In 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 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
read moreLynchburg 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 […]
read moreRichmond 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 […]
read moreRichmond 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. “
read moreCraft + 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.
read moreCarli 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.
read moreChicago-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.
read moreCarli 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 […]
read moreVisArts 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 […]
read morePaige 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
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