Bethesda Art Walk tomorrow!

The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District invites you to join us tomorrow evening, Friday, December 13 from 6-8PM, for the Bethesda Art Walk. During this self-guided walking tour of the galleries and studios of downtown Bethesda you will be able to view the artwork, chat with the artists in residence, and enjoy light refreshments at each stop along the way. The participating galleries and studios are:

Amy Kaslow Gallery with two concurrent exhibits on view: "Jane Kell: Skyline" and "Joseph Holston: Black Lives, a Retrospective."

Gallery B will host artists Jennifer McBrien and Kate Norris, and their exhibition "Unraveling Narratives: A Dialogue in Toile."

Studio B is home to artists Linda Button, Shanthi Chandrasekar, Sara Leibman and Gloria Solomon. 

Triangle Art Studios is home to artists Stephen Estrada, Maruja Quezada and Barbara Siegel.

Waverly Street Gallery will hold their Annual Holiday Show, featuring the work of Waverly Street Gallery artists.

Art Walk

Another update to the list of confirmed artists

Here's another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in he 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show! 

Loads more to come as I await confirmations! Still curious about a significant number of artists have not responded to my invitation, which affirms the power of the "Spam folder" to screw up once in a while.

Maremi Andreozzi

Sondra N. Arkin

Michele Banks 

Holly Bass

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Julia Bloom 

Margaret Boozer

Lisa Brotman 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Rachel Carren

Anne Cherubim

Shanthi Chandrasekar 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Ellen Cornett

Rosemary Feit Covey 

Jenny Freestone 

Andrea Cullins 

Joan Danziger 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson

Helen Frederick 

Susan Goldman

Carol Brown Goldberg

Janis Goodman 

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun 

Rania Hassan 

Mira Hecht

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Selena Jackson 

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

Jessica Kallista

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz

Zofie King

Susan LaMont

Kyujin Lee

Laurel Lukaszewski

Akemi Maegawa

Joey Mánlapaz

Isabel Manalo

Anne Marchand 

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx

Donna McCullough  

Maggie Michael 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan 

Camille Mosley-Pasley 

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck

Sandra Pérez-Ramos 

Susana Raab 

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel 

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff

Suzanne Yurdin

Helen Zughaib

Art Scam Alert!!!

And yet another asswipe trying to scam artists - Be careful out there!

Corrol Elizabeth - elizabethcorrol86@gmail.com

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A Gentle Unroot: A Latinx Perspective

Opening Thursday!

A Gentle Unroot: A Latinx Perspective

Curated by Claudina Hannon

December 12, 2024 — January 12, 2025

Artists' Reception: Sunday, December 15, 4 — 6 pm

Artists' Talk: Sunday, January 12, 2:30 pm

I've never been a fan of the term "Latinx", as I consider it an invasion of the language and no single Spanish word that I know of ends in "x" - but I am guilty of employing it myself here and there... anyway from The Athenaeum in Alexandria:

A Gentle Unroot: A Latinx Perspective uncovers the possibilities for what happens when someone leaves their native Latin American land to reside elsewhere, and what they choose to keep with them physically and mentally throughout their daily lives.

Most people who have experienced an immigrant’s journey will tell you it is no “gentle” process. However, the humanistic wish and ideal is for all people to transition from one place to another gently and to carry one culture into another seamlessly. The exhibition's title suggests this concept as a wish for a gentle transition with almost blind yet faithful hope in unrooting one or more cultures and taking them with us as we move to a new country.

Many times, it is not just something that affects those who are first-generation immigrants. It is a process that affects future generations of families through the traditions and memories kept from that unrooting via language, family, culture, and history. But it is that unrooting that allows the travelers to almost transform their identities as they embrace a new country, culture, and language individually, while merging their Latin American identity with that of their new homeland.

The Latinx diaspora of artists in this show share a multigenerational lens of experiences within Latinx and American culture. Their compelling stories and artwork provide a glimpse of what they experienced and witnessed, and this opens a greater understanding and sensibility for humanity through their first-hand experiences as immigrants or as descendants of immigrants within their family lineage.

