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After graduation from Rhode Island School of Design, Louise continued
printmaking, first at the
Experimental Etching Studio in Boston, and then at the
Louise received a MacDowell Fellowship in 1987, followed by an Artist’s Residency at St. Anselm College in 1988, and was invited to show in solo and group exhibitions in New England. She showed stick sculptures and works on paper through McGowan Fine Arts, and received many New England corporate commissions, and an invitation for a one-person show at the Currier Gallery of Art, which purchased her work for their museum collection. Her prints were included in the US Government Art-in-Embassies Program from 1989 through the nineties. From 1992 through 1997, Ms. Kalin was the Executive Director of Gallery North in Setauket, New York, and a guest curator for Islip Art Museum, and other Long Island art institutions. From 1998 until June of 2004, she was Executive Director of the Rhinebeck Chamber of Commerce in Rhinebeck, New York. In 1998, she built a printmaking studio in her 19th Century barn in Tivoli, New York, where she works today.
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DeCordova Museum
School, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, where she was the
graphic designer for the Museum until moving to New Hampshire in 1976.
During her 15 years in New Hampshire, she set up another studio, while
restoring and renovating an 1810 center chimney farmhouse. She also
continued graphic design work, helped start a small town newspaper, and
began an Artist’s Studio Complex in Wilton, New Hampshire.