Check out the listing of artists participating in slide shows below!

While Plein Air Painters are on site, please respect their safety and enjoy their talents from a safe distance.

Susan Nichols Gephart:

Susan Nicholas Gephart is an award winning pastel and oil painter who has been creating colorful, impressionistic landscapes "plein air" for over forty years. She works and teaches in all mediums, and welcomes new students of all levels and mediums. Susan’s colorful, impressionistic plein air pastels and oils are in private and permanent collections across the country, including The Penn Stater Conference Center, Lock Haven University, and The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Susan is an Associate Member of the Pastel Society of America, and a Signature Member and the current president of the Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society. She also co-founded the Plein Air Painters of Central PA. She was a presenter at the 6th and 7th Annual Plein Air Conventions in San Diego, CA, and Santa Fe, New Mexico and returned as invited faculty for the 8th Annual Plein Air Convention in San Francisco, CA. In July 2018, Susan led the rst Sennelier-sponsored Brittany Skies & Seas workshop. Pierre-Yann Guidetti hosted the artist retreat at his family home in Kerrema, Brittany, France.

For more information visit www.snicholasart.com

Karl Eric Leitzel:

Karl Eric Leitzel is a central Pennsylvania native who has been painting for over thirty years. After concentrating on the genre of realistic wildlife art during the 1990s, he now paints a broader range of the landscape, often working en plein air (in the open air). "Much of my work is landscape-oriented because I never cease to be amazed by the beauty of the creation around us. I take deep satisfaction in being able to capture even a little of that in each piece I paint.” Karl is a Resident Artist and the Managing Partner at the Green Drake Gallery. He has had work included in the prestigious Birds in Art show at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin and in 2010 completed a large commissioned painting for Penn State that now hangs in the lobby of the beautiful Nittany Lion Inn. He is the founder and director of Landscape Artists International, an online collective that has grown to more than 200 members. Karl is also a signature member of International Plein Air Painters as well as the more local Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania.

WE ALSO WELCOME ADDITIONAL DEMONSTRATING ARTISTS TO LHJAMS. Click thru our gallery below to see some of their works. Several different media will be represented throughout the day.

List to be announced

Last year’s participants:

Susan Nicholas Gephart, painting / pastels

Tommy Grieco, painting

Jeff Kiefer, wood carving

Karl Leitzel, painting / instruments

Jeff Mathison, painting

Debra Moffitt, oil painting

Sam Saxton, caricatures

additional artists with booths:

List to be announced

Last year’s participants:

food & DRINKS & OTHERS

Food vendors will offer a wide variety of food and drinks on the street. Many City restaurants will offer outdoor cafe seating where you can listen to the musical performances while eating. Adult beverages can be purchased at participating restaurants but need to be consumed within the open container perimeter . Laws pertaining to alcohol consumption should be strictly followed.

Other artisan food creators and non-profit organizations will have booths with wonderful offerings for our visitors!

AGAIN THIS YEAR!!! more SIDEWALK CHALK ARTISTS!

Artist leader Holly Foy brings several talented artists to work with her on art at our festival which will expand on Grove Street next to the stage area.

Last year’s participants: Holly Foy, Willy Zayas, and Allison Laninger

Guillermo (Willy ) Zayas - Guillermo is a local Surreal artist in Central PA. His artwork has been displayed around the State College area and The Bellefonte Art Museum. Guillermo has been participating in the CPFA Street Painting Festival since 2014.

Allison Lanninger - Currently working at Penn State’s College of IST, a mom of one and an artist in her free time, Alison studied studio art and art history in Italy in 2009. In 2010 she helped with the Dreams Take Flight mural in State College and received her B.S. in Art Education from Penn State University. In 2013, she earned a M.Ed. in Art Museum Education from UT Austin. This was her 6th year in the Central Pa Festival of the Arts Street Painting Festival and 1st year as a Lock Haven Jams Fest artist.

Holly Foy - a retired art teacher, lives in Bellefonte PA and has coordinated the State College based Central PA Festival of the Arts Italian Street Painting since 2001. Her chalk drawings have been also been featured at the Bellefonte Art Museum, at the Bellefonte Chalk the Walk, commissioned works at the Mount Nittany Medical Center and at the Bottleworks Factory in Johnstown, PA.