Exhibition: August 20, 2022 – June 19, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, August 20, 12pm-2pm Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm Location: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Who Decides? S.P.O.T.S. The Game is an interactive mural that asks audiences to play. The game is made up of different decisions and actions that must be taken. Players are welcome to choose from 10 different characters and follow prompts.
Who Decides? was created throughout the summer of 2022 in the SPOTS youth public arts program. Students in the program developed ideas revolving around contemporary issues such as war, education, bodily autonomy, and choice. They then decided to enter these conversations through the playful guise of the “game”. As you travel through the game board you will see a dragon which represents a multicultural connection and prompts us to participate in voting. As the image flows through space, there are landing spots dedicated to different actions – healing, dancing, risk, gambles, etc. The players travel through a medical symbol of the caduceus intertwined with a fist of divine femininity towards a giant sun setting on the water in front of the maquilishuat tree – the national tree of El Salvador, and a butterfly representing immigration. We see playing cards depicting half bullets and crayons, addressing the notion of ingrained violence in the U.S. affecting the most vulnerable in society. The game passes through the realm of a goddess who is a guardian, giving energy to players and defending their rights to autonomy and self-sovereignty. The underground layer below her is filled with diamonds and riches, a nod to the beauty the earth carries and the humans need to extract it.
Designed and Painted by:
Luis Camarena
Maat Ou
Miranda Guzman
Yahir Garcia
Sonia Galindo
Andrea Vasquez
Mariella Gutierrez
Andrew Chico
Azahria Addison
Leslie Poblano
Lead Artists/Directors:
Keena Romano
Fredericko Alvarado
About the Program: SPOTS is an acronym for Supporting Peoples Outlooks, Talents, and Speech. Through “Muralism, Actions, and Community Activations” the program introduces young artists to the means to create vibrant community art works. Each year a cohort of artists (ages 14-24) learn about different models of community art projects, help to define how the program will affect local youth, and create a collaborative mural project.
Exhibition: June 28 – November 16, 2023 (galleries closed Fri, Nov 10 and Sat, Nov 11 for Veterans Day Weekend)
Reception: Saturday, July 15, 12pm-2pm | More info…
Stitch n’ Bitch + Enough Photo Portrait sessions: Saturday, July 22, 11am-3pm | More info…
Artist Gallery Walkthrough: Saturday, August 12, 12pm | More info… Stitch n’ Bitch + Enough Photo Portrait sessions (at Fall Family Day): Saturday, October 7, 12pm-3pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Anne Wolf’s ENOUGH Considered is a project that explores the multiple ways we define and embody ENOUGH. Through a series of artistic collaborations, Wolf invites deep reflection into our perceptions of wholeness, abundance, boundaries and sufficiency.
As a point of departure, Wolf presents her series of hand stitched alphabet samplers through which a cryptic system of “speaking” emerges. In these samplers, the word ENOUGH at first appears as a visual whisper buried within the cross-stitched alphabet. Gradually, it grows into a louder and more expansive affirmation as the series evolves.
Wolf’s samplers are accompanied by a collection of striking yet intimate photographs, each conveying a personal embodied gesture of ENOUGH. Created in collaboration with photographer Lisa Levine, these portraits are the result of a process in which participants reflected on and wrote their thoughts about ENOUGH then chose how to locate and mark it directly on their body. These portraits reveal the body as a site that holds stories which have been unspoken, ignored, unaddressed, unconsidered. This somatic exploration becomes a means of healing an old wound or violation, a message of boundaries and protection or a means of sanctifying one’s own sense of abundance.
In a gallery mural titled ENOUGH EVERYONE TOGETHER/ !BASTA! TODOS JUNTOS, designer Ana Llorente brings together written pieces from the portrait sessionshighlighting the depth and breadth of personal experiences, perspectives, understandings and assertions of ENOUGH.
