Assistance for Arts Education (AAE) program

 

Dear Visual Arts, Design, and Media Arts Community: Congress is on the brink of devastating cuts to education funding! The House Appropriations Committee's FY25 proposal slashes Title I by 25%, eliminates Title II, and proposes the complete elimination of the Assistance for Arts Education (AAE) program. Their rationale? "Funding should focus on core subjects like reading, writing, and math."   We cannot let Congress strip away critical support for arts education and essential federal programs. We need your voice NOW to protect the arts. Join the VoterVoice campaign to tell Congress why arts education matters to YOU. We encourage you to personalize your message and defend the arts in education!   Act today to ensure Congress hears our support for arts education and rejects these harmful cuts. Together, we can protect opportunities for every child! Join the Campaign

Pool Basketball Slam

Pool Basketball Slam, 2024 pen and ink by F. Lennox Campello

Happy 4th!

 Today I'm going to thank my parents who had the foresight, strength, and courage to escape the Castro brothers' brutalized island; leave everything behind; leave everything they knew, and raise me as an American.

I am grateful to them.

I am so proud of this nation, and so lucky to be Cuban by ancestry, but American by the grace of God.

Happy birthday USA!

New Bisque

These will make their debut at the Bethesda Row Arts Festival this coming September, and then whatever remains (if any) will make an appearance in New York at the Affordable Art Fair in Chelsea, also in September.

When the Empire finally arrived, she was the first one to put the video on TikTok

Her pencil skirt always made her feel like a lioness

Medusa

In an alternate Universe, Taylor Swift was a Vulcan

Bats

Bat

Nun on a bike

The Lilith consoling Eve (After the Expulsion)

The G.O.A.T (Homage to Ali)

Assassin Wasp

Biden during his Elvis period

Elvis

Andy Warhol

She decided to sting the next fucker who tried to step on her

Bat

Hipster Archie

Frida Kahlo

All Member Show at Foundry

“All Member Show”- An Exhibit by Foundry Gallery

Opening Reception: July 6, 2024 4PM-6PM

From the gallery: 

“Join Foundry Gallery for a tapestry of our gallery’s members, each artist displaying their unique style as a collective narrative that resonates with creativity and passion.  Our group exhibit celebrates the diversity of artistic expression among our members by showcasing the spectrum of styles, mediums, and perspectives in a collective exhibit. 

Our members invite you to join them to explore the realms of imagination and emotion through their various works of art. Our members will exhibit works such as painting, photography, and mixed media.  The "All Member" exhibit features artworks from Duly Noted Painters, Roderick Turner, Josef Isaiah Keyes, Deb Fury, Dilip Sheth, Tasha Overpeck, and many more!  Enjoy the watercolor works of the people and places of Washington, DC, vibrant abstract figurative works, and photographs of the world as our members see it.   

Foundry Gallery and its members are dedicated to pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions with artworks that tell stories of their journeys with color, form, and texture.  Our “All Members” group exhibit is a testament to the amazing artists who call Foundry Gallery home.  Our members take this opportunity to showcase their individual voices while harmonizing as a collective in an artistic expression similar to a chorus.”

PROGRESSION at MEG

Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is pleased to announce PROGRESSION, a new fine art photography exhibition.

On display at MEG through July 28, 2024, the exhibition features a sequence of photographs, with each one chosen for its relation to the previous image. The relationships among the 45 included images may be based on composition, color, geography or other characteristics — the choice was left to each of the 15 contributing artists. Exhibition visitors are invited to observe each image as it appears in the sequence and consider what the connection to the previous image might have been. 

Exhibition Artists: Stacy Smith Evans, Soomin Ham, Tim Hyde, Eric Johnson, Irina Lawton, Sandy LeBrun-Evans, Matt Leedham, Francine B. Livaditis, Maureen Minehan, David Myers, Van Pulley, Sarah Hood Salomon, Alan Sislen, Tom Sliter and Fred Zafran

Exhibition hours: 11am-5pm daily

Location: Multiple Exposures Gallery | Torpedo Factory Art Center | #312

Pictish Nation drawing at auction!

This 2012 drawing of mine from my "Pictish Nation" series shows up at auction in Florida! Ridiculous starting bid! I sold that drawing during Art Basel week in Miami ages ago for five times that!

Bid for it here.