Richmond Art Center
Richmond Art Center

Show Your RAC Pride! T-Shirts and Totes Now Available

Artist Designed T-Shirts and Totes

Our custom t-shirts and totes are only available for purchase at Richmond Art Center. Swing by the front desk and pick yours up while stocks last!

Ceramics T-Shirts

Design by teaching artist Shannon Abac

Unisex Style | Sizes S to 2XL | Cotton Heritage, Soft & Lightweight, 100% cotton 

Colors Available: Black shirt with red ink; grey shirt with white ink; and grey shirt with red ink

$35 each (includes sales tax)

Guillermo Tote Bags

Design by Fransisco Rojas

Heavy Cotton Tote | Union Made in the USA | Printed in the USA

$25 each (includes sales tax)

Top image: Photos by Elaine Moreno

Youth Art Tours – Book Now for Spring!

Youth Art Tours – Book Now for Spring!

Did you know we have a school tours program? Bring your class to Richmond Art Center and enjoy a guided tour of current exhibitions. Students also get to visit studio spaces and engage in an art-making activity.

(Psssst Richmond youth organizations, groups and schools can book a tour for FREE thanks to funding from California Arts Council)

More info and online bookings: richmondartcenter.org/education/art-tours

Image: A school group visiting our print studio this winter

Interested in teaching at Richmond Art Center?

Prospective Teaching Artist Information Sessions

In these informal online sessions RAC’s Education Team will share information about our hiring process and teaching opportunities.

Richmond Art Center offers visual arts education programs for the community year round, on-site at RAC, off-site in the community and online via Zoom. We work collaboratively with Teaching Artists to develop dynamic and inclusive arts education programs that cultivate, support and build our creative community here in Richmond. RAC currently offers visual arts programs and media under the following disciplines: Ceramic Arts & Sculpture, Digital Arts & Sculpture, Drawing & Painting, Glass Arts & Sculpture, Jewelry & Metal Arts, Printmaking Arts, Textiles & Fiber Arts, Mixed Media Arts & Sculpture. TEACHING ARTIST JOB DESCRIPTION

Session 1: Thursday, February 23, 5pm-6pm | REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION ON ZOOM

Session 2: Saturday, February 25, 9am-10am | REGISTER FOR THIS SESSION ON ZOOM

Spring Class Registration Opens Wednesday, February 15 (really soon!)

Spring Class Registration Opens Wednesday, February 15

Spring classes are now posted (don’t worry if the class says ‘Fully Booked’ this will change once registration opens). Browse listings and plan which class or workshop you’ll sign up for when classes open for registration on Wednesday, February 15 at 10am.

And don’t forget to get your scholarship applications in early!

Image: Stop-Motion Animation class with Eli Africa starts March 18

Three New Bookmaking Workshops

Three New Bookmaking Workshops

Starting Soon!

Workshop for Adults | Beginners Welcome

Coptic Sewn Book

Saturday, February 4, 10am-1pm

$125

Learn to sew a hard covered book with an exposed spine. This book opens perfectly flat and is a fun structure to make!

More info…

Workshop for Adults | Beginners Welcome

No Glue Watercolor Sketchbook

Saturday, March 4, 10am-1pm

$125

This fun book form uses no glue whatsoever but still has a very sturdy body that will hold up to being tossed in a backpack or dropped on the floor. Learn to sew a multi section book using precut watercolor paper and create a wrap around cover to hold it all together.

More info…

Workshop for Adults | Beginners Welcome

Mixed Media Sketchbook

Tuesday, March 7, 10am-1pm

$125

Learn to use an unlikely material for the pages of a sketchbook: packing paper! This material is amazing for drawing, sketching, and painting with opaque media. Paint pens, acrylic paints, and gouache pop off the page in beautiful contrast and typically do not bleed or come through he opposite face of your page.

More info…

Gratitude and News

It Was a Rollercoaster End to 2022

  • We are so grateful to our community! Despite the devastating loss of three major donors last year, we’re happy to announce that we reached our End-of-Year Appeal fundraising goal and raised over $80,000. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
  • On December 23, Rigo 23’s statue of Leonard Peltier—that was previously exhibited at Richmond Art Center—was stolen from a U-haul in Oakland. Thanks to alert community members – extra special thanks to Darby (pictured above) – most of the statue was recovered a few days later

Onwards 2023!

Meet Teaching Artist Anna Kingsley

Meet Teaching Artist Anna Kingsley

Anna Kingsley is an artist from Oakland, California. Since 2011 she has owned and operated Brick Factory Designs, a letterpress studio and bindery, and has happily produced customs designs for even happier clients. We spoke with Anna about her work, as well as the classes and workshops she’ll be teaching at Richmond Art Center this winter.


Can you please introduce yourself to our community?