Participating artists:

Ana Rendich

Francisco Juncadella

Katty Huertas

Paloma Vianey

Pedro Ledesma III

Rosa Vera

Ric Garcia

Athenaeum / 201 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

703.548.0035 /  nvfaa.org

First work chosen for the "Women Artists of the DMV"

I've curated over 200 group art shows in the DC area since the mid 90s, and often I find that the first piece chosen often also speaks about the show as a whole.

My formula for group shows is essentially the same, and a proven, successful, and bordering on brilliant technique: the group show is a pyramid of artists at various points in their artistic career and development - blue chip, well-known artists; a large set of well-known, mid career artists, and the pyramid's wide and powerful base: a set of young (not simply in age, but perhaps also in artistic age - think of a 95 year-old artist who just started painting five years ago) artists who need the exposure and push that a well attended, widely publicized, and wildly successful art show offers their young careers.

In this latter set, I also include artists who are "new" to me. My logic is that if I haven't heard of them, no matter how advanced anyone else thinks they are (or perhaps even the artist her/himself), then they are in need of exposure.

Selena “Noir” Jackson, was born and raised in Washington DC, attended Montgomery College School of Art where she earned her A.F.A. in Studio Arts, and from what I can tell from her website, has not exhibited widely around here or anywhere else.

One of her works, titled "Comparative Anatomy (Petrus Camper)" and illustrated below, is the first piece that I have chosen for the epic "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show.  

Comparative Anatomy (Petrus Camper) - 24x36 by Selena Jackson
Courtesy of the Grace McNicolas Collection 

This is an immensely talented painter.  A quick walk through her website quickly reveals that Jackson already owns the technical skills of a much more mature painter. Her brush work is impeccable and her texture and color application techniques already at a top level.

I predict great success for this artist.

Clarification: What is the "DMV"?

Because I am receiving a lot of emails from interested women artists with regards to the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV", to my surprise I have learned that I need to clarify what is meant by "DMV", which is somewhat of the local term for the Greater Washington, DC area.

Baltimore is not in the DMV, neither is Richmond, or Charlottesville, or anywhere where (in my definition (since I apparently may have invented the acronym) from the air it is impossible to tell where one street is inside the District and across the street in Maryland or Virginia.

If there's miles of uninhabited freeway between the District and wherever - Baltimore, Annapolis, Richmond, Charlottesville, Staunton, etc., then that is NOT the DMV.

If you live in Mars, but your studio is in DC, Alexandria, Bethesda, Rockville, etc. - then I am willing to accept that you are a DMV artist.

Baltimore: Especially you! Baltimore is a grown-ass city with its own art scene, art galleries, museums, art schools, colleges, etc.; you are NOT part of the DMV.

Baltimore and DMV from space

Quandary: What if an artist spent 40-50 years working and producing art in the DMV, but now has retired and lives somewhere else?  Tough call!

Leave suggestions as comments - I am willing to listen.

More added to the list

Here's another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far! Loads more to come as I await confirmations!

Maremi Andreozzi

Sondra N. Arkin

Michele Banks

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Julia Bloom 

Margaret Boozer

Lisa Brotman

Melissa Burley

Anne Cherubim

Shanthi Chandrasekar 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Irene Clouthier

Ellen Cornett

Rosemary Feit Covey 

Andrea Cullins 

Joan Danziger 

Tanya Davis 

Wendy Donahoe

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Hyunsuk Erickson

Helen Frederick

Carol Brown Goldberg

Muriel Hasbun 

Rania Hassan

Michal Hunter

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz

Zofie King

Susan LaMont

Kyujin Lee

Laurel Lukaszewski

Akemi Maegawa

Joey Mánlapaz

Isabel Manalo

Anne Marchand

Donna McCullough 

Maggie Michael 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca

Betsy Packard

Judith Peck

Sandra Pérez-Ramos 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

Alexandra Silverthorne

Renee Stout 

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel 

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss

Sharon Wolpoff

Suzanne Yurdin

Helen Zughaib

Another Art Scam Alert!

