Sandy Hook Festival Will Include Morshuk’s

Latest Meetinghouse Artwork

Merchants in and around Sandy Hook Center are coordinating their efforts to present the 2nd Annual Sandy Hook Arts and Crafts Festival. This year’s event will be presented on Saturday, May 3, from 10 am to 3 pm.

The festival will be presented in the businesses, parking lots, and along the sidewalks of Sandy Hook Center – the area at the intersection of Church Hill Road, Glen Road, Riverside Road and Berkshire Road. Plenty of parking areas will be set up, and all events will be within walking distance of each other.

Fine artists and crafters will be set up in the parking lot of The Little Green Barn, 4 Washington Avenue, as will a farmer’s market.

Also confirmed for this year is a hooked rug display at The Mill Antiques, at 111 Church Hill Road.

Children’s events will include face painting, crafts, pony rides and a petting zoo.

Free maps presenting the layout of events and parking locations will be available.

Meetinghouse Merlot

Sandy Hook Wine & Liquor, 102 Church Hill Road, will again host a wine tasting and artist label signing. McLaughlin Vineyards of Sandy Hook is about to release the 2000 vintage of merlot, called Meetinghouse Merlot, which will feature labels designed by the Sandy Hook-based artist Michael Morshuk.

Mr Morshuk will be at the liquor store to sign copies of his prints or right on the labels of bottles being purchased. A limited edition series of the prints is being produced for Sandy Hook Arts & Crafts Festival; the prints will also be available in the future at the vineyard.

The new image, the latest depicting Newtown’s historic meeting house by Mr Morshuk, focuses on the steeple and cupola of the circa 1720 building, and the rooster weathervane atop the meeting house. The background/sky area of the new painting fuse from a pale orange at the bottom of the image to a grassy green at the upper portion of the view.

The painting – and the print and label that will be featured on May 3 – exhibit Mr Morshuk’s eye for details and talent for re-creating on paper one of Newtown’s most beloved buidings.