Rita is a native of New York and studied studio art and history of art throughout her life. In the Washington DC area, she studied at the Art League in Alexandria (now, The Torpedo Factory), Rockville Arts Place, and the Yellow Barn Studio at Glen Echo, Maryland. She has exhibited in numerous group and juried shows. Her work is in private collections in the United States and in Europe.
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Silver Spring’s A&E District is the place for music, theatre, visual arts, dance, and more! Enjoy dining at an array of restaurants, catch an independent film at AFI Silver, enjoy concerts at Veteran’s Plaza, and look out for public art–it’s everywhere.
From an award-winning theatre to thought-provoking independent films, Bethesda is filled with inspiring artists and arts venues. Unique galleries and public art fill the streets throughout this urban arts destination.
Education: University of Chicago (MA, 1963); University of Michigan (BA, 1961). Selected Exhibitions:solo exhibit,Emory and Henry College,Emory VA 2010,Solo exhibit,Arlington Arts Center,2007;Festival of Quilts,Birmingham UK,2-person exhibit,2010; Quilt National '09, Dairy Barn, Athens, OH (2009);Mesa Contemporary Crafts,Mesa AZ 2010;Collection: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Carol Barsha is an artist whose primary media are paint, ink, pastel, and charcoal. She applies these media in spontaneous, gestural strokes as well as in smooth layers. Her symbolic, often surreal drawings and paintings on paper are influenced by observations from nature as well as imagined phenomena. The basic elements of the world; water, air, earth and fire, as well as a curiosity about the human condition, pervade her work.
EDUCATION: 1993. Certificate, Art Education (K-12), District of Columbia, Board of Education. 1978. MA Painting, S.U.N.Y. at Oswego. 1976. BA Printmaking and Drawing, S.U.N.Y. at Oswego. 1973. Studied art at the University of Pisa, Italy.
"One of the most interesting people of Washington, DC" - The Washington City Paper, December 8, 2016
F. Lennox Campello studied art at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle, under Professors Norman Lundin, Alden Mason, Jacob Lawrence, Everet DuPen and others. Although he graduated from Washington in 1981, the artist started to sell his work professionally in 1977, when he became one of the regular exhibiting artists at Seattle's world famous Pike Place Market, where over four years he sold, gave away or traded over two thousand works of art.
Museum Exhibitions:
2015 American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, “The World is a
Narrow Bridge: Drawings by Beverly Ress”
2006 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, "Art on Paper".
2005 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, “10th National Drawing Invitational”.
2003 James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, “Untitled”.
2002 The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, “Donkefant/Republicrat”.
1999 The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, “Landscape”.