Coming to Links Bridge Vineyards:

Arlington abstract painter and instructor Bryan Jernigan came to the DMV from rural Oklahoma more than 35 years ago and his upcoming solo show called “Sound of Line” will debut at Links Bridge Vineyards in Thurmont, MD on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

“When I came to Washington, D.C. to live, it wasn’t my first time, but I had only visited once before,” Jernigan said. “Like most young people, I planned to make my name professionally and move on or move back to where I was raised. But D.C. had other plans for me, I guess. Instead, I saw most of my friends peel off and return home, taking back a little piece of urbanity with them. Unlike them, I absorbed the realities of living here – internalizing the highs and lows, taking in the triumphs and suffering through the realities of living the city life, digging in and getting to learn about cultures separate and apart from my own and enduring the everyday realities of things as mundane as seemingly unending traffic commutes.”

Jernigan said coming from the country but choosing to live a city life shaped how he sees the world and how he responds to it in his art.

“In this series – that comprises more than 50 original works on paper and wood panel – the things I noticed most were lines; how they keep us connected, but at the same time how tenuous they are,” he said. “They are less about real things and more about my responses to the things I see - power lines that carry communications from all who use them or lines in pavement that show the age of some parts of the city. The pieces have a gritty feel to them, which is another aspect of living in the city, this juxtaposition between the dirty and the pristine.”

The pieces that span from 12-inch to 3-feet squares include expanses of vibrating actions, scratchy marks and calm respites of undulating non-colors punctuated by bold vibrancy.

“Living in a city is often chaotic, but we do our best to control that craziness in our daily lives. I want the pieces to feel like the embodiment of city living. An homage, so to speak,” Jernigan said. “I hope they are exciting and make viewers feel something akin to a car crash on an otherwise uneventful commute. They are real and they are palpable, and I hope they will resonate with others who live here. We are all different – different backgrounds, different ethnicities – but we all share the same experience of living here and navigating it and getting by.”

Jernigan’s pieces have already received critical acclaim. One of them was chosen by juror Jeffrey W. Allison, the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) for the McGuffey Art Center’s Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition in Charlottesville.

“I’d say one of the artist’s worst fears is that they will muster up the courage to be vulnerable enough to create a body of work and then it gets a bad reception,” the artist said. “So, I entered a show with one of them who offered a well-regarded juror I knew it would be a good test. Happily, I was rewarded by having him choose my piece to include in the show. That little test helped me realize I was on the right track with this series.”

Links Bridge Vineyards will host an opening reception with an artist talk between 1 and 3PM on Saturday, April 5 and the show runs until Friday, April 27. See all the works online at www.bryanjernigan.com.

Another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show!

Before I forget: If I've invited you to the show and you've agreed to participate, but you're not listed below, please email me (lennycampello@hotmail.com) and let me know... or if I've misspelled your name :-) 

I've received nearly 4,000 emails, DMs, Facebooks, texts, etc. from female artists interested in being considered for the show.  Granted, there are a LOT of emails from artists living waaaay far from the Greater DC area who are not eligible, but still...

Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025

I have eight venues lined up, and at best I will be able to physically exhibit 240+ artists... but all applicants who meet the "DMV criteria" will be surveyed and catalogued for the SI American Art Archives, as I've contacted the Smithsonian American Art Archives with a proposal to document and archive ALL artists - of them - see that here.

I am also contacting ALL local universities/colleges and ALL of the DMV art commissions to ask them to buy one work by one alumni or county resident for their permanent collections.  I can use some help with that if you know board members, big donors, etc.

I need your help with the various DMV Art commissions/councils from the counties surrounding the DMV (Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington, etc.  See this letter/email as an example - feel free to copy and adapt and send to your council members, county executive, art commission, etc.

And the "in the show" list so far...

Shiri Achu 

Esperanza Alzona

Maremi Andreozzi 

Erin Antognoli  

Courtney Applequist

Sondra N. Arkin

Suzi Balamaci 

Michele Banks 

Marilyn Banner 

Kate Barfield 

Veronica Barker-Barzel 

Jennifer Barlow 

Denée Barr

Holly Bass 

Lisa Battle

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Judith Benderson 

Sarah Bentley  

Anne Bouie

Karin Birch 

Jennifer Bishop

Julia Bloom 

Lori Boocks 

Margaret Boozer  

Vian Borchert  

Claire Brandt

Laurie Breen

Lisa Brotman  

Amy Bruce

Dianne Bugash 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Judy Byron 

Denise Calisti 

Stephane Calvin

Rachel Carren 

Elizabeth Casqueiro 

Shanthi Chandrasekar

Mei Mei Chang 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Diane Cooper Cabe

Ellen Cornett 

Kathy Cornwell

Rosemary Feit Covey  

Lea Craigie-Marshall

Sheila Crider 

Jacqui Crocetta

Andrea Cullins 

Andrea Cybyk

Joan Danziger 

Delna Dastur 

Anna U. Davis 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Elizabeth Davison 

Danni Dawson 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell  

Jen Droblyen

Mary Early 

Susan Eder

Bria Edwards

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Rita Elsner 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson 

Felisa Federman Cogut 

Sharon Fishel

Cianne Fragione  

Mary Annella Frank

Helen Frederick   

Jenny Freestone 

Emily Fussner

Marie Gauthiez-Charpentier

Genie Ghim 

Carol Brown Goldberg 

Margery Goldberg

Susan Goldman

Janis Goodman 

Pat Goslee 

Freya Grand 

Graciela Granek 

Josephine Haden 

Debra Halprin 

Beatrice Hamblett

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun  

Seemeen Hashem

Rania Hassan 

Jennifer Hayes

Mira Hecht 

Michelle Lisa Herman 

Francie Hester 

Ellen Hill 

Pattee Hipschen 

Leslie Holt 

Susan Hostetler 

Sarah J. Hull

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Sadieh Ilchi

Selena Jackson 

Martha Jackson Jarvis  

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

M. Jane Johnson 

Jessica Kallista 

Jenny Kanzler

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz 

Sally Kauffman  

Trish Kent 

Megan King

Zofie King 

Kate Kretz 

Bridget Sue Lambert

Susan LaMont 

Linda Lawler 

Ngoc Le 

Jun Lee

Kyujin Lee 

Harriet Lesser 

Carol Levin 

Jennifer Lillis 

Amy Lin

Kara Lin 

June Linowitz 

Barbara Liotta

Kirsty Little

Taina Litwak 

Shelley Lowenstein 

Laurel Lukaszewski 

Dalya Luttwak 

Caroline MacKinnon

Akemi Maegawa 

Susan Makara

Isabel Manalo  

Joey Mánlapaz 

Sheryl Massaro

Katherine Mann

Anne Marchand  

Lucinda Marshall

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx  

Sheryl Massaro

J.J. McCracken

Sophia McCroklin

Donna McCullough 

Anne Meagher-Cook  

Maggie Michael 

Regina Miele  

Ramona Militaru

Marily Mojica 

Michele Montalbano 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan  

Meredith Morris

Camille Mosley-Pasley  

Adrienne Moumin

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca 

Ronnie Offen 

Claudia Olivos 

Helena Gallegos O'Neill 

Erica Orgen 

Marian Osher 

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck 

Monica Perdomo

Sandra Pérez-Ramos  

Anne Pham

Pearl Ping Shen 

Patricia Edwine Poku-Speight

Susana Raab 

Gail Rebhan

Carol Reed 

Cindy K. Renteria  

Marie Riccio

Lesley Riley

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Sarah Rodman  

Alla Rogers 

Roxana Rojas 

Lisa K Rosenstein 

Lori Niland Rounds

Christine Ryan 

Madalaine Sargent

Nancy Sausser 

Karen Schmitz

Deanna Schwartzberg  

Martina Sestakova

Lian Sever 

Susan Shalowitz 

Janathel Shaw 

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

April Shelford

Alison Sigethy

Elzbieta Sikorska 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pauline Siple  

Judy Southerland 

Molly Springfield 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Veronica Szalus

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel  

Kat Thompson

Patricia Underwood 

Christine Uskievitch

Jessica Van Brakle 

Gloria Vasquez  

Rosa Inés Vera  

Claudia Vess

Marite Vidales 

Lori Walsh

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Joyce Wellman 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff 

Helen Wood

Sue Wrbican 

Shawn Yancy

Suzanne Yurdin  

Paula Zeller

Barbara Ziselberger

Helen Zughaib 

Variations of this letter were both mailed and emailed to most members of the Montgomery County Council as well as Marc Ehrlich, the Montgomery County Executive.

This coming September, the largest ever area-wide curated art show will be coming to six art venues in the DMV, including two art spaces in Montgomery County!  I am currently curating this survey show, which will feature over 225 women artists from the Greater DC area, including around 40 or so Montgomery County female artists. They show will be spread to six venues: The American University Art Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA; the Athenaeum in Alexandria; the Strathmore Mansion Galleries and the Artists & Makers Gallery (both in Rockville) and the Pyramid Arts Center in Hyattsville.