The scammers are on overdrive!  Be wary of this garbage trying to rip off artists!

Griffin Hayden --  haydengriffin053@gmail.com

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I am speechless by seeing this masterpiece i would love to buy few pieces of your artwork collection, do get back to me on how to acquire them.

Art Scam Alert!

Another mutant trying to rip off artists!

Lucy Bronze - lucybronze130@gmail.com -

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Hi, How’s it going? I recently found your work and it left an impression on me. I’ll like to purchase some. Please let me know your thoughts.

The list grows!

The list keep growing for "the" show. So far I have been ghosted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts - have sent emails to multiple people, but no response (so far... cough... cough).  I could use a major donor to contact them...

Here's an updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far! Loads more to come as I await confirmations!

Sondra N. Arkin

Michele Banks 

Julia Bloom

Lisa Brotman

Melissa Burley

Anne Cherubim

Shanthi Chandrasekar 

Irene Clouthier

Ellen Cornett

Rosemary Feit Covey 

Joan Danziger

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn

Helen Frederick

Carol Brown Goldberg

Muriel Hasbun

Michal Hunter

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz

Zofie King

Susan LaMont

Kyujin Lee

Laurel Lukaszewski

Akemi Maegawa

Joey Mánlapaz

Isabel Manalo

Anne Marchand

Donna McCullough 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca

Betsy Packard

Judith Peck

Sandra Pérez-Ramos 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

Alexandra Silverthorne

Renee Stout 

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell

Suzanne Yurdin

Helen Zughaib

SUBMIT YOUR ART TO: Timeless Prince George's: The 2025 Annapolis Delegation Art Exhibition

Art submissions are now being accepted for: Timeless Prince George's: The 2025 Annapolis Delegation Art Exhibition

Submission guidelines at: https://m-ncppc.submittable.com/submit *DEADLINE: 11:59PM on December 22, 2024*

 

Women artists of the DMV - the list so far

Working my tuchis off for initial steps for the show.

Here's an early list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far! Loads more to come as I await confirmations!

Sondra N. Arkin

Michele Banks

Lisa Brotman

Melissa Burley

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier

Ellen Cornett

Rosemary Feit Covey

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn

Helen Frederick

Carol Brown Goldberg

Michal Hunter

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz

Zofie King

Susan LaMont

Laurel Lukaszewski

Akemi Maegawa

Joey Mánlapaz

Isabel Manalo

Anne Marchand

Donna McCullough

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca

Betsy Packard

Judith Peck

Sandra Pérez-Ramos

Suzanne Yurdin

Helen Zughaib

Some of the emails so far...

As of this morning I've received over 1,000 emails from female artists from the DMV who'd like to be considered for the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show, which (so far) will open around September 2025 at the American University Katzen Art Museum in DC, the Athenaeum in Alexandria, Artists & Maker Studios in Rockville, and the Strathmore Mansion Galleries also in Rockville, MD.

So far I've extended an invitation to be part of the show to about 40 artists. 

Being the exceptionally gifted person that I am, cough... cough... I expected some responses like the below and in a variation or another; I've received five so far along these lines... cough... cough...

From: ____________________________________

Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 6:11 PM

Subject: RE: Invitation to participate in the 2025 Women Artists of the DMV show

Dear Lenny,

Thank you for inviting me to be part of this historic show and thank you for all your hard work in assembling it.  If not too much to ask, I want to be clear that I expect my work to be in the Katzen Museum for the show, as I believe that my artwork over the years merits being in the Katzen instead of any of the other venues.

Please confirm and let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you, 

My response to the artist:

Thank you for your note.

As of this point I have not assigned exhibition venues to artists and cannot guarantee the Katzen or any other venue to anyone... sorry.

