Mark Jenkins on Anastasia Travieso-Diaz

Mark Jenkins reviews several local shows over at DisCerning Eye - I especially liked the words about Anastasia Travieso-Diaz:

BUILT UP AND THEN PARTLY EXCAVATED, Anastasia Travieso-Diaz’s paintings are literally constructions. So it’s fitting that the local artist’s abstract canvases often suggest grand buildings or naturally occurring structures such as caverns and grottoes. The engrossing pictures in her Studio Russo show, “Disintegration Regeneration,” were made intuitively, and not named initially. But they came to bear such suitably evocative titles as “The Architecture of Collapse” and “Unraveling the Structure.”

Read the review here.

"Immigrant Artists" declined by Montgomery College

Bummer to report that Montgomery College's selection panel has declined my proposal for a show focusing on immigrant artists.

Dear Lenny,

I am writing with the results from our recent call for proposals for the King Street Gallery at Montgomery College. I am sorry, but we did not select your proposal. Yours was among many worthy proposals for very few exhibition slots, and the choices were difficult. Thank you for your proposal and thank you as well for your patience as we have completed this review. We very much appreciate your efforts in making your proposal and we hope that you will consider applying for future opportunities here at MC.

Sincerely,

Kevin Bowman

Professor

Visual and Performing Arts Department

Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus

930 King Street

Silver Spring, MD 20910

Will begin to look for new venues...

How to price and frame your artwork

 This is TODAY Wednesday! You’re invited!

Busboys and Poets ARTOMATIC Happy Hour

"Join us for an inspiring evening of art, conversation, and connection at Busboys and Poets! This special happy hour will feature Lenny Campello discussing “How to price and frame your work”. Referred to as “One of the most interesting people of Washington, DC” by The Washington City Paper, Lenny is one of the internet’s leading art bloggers and recently curated Women Artists of the DMV which spanned 19 venues and featured the work of over 700 female artists."

Event Details

Date: May 27, 2026

Time: 5:00pm EDT | Presentation

Venue: Busboys and Poets Takoma Park

Ann Alexander Murray at the Tephra ICA Festival

A couple of weekends ago I was at the Tephra ICA Arts Festival when I came across this very talented and hard working artist who was video walking the show and did this segment, which includes me.  See it here.

Ann Alexander Murray writes her own piano compositions, which you should be able to find on any streaming platform of choice. Her album is called Shadows and Reflections by Ann Alexander. 

She wrote, produced, recorded, mixed, and created all graphic materials, and took the pictures for the cover herself.

Here are some direct links from her website to different platforms if you want to check that out, which I most highly recommend!

https://annalexanderstudios.com/Music.html.

How to price and frame your work

 This coming Wednesday! You’re invited!

Busboys and Poets ARTOMATIC Happy Hour

"Join us for an inspiring evening of art, conversation, and connection at Busboys and Poets! This special happy hour will feature Lenny Campello discussing “How to price and frame your work”. Referred to as “One of the most interesting people of Washington, DC” by The Washington City Paper, Lenny is one of the internet’s leading art bloggers and recently curated Women Artists of the DMV which spanned 19 venues and featured the work of over 700 female artists."

Event Details

Date: May 27, 2026

Time: 5:00pm EDT | Presentation

Venue: Busboys and Poets Takoma Park

Love this...

One of the best bucket filling experiences that an artist can gather,  is when young people really get drawn in (see how I worked that pun in) by your artwork. 

Yesterday, this teen spent several minutes talking to me at the Tephra ICA Festival about how much she loved my work... and in doing so, she filled my bucket.

After I met Ana Mendieta

Read it here:

 https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2003/10/only-year-to-go-for-exhibition-i-wish.html