I am contacting you in the hope that your office can work with Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (I have been in touch with her) to endorse a "Montgomery County Art Award" for one of the county's artists in the survey show. At the very least an award ribbon, in an ideal world acquiring one work for the county's art collection.

Thank you for your time and attention, and maybe we'll see you at one of the openings!

Very Respectfully,

Lenny Campello

Cell: 301/__________

Everything that you'd need to know about the show is here: https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2025/01/women-artists-of-dmv-all-that-you-need.html

Another example of why artists need to have thick skins! I've been rejected from an outdoor art festival -- one which I've done for many years, and one for which I have won multiple awards in the past, and one for which I was one of the jurors in the past!

Make sure that you visit the festival! It is an amazing show and well-worth the visit to see incredibly talented artists!

Bottom line: Learn from it, breathe in, and re-apply next year! I've been accepted like 20 years out of 22 or so, so pretty good batting average!

Dear F. Lennox,

Thank you for applying to the 34th annual Tephra ICA Arts Festival.

The highly competitive pool of applications was individually evaluated by three independent jurors and selections were made based on their reviews. Unfortunately, your application was not selected for display at the Festival this year. We encourage you to apply again next year when we have a new panel of qualified professional jurors whose perceptions may vary. As a 2025 Festival applicant, you will automatically receive notification regarding the 2026 Festival application in the fall.

We sincerely appreciate your support and interest in the Festival, and we wish you much success in all your artistic endeavors.

Sincerely,

Hannah Barco

Associate Curator and Festival Director

Coming to Links Bridge Vineyards:

Arlington abstract painter and instructor Bryan Jernigan came to the DMV from rural Oklahoma more than 35 years ago and his upcoming solo show called “Sound of Line” will debut at Links Bridge Vineyards in Thurmont, MD on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

“When I came to Washington, D.C. to live, it wasn’t my first time, but I had only visited once before,” Jernigan said. “Like most young people, I planned to make my name professionally and move on or move back to where I was raised. But D.C. had other plans for me, I guess. Instead, I saw most of my friends peel off and return home, taking back a little piece of urbanity with them. Unlike them, I absorbed the realities of living here – internalizing the highs and lows, taking in the triumphs and suffering through the realities of living the city life, digging in and getting to learn about cultures separate and apart from my own and enduring the everyday realities of things as mundane as seemingly unending traffic commutes.”

Jernigan said coming from the country but choosing to live a city life shaped how he sees the world and how he responds to it in his art.

“In this series – that comprises more than 50 original works on paper and wood panel – the things I noticed most were lines; how they keep us connected, but at the same time how tenuous they are,” he said. “They are less about real things and more about my responses to the things I see - power lines that carry communications from all who use them or lines in pavement that show the age of some parts of the city. The pieces have a gritty feel to them, which is another aspect of living in the city, this juxtaposition between the dirty and the pristine.”

The pieces that span from 12-inch to 3-feet squares include expanses of vibrating actions, scratchy marks and calm respites of undulating non-colors punctuated by bold vibrancy.

“Living in a city is often chaotic, but we do our best to control that craziness in our daily lives. I want the pieces to feel like the embodiment of city living. An homage, so to speak,” Jernigan said. “I hope they are exciting and make viewers feel something akin to a car crash on an otherwise uneventful commute. They are real and they are palpable, and I hope they will resonate with others who live here. We are all different – different backgrounds, different ethnicities – but we all share the same experience of living here and navigating it and getting by.”

Jernigan’s pieces have already received critical acclaim. One of them was chosen by juror Jeffrey W. Allison, the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) for the McGuffey Art Center’s Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition in Charlottesville.

“I’d say one of the artist’s worst fears is that they will muster up the courage to be vulnerable enough to create a body of work and then it gets a bad reception,” the artist said. “So, I entered a show with one of them who offered a well-regarded juror I knew it would be a good test. Happily, I was rewarded by having him choose my piece to include in the show. That little test helped me realize I was on the right track with this series.”

Links Bridge Vineyards will host an opening reception with an artist talk between 1 and 3PM on Saturday, April 5 and the show runs until Friday, April 27. See all the works online at www.bryanjernigan.com.

Another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show!

Before I forget: If I've invited you to the show and you've agreed to participate, but you're not listed below, please email me (lennycampello@hotmail.com) and let me know... or if I've misspelled your name :-) 

I've received nearly 4,000 emails, DMs, Facebooks, texts, etc. from female artists interested in being considered for the show.  Granted, there are a LOT of emails from artists living waaaay far from the Greater DC area who are not eligible, but still...

Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025

I have eight venues lined up, and at best I will be able to physically exhibit 240+ artists... but all applicants who meet the "DMV criteria" will be surveyed and catalogued for the SI American Art Archives, as I've contacted the Smithsonian American Art Archives with a proposal to document and archive ALL artists - of them - see that here.

I am also contacting ALL local universities/colleges and ALL of the DMV art commissions to ask them to buy one work by one alumni or county resident for their permanent collections.  I can use some help with that if you know board members, big donors, etc.

I need your help with the various DMV Art commissions/councils from the counties surrounding the DMV (Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington, etc.  See this letter/email as an example - feel free to copy and adapt and send to your council members, county executive, art commission, etc.

And the "in the show" list so far...

Shiri Achu 

Esperanza Alzona

Maremi Andreozzi 

Erin Antognoli  

Courtney Applequist

Sondra N. Arkin

Suzi Balamaci 

Michele Banks 

Marilyn Banner 

Kate Barfield 

Veronica Barker-Barzel 

Jennifer Barlow 

Denée Barr

Holly Bass 

Lisa Battle

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Judith Benderson 

Sarah Bentley  

Anne Bouie

Karin Birch 

Jennifer Bishop

Julia Bloom 

Lori Boocks 

Margaret Boozer  

Vian Borchert  

Claire Brandt

Laurie Breen

Lisa Brotman  

Amy Bruce

Dianne Bugash 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Judy Byron 

Denise Calisti 

Stephane Calvin

Rachel Carren 

Elizabeth Casqueiro 

Shanthi Chandrasekar

Mei Mei Chang 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Diane Cooper Cabe

Ellen Cornett 

Kathy Cornwell

Rosemary Feit Covey  

Lea Craigie-Marshall

Sheila Crider 

Jacqui Crocetta

Andrea Cullins 

Andrea Cybyk

Joan Danziger 

Delna Dastur 

Anna U. Davis 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Elizabeth Davison 

Danni Dawson 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell  

Jen Droblyen

Mary Early 

Susan Eder

Bria Edwards

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Rita Elsner 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson 

Felisa Federman Cogut 

Sharon Fishel

Cianne Fragione  

Mary Annella Frank

Helen Frederick   

Jenny Freestone 

Emily Fussner

Marie Gauthiez-Charpentier

Genie Ghim 

Carol Brown Goldberg 

Margery Goldberg

Susan Goldman

Janis Goodman 

Pat Goslee 

Freya Grand 

Graciela Granek 

Josephine Haden 

Debra Halprin 

Beatrice Hamblett

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun  

Seemeen Hashem

Rania Hassan 

Jennifer Hayes

Mira Hecht 

Michelle Lisa Herman 

Francie Hester 

Ellen Hill 

Pattee Hipschen 

Leslie Holt 

Susan Hostetler 

Sarah J. Hull

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Sadieh Ilchi

Selena Jackson 

Martha Jackson Jarvis  

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

M. Jane Johnson 

Jessica Kallista 

Jenny Kanzler

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz 

Sally Kauffman  

Trish Kent 

Megan King

Zofie King 

Kate Kretz 

Bridget Sue Lambert

Susan LaMont 

Linda Lawler 

Ngoc Le 

Jun Lee

Kyujin Lee 

Harriet Lesser 

Carol Levin 

Jennifer Lillis 

Amy Lin

Kara Lin 

June Linowitz 

Barbara Liotta

Kirsty Little

Taina Litwak 

Shelley Lowenstein 

Laurel Lukaszewski 

Dalya Luttwak 

Caroline MacKinnon

Akemi Maegawa 

Susan Makara

Isabel Manalo  

Joey Mánlapaz 

Sheryl Massaro

Katherine Mann

Anne Marchand  

Lucinda Marshall

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx  

Sheryl Massaro

J.J. McCracken

Sophia McCroklin

Donna McCullough 

Anne Meagher-Cook  

Maggie Michael 

Regina Miele  

Ramona Militaru

Marily Mojica 

Michele Montalbano 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan  

Meredith Morris

Camille Mosley-Pasley  

Adrienne Moumin

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca 

Ronnie Offen 

Claudia Olivos 

Helena Gallegos O'Neill 

Erica Orgen 

Marian Osher 

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck 

Monica Perdomo

Sandra Pérez-Ramos  

Anne Pham

Pearl Ping Shen 

Patricia Edwine Poku-Speight

Susana Raab 

Gail Rebhan

Carol Reed 

Cindy K. Renteria  

Marie Riccio

Lesley Riley

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Sarah Rodman  

Alla Rogers 

Roxana Rojas 

Lisa K Rosenstein 

Lori Niland Rounds

Christine Ryan 

Madalaine Sargent

Nancy Sausser 

Karen Schmitz

Deanna Schwartzberg  

Martina Sestakova

Lian Sever 

Susan Shalowitz 

Janathel Shaw 

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

April Shelford

Alison Sigethy

Elzbieta Sikorska 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pauline Siple  

Judy Southerland 

Molly Springfield 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Veronica Szalus

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel  

Kat Thompson

Patricia Underwood 

Christine Uskievitch

Jessica Van Brakle 

Gloria Vasquez  

Rosa Inés Vera  

Claudia Vess

Marite Vidales 

Lori Walsh

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Joyce Wellman 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff 

Helen Wood

Sue Wrbican 

Shawn Yancy

Suzanne Yurdin  

Paula Zeller

Barbara Ziselberger

Helen Zughaib 

Variations of this letter were both mailed and emailed to most members of the Montgomery County Council as well as Marc Ehrlich, the Montgomery County Executive.

