Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall Self Guided Audio Tour
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003296-1 ACMA AV003296-2 ACMA AV003296-3 ACMA AV001367 ACMA AV001377 ACMA AV001368 ACMA AV001369 ACMA AV001365
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Jones, Brian
- Names
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Corcoran School of Art (Washington, D.C.)
- Howard University
- Stovall Workshop Inc.
- Gilliam, Sam, 1933-2022
- McNeill, Lloyd
- Porter, James A. (James Amos), 1905-1970
- Stovall, Di Bagley, 1947-
- Stovall, Lou
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Georgia
- Springfield (Mass.)
- United States
- Occupation
- Artists
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American printmakers
- Printmakers
- African American artists
- Art
- Prints
- Screen prints
- Posters
- Landscapes
- Drawing
- Prints -- Technique
- Serigraphy
- Museum exhibits
- Exhibitions
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Jones, Brian
- See more items in
- Through their eyes: the art of Lou and Di Stovall exhibition records
- Through their eyes: the art of Lou and Di Stovall exhibition records / Series ACMA AV03-001: Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall audiovisual records
- Biographical / Historical
- Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall Self Guided Audio Tour was created for an exhibition featuring the works of Washington, D.C. artists, Lou and Di Stovall, organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and held there from September 18, 1983 - March 4, 1984. The exhibition, Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall, showcased 84 works - silkscreen prints, drawings, and arcylic paintings - illustrating the artists' progression form posterists to master printmaker and miniaturist, respectively. The art was complemented by audiovisual presentations on the technique of silkscreen printing and a biographical essay on the artists.;Lou Stovall was born Luther McKinley Stovall in Athens, Georgia in 1937. When Stovall was four years old, his family moved north to Springfield, Massachusetts to find work. At age of fifteen, he was an apprentice to Al LaPierre in his silkscreen sign shop at the Growers Outlet Super Market. In 1956, Stovall received a grant and scholarship to attend Rhode Island School of Design. After the first semester, his father became ill so Stovall returned home to support his family for about five or six years. When he returned to school, Stovall attended Howard University, where he received a B.F.A. in 1965. James Lesesne Wells introduced to Stovall to silkscreen as a fine art rather than a commercial medium. Stovall also learned about collaboration in printmaking (artist and printer combining ideas and skills to create a work of art) from Wells. In 1968, Stovall received a grant to buy printmaking equipment. However, he made most of the tools and tables himself creating a full scale printmaking, wood making, and metal workshop in Washington, D.C. Under his direction, Workshop Inc. has grown from a small but active studio primarily concerned with community posters into a professional printmaking outfit. Stovall creates his own original silkscreen prints and is the printmaker of choice for other master artists including Elizabeth Catlett, David C. Driskell, and Sam Gilliam. For each work of art, he finds new and unique ways to replicate as closely as possible a painting supplied by the artist. He has the ability to make the medium do just about anything he and the artist(s) want it to do. Stovall's innovative techniques and distinctive style is credited by artists and critics with helping to transform the concept of silkscreen printmaking from a commercial craft to a true art form. In 1971, Stovall married Di Bagley, a painter who specializes in acrylic on paper and incorporates miniature images into many of her works.;Di Stovall, also known as Di Bagley Stovall and Di Bagley, was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1947. As a child, she loved collecting small things, animate and inanimate. Stovall studied with Barbara Pound, a painter known for landscapes, oil, and watercolor, throughout her childhood and teenage years. In the late 1960s, Stovall was educated at Columbus College and Bradley Museum, both in Georgia, before moving to Washington, D.C. to attend Corcoran School of Art. Stovall is a noted master of the miniature, creating representational and abstract images painted in absorbing detail. Although she creates drawings, prints, and watercolors, she prefers to work with acrylic on paper to capture the minute detail she seeks. Stovall's work also includes acrylic paint on glass, hand-crafted jewelry, and wooden cabinetry. Overall, Stovall's work is colorful, whimsical, and sophisticated. Color is extremely important to her. In 1971, she married Lou Stovall, a printmaker.
- Extent
- 2 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- 5 Sound recordings (audio cassette)
- Date
- 1983
- Custodial History
- Created for Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Narrator: Brian Jones. Exception: AV001365 narration by Zora Martin-Felton.
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-001, Item ACMA AV003450
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Narration
- Series Citation
- Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall audiovisual records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Narration
- Note
- 003731 000109 000110 000056 001425 001350 001350 001331 001340
- Scope and Contents
- Brian Jones provides the narration for the self guided audio tour for the exhibition, Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall. The life history of Lou and Di Stovall and their work with the Stovall Workshop Inc., Lou's relationship with Sam Gilliam and Lloyd McNeill, Lou's work with the Corcoran Gallery, Di's education at the Corcoran School of Art, the meaning of the poster, and Lou's passion for drawing are briefly discussed. Individual works - posters, prints, and fine art - by Lou and Di, including a collaboration piece by Gilliam and Lou, are described.
- Audio tour script - unedited audio narration. Part of Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall Audiovisual Records. AV003296-3: sound distorted. Dated 19831026, 19831027. AV001367 and AV001377: dated 198310. AV001368 and AV001369: dated 19831020. AV001365: undated.
- Series Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1633118408687-1633118408937-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
