The Visual Arts Center of Richmond was named a multi-category winner in Richmond magazine’s 2019 Best & Worst issue. VisArts won first place in the following categories: “Best Place for Adults to Learn a New Skill,” “Best Adult Art Classes” and “Best Youth Art Classes.” The center won second place in the “Best Children’s After-School […]
read moreOn February 24, NBC12 featured VisArts in a segment dedicated to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
read moreOn February 6, Richmond magazine featured VisArts in an article titled: “Where to Buy Art in Richmond.”
read moreOn Nov. 15, Craft+Design Featured Artist Ryan Lawless did a special wheel throwing demonstration on Virginia This Morning, produced by CBS6. The Art of Ceramic Making with Ryan Lawless
read moreOn Nov. 13, VisArts Executive Director Stefanie Fedor appeared on NBC12’s “12 About Town” segment with Richmond artist Leigh Suggs. Stefanie and Leigh highlighted the Penland School of Crafts Booth at Craft+Design 2018. 54th Annual Craft and Design
read moreOn Nov. 11, Richmond Times-Dispatch Reporter Holly Prestidge published an article dedicated to VisArts’ Craft+Design Show. The piece appeared on the cover the newspaper’s arts and culture section and in digital form. More than 150 local and national artists make Craft + Design at Main Street Station’s train shed a Richmond treasure “From Nov. 16 through […]
read moreOn November 9, the Richmond Times-Dispatch featured VisArts’ Make Space Program in an article by Nicole Kappatos.
read moreOn August 29, the Richmond Times-Dispatch published a fall feature focused on VisArts’ classes and events, written by freelance writer, Kimberly Gadette.
read moreIn an August 21 article, Style Weekly featured the opening of VisArts’ exhibition “Of secrecy, the violet,” by New York City-based artist, Elissa Levy. Curator Lauren Ross was excited to introduce Richmond audiences to Levy. “In an era defined by an absence of consensus on what’s fake and what’s true, issues around media today are […]
read moreThe Richmond Times-Dispatch featured VisArts’ Young+Artful fundraiser in an August 17 article, “Young + Artful 2018: Rock + Roll High School at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.” “If you’re a 20-something who lives month to month under mountains of student and other debts, chances are the art classes you loved as a child take a back seat […]
read moreIn a July 9 article, ABC8 featured the release of VisArts’ fall catalog.
read moreWashington and Lee University’s online publication, The Columns, published a feature about VisArts’ intern, Xinxian Wang. Xinxian spent eight weeks at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond through a career and professional development summer internship offered in conjunction with W&L’s Office of Community-Based Learning. “This experience encourages me to explore a more diverse range of courses […]
read moreThe Richmond Times-Dispatch named VisArts in a July 31 article, “10 ways to cool down in Richmond.” “By the end of summer, the charm of sunny days has worn off, replaced by a fear of sunburns and heat stroke. So why not shun the light and learn a real skill with the Visual Arts Center’s […]
read moreRichmond magazine featured glass artists Erin and Grant Garmezy in a July 17 article. “Today, the couple travels the country doing high-end craft shows and displaying their work in galleries. Their glass demonstrations and lectures have taken them around the globe to countries like Japan, South Korea and Turkey. Closer to home, they were part of […]
read moreA research paper, titled “Gold nanoparticle colorants as traditional ceramic glaze alternatives” and co-authored by VisArts teacher Ryan Coppage, was accepted by the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. The publication acknowledged VisArts Clay Studio Manager Jeff Vick, the VisArts facility and its staff for the development of nanoparticle color systems in ceramic glazes. Coppage has made pottery […]
read moreIn a May 15 article, Style Weekly featured Rashana Miller, a jewelry Designer, the founder of Free Maiden and a VisArts Student. When a promising job opportunity for her husband suddenly landed her in an unfamiliar city with no connections, she was quick to embrace the uncertainty. She tried to get a job in education, sending […]
read moreRichmond Magazine featured two Visual Arts Center of Richmond students, Sara Borey and Cesar Sertzen, in a May 15 article. “All it took was one jewelry-making class at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and Sara Borey and Cesar Sertzen were hooked. The couple took the class four years ago, wanting to learn the process, not realizing […]
read moreOn March 28, Quirk+VisArts Artist-in-Residence Trish Tillman was featured on CBS6, Virginia This Morning. She talked about the opening of her exhibition, “Remains (to be Seen),” which opened in VisArts’ True F. Luck Gallery on March 30.
read moreOn March 18, 8News featured VisArts’ ArtVenture Summer Camp on its Showcase program.
read moreABC 8News produced a short segment highlighting the Visual Art Center of Richmond’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Exhibition on Feb. 26. “This awards and exhibition gives them that boost of confidence and gives them that push forward, and that sort of recognition that they are doing important and valuable work and that their creative […]
read moreRichmond Magazine featured the Visual Arts Center of Richmond as a local makerspace in a Feb. 12 article. “For all of Visual Arts Center’s 54-year history until now, studios have been accessible only to students taking classes. A new program called Open Studio Access will make VisArts’ 15 professional art studios usable by paid-access users.”
read moreInside\Within, a web archive devoted to the creative spaces of Chicago’s emerging and established artists, featured Nate Young, the artist behind VisArts spring 2017exhibition, titled (re)collection. In the piece, Young mentioned his time in Richmond and how the show fits into his broader body of work. “My exhibition (re)collection at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Virginia was […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s contemporary quilts exhibition, “The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art,” was featured in a Jan. 19 article by Virginia Living‘s Christina von Claparede-Crola. The Visual Arts Center’s newest exhibition, is pushing to change the status quo of quilts. The thirteen featured artists are uncovering and questioning the historic meaning […]
read moreThe Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s contemporary quilts exhibition, “The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art,” was featured in a Dec. 12 Style Weekly article written by Amanda Dalla Villa Adams. “Good political art is tricky. Pitfalls include being too didactic or becoming a brash one-liner that confronts people with a singular statement. The best […]
read moreABC 8News – WRIC filmed a segment about the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, featuring an interview with Executive Director Stefanie Fedor. “Visual Arts Center Executive Director Stefanie Fedor sees art as a path to greater understanding. Fedor manages 150 instructors teaching 250-classes per year across 30,000 square feet of studios and galleries.” Watch the video
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