Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

In addition to our photo gallery from the Arts Festival in State College, StateCollege.com has also compiled a photo gallery from the People’s Choice Festival in Boalsburg

Dan Lowenstein has worked in the timber industry since 1999, but his new business venture is slowly becoming a full-time gig. “If you would have told me a couple of years ago that it would turn into this, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Lowenstein says about his Reedsville-based business Red Hawk Premium Peppers. Lowenstein…

For years, State College resident Dan Baxter walked past exhibits at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of Arts swearing he could be one of the artists proudly displaying their work. Baxter finally stopped talking about it and decided to showcase his skills by building robots made out of of vintage items. “I remember saying,…

Curious shoppers packed Peyton Finkle’s window artwork tent earlier today as they looked through her marble-decorated masterpieces. “You should have seen the stuff here earlier,” one shopper says as they go to buy a small decoration. Finkle is part of a group of more than 240 young artists ranging in age from eight…

South Allen Street is filled with booths crammed full of art that is designed as sold by young artists. We’ve put together a photo gallery so you can see this year’s version of Arts Fest.

The band formed in the early 80s when Mincer and Williams were dating as freshmen at Penn State. One day the couple walked into a study lounge and heard Kocher’s voice and immediately recruited her to make a trio. After playing some coffeehouses around campus and expanding their set list, the band