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Education

2007-present

Red Dirt Studio, Mt. Rainer, MD (Weekly Seminar)

2001-03

Graduate Courses in Ceramics, Hood College, Frederick, MD

Additional Education

MBA Finance, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

BA International Relations and Russian Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Selected Exhibitions and Craft Shows

2010

Exposed, Mayer Fine Art Gallery, Norfolk, VA

 

Textural Tracings, Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina
University, Myrtle Beach, SC (Invitational)

 

Sculpture Now, Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington DC (Juror: Ryan Hill)

2009

Cross-Currents: Trends in Contemporary Art Media, Sarah Silberman Gallery, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD (Invitational)

 

Helen Hayes Awards Gala Auction, Washington, DC

 

Art Night at Hickok Cole, Architects: Washington Project for the Arts Fundraiser, Washington, DC

 

Strata Displaced, Washington Very Special Arts, ARTiculate Gallery, Washington, DC (Solo, funded by DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities)

 

REFORM, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA (Juror: Claire Huschle)

 

Artomatic, 55 M Street, SE, Washington, DC

2008

Earth in the Balance, Union of Concerned Scientists Headquarters, Washington, DC (Juror: Ellyn Weiss)

 

Wall Mountables, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC

 

Coincide: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, at Artomatic, Capital Plaza I, Washington, DC

 

Myth of Permanence, Standard Ceramic in conjunction with the National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts Conference, Carnegie, PA (Curators: Margaret Boozer and Catherine White)

 

ARTcetera Benefit Art Auction, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

2007

Leila Holtsman, Lee Arts Center, Arlington, VA (solo)

 

Group Show, R Street Gallery, Washington, DC

 

Holiday Park Avenue Show, New York, NY

 

38th Annual Art in the Park, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

 

Artomatic, Crystal City, VA

2006

Fall Fine Arts and Crafts at Brookdale Park, Montclair, NJ

 

Manayunk Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA

 

Frederick Festival of the Arts, Frederick, MD

 

Capital Fringe Festival, HNTB Architecture, Washington, DC

 

Art for Life, Benefit Art Auction, Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, DC

2005

Sugarloaf Craft Festivals (eight shows in MD and VA)

 

In Flux: Graduate Students and Alumni of Hood College Ceramics Program, Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD (juror: Jack Troy)

2004

Sugarloaf Craft Festival, Gaithersburg, MD

 

Art for Life, Benefit Art Auction, Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, DC

2003

Flame and Brushstroke, Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD (two-person, capstone show)

 

Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA (two shows)

 

Sugarloaf Craft Festival, Gaithersburg, MD

 

Annual Art Exhibition, Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD

2002

Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA

 

Sets in Stone, Lee Arts Center Show, Arlington, VA

2001

Three Potters and a Pig, PotsyTurvy Gallery, Arlington, VA

 

Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA

Commissions (Private Collections)

2009

‘tooning, Hickok Cole Architects, Washington, DC

 

Bending, Washington, DC

2008

Looting, Washington, DC (mural)

2007

Aqaba Fossils, Kensington, MD (mural)

2006

Linear Dunes Backsplash, Washington, DC

 

River of Color, Rockville, MD

2004

Ginkgo Fireplace, Rockville, MD

2003

Flame Fireplace, Arlington, VA

 

Limestone Cutout Countertop, Kensington, MD

Grants/Honors

2009

Hickok Cole Art Night, 2009 Employees’ Choice Purchase

Small Projects Program grant award, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

Rocky Mountain Recycling: Studies in Metal, Denver, CO. Summer Artist-in-Residence

Press

2010

Studio Visit Magazine, Summer 2010

2009

How to “ART-ify” Your Architecture, AIA/DC Chapter, Washington Chapter American Institute of Architects, October 2009, page 7.

 

Campello, F. Lennox (Lenny). “My Artomatic picks.” Review of show, June 30, 2009. Noted as "Best Wall Sculpture" by critic.

2008

Weiss, Ellyn. “Hanging ‘Earth in the Balance.’” Juror comments on show. GessoHead, October 14, 2008.

 

Campello, F. Lennox (Lenny). “Artomatic 2008.” Review of show Coincide. Daily Campello Art News, May 28, 2008. Noted as “Best Work of Art in the Show” by critic.

2004

"Upfront," Ceramics Monthly, March 2004 (reproduction).

2001

“Openings: Works-and Play-in Clay,” Washingtonian, December 2001.

Memberships

2009

Washington Sculptors’ Group, Board Member