Craft + Design is back in person and this year, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond welcomes over 150 artists to Craft + Design 2022. The 58-year-old contemporary craft show takes place at Main Street Station’s train shed on the weekend of Oct. 14-16, 2022. All proceeds from Craft + Design go towards VisArts’ community and […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond opened its Fall 2022 season with Community Build, an exhibition that explores the transformation of the collective through craft. Artists Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Lil Lamberta, Valeska Populoh and members of their respective communities were the creatives behind the collaborative exhibition. Community Build opened on September 9, with a performance by […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond will host a Free public reading and Q&A with poet and nonfiction writer Katy Davis on September 17 from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. at VisArts. Kathy Davis is a poet and nonfiction writer who lives in Rockville, VA. Her poetry manuscript, Passiflora, won the 2019 Cider Press Review […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond presents, Community Build, an exhibition of work by and with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Lil Lamberta, Valeska Populoh and members of their respective communities. The exhibit will open at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, September 9 and a performance by Open Space Education students, in collaboration with Lil Lamberta & All the Saints […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond announces designer Susan Hable as the featured speaker of the Rise + Shine Brunch presented by Carole and Marcus Weinstein. The brunch is part of VisArts’ 58th Annual Craft + Design Show which takes place at Main Street Station’s newly renovated train shed the weekend of Oct. 14-16, 2022. Richmond Magazine brings […]
read moreFour new artists will start an 11-month annual residency at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond beginning September 1, 2022. Ayana Zaire Cotton, Curtis Newkirk Jr., and Hien Kat Nguyen are the three visual artists in the program. Emily Okamoto-Green rounds out the cohort as the program’s resident writer. The three emerging visual artists and […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond selects Brooklyn-based doll maker Sarah Djarnie-Brown as the featured artist for its 58th Annual Craft + Design Show, which will take place October 14-16, 2022, at the historic Main Street Station. This will be the first in-person Craft + Design show since the onset of the pandemic in 2019. “We […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond reached a milestone with the release of its Fall 2022 class catalog. The 58-year-old community arts organization had over 500 class registrations during member week which ran from July 13-20, 2022. Registrations for Fall 2022 surpassed peak pre-pandemic registrations levels during Fall 2019, which until now, held the record. […]
read moreErin Jhi is an illustrator from South Korea who graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Art and completed a 2021-22 Pop Residency at the Visual Arts Center of Virginia. Erin’s studio practice uses traditional drawing and painting to reflect cultural taboos, differences, and experiences which emulate the conflicting emotions of belonging yet simultaneously out of […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) is currently accepting applications for the 2022-23 Fall/Winter Studio Access Residency program. The application deadline is August 10, 2022. VisArts’ Studio Access Residency is designed to support emerging or established visual artists to develop new ideas and foster artistic exploration by providing free access to VisArts’ 17 communal […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) has announced an open call for illustrators to apply for its Featured Illustrator Program. Each year, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond selects four artists to serve as Featured Illustrators. The artists will illustrate a class catalog and a special illustration project for the arts organization. Selected illustrators […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond hires Poet and Writer Rosa Castellano to be its Writing Engagement Coordinator. This new contracted role is aimed at supporting the creative writing community at VisArts and beyond. Rosa currently teaches at VisArts and was the writer in residence during the first year of the organization’s Annual Residency program. […]
read moreAs of Friday, July 1, 2022, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond will require mask-wearing within the VisArts building in accordance with high-level transmission levels within Richmond city as defined by the CDC. VisArts follows the VHD and CDC guidelines to define its COVID-19 Safety Policies. Currently, VisArts follows the recommendations based on the CDC […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) commenced the 2022 ArtVenture Summer Camp season with a new class that brought larger-than-life puppet making to the classroom taught by the director of All The Saints Theater, Lily Lamberta. Students made a 15-foot high paper-mache puppet named Jerry. “Jerry” pronouns they/them was made as a penguin swamp […]
read moreIn February 2022, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond hosted the Richmond region Scholastics Art & Writing Awards exhibition and displayed work by the region’s burgeoning youth talent. Two Richmond-area gold and silver key-winning students from that exhibition were selected as top portfolio winners and were celebrated at the National Ceremony for Scholastic Art & […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s annual [Work] Exhibition opens on Friday, June 17, 2022, with an opening reception in VisArts’ True F. Luck Gallery beginning at 5:30 p.m. The exhibit features over 65 pieces of art created by VisArts faculty, staff, and board members. “VisArts hires close to two hundred teaching artists each […]
read moreOn June 2, 2022, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond building will close due to a weather-related power outage. All evening classes and programs are canceled.
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond welcomed guests, family, and friends for the opening of Common Thread, an exhibition featuring works from its Fall/Winter Studio Access residents. The exhibition explored the invisible thread of creativity that wove their works together. The exhibiting residents had the opportunity to speak about their work during the artist talk, […]
read moreAs of Friday, May 27, 2022, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond will require mask-wearing within the VisArts building in accordance with high-level transmission levels within Richmond city as defined by the CDC. VisArts follows the VHD and CDC guidelines to define its COVID-19 Safety Policies. Currently, VisArts follows the recommendations based on the CDC […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s clay studio is among 27 ceramic studios and workshops in Richmond that will open to the public on June 4 and 5 to showcase the work of nearly 100 artists as part of the 5th Annual RVA Clay Studio Tour. This self-guided tour of Richmond’s clay community is the […]
read moreVisArts welcomes 16 new studio access residents for the Spring + Summer 2022-23 session. These emerging and established visual artists will develop new ideas and challenge themselves to develop a new craft using free access to VisArts’ 17 communal art studio spaces. Irene Piazza is a collage artist and storyteller from Florence, Italy-who currently resides […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond opened its doors to over 370 guests for its 36th Annual Collectors’ Night gala. This was the first major in-person event the organization has hosted since March 2020. VisArts’ unexpectedly exceeded its fundraising goal by over $50,000, making this Collectors’ Night the most successful fundraiser in the organization’s 58-year […]
read moreOn May 12, 2022, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond building will close until noon due to a power outage.
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond hosted the inaugural Richmond Public Schools (RPS) Youth Poetry Slam, a poetic ending to the month of April which is National Poetry Month. The grand slam was produced by the Writer’s Den, a spoken word collective founded by Richmond’s inaugural poet laureate Douglas Powell a.k.a. Roscoe Burnems. Open High […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond will honor Patty Wilkerson with the organization’s Distinguished Service Award on Saturday, May 14, 2022 at VisArts’ 36th Annual Collectors’ Night, Presented by Dominion Energy. VisArts’ Distinguished Service Award honors a longtime friend of the organization who has demonstrated a sustained and extraordinary commitment to the center. This year’s award is sponsored by […]
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