Inside the Arts September October 2017 Vol. 29, No. 5

Gears Turning for Lehigh Valley 2017-18 Project Stream Awards Amount Cultural Community by Zach Kleemeyer, Community Engagement Coordinator Allentown Public Theatre $1,854 n Wednesday, October 18th the Appalachian Fiddle and Bluegrass * $1,739 ONational Museum of Industrial Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission $1,470 History will host the Lehigh Valley Arts Council’s 12th annual Borough of Emmaus $1,854 ArtsCOUNT, an award ceremony, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community $1,549 arts rally, and membership reception. Center * DanceLink $1,446 Why? Because celebrating the arts propels advocating the value of the Friends of Alltentown Parks $1,470 arts. Join us! JCC of the Lehigh Valley * $1,718

Presenting grant awards – big check style – is the event’s defining Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival $1,610 spectacle, but equally enticing will be the interactive exhibits Kate Brandes * $611 around every corner of the museum. With $5,000 more available Lehigh Gap Nature Center * $1,409 in the Project Stream kitty for the 2017-18 granting cycle, the Arts Council is pleased to fund 26 projects – three more than last year! Lehigh University * $1,718 Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange $1,878 Of the community arts projects to be funded (see side chart), just over a third (38%) are newbies, set to receive their first ever Project Lehigh Valley Girls Rock * $1,611 Stream grant! Gears must be turning with so many new producers Memorial Library of Nazareth & Vicinity * $1,502 in the Valley. Do you know any of them? Mikayla's Voice * $1,425 Music, the universal language, was the most popular project Moravian College $1,398 discipline to be granted this year. Also strongly represented are Nora Suggs $1,156 dance and visual arts activities. Project descriptions are listed on the Arts Council’s website, and will be featured in the soon to Pioneer Band of Allentown $862 launch Facebook group: Lehigh Valley’s Project Stream. Creative Puertorrican Cultural Preservation $1,758 things are happening in the Valley. Follow along. Saucon Valley Conservancy * $1,696 Or better yet – get involved! Join us atArtsCOUNT , from 5:30 to Summit Hill Heritage Center $1,518 7:30 pm, in Southside Bethlehem, and meet the producers of the Ukrainian American Heritage Foundation $1,632 next community arts projects coming to the region. Valley Contra Dance Society $974 The celebration is free for Lehigh Valley Arts Council members WDiY 88.1 FM $2,070 and grantees, and $10 for nonmembers. West Park Civic Association $1,783 Can We Count On You? * denotes new grantee by Randall Forte, Executive Director “ hose Business is the Arts?” is a public forum, a provocative Valley Arts Council has rallied the community in support of the arts Wquestion and the proposition that the arts are vital to our for twenty-eight years. The future of the arts is everyone’s business local economy and to the health and welfare of its citizens. It is and the Lehigh Valley Arts Council invites you to get involved by the stuff of arts advocacy, the foundation upon which the Lehigh participating in these upcoming advocacy opportunities.

