Stages in my journey since founding M Hale Gallery: (Reverse order from the bottom of this page) Betty Jean at Sixteen 2022 - I finally was able to rescue this photo of my mom taken in 1941 in Washington, D.C. Installing an original digital painting in an office at Sony Pictures. Click on the image to see the artwork. 50x30 gallery-wrapped on stretched canvas Photo-op with my LI815 class in Denver, Colorado. Flashback to 2001! Hale's Gallery By-the-Sea. Photo-op with my LI801 class in Orem, Utah. Conducting a lecture on Ethnolect & Cultural Appropriation in my Foundations of Library and Information Science Class at ESU. Posing with one of my two LI801 classes. Posing with Ellen-Rae and Amelia. GSE&IS Commencement. Wilson Plaza, June 14, 2014 Melvin Hale, UCLA Doctoral Commencement, Royce Hall, June 12, 2014 February 2014 - Dissertation defense at UCLA. Dissertation entitled: 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 16, 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! May 2012 Conducting research on documentary photographs in the UCLA archives March 2012 Melvin Hale presents film producer and actor Joey Travolta with a 40x20 Radio City - Hollywoodland limited edition in recognition for Joey's dedication to mentoring at-risk youth through his production company, Inclusion Films. With Melvin and Joey is budding screenwriter and college student, Taylor Vassell. January 2011 ArtistLA artwork featured on HipHop Weekly Magazine website Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2011 Melvin Hale Honored for Academic Excellence by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block May 2010 [ Melvin Hale awarded four year Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship to UCLA ] March 2009
			California State Fair