Featured Artist for 2025 Newtown Arts Festival

Meet our 2025 Artist: Paula Brinkman

Paula Art 2025 Festival

Paula has  created a minimalist interpretation of one of the doors of the Fairfield Hills duplexes for this year’s signature art for the 2025 Newtown Arts Festival. This design will be available at The Festival in t-shirts and posters. T-shirts will be black. The volunteer t-shirts will be royal blue with the same artwork.

Paula Brinkman’s two-year beautification project at Fairfield Hills that resulted in The Doors at Fairfield Hills and several painted windows on boarded up buildings, won her a grant from the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission .

She recruited  three artists to create new "front doors" for the duplexes at Fairfield Hills. Three other artists who collaborated on the Doors project were Dave Brooker, Julia Sikes-Provey, and Kristine Humber.

Paula also created the Signature Art for the 2019 Newtown Arts Festival.

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Past Year's Posters

2012 poster

2012 Newtown Arts Festival Poster designed by Tracy Van Buskirk. Poster designed by David Cole Wheeler

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2013 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration by Carol Collins. Poster Design by David Cole Wheeler and Linda Parsloe

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2014 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration by Julia Sikes Provey. Poster designed by Linda Parsloe and Nancy Cole

2015 poster

2015 Newtown Arts Festival Poster designed by Tracy Van Buskirk. Poster designed by David Cole Wheeler

2016 poster

2016 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration designed by Susanne Gilmore. Poster designed by David Cole Wheeler

2017-poster

2017 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration and Poster designed by Linda Parsloe

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2018 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration and Poster designed by Virginia Zimmerman

2019 Poster designed by Paula Brinkman

2019 Newtown Arts Festival Artwork designed by Paula Brinkman

Nancy's poster

2021 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration and Poster designed by Nancy Cole

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2022 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration and Poster designed by Ryan Patrick

2023 Newtown Arts Festival Poster

2023 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration and Poster designed by Kristine Humber

Artwork chosen for 2024 Festival theme

2024 Newtown Arts Festival Illustration and Poster designed by Karen Ciocca