continued on page 2 ARTS COUNCIL MATTERS Can We Count On You? continued Arts & Access Always is an ongoing On September 8, 2017, the Whose program to encourage cultural Business is the Arts? public forum nonprofits to expand access by offering convenes at DeSales University grant incentives, marketing, and Center from 8:00 to 11:30 a.m. Data professional development support. collection and analysis are essential Our objective is to engage all citizens advocacy tools, and every five years in the Lehigh Valley, intentionally securing the participation the Lehigh Valley Arts Council partners with Americans for the of all abilities, regardless of physical, sensory, or cognitive Arts to administer the Arts & Economic Prosperity study and limitation, both as audience members and /or providers in the chart the growth of the nonprofit arts and culture industry. The dance, theatrical, musical, visual, literary or media arts. The Arts research enables us to detect market changes, recognize trends and Council is negotiating with comedian Josh Blue to return for a identify ways to stabilize this vital economic sector. Ninety-eight benefit performance in the Summer 2018, in order to raise funds to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in our region submitted support the program. their expenditure data and attendance figures for fiscal year ending 2015. The results have come in and are noteworthy on many levels: Arts advocacy requires an ongoing dialogue about the value and the impact of the arts in our communities. These are some of After twenty years of double-digit growth, the conversations taking place behind the scenes to help the arts attendance figures to nonprofit arts and cultural events thrive in our region. dropped by 1.4 million persons. The nonprofit arts and cultural industry remains a big business in the Lehigh Valley—generating a total Inside the Arts is a bimonthly publication of the Lehigh Valley of $186.4 million dollars annually in economic activity, Arts Council, 840 Hamilton St., Suite 201, Allentown, PA 18101. supporting nearly 7,000 full-time equivalent jobs, and Editor-in-Chief: Randall Forte delivering $18.8 million in local and state revenues. Call for submission guidelines: New items must be received by Arts engagement remains strong, as evidenced by the fifth of the month preceding publication. the 6,952 volunteers who donated 323,354 hours in 2015 to Phone: (610) 437-5915 Email: [email protected] these organizations. Fax: (610) 437-5259 Website: www.LVArtsCouncil.org Publication of Inside the Arts is supported in part by grants from The Power of Story project is an ongoing the Harry C. Trexler Trust, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, arts advocacy campaign that emphasizes and the County of Lehigh. through personal reflection how the arts transform lives. LVArtsCouncil.org/power- Board of Directors of-story is a new web portal to a collection President: Danielle Kulnis, People’s Security Bank & Trust of stories, which debuted in July and is Vice President: Karen Yeakel, Community Volunteer growing quickly. Add your voice in the medium of your choice: Treasurer Bruce Loch, Thurston Royce Gallery of Fine Art, Ltd. a song, a poem, a video, an image, or the written word. Be among Secretary: Samuel E. Cohen, Gross McGinley, LLP the first 100 stories submitted and your name will be entered into a Daniel Kainz, Sculptor drawing for a fine-art print. Gina Kormanik, Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board, Inc. Ann E. Lalik, Penn State Lehigh Valley Gallery October 18, 2017: Mark your calendar for the Stephen R. La Pierre, LTCI Ind. Eligibility Review Specialists ArtsCOUNT 2017 Member Rally and PPA Elizabeth Massa, Air Products Project Grant Awards ceremony, hosted by Tabatha Robinson-Scott, Monarch Dance Company the National Museum of Industrial History. Thomas Stathos, Community Volunteer This annual Fall reception always happens Todd Watkins, Lehigh University in October in honor of National Arts & Ex Officio: Humanities month, and introduces the new Randall Forte, Executive Director, Lehigh Valley Arts Council grant recipients and their projects to the community. Staff Lauren Beck, Operations Manager On March 10, 2018, Young at Art Zach Kleemeyer, Community returns for the third year of Engagement Coordinator programming to instill a love for the arts in young people, while also To promote the value of the providing a way for organizations to Our Mission: promote their unique educational arts, foster collaboration in the community, programs. This past year, the expo brought twenty community and encourage arts engagement for all groups to facilitate arts exploration, as well as provide information people in the Lehigh Valley. on summer camps and classes. We are pleased to report that we The Lehigh Valley Arts Council is a served 776 parents and children throughout the day—more than a Pennsylvania Partner in the Arts, a 200% increase over our inaugural year. program of the PCA.