As a participatory project, gallery visitors will find multiple opportunities to contribute to ENOUGH Considered. Letterpress cards created by The Aesthetic Union will be available as tactile objects to inscribe thoughts, feelings or stories about ENOUGH. A large-scale banner will offer an opportunity to collectively stitch ENOUGH in many languages spoken in our community; the banner becomes a declaration with each stitch manifesting what Audre Lorde referred to as “…the transformation of silence into language and action.”*
In written words, individual and collective samplers and photographic portraits, ENOUGH can become embodied and encrypted, benign or rebellious, leaving open-ended questions about language, privilege and power.
*Audre Lorde, Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews: 1984-1992, p40
Top image: Anne Wolf, ENOUGH if we Share, 2020, Hand stitched cotton on linen
Exhibition: June 28 – November 16, 2023 (galleries closed Fri, Nov 10 and Sat, Nov 11 for Veterans Day Weekend)
Reception: Saturday, July 15, 12pm-2pm | More info…
Gallery Walkthrough: Saturday, July 29, 12pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
David Burke: Solastalgia is the second solo show in Richmond Art Center’s Greenhouse Series and it basks in the glum glow of his nostalgic yet prophetic paintings and site-specific window treatments. Solastalgia is a form of homesickness one feels when a beloved environment is fundamentally altered into unfamiliarity. The exhibition includes exemplars of Burke’s iconic style, which welds the Anthropocene’s industrial production, ecological destruction, and potential regeneration. In steam-punkesque paintings such as Agent Orange and Ennuipocalypse, do we witness a forest supplanted by refinery pipelines or do the trees grow triumphantly from mechanical, technologic ruins? Burke paints the viewer into the crossroads of now, asking, “Which side are you on?” He answers, “Both.”
More recent paintings such as Mirage and Urban Oasis I imagine a vast sky/sea screen hoisted onto workers’ attention within capital’s machine, but Burke knows along with John Lennon’s song “Working Class Hero” how the heavy gears of labor can synch into the mind’s watery cogs and grant workers “no time instead of it all.” Time itself is here utilized as a painting technique. Look closely at the wavingly concentric geode- and aura-like ridges of evaporation that adorn the range of blues in the high-gloss screens. Burke puts the fun back into watching paint dry. He most fully explores desiccation and flood as means and meaning in Limbic Zone, which could appear to be an aerial photograph of extreme sea levels and oil spills coursing around burnt-sienna land masses. The artwork’s title brings to mind the mind and its areas most in control of behavior, emotion, and long-term memory. Are we witnessing a cross section of our future world or our psyche deep in climate grief? Again Burke replies, “Yes, both.”
David Burke’s latest painting series on display in Solastalgia reads as futuristic play structures. Site of utmost childhood joy, playgrounds take a tragicomic turn toward Burke’s all but patented manufactured, sylvan mind meld. The cheerful forms curdle into symbols for the harsh, toxic world we’re leaving children at the same time they suggest creative solutions future generations will find. The fantastical figures initially seem to stand before the starkness and palette of many midcentury science fiction book covers. On closer inspection and introspection, the background skies look like paused chemical reactions such as crystalization as well as like the way the greenhouse effect and climate crisis are generated by chemical compounds trapping light’s heat inside our atmosphere to a disastrous degree. The skies also evoke microscopic views of states of mind: solastalgia, climate grief, hope against hope. David Burke studies the prison cell in our cells and our celestial spheres. He sees an escape route and exclaims, “Paint! Keep it in the ground or in our art! But keep it out of the air!”
The Greenhouse is an exhibition series presented in Richmond Art Center’s West Gallery throughout 2023. It focuses on the climate crisis and environmental justice movements in Richmond, CA. The greenhouse effect is a central metaphor for understanding the conditions that account for life on earth as well as how global warming and thus catastrophic climate change work. In this three-part series, the art of Tanja Geis, David Burke, and Abi Mustapha together tell a story and activate an experience of resilience and growth, culminating in a celebration of local environmental activists. The Greenhouse is organized in partnership with Round Weather and curated by its director Chris Kerr.
