The Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s Craft + Design Show made a major comeback after being online for two years due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Thousands of attendees shopped the works of 150 artists juried into the venerable show, which according to Richmond Times Dispatch, “brings a sense of wonder” to Richmond’s historic Main Street […]
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Congratulations to the 58th Annual Craft + Design 2022 award winners and special thanks to our award sponsors. Below is a list of the 12 awards handed out at VisArts’ 58th Annual Craft + Design show. Priscilla Burbank and Mike Schewel Glass Award: Trefny Dix Classic Party Rentals of Virginia Fiber Award: Tegan + Eric […]
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VCU Commonwealth Times wrote an article about the 58th Annual Craft + Design Show held at Main Street Station October 14-16.
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The Richmond Times Dispatch published an article describing the 58th Annual Craft + Design Show as bringing “a sense of wonder to Richmond’s Main Street Station.” https://richmond.com/news/local/craft-design-show-brings-a-sense-of-wonder-to-richmonds-main-street-station/article_093e83d2-3818-5547-881c-ba24e2da8785.html
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Style Weekly calls the Patrons’ Preview Party at Craft + Design a “Feast for the eyes.” Read more about Craft + Design and the party of the year it hosts as part of Craft + Design Weekend in the Style Weekly article linked here.
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VisArts Executive Director, Stefanie Fedor, appeared on ‘12 About Town‘ with host Candace Owens on NBC12 to talk about Craft + Design 2022. VCU student and Craft + Design 2022 participating artist, Summer Balcom was also featured on the segment.
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VisArts’ Executive Director, Stefanie Fedor was featured on Virginia This Morning to talk about the 58th Annual Craft + Design.
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Craft + Design is back in person and this year, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond welcomes over 150 artists to Craft + Design 2022. The 58-year-old contemporary craft show takes place at Main Street Station’s train shed on the weekend of Oct. 14-16, 2022. All proceeds from Craft + Design go towards VisArts’ community and […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond opened its Fall 2022 season with Community Build, an exhibition that explores the transformation of the collective through craft. Artists Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Lil Lamberta, Valeska Populoh and members of their respective communities were the creatives behind the collaborative exhibition. Community Build opened on September 9, with a performance by […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond will host a Free public reading and Q&A with poet and nonfiction writer Katy Davis on September 17 from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. at VisArts. Kathy Davis is a poet and nonfiction writer who lives in Rockville, VA. Her poetry manuscript, Passiflora, won the 2019 Cider Press Review […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond presents, Community Build, an exhibition of work by and with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Lil Lamberta, Valeska Populoh and members of their respective communities. The exhibit will open at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, September 9 and a performance by Open Space Education students, in collaboration with Lil Lamberta & All the Saints […]
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VisArts’ Community Build Exhibition features works from a group of multidisciplinary artists, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Valeska Populoh, and Lil Lamberta and All the Saints Theater Company is highlighted in the “Fall Arts Preview” of the magazine’s September 2022 Issue.
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond announces designer Susan Hable as the featured speaker of the Rise + Shine Brunch presented by Carole and Marcus Weinstein. The brunch is part of VisArts’ 58th Annual Craft + Design Show which takes place at Main Street Station’s newly renovated train shed the weekend of Oct. 14-16, 2022. Richmond Magazine brings […]
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The Visual Arts Center’s executive director, Stefanie Fedor featured in the “Everyday Collectors” article published by En Forme Magazine. Fedor appears alongside VisArts board member Karen Kelly, former VisArts Executive Director and Distinguished Service Award Recipient Patty Wilkerson and local artist Hamilton Glass and his wife Taekia Glass in an article about the personal collections […]
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VisArts awarded “Best Adult Art Classes” in Richmond Magazine’s annual Best & Worst list.
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Four new artists will start an 11-month annual residency at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond beginning September 1, 2022. Ayana Zaire Cotton, Curtis Newkirk Jr., and Hien Kat Nguyen are the three visual artists in the program. Emily Okamoto-Green rounds out the cohort as the program’s resident writer. The three emerging visual artists and […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond selects Brooklyn-based doll maker Sarah Djarnie-Brown as the featured artist for its 58th Annual Craft + Design Show, which will take place October 14-16, 2022, at the historic Main Street Station. This will be the first in-person Craft + Design show since the onset of the pandemic in 2019. “We […]
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VisArts’ [Work] Exhibition was highlighted in Richmond Family Magazine’s Insider Guide
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond reached a milestone with the release of its Fall 2022 class catalog. The 58-year-old community arts organization had over 500 class registrations during member week which ran from July 13-20, 2022. Registrations for Fall 2022 surpassed peak pre-pandemic registrations levels during Fall 2019, which until now, held the record. […]
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RICtoday highlights some exciting classes being offered at VisArts as registration for Fall 2022 opens up to the public. Click here to access the full article.
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Erin Jhi is an illustrator from South Korea who graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Art and completed a 2021-22 Pop Residency at the Visual Arts Center of Virginia. Erin’s studio practice uses traditional drawing and painting to reflect cultural taboos, differences, and experiences which emulate the conflicting emotions of belonging yet simultaneously out of […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) is currently accepting applications for the 2022-23 Fall/Winter Studio Access Residency program. The application deadline is August 10, 2022. VisArts’ Studio Access Residency is designed to support emerging or established visual artists to develop new ideas and foster artistic exploration by providing free access to VisArts’ 17 communal […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) has announced an open call for illustrators to apply for its Featured Illustrator Program. Each year, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond selects four artists to serve as Featured Illustrators. The artists will illustrate a class catalog and a special illustration project for the arts organization. Selected illustrators […]
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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond hires Poet and Writer Rosa Castellano to be its Writing Engagement Coordinator. This new contracted role is aimed at supporting the creative writing community at VisArts and beyond. Rosa currently teaches at VisArts and was the writer in residence during the first year of the organization’s Annual Residency program. […]
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