Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Let’s come together one last time at Richmond Art Center to celebrate Art of the African Diaspora 2023!
INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Artwork Pick Up: Exhibiting artists may pick up their artworks after the Closing Party event from 4pm-5:30pm. Please note, no earlier artwork pick up can be accommodated.
Connected Always and Remembrance Project Closing Reception
Saturday, March 18, 2pm-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Let’s celebrate one last time two beautiful and powerful exhibitions: Amanda Ayala’s Connected Always and the Social Justice Academy’s Remembrance Project.
Top images (left to right, top to bottom): Connected Always installed at Richmond Art Center; Artist Amanda Ayala in front of her work; Remembrance Project installed at Richmond Art Center; Mechica dancers from Danza Azteca Xiuhtecuhtli, Coyolxauqui and XAntol performed at the opening reception; Youth visitors interact with Amanda Ayala’s artwork; Remembrance Project banner for Aisha Fraser; Mechica dancers; Social Justice Sewing Academy founder Sara Trail speaking at a special event at Richmond Art Center
Share Your Vision for Arts & Culture in Contra Costa County
Saturday, March 18, 10am-11:30am
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE | Light Refreshments Provided
Welcome remarks by District 1 County Supervisor John M. Gioia
Contra Costa County is working towards the establishment of an Arts Council and an Arts & Culture Strategic Plan for our county. This event is one of five Arts & Culture Community Visioning Sessions that will be held throughout the County. These events are free, and all are welcome. Please see press release and the Contra Costa Cultural Planning and Arts Council Project Facebook page for more information.
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. CLICK HERE for more event information.
Stitching Stolen Lives: Book Talk With Author and Founder of SJSA, Sara Trail
Saturday, March 4, 1pm-2:30pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
Join us for a talk and book signing with Sara Trail, founder of Social Justice Sewing Academy and co-author of Stitching Stolen Lives, a book that chronicles the work of SJSA and the Remembrance Project. With forewords by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, the book includes personal stories of individuals and their families whose lives have been cut short due to social injustices.
This event is free, open to all and no rsvp is necessary.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
FREE
A group of Richmond artists is meeting to discuss creating an online artist directory. If you are a visual artist living or working in Richmond and would like to attend this meeting, please RSVP at richmondartistsunite@gmail.com to help plan for food and enough chairs.
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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. Contact richmondartistsunite@gmail.com for more event information.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
Join Wanda Gonzalez in celebrating the release of her very first EP, “Bittersweet!”
Live performances by Richmond Police Activities League/Empowering Youth Through Music students, Ronnie Mills, LaDy-Sn3AK and Bay Area based Christian music group Bay Worship Collective. A night of live music and celebration. Light refreshments will be provided.
Radical Monarchs’ Black Lives Matter Public Action Event
Saturday, February 25, 1pm-2pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA
Radical Monarchs, Richmond Troop 2, is organizing a Public Action surrounding Black Lives Matter Sat., Feb. 25 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. near the Richmond Art Center (RAC) between 25th and 27th Streets on Barrett Ave. in Richmond.
Then, from 1-2 p.m., the group will move inside the RAC to take in the Art of the African Diaspora exhibit at 2540 Barrett Ave.
The Radical Monarchs creates opportunities for young girls and gender expansive youth of color to form fierce friendships, celebrate their identities and contribute radically to their communities.
For more info contact Richmond Troop Leader Arnita at arnita2@aol.com
Interested in joining Richmond Art Center’s teaching community? Let’s meet up on Zoom and get better acquainted! In this informal online session RAC’s Education Team 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
CLICK HERE to register for this Prospective Teaching Artist Information Session.
Top Image: Daniel Camacho leads a Calaveritas Workshop at Richmond Art Center. Photo by Sasha Schell
Interested in joining Richmond Art Center’s teaching community? Let’s meet up on Zoom and get better acquainted! In this informal online session 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
CLICK HERE to register for this Prospective Teaching Artist Information Session.
Can’t make the meeting on Thursday, February 23? We are hosting another online session on Saturday, February 25 at 9am.
Top image: A community workshop at Richmond Art Center for the Fencelines public art project.
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA94804
FREE
Artists Anne Wolf and Lisa Levine invite you to become part of their ENOUGH Considered portrait project and receive a digital copy of your ENOUGH portrait.
The photographic portrait series created as a collaboration between artist Anne Wolf and photographer Lisa Levine synthesizes the material/somatic and non-material/language/rhetoric of ENOUGH. A simple writing exercise invites participants to reflect on this word.
Each participant is then invited to choose an ENOUGH stamp and apply it directly to their body as a starting point for an embodied gesture of ENOUGH, as a means of healing an old wound or violation, a message of boundaries/protection, or a means of sanctifying one’s own sense of abundance.
This the first of the Enough Photo Sessions to be held at Richmond Art Center as part of Wolf and Levine’s ENOUGH Considered project which will be presented as an exhibition in the Summer of 2023.