Printmaking at NIAD: The Legacy of Andrés Cisneros-Galindo
Exhibition: June 28 – November 16, 2023 (galleries closed Fri, Nov 10 and Sat, Nov 11 for Veterans Day Weekend)
Reception: Saturday, July 15, 12pm-2pm | More info…
Artist Talk: Saturday, July 29, 2023, 1pm-2pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Andrés Cisneros-Galindo began facilitating printmaking at NIAD Art Center in 1985, shortly after the organization was founded. Since then he has worked with countless artists to explore and reimagine the process of printmaking through collaboration.
This exhibition surveys decades of studio work and serves as an archive of the curator’s legacy at NIAD. The traditions of printmaking are reinvented by each artist’s practice and Cisneros-Galindo’s facilitation. Each piece records this practice of letting go and following the rules at the same time.
“It is the way that printmaking should be, and painting in general. You know art-making—it’s a continuous process of learning and relearning, and inventing. Inventing is the whole thing, you know.”
This exhibition was presented at NIAD Art Center in December 2022 with the title NIAD Ink: 35 Years of Prints, in celebration of Andrés Cisneros-Galindo’s legacy as an educator, mentor and printmaker. At Richmond Art Center, this exhibition will be presented next to the first major survey exhibition of Cisneros-Galindo’s work.
Top image: Felicia Griffin, Untitled (D1338), Unique 1989, Linocut print on paper, 13″ x 15″
Exhibition: June 28 – November 16, 2023 (galleries closed Fri, Nov 10 and Sat, Nov 11 for Veterans Day Weekend)
Reception: Saturday, July 15, 12pm-2pm | More info…
Print Demo: Saturday, July 29, 2pm-3:30pm | More info…
Artist Panel Talk: Saturday, August 19, 12pm-1:30pm | More info…
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 4, 12pm-3pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
This exhibition is the first major survey of the 50 year artistic trajectory of Richmond-based artist Andrés Cisneros-Galindo.
Andrés Cisneros-Galindo is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work is marked by a strong sense of history, a commitment to community organizing, and experimentation. Germinating in the 1960s from the leftist politics of his native Tijuana Mexico Cisneros-Galindo’s work took root in the Bay Area’s Chicano movement of the 1970s and through the decades has pursued an exploration of the quintessential American experience.
This exhibition is the first major survey of Cisneros-Galindo’s wide range of work, which include collagraphs, mixed media collages, sculptures, political serigraph posters, and large abstract expressionist paintings. Together, this collection of works will offer an intimate perspective into Cisneros-Galindo’s experiences as a Mexican immigrant, activist, educator and artist grappling with the social and political currents of American life. From the political posters that helped mobilize the Bay Area’s Chicano community to the abstract expressionist paintings that embody fragments and cultural vestiges of the immigrant identity, the collection of work in this survey highlights how Cisneros-Galindo’s practice has always been integrated in contemporary struggles around race, education, the environment, justice and democracy both in the U.S. and in Mexico.
This exhibition is organized in partnership with NIAD Art Center.
About the Artist: Andrés Cisneros-Galindo was born in Baja California in 1945. At age 14 he joined the studio of Hector Castellon in Tijuana, Mexico where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture. Andrés moved to the Bay Area in 1967 to pursue his passions – education and art. He graduated from California State University, Hayward, with a degree in Early Childhood Education and completed studies in printmaking and painting in Mexico in 1978. Cisneros-Galindo’s experiences in education range from lecturing at a Mexican university to directing the bilingual Centro Infantil de la Raza program.
Cisneros-Galindo draws much inspiration from Mexican and Indian iconography. Specializing in printmaking, Andrés founded Taller Sin Fronteras, a printmaking collective, in 1983 and joined the faculty of the National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD) as a printmaking teacher, studio manager, and artistic director. His art has been exhibited internationally.