If it's the Katzen or nothing, please let me know soonest.

I am still in the process of trying to add one more DC space to the show, as the overwhelming number of interested women far exceeded what I originally thought, which is a good thing. As such I have approached the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) to see if they can schedule a portion of the show there - fingers crossed!

If I work it out with the NMWA, then that should make it easier to consider the Katzen for more artists, such as you. In that case, I will note that you'd prefer the Katzen.

More later...

Lenny

Less than a minute later:

From: ____________________________________
Date: Sat, Nov 30, 2024, 9:11 AM
Subject: RE: Invitation to participate in the 2025 Women Artists of the DMV show

If the NMWA opens up, I'd rather exhibit there than the Katzen!

Thanks

Sent from my iPhone 

And then there's the below offer of sex!  Not the first time that something like this has happened to me here and there - but usually when I was in the outdoor art show circuit and used to do 20+ shows a year all over the country... 

Maybe 40+ years ago I would have been young enough, and stupid enough, and single enough to take this offer... cough... cough...

From: ____________________________________

Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 10:57 PM

Subject: Your FB post about Women Artists of the DMV - I want to be in it!

I just read about the show that you're curating and organizing for female artists from the DMV.  I want to be in this show.

My website is _______________ and I am 29 years old and if you pick me, there's pussy and/or a blow job as a reward. There are photos of me here at ______________________.

I am serious and I am cute.

My cell is ____________

I am a good artist, and I need this exposure.

Kisses,

My response:

Dear ______________,

Thank you for your note and offer.

With all due respect, I must decline your offer.  All my selections will be based solely on my very subjective approach to curating group art shows, and based solely on the quality of the artwork and the presence and impact (or need for) of the artist.

 Best,

Lenny

PS - Part of me admires your all or nothing attitude, but be careful out there.

And the passive aggressive approach...

From: ___________________________

Date: Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 8:49 PM

Subject: Women Artists show for DC/DMV

Mr. Campbello,

I appreciate your idea for a show focused on DC women artists, it is about time, why hasnt this been done before?

Black women and other BIPOC women should be the majority of this show, considering the area that the show will cover.

My website is _________________ and below are my list of BIPOC women artists that you need to include in your show.  

Please call me when you have a chance 

_________________ (202) ***-****

And my even more passive aggressive response...

Dear ______________

I hope that it's OK if I refer to you by your first name? Please let me know.

And before I forget: my last name is Campello, not Campbello! No worries, not the first time (or five thousandth) time that has happened.

Thank you for your suggestion! I appreciate it when people take the time and effort to help other people refine and retune their ideas!

In response to your suggestion (it was a suggestion... right?), while I appreciate it, ahhh.. no!

I have no idea what the majority - speaking in racial terms, or ethnic terms, or national terms (about 200+ or so) - will be the "majority" in the final selection, as I intend to pick the artists based on their artwork (mostly) rather than any other non-artistic criteria.

I suspect that the show will end up reflecting the immensely rich and diverse visual arts tapestry that is the DMV's art scene!

Best,

Lenny

Art Scam Alert!

Beware of this asswipe trying to rip off artists:

From: Jordan Bushell - jordanbushell6@gmail.com -

​Your collections are unique and amazing; I'd like to know if you ship to Switzerland. Do you accept credit cards as a mode of payment? And do you accept pickups from your location by my shipping agent? Please advise.

Thank you.

Jordan Bushell

Women Artists of the DMV - Update!

As I noted a couple of days ago, the "Women Artists of the DMV" show is on! 

So far, as of the publication of this post, I've received over 800 emails/DMs/texts with female artists wanting to be in the show.

Update 1: If you'd like me to consider your work, please email me your website to lennycampello@hotmail.com - no calls, texts, DMs, Facebooking, etc.

Update 2: Due to the overwhelming number of interested artists, I've added a 4th venue to the show: the gorgeous first floor gallery at The Mansion at Strathmore.

