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
Saturday, March 18, 2pm-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
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 second of the Enough Photo Sessions to be held at Richmond Art Center as part of Anne Wolf’s ENOUGH Considered project which will be presented as an exhibition in the Summer of 2023.
Top Image: Photographs by Lisa Levine
Saturday, March 18, 2pm-4pm
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.
Artwork Pick Up Times:
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
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.