Top image: Andrés Cisneros-Galindo, Mictlan, 1998, Oil and mixed media on canvas
Exhibition: April 5 – June 3, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 15, 12pm-2pm
Gallery Walkthrough with Tanja Geis: Thursday, May 11, 5:30pm-6:30pm | More info… Closing Reception: Saturday June 3, 2pm-4pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
In Recompose, the first exhibition of The Greenhouse series, artist Tanja Geis displays mesmerizing cyanotypes of painted decomposing common murres, a local seabird that starved and experienced historic die-offs in 2015 as a direct result of global warming. A cyanotype is like a greenhouse in that they both gather light’s potential, the former being a blue print made from direct sunlight, the latter a building where sunlight’s warmth sticks around. At times shadows are cast onto the prints by suspended sculptures formed from ocean litter, mud from Richmond Bay ridden with toxins and heavy metals, and Hong Kong beach sand from Geis’s childhood.
The risograph print depicts the inside of a red abalone shell, a legendary species whose population plummeted with its Northern California kelp forest ecosystem, down 95% between 2008 and 2019. Geis has given the shell prints–with their ear-like shape and iridescent reflectiveness–to the Californians who gave their voices to the sound art piece. Each separately recorded what they imagine the ocean to sound like, and the artist layered them into a recomposition, a collective invocation and listening to the human, natural, and technologic worlds merge. The ocean sounds like windswept rain on a greenhouse. Both are places where matter breaks down, finds the great creative spark, and makes living beings. Tanja Geis reassembles the components of decay into new forms, new bodies, new life.
The Greenhouse is an exhibition series presented in Richmond Art Center’s West Gallery throughout 2023. It focuses on the climate crisis and environmental justice movements in Richmond, CA. The greenhouse effect is a central metaphor for understanding the conditions that account for life on earth as well as how global warming and thus catastrophic climate change work. In this three-part series, the art of Tanja Geis, David Burke, and Abi Mustapha together tell a story and activate an experience of resilience and growth, culminating in a celebration of local environmental activists. The Greenhouse is organized in partnership with Round Weather and curated by its director Chris Kerr.
About the Artist: Tanja Geis makes work that invites intimacy with human-disturbed ecosystems through queering, drawing close to and staying with the impacts of humans on the liveliness of non-humans. Geis holds an MFA in Art Practice from University of California Berkeley and a BA in Fine Art from Yale University. She has exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and galleries in Europe and Asia. Her residencies include Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate and Affiliate Fellowships, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Blue Mountain Center and Kala Art Institute. www.tanjageis.com
Top image: Tanja Geis, SeeBird III, 2016
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Tanja Geis: Recompose
Exposición: 5 de abril – 3 de junio de 2023 Recepción de apertura: Sábado, 15 de abril, 12pm-2pm Recorrido de la galería con Tanja Geis: jueves 11 de mayo, 5:30 pm-6:30pm | Más información… Recepción de Clausura: Sábado 3 de junio, 2pm-4pm | Más información…
En Recompose, la primera exposición de la serie The Greenhouse, la artista Tanja Geis muestra fascinantes cianotipos de araos comunes en descomposición,una especie de ave marina que sufrió muertes históricas a lo largo de las costas locales en el verano de 2015 como resultado directo del calentamiento global. Un cianotipo es como un invernadero en que ambos reúnen el potencial de la luz, el cianotipo es una impresión azul hecha de la luz solar directa, y el invernadero es un edificio donde el calor de la luz del sol se atrapa. En momentos hay sombras que se proyectan en los cianotipos, sombras formadas por esculturas hechas de basura oceánica, barro de la bahía de Richmond lleno de toxinas y metales pesados, y arena de la playa de Hong Kong de donde Geis creció.
La impresión en risografía muestra el interior de una concha de abulón rojo, una especie legendaria cuya población se desplomó junto con el ecosistema de bosque de algas marinas del norte de California, un 95 % entre 2008 y 2019. La impresión de la concha en forma de oreja y su reflejo iridiscente se presta a una pieza de audio hecha por personas que dieron su voz. Cada uno grabó por separado cómo se imaginan que sonaría el océano, y el artista los superpuso en una recomposición, una invocación colectiva y la fusión de los mundos humano, natural y tecnológico. El océano suena como lluvia azotada por el viento en un invernadero. Ambos son lugares donde la materia se descompone, encuentra la gran chispa creadora y hace seres vivos. Tanja Geis vuelve a ensamblar los componentes de la decadencia en nuevas formas, nuevos cuerpos, nueva vida.
