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Want to be considered as our 2010 Featured artist? You will be given supplies to create a piece of art as you demonstrate your craft at the Festival.
Send us a message with your background/samples...
We also welcome interactive art projects for 2010 - send us your ideas.

Spotlight on Our 2009 Featured artist: Matt Nixon, of Easton PA.

About Matt Nixon:
Now a College Hill / Easton PA native, Matt Nixon is originally from Phillipsburg NJ. He began painting murals over 10 years ago, and was recently commissioned by the Easton City Council to paint a new mural on the bridge which you can see where 611 begins in town (above). His first mural was at the old Reda Sportswear complex,in West Easton and he also painted a mural @ the 42 n. 2nd St. Salon in downtown Easton. Matt has also painted some murals in NYC and received commissions to paint murals for the Waldorf Astoria and the Manhattan Sheraton, where you can still see them today. Matt has shown his work in NY, Pittsburg, NJ and the Lehigh valley.

Matt worked as a designer for a while @ American Standard and is currently Matt is currently working as a technical illustrator... his most recent murals are on the side of Tracey's Coffee Cafe in College Hill & at the Italian American Cultura Club bocce court, in the 400-block of Northampton St. in downtown Easton... Matt cites American muralist Thomas Hart Benton, Muralist Diego Rivera, and Edward Hopper as important influences on his work. "I try to catch the most extreme moment of action in my work, like a photograph," comments Matt, on his style. ~ from an Easton IRREGULAR article, feb. 2008.

Recently Matt has also been branching out with very creative oil-painting, as exhibited in the Mercantile Home Gallery @ 526 Northampton St. in Easton... I had the chance to see these at the last opening here, and his 'robotics' paintings are delightful - each holding it's own special surprise. Worth a trip to Mercantile Home! ~ ellen.

The Riverside Festival of the Arts is under the non-profit umbrella organization of ACE - the artists' community of Easton.