Wee Poets Features Richmond Art Center
Wee Poets Features Richmond Art Center View the show on Berkeley Community Media Channel 28 on Monday 10/10 at 8:30pm, Wednesday 10/12 at 5pm, and Thursday 10/13 at 5pm (or on YouTube HERE) For over thirty years Wee Poets on Channel 28 has supported literacy development through interviews with thousands of Bay Area children. This month Richmond Art […]
Cal Humanities: Focus on the Humanities Through an Interpretive Exhibition, “Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience”
Cal Humanities: Focus on the Humanities Through an Interpretive Exhibition, “Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience” Published by Cal Humanities on September 29, 2022 Link: https://calhum.org/focus-on-the-humanities-through-an-interpretive-exhibition-emmy-lou-packard-artist-of-conscience/ Image Above: Diego Rivera & Emmy Lou Packard painting for the Golden Gate International Exposition, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, 1938-40. Photograph Gelatin silver print, vintage. Courtesy […]
Hispanic LA: Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) – tejiendo solidaridad
Hispanic LA: Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) – tejiendo solidaridad https://hispanicla.com/mujeres-unidas-y-activas-mua-tejiendo-solidaridad-71278 Por Adriana Briff 09/10/2022 Ser mujer y migrante latina es enfrentarse a la soledad y a los desafíos económicos, sociales y emocionales diarios. Muchas veces nos gana el desánimo frente a los hostigamientos y la discriminación. Sin embargo hay espacios de encuentro y solidaridad desde donde […]
Artforum: Dewey Crumpler, Richmond Art Center
Artforum: Dewey Crumpler, Richmond Art Center Link: https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202207/dewey-crumpler-88933 Pdf: https://richmondartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Artforum-Dewey-Crumpler-Review.pdf Dewey Crumpler has long been preoccupied with the ways in which objects can be sites of exploration for what it means to be African American. One day in the mid-1990s, while out on his daily walk, he was transfixed by a tower of colorful steel […]
Richmond Standard: Richmond Art Center announces Fall exhibitions
Richmond Standard: Richmond Art Center announces Fall exhibitions Link: https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2022/08/24/richmond-art-center-announces-fall-exhibitions/ By Mike Aldax Four new exhibitions — all free and open to the public — are coming this Fall to the Richmond Art Center at 2540 Barrett Ave. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The Main Gallery exhibition, set to […]
48 Hills: Artist Emmy Lou Packard shines in overdue expo—but she never left SF walls
She apprenticed with Diego Rivera, and mentored the Mission’s mural movement. By NATALIA ROBYNS-KRESICH Published in 48 Hills on AUGUST 17, 2022 Article link: 48hills.org/2022/08/artist-emmy-lou-packard-shines-in-overdue-expo-but-she-never-left-sf-walls/ “Too many artists are contemptuous of the public,” said Emmy Lou Packard. “Art which loses contact weakens.” This was the defining principle of Packard, whose work is being shown at […]
SF Chronicle, Square Cylinder, El Tecolote, 48 Hills, and more: Emmy Lou Packard Press Recap
SF Chronicle, Square Cylinder, El Tecolote, 48 Hills, and more: Emmy Lou Packard Press Recap Read what the press is saying about Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience at Richmond Art Center: 48 Hills “Ultimately, there is a certain joy in the perennial re-discovery of unknown artists like Packard. And there couldn’t be a more perfect […]
El Tecolote: Richmond exhibit captures the artistic legacy of Emmy Lou Packard
El Tecolote: Richmond exhibit captures the artistic legacy of Emmy Lou Packard BY ANNA HOCH-KENNEY Published August 4, 2022 Link: https://eltecolote.org/content/en/richmond-exhibit-captures-the-artistic-legacy-of-emmy-lou-packard Emmy Lou Packard may not be a name that you recognize immediately, but a visit to the Richmond Art Center’s new exhibit on the artist will quickly correct that. The exhibit Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of […]
Mission Local: Who is Emmy Lou Packard?
Mission Local: Who is Emmy Lou Packard? By Carolyn Stein July 28, 2022 Link: https://missionlocal.org/2022/07/who-is-emmy-lou-packard/ If people are familiar with the name Emmy Lou Packard, it is mostly because of her long alliance with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. Indeed, “Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Consciences,” an exhibit that opened […]
Square Cylinder: Portrait of a ‘Fighter’ @ Richmond Art Center
Portrait of a ‘Fighter’ @ Richmond Art Center Published in Square Cylinder on July 21, 2022 By Diana Scott Link: https://www.squarecylinder.com/2022/07/portrait-of-a-fighter-richmond-art-center/ Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience is a stunning, if overdue, retrospective exhibition of an artist largely ignored in her lifetime by critics — even though she worked directly with Diego Rivera, mentoring and inspiring […]