[4][5] In 1968 he founded Workshop, Inc.,[4][1][6] initially a community studio which subsequently grew into a professional printmaking facility used by many artists,[6][7] including Josef Albers, Peter Blume, Alexander Calder, Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam,[5] Jacob Kainen, Jacob Lawrence,[5] Robert Mangold, Mathieu Mategot, Pat Buckley Moss, Paul Reed, Reuben Rubin, Di Bagley Stovall, and James L. Wells.
In 1982, First Lady Nancy Reagan commissioned Stovall to design that year's Independence Day invitation for the White House.
Subsequently, in 1986 Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry commissioned Stovall to create a work for the city's host committee for the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
[8] Stovall also had a daughter, Calea, from an earlier marriage to Elizabeth Wilson, which ended in divorce.
Lou Stovall died from heart failure at his home in Washington D.C., on March 3, 2023, at the age of 86.