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Joan Benefiel named arts services coordinator for Salina Arts & Humanities
The Salina Journal
Brad Anderson, executive director of Salina Arts & Humanities, announced recently that Joan Benefiel has been selected as the agency’s new arts services coordinator.
Benefiel will oversee the Smoky Hill River Festival’s juried art show, demo artists, outdoor art installations and the Art Patron Program. She also will serve as the primary liaison to the Community Art & Design Program and its advisory committee, and will serve as a regional public art and visual arts resource
Benefiel, a Wichita native, most recently lived and worked in New York City and in Brooklyn, N.Y. In the last 17 years, Benefiel’s work as a sculptor has included commissions for the Vietnam Veteran’s War Monument in Eisenhower State Park in Long Island, N.Y., and to create a St. Ignatius Memorial for Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. ....

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