Lou Stovall Sound Rolls and Narration
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003285 ACMA AV003287 ACMA AV003288 ACMA AV003289 ACMA AV003303 ACMA AV003313 ACMA AV003447 ACMA AV003498 ACMA AV003506
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Reinckens, Sharon A.
- Capilongo, Christopher
- Names
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Stovall Workshop Inc.
- Stovall, Lou
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Occupation
- Artists
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American printmakers
- Printmakers
- African American artists
- Art
- Prints
- Screen prints
- Landscapes
- Drawing
- Prints -- Technique
- Serigraphy
- Color in art
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Reinckens, Sharon A.
- Capilongo, Christopher
- 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
- Lou Stovall Sound Rolls and Narration is related to 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.
- Extent
- 10 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Date
- 1983
- Custodial History
- Created for Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Directed by Sharon A. Reinckens. Produced by Sharon A. Reinckens and Christopher Capilongo. Copyright 1983.
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-001, Item ACMA AV003276
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Documentary films
- Interviews
- Outtakes
- Ambient sounds
- Sound effects recordings
- Citation
- Lou Stovall Sound Rolls and Narration, Exhibition Records AV03-001, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Documentary films
- Interviews
- Outtakes
- Ambient sounds
- Sound effects recordings
- Note
- 001732 001440 001738 001732 001304 000250 002320 000245 002156 003039
- Scope and Contents
- Sound rolls for short documentary titled Lou Stovall in which Stovall demonstrates and speaks about his silk screen printing process and use of color in detail. Interviews, narration, ambient sounds, foley sound effects, and demonstration of screen printing process contained on sound rolls. During the interview segments, Stovall discusses his ability and passion for drawing, working with stencils and proofing strips, details of the reductive printing process, mixing and integrating of color in his work, and silk screen printing as a technical medium. Some of the footage, particularly AV003285, AV003287 and AV003288, consists of almost exclusively demonstration [sounds of the screen printing process].
- Sound rolls and narration for short documentary titled Lou Stovall. Part of Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall Audiovisual Records. Audio only. Most likely there is film which syncs with sound rolls, except AV003276 [no camera/image according to statement at beginning of sound roll]. AV003506: Sound Roll 1. AV003288: Sound Roll 2. AV003285: Sound Roll 3. AV003276: Sound Roll 4. AV003313: Sound Roll 5. AV003498: Sound Roll 6. AV003287: Sound Roll 7. AV003303: Sound Roll 8. AV003289: Sound Roll 9. AV003447: Lou Stovall Narration [distortion at beginning of recording]. Dated 19830803 [AV003506], 19830804 [AV003276, AV003285, AV003288, AV003498], 19830805 [AV003287, AV003303], 19830824 [AV003289]. Undated [AV003313, AV003447].
- 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-1633118408687-1633118408945-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