All four shows will open in September 2025 and run for about 8-9 weeks at the American University's Katzen Museum in DC, the Athenaeum in Alexandria, and Artists & Makers Studios in Rockville and now also Strathmore.

The openings will be staggered: One museum, two non-profit art spaces, and one terrific woman-owned independent commercial fine arts gallery! All great parts of the DMV's (an acronym that apparently I invented by accident according to the Washington City Paper) visual arts tapestry.

I'm also still working on a potential book deal with the same publisher for whom I did 100 Artists of Washington, DC over a decade ago... fingers crossed.

One more time: if you'd like me to consider your work, or if you'd like to recommend someone's work, please email me the artist's name and her website.

I'm also crowdsourcing some of the opportunities by asking several of the DMV's visual arts illuminati and the cognoscenti (curators, museum directors, art space directors, art collectors, gallerists, etc.) to nominate up to 10 "must have" women.

Pass it on!

1979 Frida Kahlo at auction

This huge 32x40 inches painting of Frida Kahlo that I did as a class assignment at the University of Washington School of Art in 1979 is being offered by the son of the recently deceased owner for 1/10th of appraised value! 

At https://www.ebay.com/itm/305931344185

Women Artists of the DMV - the show is on!

The show it's on! It will open middle of September 2025 and run for about 8-9 weeks at the American University's Katzen Museum in DC, the Athenaeum in Alexandria, and Artists & Makers Studios in Rockville - one spot in each of the components of the DMV! The openings will be staggered: One museum, one non-profit art space and one woman-owned independent commercial fine arts gallery! One is each of the foot prints of the DMV (an acronym that apparently I invented by accident according to the Washington City Paper).

I'm also working on a potential book deal with the same publisher for whom I did 100 Artists of Washington, DC over a decade ago.

Update 1: If you'd like me to consider your work, please email me your website to lennycampello@hotmail.com - no calls, texts, DMs, Facebooking, etc.

Update 2: Due to the overwhelming number of interested artists, I've added a 4th venue to the show: the gorgeous first floor gallery at The Mansion at Strathmore.

More later! Here's the original proposal first discussed in 2023 here.

Proposal: Women Artists of the DMV

According to the research done by the Washington City Paper in 2017, the term “DMV”, which is used to refer to the District, Maryland and Virginia first appeared in a DC ART NEWS blog post that I wrote in 2003 – And yes! I therefore do claim that I invented it!

The Greater Washington, D.C., capital region (the DMV) is not only home to some of the best art museums in the world, dozens of art galleries, non-profit art spaces, alternative art venues, and art organizations, but it also supports and fertilizes of the best and most creative visual art scenes in the nation.

This scene is kindled and ignited to a large extent by female artists of all ages, races and ethnicities – an artistic female universe significantly more diverse than just about any of other major city on the planet. By the same logic and path, the artwork created by these fertile minds examine every possible corner of the visual arts genres and creative corners.

Celebrating this art scene, which spreads across the three areas that make up the DMV, I propose to curate an exhibition of 100 works by 100 women artists comprised of both leading and established female artists plus talented emerging contemporary female visual artists who represent the tens of thousands of women artists working in this culturally and ethnically diverse region in order to assemble a group show to showcase the immense power of the visual arts being created by these artists.

Let me repeat myself: Equally diverse as the artists, are the artistic styles and media you will see in this curated exhibition, the first of its kind for the capital area.

With 100 works of art potentially available for curatorial selection, this exhibition will offer a primer for both the experienced art eye and the beginning art aficionado, highlighting a selection of talented artists who usually deserve more attention on a local, regional and national scale.

100 works of art take a lot of exhibition space, and thus this curated exhibition could either be:

(a)    Fully staged at the Katzen or;

(b)    Would be concurrently spread across three separate venues in the DMV: At the Katzen in the District, one non-profit in Northern Virginia and one independent gallery in Maryland.

 i.            For Northern Virginia I have obtained an approval for the exhibition from The Athenaeum in Alexandria.

ii.            For Maryland, I have obtained an approval for the exhibition from The Artists & Makers Gallery complex in Rockville.

