Saturday, October 23, 12-1:30 PM PST on Zoom
Artists, join in this free info session to:
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Fall Family Day 2021
Saturday, October 23, 12pm-3pm | FREE
Richmond Art Center (courtyard), 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
Join us for art-making, dancing and more! This fun day for the family is not to be missed!
Family Day is coming back to Richmond Art Center with a special celebration of Día de los Muertos on Saturday, October 23, 12pm-3pm. Kids of all ages and their grown-ups are invited to join us in RAC’s courtyard for art-making, dancing, music and more.
This free family event will feature an Alebrije workshop, performances by Puerto Rican youth Bomba ensemble Quenepas, and storyteller Olga Loya. RAC artists-in-residence Liberación Gráfica will be there screen printing tote bags and the Great Tortilla Conspiracy will also be printing up some tortilla art!
Schedule of Activities:
Tissue paper Mexican paper flower making, scavenger hunt, printmaking, community altar, and music by DJ Dion Decibels will run 12pm-3pm.
Covid-19 Prevention protocols: Mask wearing and signing a Visitor Waiver will be a condition of entry. We will track attendee numbers in the courtyard and galleries to ensure spaces do not get too crowded.
Día de la familia de otoño 2021
Sábado 23 de octubre, de 12:00 a 15:00 horas | GRATIS
Richmond Art Center (patio), 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
¡Únase a nosotros para hacer arte, bailar y más! ¡Este divertido día para la familia no se lo debe perder!
El Día de la Familia regresa al Centro de Arte de Richmond con una celebración especial del Día de los Muertos el sábado 23 de octubre, de 12 pm a 3 pm. Los niños de todas las edades y sus adultos están invitados a unirse a nosotros en el patio del RAC para hacer arte, bailar, escuchar música y más.
Este evento familiar gratuito contará con un taller de Alebrije, actuaciones del conjunto de bomba juvenil puertorriqueño Quenepas y la narradora Olga Loya. Los artistas residentes de RAC Liberación Gráfica también imprimirán bolsas de tela y la Gran Conspiración de la Tortilla también imprimirá un poco de arte de tortillas.
Programa de actividades:
Papel de seda La fabricación de flores de papel mexicano, la búsqueda del tesoro, el grabado, el altar comunitario y la música de DJ Dion Decibels se llevarán a cabo de 12 pm a 3 pm.
Protocolos de prevención de Covid-19: El uso de mascarillas y su firma aceptando nuestras reglas como visitante será una condición para la entrada. Realizaremos un seguimiento del número de asistentes en el patio y las galerías para garantizar que los espacios no se llenen demasiado.
ISSUE 28
The Latest Edition | Indigenous Peoples’ Day | Exhibitions Reception | Fall Family Day: Día de los Muertos
Free Class for Aspiring Artists | Call for Artists of the African Diaspora | Upcoming Classes
In Memoriam: John Rampley
The Latest Edition
Fall 2021 Class Catalog
Our Fall Program Catalog is here. Register today for in-person* and online classes starting weekly October through November. And read about the exciting exhibitions and events happening at Richmond Art Center this fall.
Cover image: Kate Godfrey’s Night Passage (2021) is in the RAC student exhibition Works From Home.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Gathering in the Spirit of Gwarth-ee-lass
Sunday, October 10, 2pm-6pm* at Richmond Art Center
FREE | RSVP Required
We gather around Leonard Peltier’s statue and legacy to celebrate the word – bearer of memory and dream. Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition Time and Again, conversation between Anne Begay and Rigo 23, and poetry / spoken word by Tongo Eisen-Martin, Brian Tripp, Meres-Sia Gabriel, Kathy Peltier, and Arnoldo García. More poets to be announced soon!
Recent press coverage of Time and Again: Native News, KPFA, Daily Kos
Image: Rigo 23’s statue of Leonard Peltier currently on view at Richmond Art Center
Exhibitions Reception
Courtyard Mingle!
Saturday, October 16, 12pm-2pm* at Richmond Art Center
FREE
Fall exhibitions run September 9 through November 19, 2021. Join us on Saturday, October 16, 12pm-2pm for a courtyard reception for three great exhibitions: Works from Home: Richmond Art Center Student Showcase, Opossum Magic, and Summer Rites.
Top image: Gail Rubin, Tribute to Natalia Arbelaez, 2021. Created in “Handbuilding: Women in Contemporary Ceramics” with Colleen Garland and featured in Works From Home.
Fall Family Day
Día de los Muertos
Saturday, October 23, 12pm-3pm* at Richmond Art Center
FREE
Join us for art-making, dancing and more! This fun day for the family is not to be missed!
