Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
Artists across all disciplines who live, work, play, or create Richmond are invited to participate in a focus group at Richmond Art Center that will explore how we can shape and invest in the future of public art and cultural arts programming for the city and artists.
Richmond Art Center (courtyard), 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
Fall Family Day at Richmond Art Center (RAC) will be a special celebration of Día de los Muertos on Saturday, October 15, 12pm-3pm. Kids of all ages and their grown-ups are invited to RAC’s courtyard to celebrate Day of the Dead with art-making, music, and miniature low riders. Admission is free.
Artist Daniel Camacho is leading the festivities with a community ofrenda and paper mache skull workshop. Daniel’s work is currently on view at RAC in the exhibition De Fantasías y Realidades (September 14 – November 17, 2022).
Other activities at Fall Family Day will include a Día de los Muertos presentation by Ernesto Olmos; live printing and coloring with local art collective Liberación Gráfica; community chalk mural with Rebeca García-González; art demonstrations; marigold giveaway; and local art vendors.
Community Ofrenda: Daniel Camacho invites community members to contribute items that honor their loves ones. Daniel says, “Through an ofrenda we commemorate and remember the life and death of our loved ones. It is a celebration that allows us to carry them in our hearts and welcome them back to the world of the living for one night.” Daniel invites the community to contribute a photograph of their loved ones and an object that represents something they loved, for example their favorite drink or snack, or a toy. Items can be brought to Richmond Art Center any time during gallery hours. The altar will be on display in the West Gallery from October 15 through to the end of Día de los Muertos on November 3.
Paper Mache Calaveritas: In the calaverita workshop participants will learn to make paper mache skulls for a Día de los Muertos altar. This two day workshop – on Saturday, October 8, 12pm-2pm and Saturday, October 15, 12pm-2pm – is for participants ages six and older (although kids younger than ten should bring an adult to help). Register HERE to attend both workshops and make a calaverita from scratch. Alternatively, folks are invited to drop into the second session on October 15 at Fall Family Day to decorate a premade skull.
Artwork in top image: Daniel Camacho, De Fantasias y Realidades #2, 2022
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Dia de los Muertos, Dia familiar en el otoño
Sábado, 15 de octubre, 12pm-3pm | LIBRE
Richmond Art Center (patio), 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
El Día de la Familia de Otoño en Richmond Art Center (RAC) será una celebración especial del Día de los Muertos el sábado 15 de octubre de 12:00 p. m. a 3:00 p. m. Niños de todas las edades y sus adultos están invitados al patio de RAC para celebrar el Día de los Muertos con obras de arte, música y lowriders en miniatura. La admisión es gratis.
El artista Daniel Camacho encabeza las festividades con una ofrenda comunitaria y un taller de calaveras de papel maché. Las obras de Daniel se pueden ver en el RAC en la exposición, De Fantasías y Realidades (14 de septiembre – 17 de noviembre de 2022).
Otras actividades en el Día de la Familia de Otoño incluirán una presentación del Día de los Muertos por el artista Ernesto Olmos; impresión y coloreado en vivo con el colectivo de arte Liberación Gráfica; se pintará un mural comunitario de tiza con Rebeca García-González; demostraciones de arte; el UC Master Gardener regalara cempasuchil; buscar y encontrar; y vendedores de arte locales.
Ofrenda comunitaria: Daniel Camacho invita a los miembros de la comunidad a contribuir con artículos que honren a sus seres queridos. Daniel dice: “A través de una ofrenda conmemoramos y recordamos la vida y muerte de nuestros seres queridos. Es una celebración que nos permite llevarlos en el corazón y darles la bienvenida al mundo de los vivos por una noche”. Daniel invita a la comunidad a contribuir con una fotografía de sus seres queridos y un objeto que represente algo que amaban, por ejemplo, su bebida o tentempié favorito, o un juguete. Los artículos se pueden llevar al Centro de Arte de Richmond en cualquier momento durante el horario de la galería. El altar estará en exhibición en la West Gallery desde el 15 de octubre hasta el final del Día de los Muertos el 3 de noviembre.
Calaveritas de papel maché: En el taller de calaveritas los participantes aprenderán a hacer calaveras de papel maché para un altar del Día de los Muertos. Este taller es de dos días, el sábado 8 de octubre de 12 p. m. a 2 p. m. y el sábado 15 de octubre de 12 p. m. a 2 p. m., es para participantes mayores de seis años (aunque los niños menores de diez años deben traer a un adulto para que los ayude). Regístrate AQUÍ para asistir a ambos talleres y hacer una calaverita. Alternativamente, se invita a la gente a asistir a la segunda sesión el 15 de octubre en el Día de la Familia de Otoño para decorar una calavera prefabricada.
