from youth to professional artists to casual artists treating us to many different mediums and techniques. Collectively joining our past contributors, they provide a colorful canopy swaying above the festival route.” Maura has volunteered with the Festival and at First Night® State College, leading children’s art and craft workshops.
Each year the competition entries join previous years’ banners in hanging above the Festival Route on Allen Street. About 100 banners are hung each year, and the collection continues to grow in variety as new artists enter their creations.
For more information on the annual banner contest, please contact the festival office at
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is partially sponsored by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
QUESTIONS? Contact us by phone or e-mail. The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is partially funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is partially funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, which invites you to visit other great Festivals in Pennsylvania. More information about these festivals can be found at www.visitPA.com. The Festival is a featured stop on the Route 45 Artists’ Trail, www.artthriveson45.org
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45th Annual Banner Exhibition and Competition 