Free Class for Aspiring Artists
Portfolio Development for Young Artists
Online Class Starts October 12
FREE
This class is designed for young artists (ages 16-24) who are interested in pursuing a career in the arts. Students will develop foundation year college course-level skills while creating a professional portfolio or body of work. Teaching Artist: Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh
Call for Artists
Art of the African Diaspora 2022
Deadline to Register: Sunday, October, 31, 2021, 11:59pm
Artists, be part of the 25th Anniversary of the Bay Area Black Artists’ exhibition at Richmond Art Center! Art Of The African Diaspora is a non-juried group exhibition featuring work by artists of African descent. The showcase exhibition is held at Richmond Art Center and is accompanied by self-guided open studio tours and satellite exhibitions throughout the Bay Area.
Learn more about participating in AOTAD at the online Artist Info Session on Saturday, October 23, 12pm-1:30pm. CLICK HERE to register.
In Memoriam
❤️ John Rampley
Remembering John Rampley; a fiercely dedicated painter.
Images: (top) Positively 4th Street mural (detail) (1976) by John Rampley and John Wehrle; (above left) John Rampley’s Not Easy Being Green (1994) shown at Richmond Art Center in 2014; (above right) John Rampley at Richmond Art Center in 2014.
*In-person activity dates are subject to change as we see further developments in the Covid-19 pandemic. Mask wearing and signing a Visitor Waiver is a condition of entry to RAC events. We track attendee numbers in the courtyard and galleries to ensure spaces do not get too crowded. Read more about Richmond Art Center’s Covid-19 safety measures HERE.
Top and Bottom banners feature Laura Kamian McDermott’s Jagged Skyline of Car Keys, Sand (2021). See Laura’s work in the Opossum Magic exhibition currently on view at RAC.
Have something to share? Please email us at admin@richmondartcenter.org
Courtyard Mingle!
Saturday, October 16, 12pm-2pm* at Richmond Art Center
FREE
Fall exhibitions run September 9 through November 19, 2021. Join us on Saturday, October 16, 12pm-2pm for a courtyard reception for three great exhibitions: Works from Home: Richmond Art Center Student Showcase, Opossum Magic, and Summer Rites.
*In-person activity dates are subject to change as we see further developments in the Covid-19 pandemic. Mask wearing and signing a Visitor Waiver is a condition of entry to RAC events. We track attendee numbers in the courtyard and galleries to ensure spaces do not get too crowded. Read more about Richmond Art Center’s Covid-19 safety measures HERE.
Top image: Gail Rubin, Tribute to Natalia Arbelaez, 2021. Created in “Handbuilding: Women in Contemporary Ceramics” with Colleen Garland and featured in Works From Home
Sunday, October 10, 2pm-6pm
FREE | RSVP REQUIRED
Richmond Art Center (courtyard)
2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
We gather around Leonard Peltier’s statue and legacy to celebrate the word – bearer of memory and dream.
PROGRAM*
Folks are invited to come for all or part of the program. Please note, space on the exhibition tour is limited.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Anne Begay, Diné, Co-founder of AIM-Denver Chapter in 1970; Rigo 23, Artist
POETRY / SPOKEN WORD
Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco Poet Laureate; Doggtown Dro, Rapper, poet and artist; Meres-sia Gabriel, Richmond based writer, Panther Cub; Arnoldo García, Chiapas Support Committee; CieraJevae, Richmond Poet Laureate; Sheila McKinney, Richmond Youth Poet Laureate; Flavia Elisa Mora, Poet and Migrant Artivist; Kathy Peltier, Leonard Peltier’s daughter; Brian Tripp, Karuk, visionary artist, poet and esteemed elder
Please RSVP HERE if you would like to attend Gathering in the Spirit of Gwarth-ee-lass.
Like most Indian people, I have several names. In Indian Way, names come to you in the course of your life, not just when you’re born. Some come during childhood ceremonies; others are given on special occasions throughout your life. Each name gives you a new sense of yourself and your own possibilities. And each name gives you something to live up to. It points out the direction you’re supposed to take in this life. One of my names is Tate Wikuwa, which means “Wind Chases the Sun in the Dakota language. That name was my great-grandfather’s. Another name, bestowed on me by my Native Canadian brethren, is Gwarth-ee-lass, meaning “He Leads the People.”
Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance, 1999
BIOS
Anne Begay, Diné
Born in New México and raised traditionally by her grandparents, Anne was sent to boarding schools in Oklahoma and New México. She survived that experience and later attended Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Nebraska where she joined the Student Senate and majored in History. While there she also studied English and stage acting.
