HAMDEN ART LEAGUE
WELCOME to our New Members: Tom Reid and Amy Guerrette, both of Hamden, Kirsten Walker and her daughters Kay Walker and Tina Walker, all from Hamden. Winnie Kotchian of Cheshire and Terry Santino of Hamden are returning members.
Our Silverbells Art Exhibition was from December 6 through 22, 2011
Curt Hanson, a landscape artist, was Judge of Awards. There were 102 pieces in the show.
Special thanks to Co-Chairs Stephanie Arrell and Joan Lakin who organized the show, all those who solicited awards, those who hung the exhibit, Alice Jackson who designed the catalog, Mary Lou Horan whose painting was on the catalog cover, those who took down the exhibit and all those HAL members who brought wonderful food to our Reception.
CONGRATULATIONS to those HAL members who received awards:
Rose Bernabucci recipient of the first Joan Fresher Award of $300 given in memory of Joan
Johanne Mangi who was given the Whitney Center Award of $250
John Alvaro who received the Fred Astaire Dance Studio Award of $250
Sue Nally recipient of the Hamden Art League Award of $150
Amy Walker who received the TJB Landscape Award of $75
Elena Gerard who was given the Jackson Lewis LLP Award of $50
Susan Wolanic recipient of the Vera Nargi Award of $50
Janet Waldron who received the Abbott Printing Company Award of $50
Dolores Gall who was given the Scholfield and Vose Award of $50
Betty Sword who received the Gilded Lily Gallery Award of $25
In addition, Honorable Mentions were given to Tom Casso, Rita Brieger, Ed Kaechele, Betty Donahoe and Pamela Mancini
Vanita Manjunath will be part of a three-person exhibit at Case Memorial Library, 176 Tyler City Road in Orange, for the month of January. Opening Reception is Thursday, January 12, 5 to 7 pm. Library hours are Monday & Thursday, 10 am to 8 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday 10 am to 4 pm.
Rita Brieger, along with textile artist ,Owen Sea Luckey, will have an exhibit of her work from January 1 through 25 at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library in Stony Creek, 146 Thimble Islands Road, Branford. It is titled 4 THE BODY + 4 THE SOUL. Opening Reception is Sunday, January 8, from 4 to 6 pm with a rain/snow date of January 15. Hours are 10 am to 8 pm Mondays through Thursdays, 10 am to 5 pm Fridays and Saturdays, 1 to 4 pm Sundays.
Susan Nally, along with Anne Culver, will have an exhibit of her work at New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave., New Haven, March 14 - April 29, 2012.
An exhibit of oil paintings juxtaposing the expansive and intimate, Anne Culver presents "Wilderness" and Susan Nally brings us "Close to Home".
Anne's paintings explore the timeless forces of the natural world. Susan's figurative and still life paintings celebrate the familiar.
Paintings will hang in the lower rotunda and dining rooms, March 14- April 29, daily, 9 a.m.- 5p.m. Opening reception: Friday, March 23, 5-7 p.m. All are invited.
Ron Tonelli exhibits his paintings at Simply Pearls Gallery in Westbrook.
Location:
SIMPLY PEARLS The Gallery and More
SHOPS at WATER'S EDGE
1587 Boston Post Road
Westbrook, Ct. 06498
Moon Branches by Joan Lakin
Joan Lakin is exhibiting her paintings on a rotating basis at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Hamden at 2165 Dixwell Avenue. See her watercolors on Facebook at 'JFL Watercolors'.
Please send news about your coming exhibitions, awards and anything of interest to HAL members to Dolores Gall, 75 Charlton Hill, Hamden 06518 or email her at dmgall@aol.com