This coming September, the largest ever area-wide curated art show will be coming to six art venues in the DMV, including two art spaces in Montgomery County!  I am currently curating this survey show, which will feature over 225 women artists from the Greater DC area, including around 40 or so Montgomery County female artists. They show will be spread to six venues: The American University Art Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA; the Athenaeum in Alexandria; the Strathmore Mansion Galleries and the Artists & Makers Gallery (both in Rockville) and the Pyramid Arts Center in Hyattsville.

I am contacting you in the hope that your office can work with Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (I have been in touch with her) to endorse a "Montgomery County Art Award" for one of the county's artists in the survey show. At the very least an award ribbon, in an ideal world acquiring one work for the county's art collection.

Thank you for your time and attention, and maybe we'll see you at one of the openings!

Very Respectfully,

Lenny Campello

Cell: 301/__________

Everything that you'd need to know about the show is here: https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2025/01/women-artists-of-dmv-all-that-you-need.html

Another example of why artists need to have thick skins! I've been rejected from an outdoor art festival -- one which I've done for many years, and one for which I have won multiple awards in the past, and one for which I was one of the jurors in the past!

Make sure that you visit the festival! It is an amazing show and well-worth the visit to see incredibly talented artists!

Bottom line: Learn from it, breathe in, and re-apply next year! I've been accepted like 20 years out of 22 or so, so pretty good batting average!

Dear F. Lennox,

Thank you for applying to the 34th annual Tephra ICA Arts Festival.

The highly competitive pool of applications was individually evaluated by three independent jurors and selections were made based on their reviews. Unfortunately, your application was not selected for display at the Festival this year. We encourage you to apply again next year when we have a new panel of qualified professional jurors whose perceptions may vary. As a 2025 Festival applicant, you will automatically receive notification regarding the 2026 Festival application in the fall.

We sincerely appreciate your support and interest in the Festival, and we wish you much success in all your artistic endeavors.

Sincerely,

Hannah Barco

Associate Curator and Festival Director

Coming to Links Bridge Vineyards:

Arlington abstract painter and instructor Bryan Jernigan came to the DMV from rural Oklahoma more than 35 years ago and his upcoming solo show called “Sound of Line” will debut at Links Bridge Vineyards in Thurmont, MD on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

“When I came to Washington, D.C. to live, it wasn’t my first time, but I had only visited once before,” Jernigan said. “Like most young people, I planned to make my name professionally and move on or move back to where I was raised. But D.C. had other plans for me, I guess. Instead, I saw most of my friends peel off and return home, taking back a little piece of urbanity with them. Unlike them, I absorbed the realities of living here – internalizing the highs and lows, taking in the triumphs and suffering through the realities of living the city life, digging in and getting to learn about cultures separate and apart from my own and enduring the everyday realities of things as mundane as seemingly unending traffic commutes.”

Jernigan said coming from the country but choosing to live a city life shaped how he sees the world and how he responds to it in his art.

“In this series – that comprises more than 50 original works on paper and wood panel – the things I noticed most were lines; how they keep us connected, but at the same time how tenuous they are,” he said. “They are less about real things and more about my responses to the things I see - power lines that carry communications from all who use them or lines in pavement that show the age of some parts of the city. The pieces have a gritty feel to them, which is another aspect of living in the city, this juxtaposition between the dirty and the pristine.”

The pieces that span from 12-inch to 3-feet squares include expanses of vibrating actions, scratchy marks and calm respites of undulating non-colors punctuated by bold vibrancy.

“Living in a city is often chaotic, but we do our best to control that craziness in our daily lives. I want the pieces to feel like the embodiment of city living. An homage, so to speak,” Jernigan said. “I hope they are exciting and make viewers feel something akin to a car crash on an otherwise uneventful commute. They are real and they are palpable, and I hope they will resonate with others who live here. We are all different – different backgrounds, different ethnicities – but we all share the same experience of living here and navigating it and getting by.”

Jernigan’s pieces have already received critical acclaim. One of them was chosen by juror Jeffrey W. Allison, the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) for the McGuffey Art Center’s Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition in Charlottesville.

“I’d say one of the artist’s worst fears is that they will muster up the courage to be vulnerable enough to create a body of work and then it gets a bad reception,” the artist said. “So, I entered a show with one of them who offered a well-regarded juror I knew it would be a good test. Happily, I was rewarded by having him choose my piece to include in the show. That little test helped me realize I was on the right track with this series.”

Links Bridge Vineyards will host an opening reception with an artist talk between 1 and 3PM on Saturday, April 5 and the show runs until Friday, April 27. See all the works online at www.bryanjernigan.com.

Another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show!

Before I forget: If I've invited you to the show and you've agreed to participate, but you're not listed below, please email me (lennycampello@hotmail.com) and let me know... or if I've misspelled your name :-) 

I've received nearly 4,000 emails, DMs, Facebooks, texts, etc. from female artists interested in being considered for the show.  Granted, there are a LOT of emails from artists living waaaay far from the Greater DC area who are not eligible, but still...

Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025

I have eight venues lined up, and at best I will be able to physically exhibit 240+ artists... but all applicants who meet the "DMV criteria" will be surveyed and catalogued for the SI American Art Archives, as I've contacted the Smithsonian American Art Archives with a proposal to document and archive ALL artists - of them - see that here.

I am also contacting ALL local universities/colleges and ALL of the DMV art commissions to ask them to buy one work by one alumni or county resident for their permanent collections.  I can use some help with that if you know board members, big donors, etc.

I need your help with the various DMV Art commissions/councils from the counties surrounding the DMV (Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington, etc.  See this letter/email as an example - feel free to copy and adapt and send to your council members, county executive, art commission, etc.

And the "in the show" list so far...

Shiri Achu 

Esperanza Alzona

Maremi Andreozzi 

Erin Antognoli  

Courtney Applequist

Sondra N. Arkin

Suzi Balamaci 

Michele Banks 

Marilyn Banner 

Kate Barfield 

Veronica Barker-Barzel 

Jennifer Barlow 

Denée Barr

Holly Bass 

Lisa Battle

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Judith Benderson 

Sarah Bentley  

Anne Bouie

Karin Birch 

Jennifer Bishop

Julia Bloom 

Lori Boocks 

Margaret Boozer  

Vian Borchert  

Claire Brandt

Laurie Breen

Lisa Brotman  

Amy Bruce

Dianne Bugash 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Judy Byron 

Denise Calisti 

Stephane Calvin

Rachel Carren 

Elizabeth Casqueiro 

Shanthi Chandrasekar

Mei Mei Chang 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Diane Cooper Cabe

Ellen Cornett 

Kathy Cornwell

Rosemary Feit Covey  

Lea Craigie-Marshall

Sheila Crider 

Jacqui Crocetta

Andrea Cullins 

Andrea Cybyk

Joan Danziger 

Delna Dastur 

Anna U. Davis 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Elizabeth Davison 

Danni Dawson 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell  

Jen Droblyen

Mary Early 

Susan Eder

Bria Edwards

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Rita Elsner 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson 

