How Lou Stovall took silkscreen-printing from grocery stores to gallery walls
The famed silkscreen printer, whose work is on display at the Kreeger Museum's exhibition "Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color," pioneered an artform while building community in Washington, D.C.
Updated February 5, 2022 at 3:20 PM ET
Lou Stovall and I each moved to Washington, D.C. in 1962. Born in Athens, Georgia and raised in Springfield, Mass., he came to study at Howard University. Born and raised in New York, I married into the city; my husband, Lou Stamberg, got a government job here. As newlyweds, we were excited to be in a new place, with the new, vigorous Kennedy administration.
In Manhattan, I grew up among artists and musicians. D.C.,a federal city of
