Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in State College, PA near Penn State

Return to Innocence, Kathleen Kinsella, Sharonville, OH, 2006

Perennials, Michele Randall, State College, PA 2006

The Festival Jester in a Caravaggio Moment, Marty Edmunds, Boalsburg, PA, 2006

Look Who’s Forty, Joanie Eyster, State College, PA, 2006

Peace, Lynn Heritage, Bellefonte, PA 2004

For Every Child, Radio Park Elementary School, State College, PA 2002

Facing the Sun, Joanie Eyster, State College, PA 2004

Buzz, Leah Donell Stephenson, State College, PA 2004

Diving for Festival Treasures, Marty Edmunds, Boalsburg, PA 2004 - The Festival has over 100 banners in its collection. Many of them hang over the Festival route each July.

Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts™ State College, Pennsylvania

July 8-11, 2010 ~ Children's Day is July 7, 2010

IMAGES 2009

Robeson Gallery
HUB-Robeson Center
Penn State Campus
June 10 to July 12, 2009
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday
Extended Hours July 8 to 12.
July 8 to July 11; 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
July 12, noon to 5:00 p.m.

~ Map to the HUB Parking Deck

Images, a juried mid-Atlantic regional exhibition for fine art and fine craft is now in its twentieth first year. Sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Images has evolved into a well-respected show for both emerging and established artists. Images 2009 will hang in the Robeson Gallery on Penn State's University Park campus. The show will hang from June 10 to July 12, 2009.

JUROR

The Juror for Images 2009 will be Judith Hansen O'Toole, Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art was established as the Woods Marchand Foundation in 1949. The Museum opened its doors to the public in 1959 and its focus became the collection and exhibition of American and southwestern Pennsylvania art.

The Museum assembled a collection of works by significant American artists, concentrating on the mid-18th through the mid-20th centuries, including works by Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer, in addition to its well respected collection of works by southwestern Pennsylvania artists. The Museum has organized many important exhibitions, mostly recently Born of Fire: The Valley of Work, an exhibition focusing on the art, music, and history of Pittsburgh's Big Steel Era, which debuted at the Westmoreland in June 2006 before making its European travelling to Oberhausen, Germany in February 2007.

Holding degrees from the University of Minnesota, and The Pennsylvania State University,
Ms. O'Toole has published in the field of 19th and 20th American art in journals, museum catalogs, and books. Her work on George Luks includes the exhibition catalogs George Luks-Expressionist Master of Color: The Watercolors Rediscovered and George Luks: An American Artist. Columbia University Press published her most recent book, Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, in 2005.

O'Toole is a member of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the Pittsburgh Social Innovation Accelerator and has served on many boards and panels.

ESSAY FROM THE JUROR

Like an artist, a juror approaches objects from their own perspective and colored by their own history. Mine includes a stint as an art student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design before I realized my talents were more suited to art history. I have a deep respect for people who make things. As an art historian, I am interested in 19th century landscape and still-life painting, the Ashcan School, and early 20th century minimalism. I am attracted to luminism and color theory.

As a juror, I look for strong composition, exceptional use of color (or the lack thereof), technical skill, works that are conceptually interesting, thought provoking or contemplative, and honest. I respond to work that stretches or removes boundaries. I do not believe in the separation of craft and “high” art so the coming together, especially in the fabric pieces submitted this year, of formalist and utilitarian (or potentially utilitarian) was wonderful to see. The lack of a good number of sculptors was, as in all exhibitions it seems, disappointing, but those who submitted works were strong. The abundance of 2-dimensional pieces was both invigorating and daunting.

My goal was to create an exhibition that is diverse in style and medium yet fundamentally cohesive in vision. Just as I choose a variety of styles and objects to live with within the sphere of my taste, experience and respect for objects, so have I tried to put together works for the visitors to this exhibition to enjoy.

Many thanks to all who participated.