Obra de arte en la imagen superior: Daniel Camacho, De Fantasias y Realidades #2, 2022
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Join us for an artist panel talk with the artists in the exhibition New Visions: Emerging Artists from Art of the African Diaspora. Kim Champion, Tiffany Conway, Ashara Ekundayo, and Bertrell Smith will be in conversation with curator Demetri Broxton.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Join us for the opening reception of Daniel White’s solo exhibition, Melanin: Color, Composition and Connection. The reception will include an artist walk through of the exhibition.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Create art for environmental justice in Richmond!
Join the Fencelines team for ahands-on art workshop that will provide space to reflect on local conditions of environmental injustice in Richmond. Participants will paint on recycled wooden fence slats with images, messages and stories that respond to the following prompts:“What message do you have for the polluting industry here in Richmond?” and “What vision do you have for your community in the future?”
The slats created in is workshop will be used to form a temporary public art installation along a city-owned fence bordering the Chevron refinery and North Richmond neighborhoods in fall 2022. Additionally, this installation will be shown in an exhibition at Richmond Art Center in spring 2023.
This workshop is part of a series of workshops that will be presented at Richmond Art Center every third Saturday this summer. Additional workshops will be presented out in Richmond at local community events. All workshops are free to attend.
Fencelines Art Workshops at Richmond Art Center
Saturday, June 18, 2pm-4pm
Saturday, July 16, 12pm-2pm
Saturday, August 20, 12pm-2pm
Saturday, September 17, 12pm-2pm
Fencelines Workshops in the Community
Saturday, June 18, 10am-12pm: Urban Tilth Volunteer Day at Unity Park
Saturday, July 9: Richmond LAND: Love Your Block Event in North Richmond
Saturday, August 6: APEN Refinery Explosion 10 Year Memorial Event; Hood Day in North Richmond at Shields-Reid Park
… and other summer 2022 events with Richmond Our Power Coalition TBD!
Fencelinesaspires to create a unique, celebratory monument with the community in Richmond by: facilitating the creation of artwork by the community itself, promoting conversation and connection between Richmond community members, bringing awareness to issues of environmental injustice, and beautifying and activating an otherwise underutilized space. The project design and participatory format is explicitly designed to center and amplify the voices of the community.
The Fencelines team is made up of local artists, organizers, and community members, Princess Robinson, Graham L.P., Dulce Galicia and Gita Khandagle. This project is presented as a partnership between Richmond Our Power Coalition, Richmond Art Center, and Fencelines.
This summer Liberación Gráfica will be out in Richmond engaging youth and families at community events and local gathering places with live screen printing demonstrations. The prints will raise awareness to social issues faced in Richmond while reflecting the joy and resilience of the community. The goal of this project is to bring art directly to the people and inspire the community to engage with Richmond and each other through art.
Community Event Schedule:
Liberación Gráfica at the Richmond Juneteenth Festival Saturday, June 18, 12pm-3pm Nicholls Park, 3230 Macdonald Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Liberación Gráfica at Low Rider Sundays Sunday, July 31, 12pm-3pm 23rd Street Between Grant and Rheem Avenues
Liberación Gráfica at Richmond Flea Market Sunday, August 21,12pm-3pm Mckosken Road, Richmond, CA
More dates and locations to be announced. If you are interested in inviting Liberación Gráfica to a community event this summer, please contact Roberto Martinez at roberto@richmondartcenter.org
Liberación Gráfica is a community based art collective whose mission is to provide opportunities for self and community expression through silkscreen printing. The collective is made up of Richmond-based artists, teachers, and community organizers: Eddy Chacon, Lisette Vera, Daniel Cervantes and Francisco Rojas. Liberación Gráfica was established in 2019 and since has worked towards teaching youth the process of silkscreen printing through a social justice lens with the intention to bridge gaps between communities of color and bring awareness to social injustices faced by the Richmond community.
Top Image: Daniel Cervantes, Real G’s Grow Food, 2020
Closing Reception Featuring The Great Tortilla Conspiracy
Saturday, August 20, 12pm-2pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
A closing reception for the exhibition Artist of Conscience featuring edible art inspired by Emmy Lou Packard!
About the Great Tortilla Conspiracy: The Great Tortilla Conspiracy is a collective based on edible artwork. After much experimentation and technological developments the Conspirators developed a secret recipe that has been called delicious by many a quesadilla acolyte. The edible artwork produced by the Conspiracy is screen printed on tortillas and cooked on a griddle so that the image is affixed to the substrate. Simultaneously cheese is melted on the reverse side. Salsa is optional. The art consumer can both eat and enjoy the aesthetic sensation that is the Great Tortilla Conspiracy.
Top image: Artwork design by the Great Tortilla Conspiracy
