ArtsQuest has unveiled the official Musikfest 2025 Poster — with wet felting and needle felting, as well as embroidered accents, blending multiple fiber techniques to produce this unique artwork created by ArtsQuest Teaching Artist and Artist-in-Residence, Mallory Zondag, a mixed-media fiber artist. This is the first time in the festival’s 41-year festival that fiber techniques will represent the Musikfest Poster.

“We are thrilled to feature the work of artist Mallory Zondag for the 2025 Musikfest poster design. Mallory has been a teaching and exhibiting artist with ArtsQuest since 2017, as well as a rostered artist through our partnership with the PA Council on the Arts. This year’s design features fiber art techniques, which have never before been represented on the Musikfest poster,” said Lisa Harms, senior director of Visual Arts and Education. “Mallory is an accomplished artist who, in addition to teaching and exhibiting her work, has also created the popular ‘Touch Collection’ in the Sensory Space at The Banana Factory. Mallory’s work has impacted hundreds of students and adults through classes, residencies, workshops and more. We are excited to include unique workshop opportunities for the public as part of this year’s poster residency.”

Zondag describes ArtsQuest’s visual arts programming as having a positive impact on her life. Having taken classes at the Banana Factory when she was younger, Zondag participated in glass blowing classes, mosaics, ceramics and more.

“The Banana Factory was a place where people really helped to grow and influence my love of art,” Zondag said. “They really gave me, like a road map for how to make art into a career.”

Zondag is a mixed media fiber artist working as an artist and arts educator. Using textile arts to tell stories about the natural world and our place within it, Zondag shares her artistic skills and ideas through workshops, community art programs and exhibits around the Northeast.

Zondag’s work, rooted in the natural world, uses imagery and phenomena to mirror our lives and our experiences. Connecting the Musikfest Poster art to this idea, Zondag’s artwork shows how the “ecosystem of our community” truly works.

“Thinking about the design, I wanted to take all of the landmark buildings from both the North and South-Sides to show they are all connected through an entangled root system,” explained Zondag. “I actually used music staffs for some of the roots to represent Musikfest and the music that brings people in our community and beyond together.”

Musikfest is set for Aug. 1 to 10 with a preview night on July 31. Additional details will be announced about the nation’s largest free non-gates music festival throughout the year. Visit musikfest.org for more information.