At Bostwick Design Partnership, he is responsible for office management, project management, and marketing.īrennan is a registered architect in Pennsylvania, past chairman of the City of Erie Planning Commission, past president of the Northwest Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and is certified with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He is committed to the promotion of distinctive character of Greater Erie through community-based planning, urban design and historic preservation. She has published research on a variety of projects such building stones of the National Mall and Achaemenid Persian glazed bricks.īrennan is a professional architect, planner, President of Erie City Council, and the Erie office director at Bostwick Design Partnership. Her work includes the conservation of finishes at Mesa Verde National Park, creation of a Building Preservation Guide for the Library of Congress and a condition survey of masonry columns from the U.S. She has a MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. Joseph and was named one of the Dynamic Dozen by the Sisters of Mercy.Īllen has researched the history, architecture and people of Lincoln Avenue – the area in which she grew up – from Presque Isle Bay to the rowhouses at West 15 and Lincoln and leads a walking tour of the street.Īloiz is a proud 5th generation resident of Erie County and current transportation planner at the Erie County Department of Planning and Community Development. She received a Spirit of Courage Award from the Sisters of St. Allen is a board member of the Pennsylvania Society of News Editors, where she served as president, and the Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association. The newspaper’s editorial/op-ed pages won first-place for Division II in the 2013 Pennsylvania Newspaper of the Year contest. Many of her topics involved the current state and future of Erie neighborhoods. In 2011, the Erie Art Museum was awarded the nation’s highest honor for museums: The National Medal for Museum Service.Īllen is an Erie City Councilwoman and was the public editor at the Erie Times-News and wrote a Sunday column for the City & Region page, oversaw the newspaper’s Editorial Board, wrote daily editorials and edited contributed columns for the Op-Ed page. In 2010, Vanco was honored with the Governor’s Award for the Arts in Pennsylvania. He holds a bachelor’s in art history and history from Allegheny College. He has served on the Boards of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Pennsylvania Presenters, and Pennsylvania Federation of Museums. He is a frequent lecturer, essayist and exhibition juror and has served on advisory panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the state arts agencies in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Montana. Vanco has also curated the Museum’s Contemporary Music Series for over 30 years, and the annual Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival for 21 years. He supervised the museum’s LEED-certified building connecting five historic buildings into one complex that opened in 2010. Vanco is the past executive director and curator of the Erie Art Museum. His travel experiences, especially those throughout Europe, have served to increase his awareness of the value of preserving our historic structures. Born and raised in Erie, he has always had an interest in history and architecture. Meyer has also taught museum studies and historic preservation undergraduate courses.ĭahlstrand works for Erie Insurance. She has experience developing public programming and walking and driving tours, collecting oral histories, designing and installing exhibitions and wayside interpretive signage, publishing, and coordinating special events like festivals and symposiums. Meyer speaks frequently on the history of Erie County and consistently pursues avenues to share local history with all audiences. She is experienced as an historian, educator, project consultant, grant writer and nonprofit administrator.Īs a public historian, Ms. Meyer has worked with and served the heritage and arts communities of Northwestern Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years.
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