54th Annual WCCUSD Student Art Show
Every spring the Richmond Art Center partners with the West Contra Costa Unified School District to present the annual WCCUSD Student Art Show. This teacher-curated show represents the wealth of student artistic talent in the district, as well as best practices in delivering an art-based curriculum. The Richmond Art Center and WCCUSD share an ongoing […]
Faces Without Noses
Faces Without Noses The Visual Laboratory of M. Louise Stanley For over fifty years, Emeryville artist M. Louise Stanley’s large scale paintings have roamed across themes of classical myths, feminism, art history, travel and current politics. An anchor for Stanley’s formidable creative output is her sketchbooks. As she says, “Sketchbooks are a major part of […]
Here is the Sea
PRESS COVERAGE Here is the Sea brings together artworks that use the ocean and its coasts as a site for investigating the fraught relationship between humans and nature. Richmond is a city with thirty-two miles of shoreline, and through this exhibition visitors to the Richmond Art Center are invited to reflect on what is at stake […]
The Art of Living Black 2019
Exhibition: January 15 – March 8, 2019 Open Studios: Saturday and Sunday, February 23 & 24 and March 2 & 3, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm The Art of Living Black Open Studios Guide PDF Satellite Exhibitions: Throughout January, February and March. Details are published on The Art of Living Black’s Facebook events page and in […]
Place as Landscape/Place as Concept
Free Exhibition Tours: Saturday, February 16, 11am and Saturday, March 2, 2pm Featuring work by both established and emerging enamelists, Place as Landscape/Place as Concept brings together enamel arts that explore place from an American perspective. In the United States, where the sheer size of the country has created an incredible diversity, concepts of place are intimately connected to identity […]
Empowering Threads: Quilts from the Social Justice Sewing Academy
Special event: Quilts to Power, Saturday, March 2, 12:30pm – 2:00pm In August 2018 the Richmond Art Center and Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA) partnered to run a workshop at the Latina Center in Richmond, CA. Women from the Latina Center’s leadership program came together to learn how to visualize social justice issues to design fabric squares that express ideas relevant […]