She enlisted in the US Army and joined AIM – American Indian Movement – co-founding the Denver Chapter in 1970. She worked at the Denver AIM office while still in the Army.At the time of her discharge, Wounded Knee Occupation, 1973, was taking place, Anne helped with that effort. She gave birth to her single daughter, Kathy Peltier 1975. She and her daughter Kathy, joined the Longest Walk in 1978. Anne raised Kathy on her own, remaining close to her and the Movement to this day – mainly as a “keyboard warrior.”
Together with Kathy she makes regalia and traditional beaded jewelry that they bring to rallies, speaking events, dances and pow-wows. This supplements Kathy’s travel expenses to see her father who is presently at Coleman Prison in Florida. They have been collaborating with Rigo in the Leonard Peltier Statue Project since 2018.
Doggtown Dro
Rapper, poet, artist. Pan African, Abolitionist and Revolutionary.
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Tongo Eisen-Martin is the current poet laureate of San Francisco. He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes, published as part of City Lights’ Pocket Poet series, and someone’s dead already. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, received the California Book Award for Poetry, an American Book Award, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. Eisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings of Black people, and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and is the founder of Black Freighter Press. His second book in the City Lights Pocket Poet series, Blood on the Fog, will be released in the fall of 2021.
Arnoldo García
Known as a colibrí, Arnoldo García is a community-based poet, musician and organizer. He is the co-author of XicKorea: poems, words, rants together with Beth Ching and Miriam Ching Louie and editor of Poets against War & Racism | Poetas contra la guerra y el racismo, a chapbook anthology of multinational and multiracial poets. Arnoldo is a member of the Chiapas Support Committee, which supports the Zapatistas and Indigenous land justice movements. Arnoldo is a restorative justice practitioner training youth, adults and new and experienced community activists and organizers to create deliberate relationships across communities rooted in self-determination and deep justice. You can read his work at artofthecommune.wordpress.com.
CieraJevae
CieraJevae is a Richmond Native serving her community as an artist educator, a healer, Poet Laureate, writer, activist, and scholar. She reps her ancestors, & shines light on the lived experiences of the divinity in Black women & girls through poetry and performance. She is the published author of her new collection of poems, Unto Ivy’s Rib, as well as the author of two chapbooks, Testimonies of Richmond, and Incarcerated Words. She obtained her B.A in Sociology, and her MFA in Writing. She currently serves as the Media, Arts, and Culture Manager at the RYSE Center.com For more, go to her website at cierajevae.com.
Sheila McKinney
Sheila McKinney (she/her) is a 16 year old poet attending Pinole Valley High School. She serves on the Debate team, the African American Student Union, as well as WISE (Women in STEM Education). She is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Richmond, CA. She started writing and performing in 2020-2021, and already has co-facilitated a series of poetry workshops locally and nationally. Sheila uses poetry as a form of activism and as a tool for moving the world into a more just and loving place. Working with youth and learning from her peers has been one of the highlights of her experience as Richmond’s Youth Poet Laureate and a RYSE member.
Flavia Elisa Mora
Flavia Elisa Mora is a queer, Mexican migrant artivist, raised in La Mission, San Francisco. Amongst her interdisciplinary art practice, her main two focuses are muralismo and poesía.
Flavia is a published writer, she has performed poetry throughout the Bay Area, and is one of the lead artists for the mural, “Alto al Fuego en la Misión” located on 24th and Capp. Her passions for both muralismo and spoken word poetry collide through her understanding that both forms are vessels for preserving history, intergenerational healing tools, and expressions of the soul.
Flavia’s prioritization of her own healing ties with her belief that revolution starts from the heart. She hopes that through her art, she can help create space for inspiration and positive change in her community.
Kathy Peltier, Dine’h/Navajo
Ya’ at’e’e’h, hello my name is Kathy Peltier. My parents are Anne Begay and Leonard Peltier. I’m an enrolled member of the Dine’h/Navajo Nation. I’m also Lakota and Turtle Mountain Ojibwe. I currently reside in Southern California.
Kathy Peltier is a dancer, beadwork artist and world traveler. She started dancing when she was two years old, and has attended powwows all over the US as a traditional dancer. Kathy’s travels also include touring with Red Sun Rising to Australia as part of a dance troupe. To book Kathy for travel you can contact her via her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/kathy.peltier.12 or on Instagram @wazi_kat.
DJ Petrelli
DJ Petrelli is a revolutionary artist living in San Francisco.
