Collectors' Night 2023 is on May 13, 2023, at VisArts. We're celebrating our diamond anniversary, 60 years of making! Tickets go on sale March 1st.

We are now accepting applications for the 2023-24 Annual Residency at VisArts. Three emerging visual artists and one writer are invited to spend the year (September 1-July 31) making new work which will be included in a group exhibition and reading at VisArts midway through the residency.  

Richmond Poetry Fest is a celebration of poetry and community! Join us for readings, workshops, activities for poets and artists of all ages. Friday, April 14th is our kick-off event, Of Use: A Poetry Reading + Celebration. We'll keep the party going with a day-long community event on Saturday, April 15th!

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond presents “Time Machines,” an exhibition of work by the VisArts’ Annual Resident Artists for the 2022-2023 year: Ayana Zaire Cotton, Curtis Newkirk Jr., Hien Kat Nguyen and Emily Okamoto-Green.

Affordable access to 17 professionally equipped studios designed for a variety of visual art media, including: clay, creative writing, digital media, drawing + painting, fiber, flameworking, glass, letterpress, metals, darkroom photography, printmaking and wood.