Louise Hamlin

Professor of Studio Art

Louise Hamlin (BFA University of Pennsylvania, New York Studio School in Paris and New York, Skowhegan School for Sculpture and Painting). Associate member of the Blue Mountain Gallery in NYC, represented by the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia. Her paintings, drawings, and prints are shown nationally in group and solo exhibitions. Awards or fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the New York Foundation for the arts, the Mellon Foundation, Vermont Council on the Arts, as well as Union and Dartmouth colleges, and residencies at the Djerassi Foundation in CA and the International School of Art in Italy. She has published art reviews, provided cover art for many books and literary magazines, and collaborated with Coffee House Press to produce a limited edition of hand-printed poems by 15 poets, each accompanied by her an etching of hers. Her work is included in many public and private collections, including the Walker Arts Center, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the University of Iowa, Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, Otterbein College, Dartmouth College, and the Wellington Management Co. She has taught at Union College, Vassar College, the State University of New York at Purchase, Queens College of the City University of New York, American University in Italy, The International School of Art in Italy, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Former department Chair, she is currently Area Head of Printmaking and faculty advisor to the Book Arts Workshop. She has taught painting, drawing, design, freshman and senior seminars, and printmaking.

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