Lurene Frantz Lurene Frantz left her home in New Jersey years ago to attend Penn State University, a move that some would consider to be fate. Marie Librizzi has been busy throughout the year preparing the Old Main Frame Shop and Gallery for the 30th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. When people think of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, many different things probably come to their minds, most of them centering around the University and downtown State College. Jan Kinney Storytelling isn't supposed to be a dangerous job. It's supposed to be cozy and safe.
All art is a collaborative effort.
In the realms of theatre and film, a variety of people work together to shape and form the final product, from the writer who first puts it all on paper right down to the man who paints the sets. Even in the case of the solitary poet or the lonely painter there is always someone, or something, that inspires their art. Whenever hundreds of thousands of people try to fit into a town the size of State College, things are bound to go wrong. Traditions serve as building blocks for festivals to come South Allen Street sprouts trees, flowers and a fountain through the magic of landscaping. A mound of sand slowly becomes a work of art at Central Parklet.