Felisa Federman Cogut 

Sharon Fishel

Cianne Fragione  

Mary Annella Frank

Helen Frederick   

Jenny Freestone 

Emily Fussner

Marie Gauthiez-Charpentier

Genie Ghim 

Carol Brown Goldberg 

Margery Goldberg

Susan Goldman

Janis Goodman 

Pat Goslee 

Freya Grand 

Graciela Granek 

Josephine Haden 

Debra Halprin 

Beatrice Hamblett

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun  

Seemeen Hashem

Rania Hassan 

Jennifer Hayes

Mira Hecht 

Michelle Lisa Herman 

Francie Hester 

Ellen Hill 

Pattee Hipschen 

Leslie Holt 

Susan Hostetler 

Sarah J. Hull

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Sadieh Ilchi

Selena Jackson 

Martha Jackson Jarvis  

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

M. Jane Johnson 

Jessica Kallista 

Jenny Kanzler

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz 

Sally Kauffman  

Trish Kent 

Megan King

Zofie King 

Kate Kretz 

Bridget Sue Lambert

Susan LaMont 

Linda Lawler 

Ngoc Le 

Jun Lee

Kyujin Lee 

Harriet Lesser 

Carol Levin 

Jennifer Lillis 

Amy Lin

Kara Lin 

June Linowitz 

Barbara Liotta

Kirsty Little

Taina Litwak 

Shelley Lowenstein 

Laurel Lukaszewski 

Dalya Luttwak 

Caroline MacKinnon

Akemi Maegawa 

Susan Makara

Isabel Manalo  

Joey Mánlapaz 

Sheryl Massaro

Katherine Mann

Anne Marchand  

Lucinda Marshall

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx  

Sheryl Massaro

J.J. McCracken

Sophia McCroklin

Donna McCullough 

Anne Meagher-Cook  

Maggie Michael 

Regina Miele  

Ramona Militaru

Marily Mojica 

Michele Montalbano 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan  

Meredith Morris

Camille Mosley-Pasley  

Adrienne Moumin

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca 

Ronnie Offen 

Claudia Olivos 

Helena Gallegos O'Neill 

Erica Orgen 

Marian Osher 

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck 

Monica Perdomo

Sandra Pérez-Ramos  

Anne Pham

Pearl Ping Shen 

Patricia Edwine Poku-Speight

Susana Raab 

Gail Rebhan

Carol Reed 

Cindy K. Renteria  

Marie Riccio

Lesley Riley

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Sarah Rodman  

Alla Rogers 

Roxana Rojas 

Lisa K Rosenstein 

Lori Niland Rounds

Christine Ryan 

Madalaine Sargent

Nancy Sausser 

Karen Schmitz

Deanna Schwartzberg  

Martina Sestakova

Lian Sever 

Susan Shalowitz 

Janathel Shaw 

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

April Shelford

Alison Sigethy

Elzbieta Sikorska 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pauline Siple  

Judy Southerland 

Molly Springfield 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Veronica Szalus

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel  

Kat Thompson

Patricia Underwood 

Christine Uskievitch

Jessica Van Brakle 

Gloria Vasquez  

Rosa Inés Vera  

Claudia Vess

Marite Vidales 

Lori Walsh

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Joyce Wellman 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff 

Helen Wood

Sue Wrbican 

Shawn Yancy

Suzanne Yurdin  

Paula Zeller

Barbara Ziselberger

Helen Zughaib 

Variations of this letter were both mailed and emailed to most members of the Montgomery County Council as well as Marc Ehrlich, the Montgomery County Executive.

This coming September, the largest ever area-wide curated art show will be coming to six art venues in the DMV, including two art spaces in Montgomery County!  I am currently curating this survey show, which will feature over 225 women artists from the Greater DC area, including around 40 or so Montgomery County female artists. They show will be spread to six venues: The American University Art Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA; the Athenaeum in Alexandria; the Strathmore Mansion Galleries and the Artists & Makers Gallery (both in Rockville) and the Pyramid Arts Center in Hyattsville.

I am contacting you in the hope that your office can work with Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (I have been in touch with her) to endorse a "Montgomery County Art Award" for one of the county's artists in the survey show. At the very least an award ribbon, in an ideal world acquiring one work for the county's art collection.

Thank you for your time and attention, and maybe we'll see you at one of the openings!

Very Respectfully,

Lenny Campello

Cell: 301/__________

Everything that you'd need to know about the show is here: https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2025/01/women-artists-of-dmv-all-that-you-need.html

Another example of why artists need to have thick skins! I've been rejected from an outdoor art festival -- one which I've done for many years, and one for which I have won multiple awards in the past, and one for which I was one of the jurors in the past!

Make sure that you visit the festival! It is an amazing show and well-worth the visit to see incredibly talented artists!

Bottom line: Learn from it, breathe in, and re-apply next year! I've been accepted like 20 years out of 22 or so, so pretty good batting average!

Dear F. Lennox,

Thank you for applying to the 34th annual Tephra ICA Arts Festival.

The highly competitive pool of applications was individually evaluated by three independent jurors and selections were made based on their reviews. Unfortunately, your application was not selected for display at the Festival this year. We encourage you to apply again next year when we have a new panel of qualified professional jurors whose perceptions may vary. As a 2025 Festival applicant, you will automatically receive notification regarding the 2026 Festival application in the fall.

We sincerely appreciate your support and interest in the Festival, and we wish you much success in all your artistic endeavors.

Sincerely,

Hannah Barco

Associate Curator and Festival Director

Coming to Links Bridge Vineyards:

Arlington abstract painter and instructor Bryan Jernigan came to the DMV from rural Oklahoma more than 35 years ago and his upcoming solo show called “Sound of Line” will debut at Links Bridge Vineyards in Thurmont, MD on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

“When I came to Washington, D.C. to live, it wasn’t my first time, but I had only visited once before,” Jernigan said. “Like most young people, I planned to make my name professionally and move on or move back to where I was raised. But D.C. had other plans for me, I guess. Instead, I saw most of my friends peel off and return home, taking back a little piece of urbanity with them. Unlike them, I absorbed the realities of living here – internalizing the highs and lows, taking in the triumphs and suffering through the realities of living the city life, digging in and getting to learn about cultures separate and apart from my own and enduring the everyday realities of things as mundane as seemingly unending traffic commutes.”

Jernigan said coming from the country but choosing to live a city life shaped how he sees the world and how he responds to it in his art.

“In this series – that comprises more than 50 original works on paper and wood panel – the things I noticed most were lines; how they keep us connected, but at the same time how tenuous they are,” he said. “They are less about real things and more about my responses to the things I see - power lines that carry communications from all who use them or lines in pavement that show the age of some parts of the city. The pieces have a gritty feel to them, which is another aspect of living in the city, this juxtaposition between the dirty and the pristine.”

The pieces that span from 12-inch to 3-feet squares include expanses of vibrating actions, scratchy marks and calm respites of undulating non-colors punctuated by bold vibrancy.

“Living in a city is often chaotic, but we do our best to control that craziness in our daily lives. I want the pieces to feel like the embodiment of city living. An homage, so to speak,” Jernigan said. “I hope they are exciting and make viewers feel something akin to a car crash on an otherwise uneventful commute. They are real and they are palpable, and I hope they will resonate with others who live here. We are all different – different backgrounds, different ethnicities – but we all share the same experience of living here and navigating it and getting by.”

Jernigan’s pieces have already received critical acclaim. One of them was chosen by juror Jeffrey W. Allison, the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) for the McGuffey Art Center’s Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition in Charlottesville.

“I’d say one of the artist’s worst fears is that they will muster up the courage to be vulnerable enough to create a body of work and then it gets a bad reception,” the artist said. “So, I entered a show with one of them who offered a well-regarded juror I knew it would be a good test. Happily, I was rewarded by having him choose my piece to include in the show. That little test helped me realize I was on the right track with this series.”

Links Bridge Vineyards will host an opening reception with an artist talk between 1 and 3PM on Saturday, April 5 and the show runs until Friday, April 27. See all the works online at www.bryanjernigan.com.

Another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show!

Before I forget: If I've invited you to the show and you've agreed to participate, but you're not listed below, please email me (lennycampello@hotmail.com) and let me know... or if I've misspelled your name :-) 

I've received nearly 4,000 emails, DMs, Facebooks, texts, etc. from female artists interested in being considered for the show.  Granted, there are a LOT of emails from artists living waaaay far from the Greater DC area who are not eligible, but still...

Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025

I have eight venues lined up, and at best I will be able to physically exhibit 240+ artists... but all applicants who meet the "DMV criteria" will be surveyed and catalogued for the SI American Art Archives, as I've contacted the Smithsonian American Art Archives with a proposal to document and archive ALL artists - of them - see that here.

I am also contacting ALL local universities/colleges and ALL of the DMV art commissions to ask them to buy one work by one alumni or county resident for their permanent collections.  I can use some help with that if you know board members, big donors, etc.

I need your help with the various DMV Art commissions/councils from the counties surrounding the DMV (Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington, etc.  See this letter/email as an example - feel free to copy and adapt and send to your council members, county executive, art commission, etc.

And the "in the show" list so far...

