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.

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FESTIVAL STAFF AND BOARD

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STAFF

 

 

In photo L to R: Diane Bloom, Rick Bryant and Carol Baney

 

 

 

 

About Our Staff

 

Rick Bryant, Executive Director

Rick Bryant

Rick Bryant joined the paid staff of the Festival as its Director of Visual Arts in 1999, though his involvement with the CPFA which stretches back to 1984 when he first volunteered on the Trash Crew. Rick was named Executive Director in 2005.

Born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania before the county hospital moved to State College, Rick attended public schools in State College, and afterward the University of Virginia, where he took a bachelor’s degree from the School of Architecture in 1979.

After college he entered the family insurance business and pursued professional education, earning a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter designation in 1986. He retired from the insurance business in 1998 to pursue other interests.

In addition to serving as a long time Festival volunteer, he served as a founding board member, and later as president of The AIDS Project, an independent AIDS service organization providing client services and education regarding HIV/AIDS in Centre and Clinton Counties. He was the treasurer of the Centre CARES steering committee, which hosted two visits of portions of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt (the largest community art project in the world), to State College/Penn State. He served as President of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, an independent art school founded in 1968. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Society for Commercial Archaeology.

Rick serves on the State College Board of Health and on the Community Advisory Board for Penn State’s Center for the Performing Arts and is Chairman of the State College Historic Resources Commission. He is also a member of the Board of Deacons of the State College Presbyterian Church.

 

Carol Baney, Operations Manager

Carol Baney

Carol Baney has been with the Festival for fifteen years. She is a native of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania and attended public schools there, and afterwards attended the Hagerstown Business College, Hagerstown, Maryland, where she received an Associate in Arts degree.

 

Following college, Carol worked at the Washington Hospital Center for twelve years as a medical assistant for the chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics, and also in the Office of Public Affairs and Marketing. Carol notes that the stress levels of the Festival do not compare to those of a large urban hospital.

In 2008 Carol was a guest of the management of the Lake Eden Arts Festival in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Carol studied recycling, scouted performers, met with festival management, recruited visual artists and festival sponsors. In 2010 she returned to Lake Eden Arts Festival as a member of the audience to learn about the visitor experience.

 

Carol has continued her post college education and earned an Associate in Liberal Arts degree from Penn State in 2009.

 

Carol holds a Master Gardener certification from Penn State Cooperative Extension and Emergency Medical Technician Certification from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Carol is responsible for the considerable and valuable presence of her family at the Festival and First Night® State College. Her parents, Dick and Shirley Baney, her brother Allen, her sister-in-law Katie, nephews Ross and Ian, answer the call for volunteers whenever it goes out. They tackle every task asked of them, from selling Festival buttons, to working in the office, to operating one of the Festival’s rented forklifts.

 

Diane Bloom, Director of Development

Diane Bloom Diane Bloom joined the Festival staff in January 2007. She worked for Penn State for 35 years, the last 31 at the Center for the Performing Arts where she was responsible for fundraising and special events. Obviously, her retirement was short lived!

Diane's approach to sponsorship is simple - create and nurture a partnership that is mutually beneficial. Diane’s interest and pursuits in photography have given her the title of “Designated Photographer” for the Festival office. She takes great pleasure in capturing not only photographs of sponsored Festival events and First Night ice sculptures and activities, but also of artists, art work, and volunteers. Many of the photos are shared with the sponsors and others, and also appear in promotional materials. Through these relationships, the Festival can continue to grow and thrive while the sponsors receive significant exposure and recognition.

Diane has served as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association as well as with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. On occasion, you will find her serving as classroom "grandparent" in the schools attended by the little ones. She takes great pleasure in nurturing her many gardens, which serve as a source of mental therapy. She and her husband, Barry, also "retired", enjoy traveling - both on their Harley as well as to places such as Alaska and the Caribbean. Part-time work has afforded more time with family and friends. They have two children, Krista and Jason, as well as three granddaughters, Paige, Katelyn and Julie and one new grandson, Parker. Destin, FL, serves as the extended Bloom family's annual family retreat.


Jane Ferraro, Festival Intern

 

Jane is a new member of the Festival staff for 2011 and is enthusiastic about becoming a part of the team as an intern. She will graduate in May 2012 from Penn State with a degree in Public Relations and minors in both Business and Event Planning. She grew up in upstate New York but plans to pursue her career aspirations elsewhere.

 

Jane never dreamed she would be studying at Penn State, and after three years, she is delighted to say that it has been an experience of a lifetime.

 

Penn State has made it possible for her to realize the opportunities available right in State College that will be a stepping stone in her journey to accomplish her career goals. She’s confident that her time on the arts festival crew will offer all sorts of opportunities to grow in her field of study.

 

After finishing her undergraduate degree, Jane hopes to attend graduate business school and study in sports and entertainment marketing. She is excited to see what the future holds for her.

 

 

                         

 

Meet The Arts Festival’s Board of Directors

To many people the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is something that “just happens” each summer. School lets out for the summer, and in what seems like the blink of an eye, the Festival is upon us. Landscapers, stage hands, musicians, artists, volunteers, all appear, and in their wake both State College and the Penn State campus are alive with visitors.

The festival is governed by a volunteer board of directors that determines the mission and goals of the organization. The Festival’s mission is ”to celebrate the arts with presentations of diverse, high-quality visual and performing arts through the cooperative volunteer support of the community and The Pennsylvania State University.” 

The Board of Directors is made up of men and women from both Penn State and the State College community.  They set policies, raise funds, monitor budgets, and of course, attend lots of meetings.

 









The 2011 Arts Festival Board of Directors: 


Left to right: Star Campbell, Deborah Marron, Bob Mountz, Anne Layng, Katherine Allen, Sally Kalin, Damon Sims,

Susan Steinberg, Tom Poole

Missing from photo: Adam Duff, Sue Haug, Bill Ryan


 


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