The Greenhouse es una serie de exposiciones presentada en la West Gallery en Richmond Art Center a lo largo de 2023. Se centra en la crisis climática y los movimientos de justicia ambiental en Richmond, CA. El efecto invernadero es una metáfora central para comprender las condiciones que explican la vida en la tierra, así también cómo funciona el calentamiento global y, por lo tanto, el cambio climático catastrófico. En esta serie de tres partes, el arte de Tanja Geis, David Burke y Abi Mustapha juntos cuentan una historia y activan una experiencia de resiliencia y crecimiento, que culmina en una celebración de activistas ambientales locales. The Greenhouse está organizado en colaboración con Round Weather y curado por su director Chris Kerr.
Reception: Tuesday, April 18, 5pm-6:30pm (Award Presentation at 5:45pm)
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Location: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Celebrating the wealth of student artistic talent in West Contra Costa Unified School District!
Now in its 57th year, the WCCUSD Student Art Show presents work by over 300 students from 15 different schools. This teacher-curated exhibition demonstrates best practices in delivering an art-based curriculum. It also represents Richmond Art Center and WCCUSD’s shared vision that art education is a crucial component of a thriving and productive society.
Participating Schools:Betty Reid Soskin Middle School, De Anza High School, El Cerrito High School, Fred T. Korematsu Middle School, Helms Middle School, Hercules High School, Hercules Middle School, John F. Kennedy High School, Mira Vista School, Pinole Middle School, Pinole Valley High School, Richmond High School, Montalvin Manor, Stewart Elementary School, Vista High School
AWARD WINNERS
Artistic Achievement Awards: Jasmin Alfaro Capybara, Pinole Valley High School; Mario Lopez, Richmond High School; Isabel Gil, Pinole Valley High School; Ivy Hu, De Anza High School; Shahzain Malik, Mira Vista School; Olivia Elices, Fred Korematsu Middle School; Madison Wyatt, Fred Korematsu Middle School; Anya Troll, El Cerrito High School; Andrea Zavala Cruces, El Cerrito High School; Ashley Mejia, Kennedy High School
Honorable Mentions: Azra Gray, Hercules High School; Keolani Sandoval, El Cerrito High School; Xochitl Padilla, Richmond High School; Kamila Verdin, Pinole Valley High School; Mateo Aguilera, El Cerrito High School
This event is sponsored, in part, by Richmond Rotary Club.
Above image: (left) Artwork by Alfredo Zavala, Montalvin School; (right) Artwork by Samantha Taniguchi, El Cerrito High School
Top image: Artwork by Meghan Shelby Reisbord, El Cerrito High School
Exhibition: April 5 – June 3, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 15, 12pm-2pm | More info…
Artist Talk: Ruth Morgan: Saturday, May 27, 12pm-1:30pm | More info…
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 3, 2pm-4pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
In this exhibition, photographer Ruth Morgan presents evocative photographs that document the devastation of Greenville, CA after it was burned down by the Dixie Wildfire in 2021. This selection of photographs opens up a conversation about the consequential impact of man-made climate change in our local communities.
On August 4, 2021 at approximately 7:30 PM the Dixie Fire had already ravaged the ancient Sierra forest landscape and would soon crest the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and roar through the small town of Greenville, CA. In less than 45 minutes it destroyed wooden buildings that had stood for over a century. A gas station, church, hotel, a museum and bar were among the structures gutted, along with nearly 100 family homes, schools and commercial businesses. The homes and property of approximately 1000 residents were reduced to rubble, fortunately all the residents were evacuated.
Officially caused by a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. equipment failure, the fire was fueled and exacerbated by man-made climate change along with overgrown forests caused by decades of fire suppression and population growth at the edges of forests that would intensify the flames to cause the near obliteration of the town.
