Ep 045 - Jeff Parks, Founder, ArtsQuest & Musikfest

Creative Confidential with Bryan Tuk

Jeffrey A. Parks is the Executive Director of the ArtsQuest Foundation, a support organization for the nonprofit arts and cultural organization ArtsQuest, based in Bethlehem, PA. Mr. Parks is also the founder and former President of ArtsQuest. Appointed to the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts by Governor Tom Corbett in 2014, Parks was appointed Chair of the Council by Governor Tom Wolf in December, 2016. ArtsQuest’s mission is building community through the arts, working towards this goal by offering arts, cultural and education programs every day of the year, while serving more than 1.5 million people annually. Mr. Parks is the principal founder of Musikfest, a 10-day music festival presented by ArtsQuest that features more than 500 live musical performances on 15 stages each August. With more than one million attending, the event is one of the largest music festivals in the United States. To visit the podcast's archives: http://creativeconfidential.net Follow the podcast on FaceBook and Twitter: @CreativeCnfdntl