The Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission will be holding its biannual Tribute to the Arts Reception on Tuesday, Sept. 12 at Venture X in South Bethlehem from 5:30-7 p.m.

Tribute to the Arts recognizes and honors individuals and organizations who engage in exceptional artistic endeavors that enrich our community in lasting and meaningful ways.

This year’s honorees are Devyn Briggs, Jill Dunn, Eileen Wavrek Wescoe, and Clint Walker.

Devyn Briggs is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working in painting, ceramics, and fibers. Through her work, Devyn tries to capture, distill, and cultivate the aesthetic structures and harmonies that fascinate her. Devyn grew up in Bethlehem and studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to her artistic practice, she has worked in fine art collection management, creative startups, community and public art, nonprofit management, and higher education. She currently serves as the Adult and Community Programs Manager at the Allentown Art Museum and teaches art at Northampton Community College.

Jill Dunn is in her 11th season as the artistic director at Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. Upon graduation from Boston University in 1993, she moved to New York City to become a drama teacher at the Family Academy in Harlem. After two-years, she left to assume a position as Education Assistant at The New Victory Theater, where she was later promoted to the Associate Director of Education, and received her Master’s in Theatre Education from New York University. In 2007 Jill returned to Bethlehem and was offered the position of Outreach Director at PYT.

Shortly after Madeleine Ramsey retired in 2009 as Artistic Director, Jill assumed the position. She continues the PYT legacy of commitment to the education, empowerment and enrichment of children through the performing arts, in addition to supporting the next generation of theater practitioners.

Eileen Wavrek Wescoe is a prolific collaborative pianist who has been working with individual musicians, choral groups and instrumental ensembles for over 75 years. She began playing the piano at age six, and hasn’t stopped since. She continues to be in demand for rehearsals, concerts, religious services, recitals and private lessons in Bethlehem and beyond. Eileen accompanies individual vocal and instrumental students at Moravian and Lehigh universities, highlights of which include Master Classes with Yo-Yo Ma, Lawrence Brownlee and Frederica von Stade. In 2011 she received an Allentown Arts Commission Special Award for seven decades of Performance and Service.

Clint Walker moved to Bethlehem in 2001, eager to participate in an active Contra Dancing group! He quickly became involved in numerous volunteer activities. As a Penn State Master Gardener, Clint volunteered to help subdue the overgrown City Hall Sculpture Garden before its summer concert series. He subsequently joined the Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission, and maintained the garden beds for over a decade, preserving the best surviving plantings from the garden’s earlier days, while adding native plants for pollinators, and each spring putting in eye-candy annuals for their general appeal. In addition to gardening, Clint organized the files and records of the Commission, setting up an indexed, retrievable archive. The archive now serves as a resource for research and institutional memory.

Preregistration for the reception is required (www.bfac-lv.com). For addition information, contact president@bfac-lv.org.