Sprocket Mural Works and artist Suzanne Rende completed this mural in September in Harrisburg.
A Harrisburg-based mural group and a long-time arts advocate are the 2024 recipients of the esteemed “Arts Awards.”
On Thursday, Theatre Harrisburg announced that Sprocket Mural Works and Carole DeSoto will receive awards for Distinguished Service to the Arts in the Capital Region.
“We deeply appreciate this incredible recognition,” said Meg Caruso, co-founder of Sprocket Mural Works. “This award not only honors our organization, but all the artists, volunteers and sponsors who have contributed so much to the mural arts in central Pennsylvania.”
Founded in 2014, Sprocket has mounted over 100 murals and other public art projects throughout the region.
In 2023, it partnered with Parliament Arts and Royal Square for several large-scale paintings in York. In Harrisburg, it organized a sizable mural on a building on N. 3rd and Cumberland streets, among other 2023 projects.
Carole DeSoto
The Arts Awards also will honor Carole DeSoto, a long-time volunteer and patron of the arts.
Among those benefitting from her philanthropy are Market Square Concerts, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Susquehanna Art Museum, Theatre Harrisburg, Art Association of Harrisburg, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Gretna Theatre, according to Theatre Harrisburg.
In 2003, DeSoto funded the Elizabethville Library Arts Series (now “Lively Minds”), which presents quarterly educational programs for adults, ranging from author visits and gardening classes to performances by musicians. She co-chaired the fundraising campaign and made the lead gift to build the DeSoto Amphitheatre for the Performing Arts at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg and was honored with the first Ned Smith Center Visionary Award.
Since 1989, the Awards for Distinguished Service to the Arts in the Capital Region have honored artists and arts leaders, philanthropists and visionaries, educators, organizations and companies. TheBurg received the award in 2020.
Theatre Harrisburg will present the 2024 awards on June 1 at a theatrical gala at Whitaker Center.
For more information on Theatre Harrisburg and the Arts Awards, visit their website.
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