Plein Air Events
Our next plein air gathering will be held at Chaffinch Island Park in Guilford.  We will meet on Thursday, October 28, at 10:00 a.m.  Public restrooms are available.  Rain cancels.
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No RSVP is needed and all are welcome.
Bring your lunch, if you wish.
Hope to see you there!
Directions
  • I-95 North to exit 58 (Route 77) in Guilford.
  • Turn right onto Route 77 south (Church Street) and continue for approximately .8 mile to the center of Guilford. 
  • Turn right (west) onto Broad Street and then a quick left onto Whitfield Street, driving along the west side of the town Green. 
  • At the south end of the Green, turn right onto Route 146 (Water Street) and go 1 mile, taking care to stay on 146 at the intersection of Jacobs Lane. 
  • Drive along a marsh area and turn left onto Mulberry Point Road. 
  • Go over the railroad bridge and south on Mulberry Point Road for .5 mile. 
  • Turn left onto Chaffinch Island Road.  (Take care.  This turn is a bit hard to see.)
  • Go .7 mile to the end of Chaffinch Island Road where the Park is located.

Monthly Meetings

                                                   November 9:  Karleen Loughran, “Solar Plate Printmaking”
                                                   December:  Silverbells Exhibition
                                                    January 11:  Ed Magnotti, “Oil Plein Air With Architecture”
                                                    February 8:  Jack Montmeat, “Charcoal Portrait Fundamentals”
                                                    March 8:  Candace Bialczak, “Bold Watercolor Botanicals”
                                                    April:  Goldenbells Exhibition
                                                    May 10:  Eric March, “Composing With Figures”
November 9
The Hamden Art League is very happy to be continuing its 2021-2022 season of in-person meetings on Tuesday, November 9, with the presentation of “Solar Plate Etching“ (printing with the sun) by Connecticut abstract artist
Karleen Loughran.
Ms. Loughran will demonstrate how to etch and print a plate just using ultraviolet rays of the sun.  She learned this chemical-free technique from master printmaker Dan Welden, who brought it to the United States from Germany back in the 80s and has been refining it ever since.  In this demonstration, you will learn how to prepare a plate for printing, expose the plate, cure the plate and then print your image.  She asks that you, “Just bring a good amount of curiosity and adventure!”
Contemporary artist/painter/printmaker, Ms. Loughran has been working in her studio and as a teacher for over four decades, primarily in the two dimensional arts, exploring and refining her own vision.  At the same time, she's been creating community with colleagues and students throughout the greater New Haven area.
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Karleen Loughran, "Heartstrings," Solar Plate Etching, 10 x 8 in.
"My primary source for my work are the marks I add to the surface, whether it is a canvas or plate. All else evolves from there, the texture and color, movement, and depth. I don't always have something specific in mind, just a feeling or emotion that often evolves as the meaning begins to surface.  Working with color gives me great pleasure.  I love manipulating it and mingling it with the lines and texture, teasing out shapes and forms amidst the entangled atmospheres.  I experience a deep joy of working with these timeless formal elements.”
Ms. Loughran has been exhibiting throughout Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts since 1978 in a number of solo and two person shows, as well as close to sixty group and juried shows.  She is a frequent participant in the New Haven Paint and Clay member shows (with two awards), the New Britain Museum of American Art members shows and the Citywide Open Studio Tours Artspace, in New Haven, and is also a member of the Silvermine Guild in New Canaan. Karleen’s work is in corporate collections in several states, including Connecticut.  She earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and earned her BFA from Michigan State University.   Ms. Loughran is currently exhibiting in the Members’ Juried Exhibition, PAAM, Provincetown MA.
Our social gathering begins at 7:00 pm with masks and social distancing.   A brief business meeting will follow.  The demo begins at 7:30 and runs until 8:45 pm.  We will NOT serve food or beverages.  We will sign in and give a phone number, in case there is a need for contact tracing.

Hamden Art League meetings are held in the Social Hall of the Hamden Senior Center, 2901 Dixwell Avenue, behind the Miller Library.  If the library is closed due to inclement weather, the HAL meeting will be cancelled.  Visit the Hamden Public Library website, hamdenlibrary.org/, for the library's schedule.