Stovall Workshop Inc. Slide Show Interviews

Object Details

Creator

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Scope and Contents

Interviews with Dana Cook, Francis Fralin, and David Bronson for Stovall Workshop Inc. Slide Show, which focused on the formation of Workshop by Lou Stovall and Lloyd McNeill from its origins at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to its current location in northwest Washington, D.C. Cook, an illustrator and printmaker, discusses her experience working with and learning from Stovall at Workshop. Fralin speaks of Walter Hopps' outreach program idea leading to a relationship between Stovall and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, development of the Workshop at the Corcoran Gallery Dupont Circle, Stovall's and McNeill's poster collaboration, Stovall's silkscreening and drawing, Di Stovall's art and imagination, and other Workshop and Corcoran artists, including Sam Gilliam, David Bronson and Gene Davis. Bronson, a technician and craftsman, discusses his role at Workshop: helping to set up Workshop at Corcoran, learning silk screen process, working in woodshop, and creating prints for artists, including Ed McGowin for Name Change exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art. All speak of Stovall's personality as a person, teacher and leader, particularly his perfectionist nature and high standards.

Interviews for slide show about Stovall Workshop Inc. Part of Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall Audiovisual Records. Dana Cook interview dated 19830801: AV003309-1. Frances Fralin interview dated 19830809: AV003309-1 and AV003309-2. David Bronson interview dated 19830810: AV003314. All recordings have some distortions or skips in sound recording.

Date

1983

Extent

2 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)

Type

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Interviews

Occupation

Artists

Topic

African Americans

African American printmakers

Printmakers

African American artists

Art

Prints

Screen prints

Posters

Landscapes

Prints -- Technique

Serigraphy

Color in art

Museum exhibits

Exhibitions

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Atlanta (Ga.)

United States

Citation

Stovall Workshop Inc. Slide Show Interviews, Exhibition Records AV03-001, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier

ACMA.03-001, Item ACMA AV003309-1

Local Numbers

ACMA AV003309-2 ACMA AV003314