MURRYSVILLE ARTIST TO HAVE WORK FEATURED AT STATE CAPITAL

A Murrysville artist will have her work once again featured in the state capital.  The Trib reports 72-year-old Patty Kennedy-Zafred took first place in the “Art of the State” contest in 2022 with a silk-screened quilt called “American Portraits: Harvesting Hope” This year, she continued the series with “American Portraits: Deep Roots” using similar techniques.  The effect is a layered portrait, showing young laborers mingling with the names and logos of many of the companies that may have hired them back in the 1920s and ’30s. All of the winning entries in the “Art of the State” will be on display through Jan. 5 at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.