Silverbells Art Exhibition, Sale Details Announced In Hamden

HAMDEN, CT — (From the Hamden Art League): The public is invited to the Hamden Art league’s opening reception for its annual Silverbells Art Exhibition and Sale from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Dec. 10. The event will take place in the Social Hall of the Hamden Senior Center in the Miller Memorial Library Complex, 2901 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, with entrance around the back of the building.

This popular, festive event provides an opportunity for the public to meet the exhibiting artists and purchase their artworks. There will be tables of holiday food and drinks, a large raffle of art-related items, and a separate raffle of a watercolor donated by CT artist/illustrator Mike Eagle. The raffle proceeds support HAL’s Annual Scholarship Award to an artistically talented Hamden High Senior who will be continuing her/his study of art in college.

The highlight of the evening is the presentation of awards to the exhibition’s winning artists. This year more than $500 in monetary awards and gift certificates will be presented. The judge this year is Mia Brownell, Professor of Painting and Drawing at SCSU, and an award-winning artist whose works are widely exhibited both nationally and internationally.

The exhibition will be on display in the corridors of the Hamden Senior Center from Tuesday, Dec. 10 until Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, Mondays - Fridays, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Close to 90 original artworks in the exhibition will include paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolor, as well as graphics, pastels and mixed media. Hamden Art League members are residents of Hamden, New Haven and 14 other cities and towns in south central Connecticut. Non-member artists are also invited to enter HAL’s 2019 Silverbells Art Exhibition and Sale. Drop-off time for all submissions, by members and non-members, of one or two artworks each, is Tuesday, Dec. 3 from 4 - 6 p.m. sharp. Submission fees are $10 for each artwork for members, and $20 for each artwork for non-members. Non-members are certainly invited to join the Hamden Art League at the time of drop-off.

Both the Opening Reception and the 2019 Silverbells Art Exhibition and Sale are free and open to the public. If inclement weather closes the Miller Memorial Library Complex on Dec. 3 or Dec.10, the artworks drop-off, or the Opening Reception, will be postponed for that evening and rescheduled. For more information on the Hamden Art League, visit its Facebook page, its website at hamdenartleague.org, or call (203) 287-1322.