Lou Stovall: The Museum Workshop at the Phillips

July 23-October 9, 2022, The Phillips Collection

IMAGE: Lou Stovall, Untitled, 1972, Silkscreen print, 40 x 26 in., Courtesy of the artist — IMAGE: Lou Stovall, *Untitled*, 1972, Silkscreen print, 40 x 26 in., Courtesy of the artist

Lou Stovall: The Museum Workshop reexamines the history and legacy of the Dupont Center, an artist’s museum founded in Washington, DC, in 1969. Under the visionary collaboration of curator Walter Hopps and artist Lou Stovall, the Dupont Center became DC’s meeting place for artists of different cultures and generations.

This exhibition presents work produced by artists at the workshop and collected by Stovall between 1969 and 1973, as well as Stovall’s early community posters from 1967 and 1968, which document DC in a time of protest and upheaval. The presentation at The Phillips Collection brings together a variety of art from the workshop, including sculpture by Rockne Krebs and Leni Stern, photography by William Christenberry and John Gossage, and paintings by Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, and Paul Reed.