The Visual Arts Center of Richmond will host its annual spring open house, Play Day, on Saturday, May 19. At Play Day, kids and adults make art projects in more than a dozen studios throughout VisArts’ 30,000-square foot facility. The event runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is free. Beer and food will be available for […]
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For Jacqueline Sears and her seven-year-old son, Merritt, family studio art classes at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond are a special part of the week. Merritt looks forward to the classes and the weekly stop at Lamplighter Coffee for a treat before class, his mom said. “It’s become our one-on-one quality time and it’s […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond will be closed on Sunday, April 1, for the Easter holiday.
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond will host six guest artists from the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina for a series of special workshops on Saturday, May 12 and Sunday, May 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Each artist is a studio coordinator at Penland who will take over one of VisArts’ studios and […]
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In the two and a half months that Trish Tillman has been in Richmond as a Quirk+VisArts artist-in-residence, the New York City-based artist has created over 15 new works. An exhibition of this work, titled “Remains (to be seen),” will open in the True F. Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond on […]
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Letitia Harris credits several Richmond art teachers with inspiring her to become an art educator. On March 17, she got the chance to thank one her teachers in front of a crowd of 350 people at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Harris presented Mary McNeil, a longtime VisArts stained glass instructor, with the 2017 […]
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Due to inclement weather, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond will be closed on Wednesday, March 21. Check our social media platforms for updates about Thursday.
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On March 18, 8News featured VisArts’ ArtVenture Summer Camp on its Showcase program.
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Mary McNeil, a longtime stained glass instructor, will receive the 2017 Shelly Shepherd Master Teacher Award at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s Collectors’ Night gala on Saturday night. McNeil has been teaching stained glass classes at VisArts for over 20 years. She works primarily with middle school students who are part of the center’s […]
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Frankie Slaughter is a Richmond-based, mixed media artist and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s newest board member. This month, she’s unveiling a swath of new works, including one piece that’s up for auction at VisArts’ 32nd Annual Collectors’ Night gala on March 17. During the first weekend of March, Slaughter’s mixed media collage, “Puzzling […]
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Over 650 student artists and their families gathered at VisArts for a closing reception of the 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Families explored the Scholastics Exhibition in VisArts’ True F. Luck Gallery and throughout the building, then Gold Key Award winners gathered at Binford Middle School for a closing ceremony. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards […]
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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 […]
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For two weeks in February, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond is the best place to appreciate the city’s pool of emerging artistic talent. As the Richmond regional affiliate of the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, VisArts juried more than 3,200 submissions by area middle and high school students and curated an exhibition of winning […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond has announced the regional award recipients of the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7 […]
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Glass artist Sean Donlon is celebrating his third Valentine’s Day with girlfriend Kelley Galownia, whom he met at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Donlon is a full-time artist and the founder of Mule Barn Craft Studios, a collaborative art space in Richmond, which has a conceptual craft focus. He earned his Bachelor of Fine […]
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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.”
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VisArts will participate as an exhibiting organization in the inaugural edition of CURRENT Books, a special CURRENT Art Fair event featuring artists, book makers, zine makers and publishers of artists monographs and other book-based arts objects. This year at CURRENT Books, VisArts will highlight local artists by featuring miniature, handmade books and zines, which will be sold out of the center’s Art-o-Mat machine. Artwork sold […]
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The walls of Kathryn Gray’s studio at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond are lined with her oil paintings. The work is vibrant and bold and creates a lasting impression. But ask the people who have worked with Gray at VisArts, and they’ll argue that it’s her commitment to the 55-year-old community art center—first as a […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s summer camp program, ArtVenture, is expanding to cater to Richmond’s youngest artists. In a new class called Art Explorers, five- and six-year-old campers will create an eclectic variety of artwork using clay, wire, fabric, paint and more. Each class is led by two teachers, and campers benefit from extra […]
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An exhibition of work by New York City-based artist Trish Tillman, titled “Remains (to be seen),” will open in the True F. Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond on March 30, 2018. The opening includes a 5:30 p.m. artist talk, followed by a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Tillman created work […]
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Holly Zajur is a VisArts ceramics instructor who believes that it’s easier to center clay on a potter’s wheel if your mind is centered. Zajur is teaching a mindful approach to the craft in a brand new winter class called Mindfulness, Yoga + Wheel Throwing. She kicks off each session by guiding students through a 15 […]
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This spring, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond is offering more photography classes than ever in a single session. There are 20 classes scheduled and many of them offer students the chance to explore historic photographic processes. VisArts teacher and photographer Emily White is looking forward to teaching Portrait Photography with Film. She’ll lead students in […]
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Due to inclement weather, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond will be closed on Wednesday, January 17th. Please check our website and social media platforms for up-to-date information about our schedule.
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