Bio
Donna Festa has paintings in both public and private collections including the State Museum of Pennsylvania and Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami, Florida. Her work was published in the 2004 Mid-Atlantic region issue of New American Paintings and Manifest INPA, vol.1, 2011. She has worked for museums, art centers and public school systems teaching art and developed scholarship and after school arts programs for at risk children in Holyoke, Massachusetts through the Children's Museum at Holyoke. Currently, Donna is an adjunct professor within the art department of Delaware County Community College in Media, PA.
Donna is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she earned a four year certificate in painting, the University of the Arts also in Philadelphia where she received a BFA in painting with teacher certification and graduated Summa Cum Laude, and the University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut where she received an MFA in painting,
She resides in West Grove, Pennsylvania, with her husband and beloved dogs.