Artist Chris Danger hopes everyone who picks up the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s’ spring catalog enjoys the cheeky humor he infused into the illustrations. Danger dreamed up the drawings in VisArts’ newest catalog and he’s also the center’s illustrator-in-residence for the spring. His take on the catalog features whimsical personifications of art supplies. “I’ve always […]
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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 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 […]
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Due to weather, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond will be closed on Thursday, January 4. Check our social media platforms for updates about Friday, but we expect to run on a normal schedule.
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Get to know Jeff Vick, Sophie Treppendahl and Tyler Stoll. They’re artists in their own right and also the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s studio coordinators, responsible for maintaining the center’s 15 professional art studios. This month, they’re particularly busy preparing for the launch of VisArts’ new studio access program. This week, VisArts begins offering […]
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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
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Long-time VisArts teacher and painter, Tommy Van Auken, will be honored with a Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts on Tuesday, Dec. 19. Richmond Magazine is celebrating 20 years of awarding the Pollak Prize, which honors Richmond artist and educator Theresa Pollak. She started what evolved into the art schools of both Virginia […]
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VisArts will be closed on Friday, Dec. 8 due to inclement weather. Check back for updates about Saturday, Dec. 9.
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On Wednesday, December 13 from 5 to 7 p.m., VisArts is hosting an Open Studio Happy Hour to showcase its 15 professional art studios and new open studio access program. Guests are invited to stop by VisArts’ 1812 W. Main Street location to enjoy refreshments, explore the building and learn more about how to get studio access. Starting […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s newest exhibition explores how contemporary artists are reinterpreting traditional quilt making processes in their own practices. At the Friday, Dec. 1 opening reception, two of the 13 selected American artists in the show are unveiling brand new work. Aaron McIntosh is the only Richmond-based artist among the 13 exhibitors. […]
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An exhibition of work by 13 selected American artists titled “The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art,” opens at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond on Friday, December 1. A 5:30 p.m. curator talk will be followed by a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. This exhibition explores how a current generation of contemporary artists […]
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Over 6,000 attendees shopped the work of over 130 artists at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s 53rd annual Craft + Design show. It was a landmark year for the show, which moved to Main Street Station’s newly renovated train shed. Some highlights from the weekend include: A special appearance by Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney […]
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North Carolina-based jewelry artist Tara Locklear has been to two craft shows this month, but she’s energized and ready to get back on the road and head to Richmond. Locklear is gearing up to leave her Raleigh-based studio to travel to Craft + Design, where she’ll headline the event as the show’s featured artist. Between […]
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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 […]
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Dianne Nordt began making and selling her handwoven wool blankets more than a decade ago, after she and her husband, William, moved their three children to a sprawling farm in Charles City, Virginia. Today, Nordt has a sleek website and has seen her blankets lauded in national magazines such as Garden & Gun and Martha […]
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This year at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s annual Craft + Design show, some of Richmond’s most talented interior designers and merchandisers have created spaces that blend work from the show’s artists with contemporary furnishings and antiques. R•Home’s first Designer Showcase, located in booths 608-611, contains vignettes created by Williams & Sherrill, La Diff, […]
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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 […]
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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. “
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Richmond-based progressive bluegrass band South Hill Banks won top honors at FloydFest, one of Virginia’s biggest music festivals, and the five-man group will kick off Craft + Design when they play the Patrons’ Preview Party on Friday, November 17. The party runs from 6-9 p.m. Winning FloydFest’s “On the Rise” award in July has opened doors […]
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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.
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond announces that interior designer Amanda Nisbet will be the featured speaker at Rise + Shine, part of VisArts’ fifty-third annual Craft + Design show, presented by Altria Group. The show takes place at Main Street Station’s newly renovated train shed the weekend of Nov. 17-19, 2017. Richmond Magazine brings […]
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Ten years after taking his first sewing class at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, fiber artist Paul Hansbarger is returning to Richmond to showcase his growing canvas and leather bag business, Lineage. Hansbarger got his start making bags in Catherine Southall’s introductory sewing class. He’d graduated from VCUarts in 2004 with a painting and […]
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For illustrator Amelia Langford, it’s all in the details. She’s the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s newest illustrator-in-residence and the artist behind the winter 2018 catalog, which arrives in members’ mailboxes this week. Langford’s cover illustration depicts a cardinal on a wintry branch. Look closely and you’ll notice the bird is made up of paintbrushes, […]
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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.
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Mosaic Restaurant and Garnish Catering took home the top prizes at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s fourth annual Chili Throwdown on Friday, Oct. 6. More than 500 people attended the event and the proceeds benefit VisArts. Over 20 restaurants contributed their best chili, which was taste-tested by a jury and the event’s attendees. At the end of the evening, VisArts presented […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond is proud to announce that it was selected by The Virginia Commission for the Arts as a “50 for 50 Arts Inspiration Award” recipient. VisArts was recognized in the Bedrock Institutions category. The VCA recognizes bedrock institutions as those that “have been in existence more than ten years, have demonstrated a […]
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