Shiri Achu 

Esperanza Alzona

Maremi Andreozzi 

Erin Antognoli  

Courtney Applequist

Sondra N. Arkin

Suzi Balamaci 

Michele Banks 

Marilyn Banner 

Kate Barfield 

Veronica Barker-Barzel 

Jennifer Barlow 

Denée Barr

Holly Bass 

Lisa Battle

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Judith Benderson 

Sarah Bentley  

Anne Bouie

Karin Birch 

Jennifer Bishop

Julia Bloom 

Lori Boocks 

Margaret Boozer  

Vian Borchert  

Claire Brandt

Laurie Breen

Lisa Brotman  

Amy Bruce

Dianne Bugash 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Judy Byron 

Denise Calisti 

Stephane Calvin

Rachel Carren 

Elizabeth Casqueiro 

Shanthi Chandrasekar

Mei Mei Chang 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Diane Cooper Cabe

Ellen Cornett 

Kathy Cornwell

Rosemary Feit Covey  

Lea Craigie-Marshall

Sheila Crider 

Jacqui Crocetta

Andrea Cullins 

Andrea Cybyk

Joan Danziger 

Delna Dastur 

Anna U. Davis 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Elizabeth Davison 

Danni Dawson 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell  

Jen Droblyen

Mary Early 

Susan Eder

Bria Edwards

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Rita Elsner 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson 

Felisa Federman Cogut 

Sharon Fishel

Cianne Fragione  

Mary Annella Frank

Helen Frederick   

Jenny Freestone 

Emily Fussner

Marie Gauthiez-Charpentier

Genie Ghim 

Carol Brown Goldberg 

Margery Goldberg

Susan Goldman

Janis Goodman 

Pat Goslee 

Freya Grand 

Graciela Granek 

Josephine Haden 

Debra Halprin 

Beatrice Hamblett

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun  

Seemeen Hashem

Rania Hassan 

Jennifer Hayes

Mira Hecht 

Michelle Lisa Herman 

Francie Hester 

Ellen Hill 

Pattee Hipschen 

Leslie Holt 

Susan Hostetler 

Sarah J. Hull

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Sadieh Ilchi

Selena Jackson 

Martha Jackson Jarvis  

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

M. Jane Johnson 

Jessica Kallista 

Jenny Kanzler

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz 

Sally Kauffman  

Trish Kent 

Megan King

Zofie King 

Kate Kretz 

Bridget Sue Lambert

Susan LaMont 

Linda Lawler 

Ngoc Le 

Jun Lee

Kyujin Lee 

Harriet Lesser 

Carol Levin 

Jennifer Lillis 

Amy Lin

Kara Lin 

June Linowitz 

Barbara Liotta

Kirsty Little

Taina Litwak 

Shelley Lowenstein 

Laurel Lukaszewski 

Dalya Luttwak 

Caroline MacKinnon

Akemi Maegawa 

Susan Makara

Isabel Manalo  

Joey Mánlapaz 

Sheryl Massaro

Katherine Mann

Anne Marchand  

Lucinda Marshall

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx  

Sheryl Massaro

J.J. McCracken

Sophia McCroklin

Donna McCullough 

Anne Meagher-Cook  

Maggie Michael 

Regina Miele  

Ramona Militaru

Marily Mojica 

Michele Montalbano 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan  

Meredith Morris

Camille Mosley-Pasley  

Adrienne Moumin

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca 

Ronnie Offen 

Claudia Olivos 

Helena Gallegos O'Neill 

Erica Orgen 

Marian Osher 

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck 

Monica Perdomo

Sandra Pérez-Ramos  

Anne Pham

Pearl Ping Shen 

Patricia Edwine Poku-Speight

Susana Raab 

Gail Rebhan

Carol Reed 

Cindy K. Renteria  

Marie Riccio

Lesley Riley

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Sarah Rodman  

Alla Rogers 

Roxana Rojas 

Lisa K Rosenstein 

Lori Niland Rounds

Christine Ryan 

Madalaine Sargent

Nancy Sausser 

Karen Schmitz

Deanna Schwartzberg  

Martina Sestakova

Lian Sever 

Susan Shalowitz 

Janathel Shaw 

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

April Shelford

Alison Sigethy

Elzbieta Sikorska 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pauline Siple  

Judy Southerland 

Molly Springfield 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Veronica Szalus

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel  

Kat Thompson

Patricia Underwood 

Christine Uskievitch

Jessica Van Brakle 

Gloria Vasquez  

Rosa Inés Vera  

Claudia Vess

Marite Vidales 

Lori Walsh

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Joyce Wellman 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff 

Helen Wood

Sue Wrbican 

Shawn Yancy

Suzanne Yurdin  

Paula Zeller

Barbara Ziselberger

Helen Zughaib 

Variations of this letter were both mailed and emailed to most members of the Montgomery County Council as well as Marc Ehrlich, the Montgomery County Executive.

This coming September, the largest ever area-wide curated art show will be coming to six art venues in the DMV, including two art spaces in Montgomery County!  I am currently curating this survey show, which will feature over 225 women artists from the Greater DC area, including around 40 or so Montgomery County female artists. They show will be spread to six venues: The American University Art Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA; the Athenaeum in Alexandria; the Strathmore Mansion Galleries and the Artists & Makers Gallery (both in Rockville) and the Pyramid Arts Center in Hyattsville.

I am contacting you in the hope that your office can work with Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (I have been in touch with her) to endorse a "Montgomery County Art Award" for one of the county's artists in the survey show. At the very least an award ribbon, in an ideal world acquiring one work for the county's art collection.

Thank you for your time and attention, and maybe we'll see you at one of the openings!

Very Respectfully,

Lenny Campello

Cell: 301/__________

Everything that you'd need to know about the show is here: https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2025/01/women-artists-of-dmv-all-that-you-need.html

Another example of why artists need to have thick skins! I've been rejected from an outdoor art festival -- one which I've done for many years, and one for which I have won multiple awards in the past, and one for which I was one of the jurors in the past!

Make sure that you visit the festival! It is an amazing show and well-worth the visit to see incredibly talented artists!

Bottom line: Learn from it, breathe in, and re-apply next year! I've been accepted like 20 years out of 22 or so, so pretty good batting average!

Dear F. Lennox,

Thank you for applying to the 34th annual Tephra ICA Arts Festival.

The highly competitive pool of applications was individually evaluated by three independent jurors and selections were made based on their reviews. Unfortunately, your application was not selected for display at the Festival this year. We encourage you to apply again next year when we have a new panel of qualified professional jurors whose perceptions may vary. As a 2025 Festival applicant, you will automatically receive notification regarding the 2026 Festival application in the fall.

We sincerely appreciate your support and interest in the Festival, and we wish you much success in all your artistic endeavors.

Sincerely,

Hannah Barco

Associate Curator and Festival Director

Coming to Links Bridge Vineyards:

Arlington abstract painter and instructor Bryan Jernigan came to the DMV from rural Oklahoma more than 35 years ago and his upcoming solo show called “Sound of Line” will debut at Links Bridge Vineyards in Thurmont, MD on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

“When I came to Washington, D.C. to live, it wasn’t my first time, but I had only visited once before,” Jernigan said. “Like most young people, I planned to make my name professionally and move on or move back to where I was raised. But D.C. had other plans for me, I guess. Instead, I saw most of my friends peel off and return home, taking back a little piece of urbanity with them. Unlike them, I absorbed the realities of living here – internalizing the highs and lows, taking in the triumphs and suffering through the realities of living the city life, digging in and getting to learn about cultures separate and apart from my own and enduring the everyday realities of things as mundane as seemingly unending traffic commutes.”

Jernigan said coming from the country but choosing to live a city life shaped how he sees the world and how he responds to it in his art.

“In this series – that comprises more than 50 original works on paper and wood panel – the things I noticed most were lines; how they keep us connected, but at the same time how tenuous they are,” he said. “They are less about real things and more about my responses to the things I see - power lines that carry communications from all who use them or lines in pavement that show the age of some parts of the city. The pieces have a gritty feel to them, which is another aspect of living in the city, this juxtaposition between the dirty and the pristine.”

The pieces that span from 12-inch to 3-feet squares include expanses of vibrating actions, scratchy marks and calm respites of undulating non-colors punctuated by bold vibrancy.

“Living in a city is often chaotic, but we do our best to control that craziness in our daily lives. I want the pieces to feel like the embodiment of city living. An homage, so to speak,” Jernigan said. “I hope they are exciting and make viewers feel something akin to a car crash on an otherwise uneventful commute. They are real and they are palpable, and I hope they will resonate with others who live here. We are all different – different backgrounds, different ethnicities – but we all share the same experience of living here and navigating it and getting by.”

Jernigan’s pieces have already received critical acclaim. One of them was chosen by juror Jeffrey W. Allison, the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) for the McGuffey Art Center’s Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition in Charlottesville.

“I’d say one of the artist’s worst fears is that they will muster up the courage to be vulnerable enough to create a body of work and then it gets a bad reception,” the artist said. “So, I entered a show with one of them who offered a well-regarded juror I knew it would be a good test. Happily, I was rewarded by having him choose my piece to include in the show. That little test helped me realize I was on the right track with this series.”

Links Bridge Vineyards will host an opening reception with an artist talk between 1 and 3PM on Saturday, April 5 and the show runs until Friday, April 27. See all the works online at www.bryanjernigan.com.

Another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show!

Before I forget: If I've invited you to the show and you've agreed to participate, but you're not listed below, please email me (lennycampello@hotmail.com) and let me know... or if I've misspelled your name :-) 

I've received nearly 4,000 emails, DMs, Facebooks, texts, etc. from female artists interested in being considered for the show.  Granted, there are a LOT of emails from artists living waaaay far from the Greater DC area who are not eligible, but still...

Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025

I have eight venues lined up, and at best I will be able to physically exhibit 240+ artists... but all applicants who meet the "DMV criteria" will be surveyed and catalogued for the SI American Art Archives, as I've contacted the Smithsonian American Art Archives with a proposal to document and archive ALL artists - of them - see that here.

