“Women Artists of the DMV” Opens at Falls Church Arts Gallery on January 10, 2026 with Meet-the-Artists Reception

Description

This groundbreaking survey of female visual artists from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia was selected by D.C.-based artist, critic, and curator Florencio Lennox “Lenny” Campello. The exhibition opens with a “meet-the-artists” reception scheduled for January 10 from 7:00–9:00 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will provide visitors with the opportunity to meet participating artists and Campello, as well as to vote for the People’s Choice Award winner.

The sixty artists participating in “Women Artists of the DMV” at Falls Church Arts demonstrate the creative power, vibrancy, and diversity of local female artists. Pieces on view will range widely in scale, style, and approach and are in a variety of media, including acrylic on canvas, acrylic on gesso wood, oil on canvas, oil on panel, photography, collage, mixed media, watercolor and gouache, etching, intaglio print, and terracotta.

Campello conceived this groundbreaking exhibition some twenty years ago as an opportunity to showcase well-established local female artists and to present mid-career and emerging artists to a wider audience. He began actively planning “Women Artists of the DMV” in 2023 and eventually received nearly 4,000 entries for the project. The resulting series of eighteen shows in 2025 included over 600 works. An entirely new selection of works will be on view at Falls Church Arts in this nineteenth installment of the exhibition.

The Falls Church Arts gallery is at 700-B West Broad St. (Route 7), Falls Church. Admission is free, and the gallery is open with new winter hours: Tuesdays–Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Masks are optional, and guests are asked to postpone their visit if they are not well.

All of the artworks are for sale and can be viewed in person or online at https://www.fallschurcharts.org. Pieces can be purchased at the gallery or on the website.

Visitors to the show can cast their ballot for the People’s Choice Award until February 6; the winner will be announced on February 7.

For more information, visit https://www.fallschurcharts.org or email info@fallschurcharts.org.
Participants include:
Kathleen Adams
Cheryl Bearss
Blanca Belisario
Sabine Carlson
Marietje Chamberlain
Chris Chernow
Pat Choquette
Gillian Collins
Deborah Conn
Gretchen D’Amore
Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman
Jihye Desjadon
Sarah DeWitt Brooks
Virginia Donovan
Laura Drain
Jennifer Dreyfus
Mehrnoosh Ebrahimi
Merete Evans
Nicole Gauvin
Miki Nishida Goerdt
Maureen Goss
Janet Hansen Martinet
Pamela Huffman
Lizzy Javier
Kristen Kavcar
Sharapat Kessler
Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
Gerda Lane
Xianling Liu
Nancy Lorentz
Samantha Majerus
Molly McCracken
Judith Mensh
Jessica Mickey
Tee Moon
Carol Morgan
Nan Morrison
Lynn Nguyen
Jennifer Packard
Nancy M Patrick
Helen Power
Alison Powers
Sarah Presley
Renée Nicole Ruggles
Shalini Saksena
Cynthia Schoeppel
Alexia Scott
Jenny Sewell
Yelena Skripchenko
Kristin Thomas
Iza Thomas
Nina Tisara
Sherry Trachtman
Anastasia Travieso-Diaz
Suzanne Updike
Gloria Valdes
Deborah Walmer
Amy Woodhouse
Kathleen Zeifang
Laura Zhao