Body as Agent: Changing Fashion Art
Body as Agent: Changing Fashion Art is an exhibition in response to the 1983 landmark showing of wearable art the Richmond Art Center, Poetry for the Body: Clothing for the Spirit. Body as Agent: Changing Fashion Art updates that exhibition, displaying many of the original artists and adding new artists and new notions, with more […]
2015 Members’ Show
Expect an exhilarating arrangement of artwork, media, and styles in our annual, nonjuried members show. Nearly 200 pieces of artwork will be showcased, including works by spotlight artists Edythe Bresnahan, Jan Martin, and David Yoas who were recognized for their ingenuity and visual voice at last year’s annual members show. This year’s show will also […]
Art in the Community Program Annual Student Show
This annual exhibition showcases and celebrates the diverse work being created in the Art Center’s traveling Art in the Community program, which brings our teaching artists and after-school art programs to middle and elementary schools, community centers and the Richmond Public library. Please join us at our special reception on Saturday, May 9 from 3 […]
WCCUSD 50th Annual Student Show
The West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) Student Art Show is an annual collaboration between the school district and the Richmond Art Center and this year we are celebrating a milestone 50 years. The exhibit features work by more than 200 students, illustrating their diverse visions and individual creative voices. These works are not […]
Mildred Howard: Spirit and Matter
Over the course of four decades, Mildred Howard has created rich and evocative work by taking common objects of daily life and infusing them with the spark of meaning to illuminate the underlying significance and historical weight of cultural form. In free-standing sculpture, in wall-mounted musings, in graphic explorations and in representations of shelter, Howard […]
Yisrael K. Feldsott: Annunciating Obscurities
Yisrael K. Feldsott: Annunciating Obscurities brings together works from the 1970s to the present that showcase the artist’s exploration of the formal potentials of disparate materials to articulate what he calls “…the pool of collective memories that we share as human beings. These memories tend to be symbolic, and exist cross-culturally. These don’t belong to […]
The Art of Living Black 2015
News Coverage: From sociology teacher to sculpture artist, Contra Costa Times, February 10, 2015 Annual Richmond exhibit provides showcase for black artists, Contra Costa Times, January 16, 2015 The “Art of Living Black” returns to Richmond Art Center, Radio Free Richmond, January 10, 2015 The Richmond Art Center is proud to host the only annual […]
California Now: Juried Exhibition of Clay, Glass & Enamel Art
California Now showcases 85 contemporary and innovative works in clay, glass and enamel art that are being created today by California artists. The exhibition will include functional and non-functional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional works that illustrate a wide scope of artwork. The artwork was selected by preeminent jurors Beth Ann Gerstein, Mary Bayard White and Deborah […]