I am also contacting ALL local universities/colleges and ALL of the DMV art commissions to ask them to buy one work by one alumni or county resident for their permanent collections.  I can use some help with that if you know board members, big donors, etc.

I need your help with the various DMV Art commissions/councils from the counties surrounding the DMV (Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington, etc.  See this letter/email as an example - feel free to copy and adapt and send to your council members, county executive, art commission, etc.

And the "in the show" list so far...

Shiri Achu 

Esperanza Alzona

Maremi Andreozzi 

Erin Antognoli  

Courtney Applequist

Sondra N. Arkin

Suzi Balamaci 

Michele Banks 

Marilyn Banner 

Kate Barfield 

Veronica Barker-Barzel 

Jennifer Barlow 

Denée Barr

Holly Bass 

Lisa Battle

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Judith Benderson 

Sarah Bentley  

Anne Bouie

Karin Birch 

Jennifer Bishop

Julia Bloom 

Lori Boocks 

Margaret Boozer  

Vian Borchert  

Claire Brandt

Laurie Breen

Lisa Brotman  

Amy Bruce

Dianne Bugash 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Judy Byron 

Denise Calisti 

Stephane Calvin

Rachel Carren 

Elizabeth Casqueiro 

Shanthi Chandrasekar

Mei Mei Chang 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Diane Cooper Cabe

Ellen Cornett 

Kathy Cornwell

Rosemary Feit Covey  

Lea Craigie-Marshall

Sheila Crider 

Jacqui Crocetta

Andrea Cullins 

Andrea Cybyk

Joan Danziger 

Delna Dastur 

Anna U. Davis 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Elizabeth Davison 

Danni Dawson 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell  

Jen Droblyen

Mary Early 

Susan Eder

Bria Edwards

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Rita Elsner 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson 

Felisa Federman Cogut 

Sharon Fishel

Cianne Fragione  

Mary Annella Frank

Helen Frederick   

Jenny Freestone 

Emily Fussner

Marie Gauthiez-Charpentier

Genie Ghim 

Carol Brown Goldberg 

Margery Goldberg

Susan Goldman

Janis Goodman 

Pat Goslee 

Freya Grand 

Graciela Granek 

Josephine Haden 

Debra Halprin 

Beatrice Hamblett

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun  

Seemeen Hashem

Rania Hassan 

Jennifer Hayes

Mira Hecht 

Michelle Lisa Herman 

Francie Hester 

Ellen Hill 

Pattee Hipschen 

Leslie Holt 

Susan Hostetler 

Sarah J. Hull

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Sadieh Ilchi

Selena Jackson 

Martha Jackson Jarvis  

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

M. Jane Johnson 

Jessica Kallista 

Jenny Kanzler

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz 

Sally Kauffman  

Trish Kent 

Megan King

Zofie King 

Kate Kretz 

Bridget Sue Lambert

Susan LaMont 

Linda Lawler 

Ngoc Le 

Jun Lee

Kyujin Lee 

Harriet Lesser 

Carol Levin 

Jennifer Lillis 

Amy Lin

Kara Lin 

June Linowitz 

Barbara Liotta

Kirsty Little

Taina Litwak 

Shelley Lowenstein 

Laurel Lukaszewski 

Dalya Luttwak 

Caroline MacKinnon

Akemi Maegawa 

Susan Makara

Isabel Manalo  

Joey Mánlapaz 

Sheryl Massaro

Katherine Mann

Anne Marchand  

Lucinda Marshall

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx  

Sheryl Massaro

J.J. McCracken

Sophia McCroklin

Donna McCullough 

Anne Meagher-Cook  

Maggie Michael 

Regina Miele  

Ramona Militaru

Marily Mojica 

Michele Montalbano 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan  

Meredith Morris

Camille Mosley-Pasley  

Adrienne Moumin

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca 

Ronnie Offen 

Claudia Olivos 

Helena Gallegos O'Neill 

Erica Orgen 

Marian Osher 

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck 

Monica Perdomo

Sandra Pérez-Ramos  

Anne Pham

Pearl Ping Shen 

Patricia Edwine Poku-Speight

Susana Raab 

Gail Rebhan

Carol Reed 

Cindy K. Renteria  

Marie Riccio

Lesley Riley

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Sarah Rodman  

Alla Rogers 

Roxana Rojas 

Lisa K Rosenstein 

Lori Niland Rounds

Christine Ryan 

Madalaine Sargent

Nancy Sausser 

Karen Schmitz

Deanna Schwartzberg  

Martina Sestakova

Lian Sever 

Susan Shalowitz 

Janathel Shaw 

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

April Shelford

Alison Sigethy

Elzbieta Sikorska 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pauline Siple  

Judy Southerland 

Molly Springfield 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Veronica Szalus

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel  

Kat Thompson

Patricia Underwood 

Christine Uskievitch

Jessica Van Brakle 

Gloria Vasquez  

Rosa Inés Vera  

Claudia Vess

Marite Vidales 

Lori Walsh

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Joyce Wellman 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff 

Helen Wood

Sue Wrbican 

Shawn Yancy

Suzanne Yurdin  

Paula Zeller

Barbara Ziselberger

Helen Zughaib 

Variations of this letter were both mailed and emailed to most members of the Montgomery County Council as well as Marc Ehrlich, the Montgomery County Executive.

This coming September, the largest ever area-wide curated art show will be coming to six art venues in the DMV, including two art spaces in Montgomery County!  I am currently curating this survey show, which will feature over 225 women artists from the Greater DC area, including around 40 or so Montgomery County female artists. They show will be spread to six venues: The American University Art Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA; the Athenaeum in Alexandria; the Strathmore Mansion Galleries and the Artists & Makers Gallery (both in Rockville) and the Pyramid Arts Center in Hyattsville.

I am contacting you in the hope that your office can work with Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (I have been in touch with her) to endorse a "Montgomery County Art Award" for one of the county's artists in the survey show. At the very least an award ribbon, in an ideal world acquiring one work for the county's art collection.

Thank you for your time and attention, and maybe we'll see you at one of the openings!

Very Respectfully,

Lenny Campello

Cell: 301/__________

Everything that you'd need to know about the show is here: https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2025/01/women-artists-of-dmv-all-that-you-need.html

Another example of why artists need to have thick skins! I've been rejected from an outdoor art festival -- one which I've done for many years, and one for which I have won multiple awards in the past, and one for which I was one of the jurors in the past!

Make sure that you visit the festival! It is an amazing show and well-worth the visit to see incredibly talented artists!

Bottom line: Learn from it, breathe in, and re-apply next year! I've been accepted like 20 years out of 22 or so, so pretty good batting average!

Dear F. Lennox,

Thank you for applying to the 34th annual Tephra ICA Arts Festival.

The highly competitive pool of applications was individually evaluated by three independent jurors and selections were made based on their reviews. Unfortunately, your application was not selected for display at the Festival this year. We encourage you to apply again next year when we have a new panel of qualified professional jurors whose perceptions may vary. As a 2025 Festival applicant, you will automatically receive notification regarding the 2026 Festival application in the fall.

We sincerely appreciate your support and interest in the Festival, and we wish you much success in all your artistic endeavors.

Sincerely,

Hannah Barco

Associate Curator and Festival Director

Coming to Links Bridge Vineyards:

Arlington abstract painter and instructor Bryan Jernigan came to the DMV from rural Oklahoma more than 35 years ago and his upcoming solo show called “Sound of Line” will debut at Links Bridge Vineyards in Thurmont, MD on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

“When I came to Washington, D.C. to live, it wasn’t my first time, but I had only visited once before,” Jernigan said. “Like most young people, I planned to make my name professionally and move on or move back to where I was raised. But D.C. had other plans for me, I guess. Instead, I saw most of my friends peel off and return home, taking back a little piece of urbanity with them. Unlike them, I absorbed the realities of living here – internalizing the highs and lows, taking in the triumphs and suffering through the realities of living the city life, digging in and getting to learn about cultures separate and apart from my own and enduring the everyday realities of things as mundane as seemingly unending traffic commutes.”

Jernigan said coming from the country but choosing to live a city life shaped how he sees the world and how he responds to it in his art.

“In this series – that comprises more than 50 original works on paper and wood panel – the things I noticed most were lines; how they keep us connected, but at the same time how tenuous they are,” he said. “They are less about real things and more about my responses to the things I see - power lines that carry communications from all who use them or lines in pavement that show the age of some parts of the city. The pieces have a gritty feel to them, which is another aspect of living in the city, this juxtaposition between the dirty and the pristine.”

The pieces that span from 12-inch to 3-feet squares include expanses of vibrating actions, scratchy marks and calm respites of undulating non-colors punctuated by bold vibrancy.

“Living in a city is often chaotic, but we do our best to control that craziness in our daily lives. I want the pieces to feel like the embodiment of city living. An homage, so to speak,” Jernigan said. “I hope they are exciting and make viewers feel something akin to a car crash on an otherwise uneventful commute. They are real and they are palpable, and I hope they will resonate with others who live here. We are all different – different backgrounds, different ethnicities – but we all share the same experience of living here and navigating it and getting by.”

