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North End Gallery Walk

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Tonight, Middletown's North End Gallery Walk takes place from 5-8 p.m. with featured artists:

Green Street Arts Center is hosting the exhibit Astromythos by Jon Sideriadis, an accomplished freelance illustrator and writer and adjunct faculty member at Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford.  

In the tradition of the Epic poets, the fictional world of Astromythos presents an older, more sophisticated mode of storytelling to modern fans of fantasy and science fiction.  Heavily influenced by the art of the Byzantium and Illuminated Manuscripts, each of his intricately detailed paintings depicts an allegorical character or a scene from one of the fascinating myths of his magical Astromythos universe. 

Ursel's Web featured artist for is Sally Barr, who works in watercolor and will be doing a demonstration the night of the walk. She is known for both forest and beach scenes depicting birches in all seasons and wind sweep dunes. Her new work centers on rustic wood with hidden animals such as horse within the folds of the grains. 

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Tesoro has the artwork of Cindy Basset, who is prominent in the New Britain Art League and specializes in watercolor, charcoal and pastels.

MAC 650 will have the closing reception for Sandcastles in the Sky, featuring sandcastles created during the show by kids and adults as well as kid-created sea creatures swimming in a projected seas.

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The Buttonwood Tree will have artist Paul K. Mercado's "Between Earth and Sky," paintings of Puerto Rico and around the world. He was born in 1970 in New Britain and lived his earlier years in Puerto Rico, Traveling back and forth, he spent most of his childhood drawing landscapes and portraits even winning an art contest while in grammar school. Without formal education in drawing in pencil, charcoal and oil, he calls his work “therapeutic sessions” which are inspired by his surroundings.

Middletown Framing will feature:


  • Steve, Lauren, and their daughter Haily for a family group show. Haily Cryan is an artist, jewelry maker and illustrator from Old Saybrook who now lives in Deep River who grew up in a family full of creativity and art. She has spent the past two years freelancing out of New York City and developing her art career. She loves to make whimsical, fun artwork that comes alive in it's own narrative world. 

  • Lauren Cryan is an artist and teacher living in Old Saybrook. She works in watercolor, pastel and colored pencil to produce luminous, realistic still-life, landscape and portrait paintings. 

  • Steven Cryan graduated from Paier College of Art in the early 1970s. Since that time he has been painting maritime and railroad subjects. His luminous, realistic watercolors have won numerous awards and hang in private and corporate collections throughout the world. For 19 years, he has been the guest curator of the Connecticut River Museum's holiday exhibit Trains, Tracks and Trimmings, for which he designs and builds large operating HO train layouts. When not painting or modeling, he can be found playing harmonica and trombone with three different bands at a variety of local venues.

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