Rigo 23
Rigo 23 has exhibited his work internationally for over 30 years placing murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile work in public situations where viewers are encouraged to examine their relationship to their community, their role as unwitting advocates of public policy, and their place on a planet occupied by many other living things.
Rigo’s projects have included inter-communal collaborations with Native Tribes in North and South America; long-term partnerships with political prisoners; and alliances with underrepresented and disenfranchised individuals and communities. @rigo23studio @peltierstatue
In-person classes are back! Online classes continue!
Our Fall Program Catalog is here. Register today for in-person and online classes starting weekly October through November. And read about the exciting exhibitions and events happening at Richmond Art Center this fall.
Fall 2021 Catalog Flip Book (view as an interactive, online publication)
Fall 2021 Class Catalog PDF (download to print or share with your friends!)
Saludos RAC Community!
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! After being closed for over a year and a half due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I’m happy it is during Hispanic Heritage Month that Richmond Art Center has finally reopened to the public. Explore our Fall Program 2021 Catalog to see what exhibitions we have on view (pages 6-7) and listings for upcoming in-person and online classes (pages 8-20). As always, we continue to offer classes taught in Spanish, bilingual classes, and intergenerational classes.
National Hispanic Heritage Month runs September 15 through October 15 and is an important opportunity to honor and celebrate Hispanic/Latino/Latinx people living in the U.S.. It is also a time to learn about the stories of oppression, prejudice and injustice that often go overlooked. The Bay Area, and Richmond especially, has a culturally diverse Latino community, and I encourage you to find your own way to celebrate and explore Hispanic Heritage Month.
I’m excited to announce that on Saturday, October 23, 12-3pm we are celebrating Día de los Muertos at RAC. We’ll have alebrije-making, bomba dancing, and more. This free family event is not to be missed!
Hope to see you at RAC soon. Hasta pronto!
José Rivera
Executive Director
¡Saludos Amigos del RAC!
¡Feliz Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana! Después de estar cerrado durante más de un año y medio debido a la pandemia del Covid-19, estoy muy feliz de haber podido reabrir al público durante este mes. Explora nuestro catálogo de otoño 2021 para ver qué exposiciones ofrecemos (páginas 6 y 7) y para ver los listados de las próximas clases presenciales y en línea (páginas 8 a la 20). Como siempre, continuamos ofreciendo clases en español, clases bilingües y clases intergeneracionales.
El Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana se lleva a cabo del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre y es una oportunidad importante para honrar y celebrar a las personas hispanas / latinas / latinx que viven en los EE. UU. También es un momento para aprender sobre las historias de opresión, prejuicio e injusticia que a menudo se pasan por alto . El Área de la Bahía, y Richmond especialmente, tienen una comunidad latina culturalmente diversa, y los animo a encontrar su propia manera de celebrar y explorar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana.
Me complace anunciar que el sábado 23 de octubre, de 12 a 3 pm, celebraremos el Día de los Muertos en el RAC. Tendremos elaboración de alebrije, baile de bomba y más. ¡Este evento familiar gratuito no se lo deben perder!
¡Espero verte pronto en el RAC!
Un caluroso saludo de
José Rivera, Director Ejecutivo
Sunday, September 12, 3pm-6pm
Richmond Art Center’s Courtyard, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Please join us at Richmond Art Center on Sunday, September 12 from 3pm to 6pm for a special reception to honor Leonard Peltier’s 77th birthday – the 45th he spends behind bars. Congratulations Leonard on another year of Dignified Resistance.
We will also be celebrating the opening of Rigo’s 23’s exhibition Time and Again.
Special guests Kathy Peltier, Leonard Peltier’s daughter, and Anne Begay – co-founder of American Indian Movement’s Denver chapter and Kathy’s mother – will be in attendance. As well as AIM West Executive Director Tony Gonzales and José Cuéllar (a.k.a, Dr. Loco), who will perform a flute solo.
COVID-19 Prevention protocols: This event will be held outdoors in Richmond Art Center’s courtyard. To prevent the spread of COVID-19 we are requesting all guests RSVP. Temperature checks, mask wearing, and signing a Visitor Waiver will be a condition of entry. Learn more about what RAC is doing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 HERE.
Image: Kathy Peltier stands on the feet from Rigo 23’s statue of Leonard Peltier. Photo by Rio Yañez
Sunday, September 12, 3:00PM-4:30PM ON ZOOM
Artists, join in this free info session to:
Read the registration guidelines and come prepared with your questions!
Click the button to RSVP!