Jernigan’s pieces have already received critical acclaim. One of them was chosen by juror Jeffrey W. Allison, the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) for the McGuffey Art Center’s Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition in Charlottesville.

“I’d say one of the artist’s worst fears is that they will muster up the courage to be vulnerable enough to create a body of work and then it gets a bad reception,” the artist said. “So, I entered a show with one of them who offered a well-regarded juror I knew it would be a good test. Happily, I was rewarded by having him choose my piece to include in the show. That little test helped me realize I was on the right track with this series.”

Links Bridge Vineyards will host an opening reception with an artist talk between 1 and 3PM on Saturday, April 5 and the show runs until Friday, April 27. See all the works online at www.bryanjernigan.com.

Another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show!

Before I forget: If I've invited you to the show and you've agreed to participate, but you're not listed below, please email me (lennycampello@hotmail.com) and let me know... or if I've misspelled your name :-) 

I've received nearly 4,000 emails, DMs, Facebooks, texts, etc. from female artists interested in being considered for the show.  Granted, there are a LOT of emails from artists living waaaay far from the Greater DC area who are not eligible, but still...

Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025

I have eight venues lined up, and at best I will be able to physically exhibit 240+ artists... but all applicants who meet the "DMV criteria" will be surveyed and catalogued for the SI American Art Archives, as I've contacted the Smithsonian American Art Archives with a proposal to document and archive ALL artists - of them - see that here.

I am also contacting ALL local universities/colleges and ALL of the DMV art commissions to ask them to buy one work by one alumni or county resident for their permanent collections.  I can use some help with that if you know board members, big donors, etc.

I need your help with the various DMV Art commissions/councils from the counties surrounding the DMV (Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington, etc.  See this letter/email as an example - feel free to copy and adapt and send to your council members, county executive, art commission, etc.

And the "in the show" list so far...

Shiri Achu 

Esperanza Alzona

Maremi Andreozzi 

Erin Antognoli  

Courtney Applequist

Sondra N. Arkin

Suzi Balamaci 

Michele Banks 

Marilyn Banner 

Kate Barfield 

Veronica Barker-Barzel 

Jennifer Barlow 

Denée Barr

Holly Bass 

Lisa Battle

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Judith Benderson 

Sarah Bentley  

Anne Bouie

Karin Birch 

Jennifer Bishop

Julia Bloom 

Lori Boocks 

Margaret Boozer  

Vian Borchert  

Claire Brandt

Laurie Breen

Lisa Brotman  

Amy Bruce

Dianne Bugash 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Judy Byron 

Denise Calisti 

Stephane Calvin

Rachel Carren 

Elizabeth Casqueiro 

Shanthi Chandrasekar

Mei Mei Chang 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Diane Cooper Cabe

Ellen Cornett 

Kathy Cornwell

Rosemary Feit Covey  

Lea Craigie-Marshall

Sheila Crider 

Jacqui Crocetta

Andrea Cullins 

Andrea Cybyk

Joan Danziger 

Delna Dastur 

Anna U. Davis 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Elizabeth Davison 

Danni Dawson 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell  

Jen Droblyen

Mary Early 

Susan Eder

Bria Edwards

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Rita Elsner 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson 

Felisa Federman Cogut 

Sharon Fishel

Cianne Fragione  

Mary Annella Frank

Helen Frederick   

Jenny Freestone 

Emily Fussner

Marie Gauthiez-Charpentier

Genie Ghim 

Carol Brown Goldberg 

Margery Goldberg

Susan Goldman

Janis Goodman 

Pat Goslee 

Freya Grand 

Graciela Granek 

Josephine Haden 

Debra Halprin 

Beatrice Hamblett

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun  

Seemeen Hashem

Rania Hassan 

Jennifer Hayes

Mira Hecht 

Michelle Lisa Herman 

Francie Hester 

Ellen Hill 

Pattee Hipschen 

Leslie Holt 

Susan Hostetler 

Sarah J. Hull

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Sadieh Ilchi

Selena Jackson 

Martha Jackson Jarvis  

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

M. Jane Johnson 

Jessica Kallista 

Jenny Kanzler

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz 

Sally Kauffman  

Trish Kent 

Megan King

Zofie King 

Kate Kretz 

Bridget Sue Lambert

Susan LaMont 

Linda Lawler 

Ngoc Le 

Jun Lee

Kyujin Lee 

Harriet Lesser 

Carol Levin 

Jennifer Lillis 

Amy Lin

Kara Lin 

June Linowitz 

Barbara Liotta

Kirsty Little

Taina Litwak 

Shelley Lowenstein 

Laurel Lukaszewski 

Dalya Luttwak 

Caroline MacKinnon

Akemi Maegawa 

Susan Makara

Isabel Manalo  

Joey Mánlapaz 

Sheryl Massaro

Katherine Mann

Anne Marchand  

Lucinda Marshall

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx  

Sheryl Massaro

J.J. McCracken

Sophia McCroklin

Donna McCullough 

Anne Meagher-Cook  

Maggie Michael 

Regina Miele  

Ramona Militaru

Marily Mojica 

Michele Montalbano 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan  

Meredith Morris

Camille Mosley-Pasley  

Adrienne Moumin

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca 

Ronnie Offen 

Claudia Olivos 

Helena Gallegos O'Neill 

Erica Orgen 

Marian Osher 

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck 

Monica Perdomo

Sandra Pérez-Ramos  

Anne Pham

Pearl Ping Shen 

Patricia Edwine Poku-Speight

Susana Raab 

Gail Rebhan

Carol Reed 

Cindy K. Renteria  

Marie Riccio

Lesley Riley

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Sarah Rodman  

Alla Rogers 

Roxana Rojas 

Lisa K Rosenstein 

Lori Niland Rounds

Christine Ryan 

Madalaine Sargent

Nancy Sausser 

Karen Schmitz

Deanna Schwartzberg  

Martina Sestakova

Lian Sever 

Susan Shalowitz 

Janathel Shaw 

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

April Shelford

Alison Sigethy

Elzbieta Sikorska 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pauline Siple  

Judy Southerland 

Molly Springfield 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Veronica Szalus

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel  

Kat Thompson

Patricia Underwood 

Christine Uskievitch

Jessica Van Brakle 

Gloria Vasquez  

Rosa Inés Vera  

Claudia Vess

Marite Vidales 

Lori Walsh

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Joyce Wellman 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff 

Helen Wood

Sue Wrbican 

Shawn Yancy

Suzanne Yurdin  

Paula Zeller

Barbara Ziselberger

Helen Zughaib 

Variations of this letter were both mailed and emailed to most members of the Montgomery County Council as well as Marc Ehrlich, the Montgomery County Executive.

This coming September, the largest ever area-wide curated art show will be coming to six art venues in the DMV, including two art spaces in Montgomery County!  I am currently curating this survey show, which will feature over 225 women artists from the Greater DC area, including around 40 or so Montgomery County female artists. They show will be spread to six venues: The American University Art Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA; the Athenaeum in Alexandria; the Strathmore Mansion Galleries and the Artists & Makers Gallery (both in Rockville) and the Pyramid Arts Center in Hyattsville.

I am contacting you in the hope that your office can work with Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (I have been in touch with her) to endorse a "Montgomery County Art Award" for one of the county's artists in the survey show. At the very least an award ribbon, in an ideal world acquiring one work for the county's art collection.

Thank you for your time and attention, and maybe we'll see you at one of the openings!

Very Respectfully,

Lenny Campello

Cell: 301/__________

Everything that you'd need to know about the show is here: https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2025/01/women-artists-of-dmv-all-that-you-need.html

Another example of why artists need to have thick skins! I've been rejected from an outdoor art festival -- one which I've done for many years, and one for which I have won multiple awards in the past, and one for which I was one of the jurors in the past!

Make sure that you visit the festival! It is an amazing show and well-worth the visit to see incredibly talented artists!

Bottom line: Learn from it, breathe in, and re-apply next year! I've been accepted like 20 years out of 22 or so, so pretty good batting average!

Dear F. Lennox,

Thank you for applying to the 34th annual Tephra ICA Arts Festival.

The highly competitive pool of applications was individually evaluated by three independent jurors and selections were made based on their reviews. Unfortunately, your application was not selected for display at the Festival this year. We encourage you to apply again next year when we have a new panel of qualified professional jurors whose perceptions may vary. As a 2025 Festival applicant, you will automatically receive notification regarding the 2026 Festival application in the fall.

We sincerely appreciate your support and interest in the Festival, and we wish you much success in all your artistic endeavors.

