Friday, May 12, 5:30pm-8pm
Richmond Art Center (courtyard), 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
Richmond Art Center is proud to be a resource for hosting community meetings and events. Richmond Art Center is not the organizer of this event. For more information contact katherine@apen4ej.org
Thursday, May 11, 6:30pm-8pm (Gallery Walkthrough with Tanja Geis starts at 5:30pm)
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
It’s a revolutionary Rich City! Come hear the full story of the Richmond Greenway! The feature “Greenway” by documentary filmmaker Jed Lee weaves together the enriching tale of how a once abandoned and dangerous railroad line is now a beautiful stretch of walking path decorated on each side with gardens, murals, and parks. Hear from current Richmond community leaders about how this transformation was 100% fought for and by the community.
This event is free, open to all and no rsvp is necessary. Immediately proceeding the film screening at 5:30pm will be a gallery walkthrough with artist Tanja Geis of her new solo exhibition. Come early and enjoy both these events from The Greenhouse exhibition and speaker series.
About the filmmaker: Jed Lee is a Taiwanese and Chinese-Filipino American activist, artist, and filmmaker from the Bay Area in California. Jed is a first time filmmaker and directed and produced the “Greenway” feature documentary, which recently won “Best Documentary” at the Our Heritage, Our Planet Film Festival, and “Best Film for Environmental Activism” at the International Social Change Film Festival.
About The Greenhouse: The Greenhouse is a three-part exhibition series at Richmond Art Center that focuses on the climate crisis and environmental justice movements in Richmond, CA. The Greenhouse is organized in partnership with Round Weather, a nonprofit art gallery in Oakland, and curated by its director Chris Kerr.
Thursday, May 11, 5:30pm-6:30pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Artist Tanja Geis will walk us through her solo exhibition in the west gallery, Recompose.
This event is free, open to all and no rsvp is necessary.
Immediately following the gallery walk through will be a film screening at 6:30pm of Jed Lee’s The Greenway. Both these events are part of The Greenhouse, an exhibition and speaker series focused on the climate crisis and environmental justice movements in Richmond, CA.
Tuesday, May 9, 5pm-7pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
Richmond Art Center is proud to be a resource for hosting community meetings and events. Richmond Art Center is not the organizer of this event. For more information contact Briel Pomerantz bpomeratz@gopublicschools.org
Saturday, April 29, 12pm-3pm | FREE
Richmond Art Center (courtyard), 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
Spend your Saturday afternoon with us making art and celebrating the community-voices that demand Richmond residents’ right to clean air. This free, family event features art-making activities, community action groups, spoken word, and music.
Special guests from the frontline of environmental activism in Richmond are the Richmond Our Power Coalition and the FENCELINES project team. Spoken word artist Nyabingha McDowell will perform. And the UC Master Gardener Program will give away sunflowers.
Art-making activities by RAC teaching artists are mobiles with Cristine Blanco, sound art led by STEAM specialist Vince de Jésus, caricatures by Eli Africa, and screen printing by Alice Rice. Plus kids and families can enjoy coloring with recycled crayons, family photo booth, gallery search and find, music by Mueve, and healthy snacks!
Spring Family Day is free, open to all and no rsvp is necessary.
This event was made possible by a Richmond Arts and Culture Commission 2022-2023 Neighborhood Public Art Mini-Grant.
Special thanks to our partners who make this event possible, including our fabulous Teaching Artists and:
Top image: Drawing by Eli Africa
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Sábado, 29 de Abril, 12pm-3pm | GRATIS
Richmond Art Center (patio), 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond
Pase su sábado por la tarde con nosotros haciendo arte y celebrando las voces de la comunidad que exigen el derecho de los residentes de Richmond a tener aire limpio. Este evento familiar gratuito presenta actividades de creación de arte, grupos de acción comunitaria, palabra hablada y música.
Tuesday, April 25, 5pm-7pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
Richmond Art Center is proud to be a resource for hosting community meetings and events. Richmond Art Center is not the organizer of this event. For more information contact Briel Pomerantz bpomeratz@gopublicschools.org
Saturday, April 22, 10am-4pm (Community Remarks at 3pm)
Richmond Parkway Bay Trail between Gertrude and Vernon Avenues
Take a stand along the fenceline!
The Fencelines public art installation event is happening on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22. Community members are invited to meet at Richmond Parkway between Vernon and Gertrude Avenues to install the painted slats. This event will take place between 10am and 4pm, with a program of remarks from community organizers, artists and poetry happening at 3pm.
About the Project: Fencelines centers circumstances of environmental injustice through a public art installation along the Richmond Parkway, where an existing fenceline separates Richmond residential neighborhoods from the Chevron petroleum refinery. For generations, this refinery has polluted the community’s air, water, land and people.
The art installation encompasses painted slats, milled from locally reclaimed trees, placed on the fence itself and adorned with ribbons animating the direction of the wind. Over the past year at community workshops in Richmond hundreds of individuals and families have recorded their stories and messages on these slats, documenting the impact of the petroleum industry on many lives and together forming a collective monument to resilience.
“We are here, we want to be seen, and we are lending our hand to make all of these initiatives work to end pollution of our communities.”
–Princess Robinson, Community Organizer and Fencelines Co-Creator
A large-scale exhibition and free community events at Richmond Art Center accompany the Fencelines public art project, offering opportunities for community participation and designed to amplify the work of local environmental justice organizations.
Tuesday, April 18, 5:00pm-6:30pm (Award Presentation at 5:45pm)
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
This event is sponsored, in part, by Richmond Rotary Club.
Top image: Artwork by Meghan Shelby Reisbord, El Cerrito High School
Saturday, April 15, 12pm-2pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Join us for the opening reception of our spring exhibitions:
FENCELINES: A Collective Monument to Resilience
Requiem: The Remains of the Day, August 4, 2021
This event is free, open to all and no rsvp is necessary.
Tuesday, March 28, 5pm-7pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
Richmond Art Center is proud to be a resource for hosting community meetings and events. Richmond Art Center is not the organizer of this event. For more information contact Briel Pomerantz bpomeratz@gopublicschools.org
