Recent Press

VisArts Clay Instructor Ryan Coppage Published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society

May 23, 2018 Recent Press

A 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 […]

Style Weekly Features Rashana Miller: Jewelry Designer, Founder of Free Maiden and VisArts Student

May 17, 2018 Recent Press

In 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 […]

VisArts Students and Artists Behind Shade Metals Featured in Richmond Magazine

May 17, 2018 Recent Press

Richmond 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 […]

Trish Tillman Featured on Virginia This Morning

April 23, 2018 Recent Press

On 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.

ABC 8News Features Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Exhibition

February 28, 2018 Recent Press

ABC 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 […]

Richmond Magazine Features VisArts as Local Makerspace

February 12, 2018 Recent Press

Richmond 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.”

Inside\Within Features Former VisArts Exhibitor, Nate Young

February 06, 2018 Recent Press

Inside\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 […]

VisArts’ Contemporary Quilts Exhibition Featured in Virginia Living

February 02, 2018 Recent Press

The 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 […]

VisArts Contemporary Quilts Exhibition Featured in Style Weekly

January 05, 2018 Recent Press

The 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 […]

ABC 8News Juan Conde Features VisArts in TV Segment

December 15, 2017 Recent Press

ABC 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

Lynchburg News & Advance Features Craft + Design Artist John Shuptrine

November 13, 2017 Recent Press

Lynchburg News & Advance reporter Emma Schkloven wrote a feature story about artist John Shuptrine. His mixed media camera sculptures will be on display at Craft + Design, Nov. 17-19. “It is sculptural in a really fun and whimsical way,” says Stefanie Fedor, executive director of the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, which will feature Shuptrine’s […]

R-Home Magazine Features Craft + Design Artist Andrea Donnelly

November 06, 2017 Recent Press

Richmond Magazine’s R-Home Magazine featured fiber artist Andrea Donnelly in a story on Nov. 3. Donnelly will showcase her work at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s annual Craft + Design show, Nov. 17-19. “Donnelly is the rare artist who toggles between creating conceptual and functional art. She says she is as serious about her wearable […]

R-Home Magazine Features Rise + Shine Speaker, Amanda Nisbet

November 06, 2017 Recent Press

Richmond Magazine’s R-Home Magazine published a story about Rise + Shine featured speaker Amanda Nisbet on Oct. 30. “For Nisbet, author of “Dazzling Design” and an acclaimed designer known for her bold, colorful interiors, relocating to Richmond from the epicenter of the design world was a big move. “

Craft + Design Artist Steve Stover Featured in Chesterfield Observer

October 30, 2017 Recent Press

Craft + Design wood artist Steve Stover was featured in the Chesterfield Observer on Oct. 18. His work will be on display at the show, Nov. 17-19 at Main Street Station’s newly renovated train shed.

Carli Holcomb Exhibition Featured in Richmond Times-Dispatch

October 12, 2017 Recent Press

Carli Holcomb was featured the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Oct. 10. An exhibition of her work, titled “After Dark,” opened at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond on Friday, September 8 and runs through November 12, 2017.

Nate Young Discusses Recollection Exhibition on LookSEE Podcast

September 19, 2017 Recent Press

Chicago-based artist Nate Young spoke with Paige Goodpasture, host of the LookSEE podcast, about Recollection, his recent exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Listen to the podcast here and read the blog post here.

Carli Holcomb featured in Style Weekly

September 14, 2017 Recent Press

Carli Holcomb was featured in the arts and culture section of Style Weekly on Sept. 12. An exhibition of her work, titled “After Dark,” opened at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond on Friday, September 8 and runs through November 12, 2017. “Holcomb sees her current show as a meditation on place — and the art she created for […]

Feature on Alicia Dietz in Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Weekend Section

June 26, 2017 Recent Press

VisArts instructor Alicia Dietz was featured in Sunday, June 25’s weekend section of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “I just fell in love with the Visual Arts Center and that allowed me to fall in love with Richmond,” Dietz said, because she found that “there was this really amazing community of not only artists, but people working […]

Interview with Natasha Bowdoin on WRIR’s “The Creative Habit”

February 16, 2017 Recent Press

Paige Goodpasture sat down with artist Natasha Bowdoin to discuss her exhibition, “Lunar Spring.” The interview aired on WRIR 97.3 FM’s “The Creative Habit.” Listen Now

VisArts Instructor David Tanner interviewed on Virginia Currents

December 08, 2016 Recent Press

In this segment of WCVE’s “Virginia Currents,” host Daphne Maxwell Reid interviewed painter and VisArts instructor David Tanner about his career.

Richmond-born artist’s loaded take on violent times

June 16, 2016 Recent Press

Michael Paul Williams writes in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: On the Friday before the Orlando mass shooting, Philadelphia artist Emily E. Erb was launching an exhibit at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond that included her provocative take on gun violence. Read More