The exhibition and portfolios are a requiem to Greenville and a warning for us all to meet the challenge of climate change and ensuing global warming.
About the Artist: Ruth Morgan founded Community Works West in 1997, an organization that combined her interest in working directly with people and communities impacted by incarceration and her commitment to social justice. At the same time, she has had a separate career as a photographer. She has always used her art for social change and to give voice to marginalized communities. She created S.F. County Jail in the 1980’s and after that a seminal body of photos, San Quentin: Maximum Security. The latter, life size photos, traveled to museums and galleries across the country and were useful in winning a case against the prison conditions. From that work to Harlem Photos, to the Welcome Home Project 2014, funded in part by the California Humanities with writer Micky Duxbury, to her latest work, Ohlone Elders and Youth Speak and Piqua Shawnee: Cultural Survival in Their Homeland, she has exhibited across the country. Retired from Community Works she has just completed What Remains; August 4, 2021 Greenville CA. Her work is in private collections and museums that include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Houston and San Diego Museums and the Matrix Gallery in University Art Museum Berkeley. She has received awards from several institutions, including Creative Work Fund, the California Arts Council, and the San Francisco Arts Commission and The National Endowment for the Arts. Recently her S.F. Jail archive was purchased by the San Francisco Public Library and her Ohlone Elders and Youth archive was purchased by the Bancroft Library.
Exhibition: April 5 – June 3, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 15, 12pm-2pm | More info…
Earth Day / Fencelines Installation: Saturday, April 22, 10am-4pm | More info…
Spring Family Day: Saturday, April 29, 12pm-3pm | More info… NEW EVENT Community Forum – Response to Stolen Artwork: Saturday, June 3, 12pm-2pm | More info…
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 3, 2pm-4pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Fencelines is a community-based participatory art project that invites local folk to reflect on the circumstances of environmental injustice in Richmond, CA. This exhibition presents messages by individual community members responding to the refinery landscape in Richmond, together making up a kind of collective monument. Centered around portraits of community participants, the show aims to amplify the work of local environmental justice organizations and provide opportunities for visitor participation and discourse.
Central to the Fencelines project is a public art installation along a city-owned fence bordering the Chevron refinery and the North Richmond residential neighborhood immediately downwind of it. Painted slats will be installed along the fence, topped with ribbons to animate the direction of the wind. Designed to amplify the voices of the local community, the project team have been offering painted fence slats for community members to inscribe their stories and messages through a series of workshops held at Richmond Art Center and during neighborhood events beginning in Summer 2022. These words and messages are the heart of this work, 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 Project Co-Creator
Co-created by Graham L.P., Princess Robinson, Gita Khandagle, and members of the Richmond Community
The Fencelines team is made up of local artists and organizers, inviting participation from community members and working in partnership with the Richmond Our Power Coalition to envision a just and regenerative future.
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This project is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
Exhibition: January 18 – March 18, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 21, 2pm-4pm
Remembrance Project Workshop: Saturday, January 28, 2pm-4pm | More info…
Stitching Stolen Lives: Book Talk With Sara Trail: Saturday, March 4, 1pm-2:30pm | More info…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Social Justice Sewing Academy presents The Remembrance Project, a cloth memorial of activist art banners commemorating the many people who have lost their lives to systems of inequity and racist structures. These banners have been created collectively by volunteers across the country to help educate and inform communities about the human impact of systemic violence.
The Remembrance Project banners are displayed by local and national organizations to express solidarity in the fight for social justice and remembrance of those lost to violence. The project remembers those lost to: authority violence (officer-involved shooting, police brutality, etc.), community violence (victims of gang violence, neighborhood or family, drive-by shooting, etc.), racial violence (hate crimes, racially motivated, etc.), and sexual and gender-based violence (violence against LGBTQ+, domestic violence, “missing, murdered Indigenous women,” etc.).
A collection of banners from The Remembrance Project are displayed at Richmond Art Center in remembrance of our community members who have been lost to violence.
