‘A Luvnote 4 Art.’

That was the theme of ArtFest 2025, a four-day celebration marking the grand opening of Aleathia Brown’s new studio in Mount Vernon. My own ‘luvnote’, though, arrived not as a letter, but as a statement coined by French painter Georges Rouault, who once wrote that art is “a universal language, a bridge between cultures and generations.” I’d followed Aleathia across those […]