Art for Breakfast is a free workshop and dine-in experience providing culturally responsive creative arts instruction in underserved communities while building a love for art.
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 richcitykids@richcitykids.org
Fencelines Community Forum | Response to Stolen Artwork
Saturday June 3, 12pm-2pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
The Fencelines public artwork, located on the Richmond Parkway Bay Trail, was stolen between the evening of May 15 and the evening May 16.
CLICK HERE to read a letter from the Fencelines’ project team in response to this theft.
The community is invited to come together on June 3, 12pm-2pm at Richmond Art Center to learn more about the Fencelines project and talk about what a response should look like. Folks will have an opportunity to paint new art pieces to collectively take a stance against the attempted erasure of our stories.
The Fencelines project team is Graham L.P., Princess Robinson, Gita Khandagle, and members of the Richmond Community. In partnership with the City of Richmond’s Love Your Block, Richmond Art Center, Richmond Our Power Coalition, and Richmond LAND.
Ruth Morgan in conversation with Robbin Légère Henderson
Saturday, May 27, 12pm-1:30pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
In her exhibition Requiem: The Remains of the Day, August 4, 2021 photographer Ruth Morgan presents a selection of evocative photographs that document the devastation of Greenville, CA after it was burnt down by the Dixie Wildfire in 2021.
For this special event Ruth Morgan will be in conversation with Berkeley-based artist, curator and writer Robbin Légère Henderson.
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
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.
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.
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
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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Dia Familiar en la Primavera: Aire limpio en el viento
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.
