AF4 I FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010 A crowd gathers on Allen Street to watch J.R. and Natalie perform on Thursday night Arts Fest straddles two By Brendan McNally COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER For some Penn State students, nighttime is when the real "Fest" begins. While alumni, parents and children take in the sights, sounds and smells of Arts Fest weekend during the day, those students will be waiting anxiously for the sun to go down. But visitors like Mary Lewis have been coming from out of town year after year to see what the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is really all about art. "Fm just walking around looking at all the art," Lewis, of Salamanca, N.Y., said. "I think it's great. I've been here every year." In all of Lewis' days at Arts Fest, she said Thursday may have been the hottest. The State College Police Department said it expects to handle medical emergencies related to the heat and is prepared to han dle any surge in calls. But the heat didn't seem to keep anyone away from the festival. People swarmed around hundreds of white tents lining the streets of State College scurrying into one tent, popping out of another. All the while they were scavenging through paintings, sculptures, glassware, clothing and handicrafts looking for a Chalk artists imitate masters on Hiester By Kathleen Loughran and Megan Rogers COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER For Abigail Cramer, Arts Fest was enough to cut her honeymoon The elementary school art teacher from Pennsbury Pa., has participated in the Italian Street Painting Festival at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts for 10 years. At the intersection of College Avenue and Hiester Street, Cramer will spend the weekend adding some Penn State pride to the street with an Old Main build ing recreation in the style of a famous Pennsylvania artist. Cramer, who a few years ago left her honeymoon early to partic ipate in Arts Fest, and the other street painters endure the majori ty of the festival kneeling on 104- degree pavement. To beat the heat, artists kneel on cardboard boxes and wear ice water-soaked bandanas around their necks. For the eleventh year in a row, Hiester will become home to chalk All the cool kids are doing DAY & great find to take home with them. The heat might not have kept anyone from visiting, but it certainly drew people to find something refreshing, and fresh squeezed lemonade seemed to be a favorite. Besides lemonade, refreshment stands were selling just about any festival food imaginable: funnel cake, snow cones, kettle corn and gyros. "Well. I always get the chicken on a stick," Charlie Kroboth, of Bellefonte, said. - But the food is usually pretty good all over the festival." Just a few hundred yards from the refreshment stands on Allen Street was Rich Cermak, who was waiting at the Allen Street Stage to hear some live music. Cermak, of Boalsburg, said he enjoys the broad range of music at Arts Fest, some of which is free of charge. "[The music] is excellent," he said. "Most groups have a good local flavor but some times you'll see something that gets close to a heavy metal sound. You really get the best of both worlds." Listeners seemed more than willing to brave the beating sun well into the evening to hear some of that "local flavor- But as the sun set and the air cooled, renditions of paintings by artists like da Vinci, Picasso and Delaunay. Since it first began, the street painting festivities have grown from four paintings to 24 images that are four feet by six feet, event coordinator Holly Foy said. Victoria Herr, a senior at State College Area High School, has returned for her second year. This year she is using chalk pastels to recreate - Eiffel Tower" by Delaunay. chose it I because of the col ors, and I really like the contrast in value," Herr said. "It was a lot more my style of art than the piece that I choose last year to do." Emma Nord, 6, and Jane Biddle, 8, spent Thursday morn ing working on a "Picasso face," Nord said. - It just kind of came off my mind, and we didn't have any other ideas," Nord said as she added color to her 18-inch square. The pair and other youngsters drew their masterpieces in the young artists' alley. For $5, patrons can buy a square and chalk pas- Fart a Niturm; The Best Deal in Town for Penn State Students If you plan on playing over 7 rounds this summer then this membership is well worth it! White Course The White Course provides a challenging alternative to the Blue Course. 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"[This one] is based off of Michael Jackson's song 'Smooth Criminal,' and since he died last year, I thought a lot of people would appreciate it if I did something attributed to him." The best part about street painting is you get to watch the artists in action, Foy said. The paintings will be washed away come Monday, Foy said so she advises visitors to stop by and watch the artists in action. But it's not just all watching, she said. Festival-goers can stand in designated circles to be positioned perfectly for a picture of them holding a leaping chalk frog. To e-mail reporters: krlslo6@psu.edu, mers2oo@psu.edu FREE "Lion Limo" 'Transportation.. Meets from across Rthe street ec. VW• lielease call 863 0257 for pick up. Collegia o r d Crosses State College Area High School students Sarah Chang and Miranda Holmes recreate Leonardo da Vinci's piece "Angel", with chalk. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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