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Champions ($2,500+) Mark J. Scoblionko Janice Weston Diane Lachemayer Air Products Foundation George & MaryLou Shortess Robert Williams Brian Landes Anonymous John & Sandra Soler Ursla & Edward Levy The Century Fund Friends ($25+) Nick & Jeanne Marie Maiale Charles H. Hoch Foundation Sponsors ($100+) Gary & Margaret R. Adamczyk Roberta & Norman Marcus County of Lehigh Marlene Ambrogio Anonymous Loren Marquardt Dexter F. Baker & Dorothy H. Hank & Joanne Barnette Warren & Linda Armstrong Robert & Linda Mericle Baker Foundation Steve & Diann Berry Megan Angelo Ellen Millard-Kern Discover Lehigh Valley Robert & Laura Black Sheryl & Rance Block Dr. James K. Miller East Penn Manufacturing Mary Bongiorno M. Wm. Boksenbaum Margaret Minneman Company, Inc. Bradley Pulverizing Co. Marc Bonanni Vanessa Moore W. Beall Fowler Richard & Juanita Bronstein Wendy Bookhultz Harley Newman Janet Goloub Tom & Diane Buchner Llyena Boylan & Jamie Paranicas & Jacob Pickle Harry C. Trexler Trust Catherine J. Capkovic Donald Spieth Henry & Phyllis Perkin Just Born, Inc. Peter & Nancy Cleff Merrill & Nancy Brenner Randall Douglas Perry Lehigh Valley Partnership Curtis Dretsch Cathy & Barry Britton Marianne & Stephen Phillips Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Robert & Anne Episcopo Frederic & Jennifer Brock Roger & Marie Phillips Sylvia Perkin Perpetual George & Jodi Ferr George & Elizabeth Brower Marilyn Roberts & Charitable Trust Natalie Foster Robert & Maureen Calder Sue Sneeringer Bob & Susan Gadomski Kathleen Conn Jim & Carol Redenbaugh Ambassadors ($1,000+) Jack & Sylvia Gallop Sally & Joseph Corvino Dr & Mrs Robert Rienzo Citizens for the Arts Malcolm & Janice Gross Percy & Anne Daugherty Alene & Michael Rose Embassy Bank Bernhart & Karen Hochleitner Lynn Davis Linda A. Rosenfeld Express Business Center, Inc. Charles & Dale Inlander Eva Derby Nancy Ruffner Randall & Johanna Forte John J. Zeiner & Sons Evelyn & Anthony DiCandia Karen & John Samuels Peoples Security Bank & Trust J. R. Peters Inc. Amy & Scott Diehl Jean & Theodore Sattler Thomas & Joanne Stathos Robert & Donna Knox Elsa Dimick Carl Schietrum Edwin & Karen Yeakel Stephanie & Robert Kricun Dries Building Supply Sara Woodward Schrum Henry & Laura Lawrence Jane Errera Lawrence & Marion Sheinberg Advocates ($500+) Diane Martin Michael Fegley & Sydney Ann Shollenberger Brown Daub Auto Dealerships Barbara Martyska & Mercedes Tonne Debi Short Christmas City Printing James Lieberman John & Maureen Fernbacher Pat Sickler & Len Parkin Peggy Whitney Hobbs Kathy McAuley & Michael Much Carol Front Megan & Ron Skinner Lehigh Gas Foundation Howard C. McGinn Michael & Patricia Foux Deborah A. Slahta Dawn Lennon Stephen Melnick & Mandy L. Gero Gloria Snyder Bruce & Pamela Loch Trucilla Sabatino Hon. & Mrs. James Knoll Wendy & David Steed Elizabeth Massa C. Steven & Rill Ann Miller Gardner Michael & Sybil Stershic PNC Moravian Academy John Garrity Elaine & Carl Stolpe Smooth-On, Inc. Jamie Musselman Jim & Marion Gewartowski Ronald & Barbara Todd & Nancy Watkins Bruce & Karen Nicholson Joseph & Marlene Gilley Zamborsky Stone Wells Fargo Philanthropy Fund Dr. Christine I. Oaklander Roy Goodman Maribeth Sublich Robert Pearce Gordon Groff Barbara Tracy Patrons ($250+) Ted & Gale Phillips Judith & Roy Haas Richard & Lidia Viehman Alvin H. Butz, Inc. Gillian & Scott Pidcock Deborah Hamsho Sonja & Clint Walker Edna Balmat Premiere Placement, Inc. Peter & Emilie Heesen Kenneth & Mary Weiland Kenneth & Susan Berkenstock Audrey Gardner Racines Richard Homa Arthur & Barbara Weinrach Sam Cohen & Cindi Boderman Dan & Liz Reinsmith Diane & C. Michael Hutchinson John & Betsy Wetzig Dolly & Lee Butz Robert Ruhe Douglas & Susanna Ihlenfeld Marta Whistler Charles & Joan Cole Ann Simmons Dzintra & Arturs Kalnins Constance White Fitzpatrick, Lentz & Bubba Roxanne Snyder Sally & Dave Keehn Gwen White Garden Design Inc. Ben Spalding, CISS Paul Keller & Patricia Daniel & Carol Shiner Wilson Sylvia Butz Gardner & Kathryn Stagl Gennaro Paul & Lucille Windt John Merton Gardner III Elizabeth & Philip Stelts Miriam Kiss Noreen Yamamoto & David & Gina Kormanik Shelley Stettner Barbara Kowitz Edwin Vincent Sherry Danielle & William Kulnis Ronald & Joan Stocker Jane Ellen Knotex Alice Yeakel John & Ann A. Lalik Trade Mark Printing William Kreider Ellen & Gary Zuby Stephen R. La Pierre Loretta Tryon Roland & Barbara Kushner Ellen Larmer & Daniel F. Kainz Ricardo Viera & Diane LaBelle & Names of recent donors Bob & Sandy Lovett Martha Marchena Norman Giradot (as of 8/28/17) are bolded. Blake & Marilyn Marles Elizabeth Warsaw Emily LaBoeuf

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Muhlenberg College Professor Roland The Lehigh Valley Arts Council is THE Kushner and Randy Cohen, VP of ONE proud to present the 5th “Whose Research and Policy at Americans for Business is the Arts?” public forum, INSIDE the Arts, recently co-authored an article LAST a conversation with business leaders, TRACK "Creating a Policy Index for the Arts" THOUGHT members of the arts community, that was published in the Stanford Social and foundation and government Innovation Review. The article tells the story of how the Arts representatives on the future of the arts in the Lehigh Valley. Index was developed and what can be learned from the saga for long-running policy index projects in other social sectors. The region has tremendous cultural resource that are vital to our local economy and to the health and welfare of its citizens. There Sandra Corpora’s oil painting “Birdland” was awarded Best are many questions to address, and foremost among them is: “How of Show in the Lehigh Art Alliance 82nd Annual Fall Juried do we co-exist while sustaining the growth of this industry in Exhibition at the 1869 Luckenbach Mill in Historic Bethlehem. an increasingly competitive market?” Ideally, the solutions will The exhibition runs through October 12th. emerge within the commitment to continue to work together with a regional perspective.

Regionalism encourages a larger world view and hopefully, a respect NEW MEMBERS for each other’s differences as well as recognizing our common Individual Household interests. Whether our organization is nonprofit or for profit, we Jane Ellen Knotek Carl Scheitrum are all businesses that have a philosophy or mission that directs Lainie Belcastro our activities. We all serve some geographic area within the Lehigh Susan Shelosky Valley. And most important, we serve the citizens of the Lehigh Valley.

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