Sincerely,

Hannah Barco

Associate Curator and Festival Director

Coming to Links Bridge Vineyards:

Arlington abstract painter and instructor Bryan Jernigan came to the DMV from rural Oklahoma more than 35 years ago and his upcoming solo show called “Sound of Line” will debut at Links Bridge Vineyards in Thurmont, MD on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

“When I came to Washington, D.C. to live, it wasn’t my first time, but I had only visited once before,” Jernigan said. “Like most young people, I planned to make my name professionally and move on or move back to where I was raised. But D.C. had other plans for me, I guess. Instead, I saw most of my friends peel off and return home, taking back a little piece of urbanity with them. Unlike them, I absorbed the realities of living here – internalizing the highs and lows, taking in the triumphs and suffering through the realities of living the city life, digging in and getting to learn about cultures separate and apart from my own and enduring the everyday realities of things as mundane as seemingly unending traffic commutes.”

Jernigan said coming from the country but choosing to live a city life shaped how he sees the world and how he responds to it in his art.

“In this series – that comprises more than 50 original works on paper and wood panel – the things I noticed most were lines; how they keep us connected, but at the same time how tenuous they are,” he said. “They are less about real things and more about my responses to the things I see - power lines that carry communications from all who use them or lines in pavement that show the age of some parts of the city. The pieces have a gritty feel to them, which is another aspect of living in the city, this juxtaposition between the dirty and the pristine.”

The pieces that span from 12-inch to 3-feet squares include expanses of vibrating actions, scratchy marks and calm respites of undulating non-colors punctuated by bold vibrancy.

“Living in a city is often chaotic, but we do our best to control that craziness in our daily lives. I want the pieces to feel like the embodiment of city living. An homage, so to speak,” Jernigan said. “I hope they are exciting and make viewers feel something akin to a car crash on an otherwise uneventful commute. They are real and they are palpable, and I hope they will resonate with others who live here. We are all different – different backgrounds, different ethnicities – but we all share the same experience of living here and navigating it and getting by.”

Jernigan’s pieces have already received critical acclaim. One of them was chosen by juror Jeffrey W. Allison, the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) for the McGuffey Art Center’s Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition in Charlottesville.

“I’d say one of the artist’s worst fears is that they will muster up the courage to be vulnerable enough to create a body of work and then it gets a bad reception,” the artist said. “So, I entered a show with one of them who offered a well-regarded juror I knew it would be a good test. Happily, I was rewarded by having him choose my piece to include in the show. That little test helped me realize I was on the right track with this series.”

Links Bridge Vineyards will host an opening reception with an artist talk between 1 and 3PM on Saturday, April 5 and the show runs until Friday, April 27. See all the works online at www.bryanjernigan.com.

Another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show!

Before I forget: If I've invited you to the show and you've agreed to participate, but you're not listed below, please email me (lennycampello@hotmail.com) and let me know... or if I've misspelled your name :-) 

I've received nearly 4,000 emails, DMs, Facebooks, texts, etc. from female artists interested in being considered for the show.  Granted, there are a LOT of emails from artists living waaaay far from the Greater DC area who are not eligible, but still...

Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025

I have eight venues lined up, and at best I will be able to physically exhibit 240+ artists... but all applicants who meet the "DMV criteria" will be surveyed and catalogued for the SI American Art Archives, as I've contacted the Smithsonian American Art Archives with a proposal to document and archive ALL artists - of them - see that here.

I am also contacting ALL local universities/colleges and ALL of the DMV art commissions to ask them to buy one work by one alumni or county resident for their permanent collections.  I can use some help with that if you know board members, big donors, etc.

I need your help with the various DMV Art commissions/councils from the counties surrounding the DMV (Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington, etc.  See this letter/email as an example - feel free to copy and adapt and send to your council members, county executive, art commission, etc.

And the "in the show" list so far...

Shiri Achu 

Esperanza Alzona

Maremi Andreozzi 

Erin Antognoli  

Courtney Applequist

Sondra N. Arkin

Suzi Balamaci 

Michele Banks 

Marilyn Banner 

Kate Barfield 

Veronica Barker-Barzel 

Jennifer Barlow 

Denée Barr

Holly Bass 

Lisa Battle

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Judith Benderson 

Sarah Bentley  

Anne Bouie

Karin Birch 

Jennifer Bishop

Julia Bloom 

Lori Boocks 

Margaret Boozer  

Vian Borchert  

Claire Brandt

Laurie Breen

Lisa Brotman  

Amy Bruce

Dianne Bugash 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Judy Byron 

Denise Calisti 

Stephane Calvin

Rachel Carren 

Elizabeth Casqueiro 

Shanthi Chandrasekar

Mei Mei Chang 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Anne Cherubim

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Diane Cooper Cabe

Ellen Cornett 

Kathy Cornwell

Rosemary Feit Covey  

Lea Craigie-Marshall

Sheila Crider 

Jacqui Crocetta

Andrea Cullins 

Andrea Cybyk

Joan Danziger 

Delna Dastur 

Anna U. Davis 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Elizabeth Davison 

Danni Dawson 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell  

Jen Droblyen

Mary Early 

Susan Eder

Bria Edwards

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Rita Elsner 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson 

Felisa Federman Cogut 

Sharon Fishel

Cianne Fragione  

Mary Annella Frank

Helen Frederick   

Jenny Freestone 

Emily Fussner

Marie Gauthiez-Charpentier

Genie Ghim 

Carol Brown Goldberg 

Margery Goldberg

Susan Goldman

Janis Goodman 

Pat Goslee 

Freya Grand 

Graciela Granek 

Josephine Haden 

Debra Halprin 

Beatrice Hamblett

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun  

Seemeen Hashem

Rania Hassan 

Jennifer Hayes

Mira Hecht 

Michelle Lisa Herman 

Francie Hester 

Ellen Hill 

Pattee Hipschen 

Leslie Holt 

Susan Hostetler 

Sarah J. Hull

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Sadieh Ilchi

Selena Jackson 

Martha Jackson Jarvis  

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

M. Jane Johnson 

Jessica Kallista 

Jenny Kanzler

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz 

Sally Kauffman  

Trish Kent 

Megan King

Zofie King 

Kate Kretz 

Bridget Sue Lambert

Susan LaMont 

Linda Lawler 

Ngoc Le 

Jun Lee

Kyujin Lee 

Harriet Lesser 

Carol Levin 

Jennifer Lillis 

Amy Lin

Kara Lin 

June Linowitz 

Barbara Liotta

Kirsty Little

Taina Litwak 

Shelley Lowenstein 

Laurel Lukaszewski 

Dalya Luttwak 

Caroline MacKinnon

Akemi Maegawa 

Susan Makara

Isabel Manalo  

Joey Mánlapaz 

Sheryl Massaro

Katherine Mann

Anne Marchand  

Lucinda Marshall

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx  

Sheryl Massaro

J.J. McCracken

Sophia McCroklin

Donna McCullough 

Anne Meagher-Cook  

Maggie Michael 

Regina Miele  

Ramona Militaru

Marily Mojica 

Michele Montalbano 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan  

Meredith Morris

Camille Mosley-Pasley  

Adrienne Moumin

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca 

Ronnie Offen 

Claudia Olivos 

Helena Gallegos O'Neill 

Erica Orgen 

Marian Osher 

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck 

Monica Perdomo

Sandra Pérez-Ramos  

Anne Pham

Pearl Ping Shen 

Patricia Edwine Poku-Speight

Susana Raab 

Gail Rebhan

Carol Reed 

Cindy K. Renteria  

Marie Riccio

Lesley Riley

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Sarah Rodman  

Alla Rogers 

Roxana Rojas 

Lisa K Rosenstein 

Lori Niland Rounds

Christine Ryan 

Madalaine Sargent

Nancy Sausser 

Karen Schmitz

Deanna Schwartzberg  

Martina Sestakova

Lian Sever 

Susan Shalowitz 

Janathel Shaw 

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

April Shelford

Alison Sigethy

Elzbieta Sikorska 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pauline Siple  

Judy Southerland 

Molly Springfield 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Veronica Szalus

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel  

Kat Thompson

Patricia Underwood 

Christine Uskievitch

Jessica Van Brakle 

Gloria Vasquez  

Rosa Inés Vera  

Claudia Vess

Marite Vidales 

Lori Walsh

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Joyce Wellman 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff 

Helen Wood

Sue Wrbican 

Shawn Yancy

Suzanne Yurdin  

Paula Zeller

Barbara Ziselberger

Helen Zughaib 

Variations of this letter were both mailed and emailed to most members of the Montgomery County Council as well as Marc Ehrlich, the Montgomery County Executive.

This coming September, the largest ever area-wide curated art show will be coming to six art venues in the DMV, including two art spaces in Montgomery County!  I am currently curating this survey show, which will feature over 225 women artists from the Greater DC area, including around 40 or so Montgomery County female artists. They show will be spread to six venues: The American University Art Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA; the Athenaeum in Alexandria; the Strathmore Mansion Galleries and the Artists & Makers Gallery (both in Rockville) and the Pyramid Arts Center in Hyattsville.

I am contacting you in the hope that your office can work with Suzan E. Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (I have been in touch with her) to endorse a "Montgomery County Art Award" for one of the county's artists in the survey show. At the very least an award ribbon, in an ideal world acquiring one work for the county's art collection.

Thank you for your time and attention, and maybe we'll see you at one of the openings!

Very Respectfully,

Lenny Campello

Cell: 301/__________

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