Richmond Standard: RAC celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day through artmaking
Richmond Standard Weblink: https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2023/10/09/rac-celebrates-indigenous-peoples-day-through-artmarking/ RAC celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day through artmaking October 9, 2023 By Mike Kinney Dozens of community members and their families celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day through artmaking at the Richmond Art Center on Saturday. It was part of the art center’s annual “Fall Family Day,” a fun, free event that invited the […]
Wee Poets Features WCCUSD Youth and Richmond Art Center
Wee Poets Features WCCUSD Youth and Richmond Art Center For over thirty years Wee Poets on Channel 28 has supported literacy development through interviews with thousands of Bay Area children. This month three WCCUSD students and Roberto Martinez, RAC’s exhibitions director, were invited onto the show to talk about the WCCUSD Student Art Show. Top […]
The Richmond Standard: Richmond mayor’s office also an art gallery
Link: https://richmondstandard.com/community/2023/06/23/richmond-mayors-office-also-an-art-gallery/ The Richmond Standard Richmond mayor’s office also an art gallery June 23, 2023 After a four years, works from locally-based NIAD Art Center are being exhibited on rotation at the office located at Richmond Civic Center, according to Mayor Eduardo Martinez. The mayor’s office also partnered with the Richmond Art Center to display […]
Artnet News: Chevron Took Down an Artwork, Which Called Out the Oil Giant for Polluting a California City, From a Fence Surrounding Its Refinery
Weblink: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chevron-removes-public-artwork-pollution-2317611 Artnet News Chevron Took Down an Artwork, Which Called Out the Oil Giant for Polluting a California City, From a Fence Surrounding Its Refinery The project adorned a fence separating an oil refinery from residential neighborhoods. Brian Boucher | June 8, 2023 Oil giant Chevron has acknowledged that it removed an art installation from a […]
ARTnews: ‘They’re Trying to Erase Us’: Chevron Takes Down Public Art Piece
Weblink: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chevron-takes-down-public-art-piece-fencelines-richmond-1234670880/ ARTnews ‘They’re Trying to Erase Us’: Chevron Takes Down Public Art Piece Michael Cabanatuan BY SHANTI ESCALANTE-DE MATTEI | June 8, 2023 4:36pm In the middle of the night on May 15, a public art project in Richmond, California, disappeared without a trace. The project, titled Fencelines – A Collective Monument to Resilience, was a collection […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Chevron admits it took down public art project that criticized the oil giant
Weblink: https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/chevron-admits-took-public-art-project-18140972.php San Francisco Chronicle Chevron admits it took down public art project that criticized the oil giant Michael Cabanatuan | June 7, 2023 The mystery of who removed the colorful wooden slats of a Richmond public art project criticizing Chevron has been solved. It was Chevron, a spokesman for the oil company admitted on Wednesday. Fencelines, […]
San Francisco Chronicle: A huge Bay Area art installation near the Chevron refinery vanished. The artists say it was stolen
Weblink: https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/richmond-chevron-art-installation-missing-18136796.php San Francisco Chronicle A huge Bay Area art installation near the Chevron refinery vanished. The artists say it was stolen Michael Cabanatuan | June 6, 2023 A Richmond public art display championing social justice, criticizing Chevron and brightening a dreary industrial part of the city has vanished weeks before it was scheduled to […]
East Bay Express: From the Ashes
East Bay Express From the Ashes: Richmond Art enter Captures the Devastation of California’s Wildfires Article weblink: https://eastbayexpress.com/through-the-fire/ Digital copy of the East Bay Express: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=8808aae8-e6fe-4270-adb0-c95bab71909c Through the Fire By Lou Fancher | May 17, 2023 Ruth Morgan’s stark and provocative works at Richmond Art Center highlight climate change’s role in CA wildfires If artist […]
KneeDeep Times: Humanity on the Fence
KneeDeep Times Humanity on the Fence by Jasmine Hardy | May 16, 2023 A new public art installation, called Fencelines, redefines the only barrier separating Richmond’s residential neighborhoods from the Chevron oil refinery: a wire fence. “It is a participatory project meant to engage folks and get a message to Chevron, but also gather visions that offer a future […]
The Richmond Standard: Guillermo the Golden Trout undergoes repairs for 25th anniversary
The Richmond Standard: Guillermo the Golden Trout undergoes repairs for 25th anniversary Article link: https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2023/05/15/guillermo-the-golden-trout-undergoes-repairs-for-25th-anniversary/ By Mike Kinney On Monday, repairs on Guillermo the Golden Trout, which hangs above the Richmond Art Center on Barrett Avenue, was completed. A small team replaced two metal scales on the 50-foot-long fish. The repair is in honor of the […]