Visiting Artist Lecture - Jon Sideriadis, Illustrator

Jon is an award-winning illustrator, author, and professor. His specialties are fantasy art, writing, and world building. Jon was the head of the Illustration program at the University of New Haven for many years, but now teaches one painting course at Tunxis while painting and writing full-time. He has taught world building and art history in Rhodes, Greece. He has also lectured and taught workshops throughout the east coast. His work has been published in film, television, video games, novels, comics, album art, board games, and trading cards. Jon has worked in Hollywood as a creature-effects artist and sculptor on feature films including Godzilla and Underworld Evolution. His work is displayed in solo and group shows throughout the country and he is internationally acclaimed in the illustration field.

Jon is regularly invited as a Guest of Honor to illustration conventions and exhibits work with the finest fantasy and science fiction illustrators in the business. He has been hired by companies like Hasbro, Dwarven Forge, Napa Auto Parts, Goodman Games, and Hit Point Press as a freelance and in-house illustrator. 

Jon is writing and illustrating an original mythology series called Astromythos, and is currently completing the second book in the series. He has also written and illustrated a fifth-edition D&D adventure book published by Hit Point Press called Lair of the Spider Lord, which is available on the shop page of his website. Jon received his bachelor’s degree in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, and his master’s at Hartford Art School’s Illustration MFA Program. He lives with his wife, Carolyn and son, Theseus in central Connecticut.

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