Hello! I’m Anna and I’ve been teaching adults and children for over fifteen years. I started as a teacher for students with intense learning and behavioral challenges and later moved into teaching art. During the school year I teach origami at five different schools in the East Bay. I also run a small letterpress and bindery and print custom posters, announcements, broadsides, and more. I have three young adult children. Our family is very queer / trans. 

What has your artistic journey been like?

Art is a meditative process for me. I have ADD and repetitive motions help me focus.

I have always been a dabbler and creator. As a child I drew, painted, made my own books, and built magical sculptures. As an adult I do the same but with more skill and experience. I studied Photography and US History for my BA. 

What projects are you currently working on?

At present I am gathering print samples to photograph. This year has been busy and I haven’t had a moment to document my projects. I am also slowly working on cataloging the pigments I produced last summer. Some via chemical reaction (laked pigment) and some purely soil and mineral based sampled from local trails.

What do you like about teaching?

To be honest, a huge flex of mine is being able to help three students out at the same time with three separate issues while five other kids are scrambling for my attention. I love almost everything about the act of teaching. The community: spending time together with a common goal. Teaching is humbling. In order to teach , you also must remember what it is like to be a student. Those moments where you reach a learner who continually refused to believe they could complete a complicated project. Keeping my brain in shape when I have to change tactics mid lesson for half the class because my original way was not working for them. Teaching has zero down time. You are always ‘on’, and while this exhausts me sometimes, I apparently enjoy the sprint.

From my understanding, you have taught at Richmond Art Center before. What is it about RAC that keeps you coming back?

I love the staff at the RAC. They haul a** to get things done. The studio spaces work nicely with my classes and the age diversity of the student population is great.

Can you tell us about your class offerings this winter quarter?

So, I’m teaching two multi-session classes and three one day workshops. All printing and book binding. The workshops are fast paced and go less in depth because more of the prep will be done for you beforehand. The bonus is that you get to take home a beautiful and functional book after just three hours.  My intro to books and printing is a much more leisurely paced program. Beyond the specifics of ‘what’ and ‘how’, we will also have a chance to discuss the ‘why’ of certain techniques. This is really important for artists because we all have our own ways of getting to the same solution. Having a deeper understanding of factors such as  paper grain, ink additives, and  thread tension will allow a student to make better choices in future projects. 

Is there anything else you would like to share? About your classes, yourself as a teacher, or as an artist?

Come take a class with me. I’m good at what I do and I love seeing the creative light turn on inside someone who has not had time to prioritize art in their lives. Also, I’ve been told I’m hella funny. 


Anna Kingsleys website is brickfactorydesigns.com. She is also on Instagram @brickfactorydesigns.

Happy New Year from all of us at Richmond Art Center!

Wasn’t 2022 beautiful?

We’re looking forward to new adventures together in the New Year.

And if you can, please consider supporting our End-of-Year Appeal. Your donation – any amount – will support Richmond Art Center’s free gallery admission, exhibitions, education programs, and community outreach. 


Ways to Donate:

Other ways you can support Richmond Art Center:


Top images: 
1. Youth students in the print studio during the summer class Framing Identity
2. JB Broussard and Donna Gatson were artists in the Luminaries exhibition series celebrating 25 years of Art of the African Diaspora
3. The installation of Rebeca García-González’s new mural in the Community Gallery, We Found Joy In Art-Making / Encontramos La Felicidad Haciendo Arte
4. Students creating beads in the class Glass Beads and More! (Register now for this class starting again in January! Beginners welcome.)
5. Art Hazelwood demonstrates Emmy Lou Packard’s press in action for the exhibition Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience
6. Mictlanmanalli Ceremony led by Ernesto Olmos at Día de los Muertos, Fall Family Day
7. Mictlanmanalli Ceremony
8. Photo shoot at a Fencelines Community Workshop
9. A young visitor admires the mural Portals thru Powerful Prayers of Healing by Keena Azania Romano, Leslie Dime Lopez, Vanessa Agana Espinoza Solari, Yazmin Shi Shi Madriz and members of the community for the exhibition Collective Card is our Best Protection
10. Unveiling of Who Decides? S.P.O.T.S. The Game by youth participants in the summer mural program

12/31 Update on Stolen Leonard Peltier Statue


Rigo 23’s statue of Leonard Peltier was stolen from a U-haul in Oakland on 12/23.

UPDATE 12/27 6PM: Most of the Leonard Peltier statue has been recovered. HOWEVER, THE STATUE’S LEFT ARM/HAND REMAINS MISSING. If anyone has information about its whereabouts please contact Oakland PD or leave tips on RAC’s voicemail: 510-620-6772

UPDATE 12/31 2PM: The missing hand has been found! Rigo 23 share’s the story on instagram HERE.


KTVU reporting on the theft: https://www.ktvu.com/news/stolen-oakland-u-haul-contained-prized-leonard-peltier-statue

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