"On Identity in the Arts: Who is Latino?" - Oct. 11 at MC-TP/SS

Artist, critic and author F. Lennox Campello will give remarks titled "On Identity in the Arts: Who is Latino?" on Thursday, October 11, 2012, 4 p.m. at Montgomery College's Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center. His address will be in the main floor auditorium at 930 King Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Admission and parking are free. Mr. Campello is presented by the Montgomery College Arts Institute. F. Lennox Campello is a regularly published art critic of regional prominence. His art reviews have been published in the Washington Post, Visions Magazine for the Arts, Dimensions Magazine, Pitch Magazine, The City Beat, The KOAN Art Newsletter, Art Calendar, DC One Magazine and various local newspapers. He also appears regularly on the radio as a guest discussing DC area art issues. In 2005, the artist also became the host for a series of TV appearances in various local programs dealing with the visual arts. Campello studied art at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle. In the year he graduated from Washington, he won the William Whipple National Art Competition First Prize for Printmaking, the silver medal at the Ligoa Duncan Art Competition in Paris and the French "Prix de Peinture de Raymond Duncan," also in Paris. In 1981 Campello was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy and was assigned duties in Spain, where he worked on a series of landscapes of Andalusia which now hang in over fifty private collections in Spain, Portugal and the United States. He also exhibited in various venues in Spain. His work has been exhibited a numerous galleries, at the McManus Museum in Scotland, the Brusque Museum in Brazil, the San Bernardino County Art Museum in California, the Musee des Duncan in France, the Frick Museum in Ohio, the Meadows Museum of Art in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Hunter Museum in Tennessee, the Sacramento Fine Arts Center in California, The Art League in Alexandria and the Rock Springs Art Center in Wyoming.