News & Events - Art Displays and Exhibits

March/April Displays

Paintings by Paul Baldassini
Paul Baldassini will display select paintings from his “Working Land” series during April in the Information Area on the 2nd floor of Russell Library, 123 Broad Street, Middletown.  He is a regional landscape painter who records his subject matter in a painterly realistic way similar to earlier representational artists.  As a professional graphic artist, designer, photographer and fine artist, Paul has been working with graphic images for over 30 years.  He says “I find a certain beauty in nature and man working together, hence my ‘Working Land’ series where I use the mundane to express the sublime.”

Flights of a Fancy
Middletown native Martin Benjamin will exhibit his photography and poetry in the lobby case on the lst floor of Russell Library, 123 Broad Street, Middletown.

Panda Bear Collection
Library staff member Harriet Diaz will be exhibiting her extensive collection of all types of panda bears in the first floor cases. She has been collecting these rare and popular bears since she was 9. Diaz says she loves these endangered animals because “They are big and gentle and make me happy.”