Judith H. O’Toole
April 2009

2009 Images Winners
Best in Show Catherine Day McLean, VA Ewell’s Funeral twisting figure Revington Arthur Award for Excellence in Painting Stephen March Spring Grove, PA Untitled (Paper Mill) William D. Davis Award in Drawing Barbara Metzner State College, PA In The Past	Awards of Merit Sandra Fine New York, NY Chinese Gallery #5 Christopher Wagner Erie, PA Finding Ones Legs Gone but Arms Long James Gwynne East Stroudsburg, PA Morning Sky Dominie Nash Bethesda, MD Stills From a life 30 Gordon Wenzel Danville, PA Confluence
2009 Images Artists
Darryl Abraham Naples, NY Doves mixed media 17 x 23 Night Stand mixed media 28 x 17	Leonette Adler Virginia Beach, VA The Pasture oil painting 30 x 36
Hope Alcorn Pittsburgh, PA Fuzzy Caterpillar acrylic on industrial wool 36 x 47	Jennifer Andrews Astoria, NY White Well oil on linen 47 x 75
Amy Beeler Oregon, OH A Necklace for Jennifer Sterling Silver 9 x 8 Eva's Fruit sterling silver, freshwater pearls 11 x 7	Augusto Bordelois Berea, OH They did what they had to do oil on canvas 48 x 60
Nancy Brassington Bellefonte, PA PA Houses oil 44 x 66	Carol Brooks State College, PA Nicole photography 8 x 10
Nancy Bruce Yorktown, VA Dry Well mixed reclaimed paper 48 x 36 Straight & Narrow mixed reclaimed paper 40 x 36	Kathleen Burk Ebensburg, PA Triple Grid colored pencil drawing 33 x 33
Catherine Day McLean, VA BEST IN SHOW Ewell's Funeral, twisting figure digital pigment print on fabric 33 x 36	Marty Edmunds Boalsburg, PA "Aftermath" oil on canvas 40 x 30
Sandra Fine New York, NY Award of Merit Chinese Gallery #5 pigment ink print 18 x 31	Jonathan Gibson Cincinnati, OH Carrier #1 digital paper collage 48 x 40 Ascender #2 Digital Paper Collage 48 x 40
Linda Goschke Philadelphia, PA Meadowlark (171) photograph 10.25 x 17.5 Orange Rose 2 photographic digital capture 15 x 12	James Gwynne East Stroudsburg, PA Award of Merit Morning Sky oil on canvas 70 x 65
David Hammaker East Freedom, PA North Star Laundry Archival Pigment Print 22 x 30	Sarah Harvey State College, PA \"My Country \ artist book 7 x 7
Passle Helminski Erie, PA Forte Tubular Knit 31 x 23	Tom Hlas Philadelphia, PA Distant Thought Acrylic on Wood Panel 8 x 8
E Joan Horrocks State College, PA untitled photograph 18 x 14	Alison Howard-Levy New York, NY Street Fair - from the Truck Archival inkjet print 16 x 21
Robert Hunter ColonialBeach, VA The Glory that was Rome Printing,Water Color,Colored Pencil, Ink 9 x 9	Ruth Kempner State College, PA Suspensions Mixed 14 x 11
Sharon Lee Port Matilda, PA Thought Bubbles acrylic on organic cotton canvas 38 x 38	Stephen March Spring Grove, PA Revington Arthur Award for Excellence in Painting Untitled (Paper Mill) acrylic on canvas 32 x 72
Darcy Meeker Blacksburg, VA Picasso Sister (AL) hand tooled aluminum, oils 15 x 11	Barbara Metzner State College, PA William D. Davis Award in Drawing In The Past Charcoal & Pastel 22 x 30
Nancy Moldofsky Worcester, PA As the Nights Grow Longer Photography 19 x 26 Zacharias Creek Mixed Media/Photography 19 x 26 Five Ancient Elements Mixed Media 20 x 54	Dominie Nash Bethesda, MD Award of Merit Stills From a life 30 fabric collage 79 x 79
Thomas Norulak Pittsburgh, PA Roots and Branches Etching 11 x 14	Carol Oldenburg York, PA Atlanta Garden Oil on Paper 30 x 40 Yellow Fields pastel 38 x 30
John Pacer Allentown, PA Nuclear Family Oil on Canvas 28 x 28	Peter Pepe Boalsburg, PA Understanding Front View oak, walnut, metal, concrete 32 x 15
Terri Perpich Vandergrift, PA Vessel of Vessels mixed media fiber 20 x 20	Judith Plotner Gloversville, NY River Notes Fiber Collage 25 x 51
Shawn Quinlan Pittsburgh, PA Look, Dick. Look, Jane Fiber/Quilt 37 x 47	Sue Reno Columbia, PA Cold Cave Fiber 34 x 38
Harriet Rosenberg Boalsburg, PA Homegirl 3 digital photography 20 x 16	Alan Spevak Millville, PA Wind digital photography 11 x 14
Bernadette Stillo Philadelphia, PA Silly Sally Spiral 'N Spout Stoneware clay 12 x 13 African Rhythms Candle vessel Terra Cotta Clay 10 x 4.5	Danielle Stingu Brooklyn, NY Apprehension Digital C-Print 40 x 40
Stuart Thompson Whitney, PA Moab: Land of the Arches oil on canvas 24 x 30	Nora Thompson Whitney, PA The Song Came and Went Acrylic on canvas 21 x 17
James Thurman University Park, PA Tectonic Plate 06-0803C detail digital print 14 x 19	Mare Vaccaro New York, NY Gray Ghost photograph-digital c-print 16 x 20
Christopher Wagner Erie, PA Award of Merit Finding Ones Legs Gone but Arms Long Driftwood, glass beads, milkpaint, and encaustic 9 x 25	Gordon Wenzel Danville, PA Award of Merit Confluence Giclee print on canvas 24 x 72