I have the experience to curate a large, multi-space art survey exhibition. In 2007 I curated “Seven”, a seven-gallery exhibition in the District that surveyed the thousands of artist members of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA). Over 6500 slides (remember slides?) were reviewed and a couple of hundred artists selected for the multi-gallery show, which received multiple reviews in the press, both local and national.  In 2001 I curated “Contemporary Realism: A Survey of Washington Area Realists” for the Athenaeum in Alexandria – another show that exhibited over 60 artists and received wide reviews in the regional and national press.  Those are just two of hundreds of curated shows since 1996.

My curatorial process for this large proposal will also involve “community input”, as I intend to approach the DMV artistic community to be able to propose up to 15 of the 100 final artists. 

I also have ample experience running this “community input” process, as in 2011 I authored the book 100 Artists of Washington, DC (published by Schiffer Press), which in part included “community input” to ensure that the diversity of the 100 artists – both in style, age, genres, etc. – was truly representational of the Greater DC area.

I understand that a significant lead time is needed by American University to schedule approved Alper shows, and stand ready, willing and able to tackle this opportunity, regardless of the time frame.

Finally, I have started the tentative process of getting artists’ commitments to the exhibition, with the goal of aligning the leading female artists of the region to help “move” this proposal and so far have obtained enthusiastic “yes” from Margaret Boozer, Lisa Montag Brotman, Shanti Chandra Sekar, Irene Clouthier, Rosemary Feit-Covey, Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Carol Brown Goldberg, Janis Goodman, Muriel Hasbun, Melissa Ichiuji, Akemi Maegawa, Joey Manlapaz, Anne Marchand, Jody Mussoff, Teresa Oaxaca, Amber Robles-Gordon, Renee Stout, Helen Zughaib and 60+ other DMV female artists.

Let’s go!

Under $2500 is today!

UNDER $2500 Benefit - Exhibition and VIRTUAL Sale to benefit the Maryland Art Place (MAP) in Baltimore is this weekend! https://e.givesmart.com/events/F9z/

Last Chance (physical): Saturday, November 23 | 2 to 4 pm

Virtual Exhibition & Sale: Saturday, November 23, 10 am – Black Friday, November 29, 12 am

To view the virtual exhibition click: https://e.givesmart.com/events/F9z/
Live on Saturday, November 23 @ 10 am

Eve staring at the apple tree

She couldn't help but stare at it wondering...

Eve, staring at the apple tree
2024, Graphite on reclaimed, broken unfired Bisque by Florencio Lennox Campello

Eve, staring at the apple tree (detail, side view)
2024, Graphite on reclaimed, broken unfired Bisque by Florencio Lennox Campello

Studio Gallery accepting membership applications

Studio Gallery is the longest running artist-owned gallery in Washington, DC. It features contemporary art in a wide variety of media by emerging and established artists. The Gallery was founded in 1956 by artist Jennie Lea Knight, whose work is in The National Gallery of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Philips Collection, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Studio Gallery is housed in an elegant town house located near Dupont Circle and Washington’s Embassy Row. The Gallery includes over 2300 square feet of exhibition space on two light-filled floors and a rear sculpture garden. Among the Gallery’s close neighbors are The Phillips Collection, Hillyer Art Space, Cosmos Club and over 30 embassies.

Studio Gallery is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that showcases artworks by members and holds special exhibitions by invited guest artists and guest curators. The Gallery conducts community outreach programs and other charitable activities, all open to the public free of charge.

The Membership Levels

Studio Gallery offers three membership tiers to provide artists with representation tailored to their specific needs: Associate, Premier Associate, and Full Membership. You will need to select your preferred membership level before submitting your application.

We are currently only accepting applications for Associate and Full Membership.

For more information about the membership tiers and the application process, please click the links at the bottom of this page.

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