Published December 16. 2025 12:22PM<\/p>\n
The ArtsQuest Foundation honored this year\u2019s Linny Awards recipients Oct. 23 at the Musikfest Caf\u00e9, ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Linny Awards recipients include:<\/p>\n
Lifetime Achievement Award: Thomas M. Riddle, CPA, CFP<\/p>\n
Philanthropy in the Arts Award: Chuck Stehly<\/p>\n
Business Supporter of the Arts Award: PPL Foundation (Lissette Santana accepting on their behalf)<\/p>\n
Emerging Artist of the Year: Jake Supreme<\/p>\n
Visual Artist of the Year: Mallory Zondag<\/p>\n
Arts Educator of the Year: MaryJo Rosania Harvie<\/p>\n
Performing Artist of the Year: Matt Pfeiffer<\/p>\n
Student Artist Scholarship Award: Todd Croslis<\/p>\n
Volunteer of the Year: Jada Amirah Lewis<\/p>\n
Erika Petrozelli and Jennifer Ward presented their dad, Thomas M. Riddle, with his Lifetime Achievement Award. Riddle is founder and chairman of Valley Financial Advisers.<\/p>\n
The Bethlehem awardee toasted ArtsQuest President and CEO Kassie Hilgert and ArtsQuest while encouraging them to continue supporting \u201chuman-centered arts\u201d in the face of the \u201cgood and bad\u201d of emerging AI technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe arts are a critical component of a vibrant community,\u201d acknowledged Bethlehem Township entrepreneur and consultant Chuck Stehly as he accepted the Philanthropy in the Arts Award.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem Township resident Jada Amirah Lewis garnered the Volunteer of the Year honor. The 16-year-old has been active in volunteer work since she was six. Her latest project involves assisting school children with hydroponic gardening in an effort to address food insecurity. \u201cI will hopefully get to move on to another project and continue to help inspire the youth,\u201d said Lewis.<\/p>\n
For more than a quarter-century, Marlene \u201cLinny\u201d Fowler of Bethlehem worked tirelessly to elevate the Lehigh Valley\u2019s arts organizations and artists through her volunteerism and her support. Now, the region celebrates its flourishing arts community and honors Fowler\u2019s memory by taking part in the Linny Awards, the multidiscipline arts awards program focused on the greater Lehigh Valley\u2019s artists, innovators, and arts leaders.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit artsquest.org\/past-linny-awards-recipients\/<\/p>\n
Press photos by Ed CourrierThird from left, ArtsQuest President and CEO Kassie Hilgert gathers with the 2025 Linny Awards recipients for press photos at the end of the Oct. 23 awards ceremony. From left, are Chuck Stehly; Thomas M. Riddle, CPA, CFP; Hilgert; Lissette Santana on behalf of the PPL Foundation; Mallory Zondag; Matt Pfeiffer; Todd Croslis; MaryJo Rosania Harvie; Jake Supreme and Jada Amirah Lewis.<\/p>\n
Honoree Thomas M. Riddle, CPA, CFP, expresses gratitude for being awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Behind him, from left, are his daughters Jennifer Ward and Erika Petrozelli.<\/p>\n
Volunteer of the Year award recipient Jada Amirah Lewis was the evening\u2019s youngest honoree at age 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 16. 2025 12:22PM The ArtsQuest Foundation honored this year\u2019s Linny Awards recipients Oct. 23 at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-62580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}