TOMORROW! Oct 20th - Estate Planning for Creative Entrepreneurs

 

Tuesday, October 20, 2026
11am
 

WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series
SESSION 5

Estate Planning
for Creative Entrepreneurs
 

Presentation and Q&A w/

Richard Louis, Esq. 

ONLINE

WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series (CES)

(Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs)

WALA’s Creative Entrepreneurs Series is a series for creatives of all kinds who want to take the next step in their professional career by creating their own business. Explore the basics of forming a business for your creative endeavors, from deciding whether to incorporate as a non-profit or for-profit entity, to understanding copyrights and trademarks, to contract and negotiation skills, and finally to estate planning for artists and creatives and understanding the grants process.

Register here.

Affordable Art Fair Houston opens today!

The Affordable Art Fair Houston opens today in Houston - through Sunday and I have several works at the fair in booth E1 with Alida Anderson Art Projects.

The Affordable Art Fair Houston runs from October 15–18, 2026, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, marking its inaugural H-Town debut!

Honored to be participating along with artists Jodi Walsh and Matthew Langley - come see us!

A woman running on a Jackson Pollock landscape
2026 by F. Lennox Campello

A woman about to dive off a Washington Color School landscape
2026 by F. Lennox Campello

A woman diving off a Mark Rothko landscape
2026 by F. Lennox Campello

Chevy Chase Art Walk this weekend!

This weekend's Chevy Chase Art Walk features a record 86 artists in all media, exhibiting their work in 35 homes and studios in Chevy Chase DC and Maryland, from noon to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday, October17 and 18th.

Dates: 

Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, October 18, 2026 - 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Admission:  Free and open to the public

Weather: Rain or shine

Artist Open Studios tour of Maryland

Having an open studio - even if your studio (like mine) is also known as the laundry room - is one of the best, tried and true ways to easily expose your work! And you constant readers know how I stress how artists need to work to get their work seen as much as possible!

This series was created to help all artists learn how to open their studios, but is especially focused on preparing for the upcoming Artist Open Studios tour of Maryland.

Since 2024, Maryland Artist Collective's Artist Open Studios Tour has brought Maryland artists and art lovers together for two days of studio visits, art discovery, and personal connection. Every year they have grown exponentially. More artists, more locations, and more sponsors that generate buzz around the state. This year, we’re building together an even stronger tour, and we want to show you how to be part of it.

In this free informational webinar, you’ll learn how participating in the Tour can help you expand your audience, build relationships with prospective collectors, and sell your work commission-free in your own space.

They cover:

• How AOS can expand your reach across Maryland through statewide marketing, publicity, and promotion
• How your work stays visible beyond Tour weekend through your year-round AOS artist profile
• How art lovers discover and find you through the interactive map and professionally designed Tour Guide
• What marketing tools AOS provides to help you promote your own open studio
• What resources and guidance you’ll receive to help you prepare for a successful Tour
• How to participate if you don’t have a studio, including options for sharing another artist’s studio or joining a group location
• What participation involves, including key dates, fees, deadlines, and registration
• You’ll leave with a clear picture of how the Artist Open Studios Tour works, what AOS provides, and what you need to do to participate.

R. Brent Erickson at the Art League Gallery

“My ultimate aim is to provide new perspectives, encouraging viewers to re-examine the seemingly mundane aspects of their surroundings."

— R. Brent Erickson, Oct. 2026 Solo Artist Exhibitor

The Art League presents a dynamic lineup of October exhibitions celebrating artistic range, personal narrative and medium. On view this month in our galleries from Oct. 7 to Nov. 8 is the Open Exhibit as well as R. Brent Erickson’s Celebrating Realism from Oct. 8 to Nov. 8.

The October Open Exhibit is juried by Paul Sattler, an artist specializing in imaginative figurative painting, drawing, printmaking and other two-dimensional art forms. This exhibit features 88 works spanning ceramics, collage, drawing, glass, fiber art, mixed media, painting, photography and printmaking, showcasing the breadth and variety of work created by our artists.

In Celebrating Realism, Erickson turns a careful eye toward the everyday, using disciplined observation to capture moments that might otherwise go unnoticed. His paintings explore the intricate counterplay of light and color, inviting viewers to pause, look more closely and discover the extraordinary within the ordinary. “My work is consistently drawn to the intrinsic beauty found within ordinary objects and scenes, particularly fascinated by the ever-changing interplay of light and color that breathes life into them,” said Erickson. “My ultimate aim is to provide new perspectives, encouraging viewers to re-examine the seemingly mundane aspects of their surroundings."

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Wanna go to an opening this Friday?

The Zenith Gallery is the District's longest running independently owned commercial fine arts gallery, and this coming Friday, Oct 9, 4-8 pm & Saturday, Oct 10, 2-6 pm, they have a "Meet the Artists" reception for their The Inimitable Dolly Parton exhibition honoring the spectacular life of Dolly Parton!

FEATURED ARTISTS: Michelle Anderson, Amy Bandel, Caroline Benchetrit, Joanathan Bessaci, Prudence Bonds, Ram Brisueno, Anne Calamuci, F. Lennox Campello, Diane Dompka, Buzz Duncan, Mentwab Easwaran, Ed Garner, Margery Goldberg, Philip Hazard, Tarsha Howard, Ronni Jolles, Karen Kaplan Klein, Joan Konkel, Joe Largess, Michela Mansuino, Becky McFall, Nancy Nesvet, Reuben Neugass, Carol Newmyer, Keith Norval, Meredith Osterman, Katharine Owens, Khemet Parker, Anna Podris, Qrcky, Floyd Roberts, Suzy Scarborough, Gavin Sewell, Helen Silberminz, Bradley Stevens, Tejasi Thatte, Mia Williams, Marcie Wolf-Hubbard, Curtis Woody, and more!

My works in this show are below - you can purchase them at this link or call/email Zenith.

"Homage to Dolly Parton"
2026 F. Lennox Campello, 12x12 inches.
Original charcoal and conte drawing with embedded digital component.

Dolly Parton Diet Tips
2026 Original graphite drawing by Campello on broken Bisque

With love to Dolly
2026 Graphite drawing on Bisque by Campello

Finding Meaning in Small Spaces

Studio art alum Marcie Wolf-Hubbard ’83 transforms memories into miniature works of art while helping others tell their own stories.

Read the whole article at University of Maryland here...