B & W Vintage Photos Rendered in Color on Glazed Canvas 2024 - An Exciting New Product from Melvin Hale Gallery 2024 - Introducing Glazed Canvas, a crystal clear glaze over stretched artist-grade archival canvas, using the same archival inks we have used for over 20 years. The resulting finish is nothing short of amazing; a glassy clear finish protected by a UV-resistant non-toxic resin that makes the colors pop. Click here for more info. Introducing 12x19 Glazed Canvas Originals on Cradleboard. Introducing a new format of original and limited edition artwork. With the addition of our Glazed Canvas finish, it couldn't be a more rewarding time to acquire these travel-size artworks from Melvin Hale Gallery. Click here for more info. Beyond Colorizing 2024 - Dr. Melvin Hale introducing Beyond Colorizing to the library profession at the 2024 American Library Association's Annual Conference held at the San Diego Convention Center. Betty Jean at Sixteen 2022 - Finally restored and colorized this damaged photo of my mother taken in 1941. Flashback to March 2008 - Named Trendsetter by Art Business News Magazine. Flashback to 2001! Hale's Gallery By-the-Sea. Photo-op with a library science class. Conducting a library science class. Posing with Ellen-Rae and Amelia. UCLA Doctoral Commencement, Royce Hall, June 2014. February 2014 - Dissertation defense at UCLA. Toward a Unified Theory of Visual Knowledge in Library, Archives and Information Studies: A Test of the KBI Model Using Documentary Photographs Guest Lecturer: UCLA - Arts in Focus Class Oct. 27, 2012 - For the 4th year in a row I exhibited vintage postcards at the LA as Subject Archives Bazaar where over 80 major archives from around Southern California were represented. This year I was a featured presenter at the conference speaking on the topic "Wish You Were Here: Los Angeles in Postcards", alongside David Boule, author of The Orange and the Myth of California. Exhibitors this year included: The Academy Film Archive, California Historical Society, Claremont Colleges Special Collections, The Getty Research Institute, The Little Tokyo Historical Society, Los Angeles City Archives, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, Society of California Archivists, UC Irvine, UCLA Film & TV Archives, USC Digital Library, and The Writers Guild Foundation Library & Archive.
			June 2012 May 2012 - Fifteen Cent Burger Bar accepted into the 2012 97th Annual National Orange Show Art Exhibition The only digital painting in the show and it received an award! March 2012 - Conducting research on documentary photographs in the UCLA archives. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2011 - ArtistLA artwork featured on HipHop Weekly Magazine website May 2010 - Hale Honored for Academic Excellence by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block March 2009 - Hale awarded the prestigous Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship to attend UCLA. 2009 2008 2008 2008
			California State Fair
			2007
			2006 Car in the Cactus - First colorized photo