Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
We’re celebrating and sharing the amazing work being made by students in art camps at Richmond Art Center this summer. This living exhibition will evolve over the course of the summer, and all campers are invited to exhibit their work.
How it Works:
Campers are curators! Select your most favorite work/s to add to the exhibition (make sure your full name is on the back if you want it back).
Install your work in the Community Gallery (space outside ceramics and textile studios): pins and tape are available to attach 2D work to the walls; 3D work can be shown on the provided shelves.
If you prefer not to exhibit your original work, campers can take it to our front desk and we will make a color photocopy for the exhibition.
Exhibit your work for as long as you like. The exhibition will be on view until Friday, August 9, 2024, but artists are welcome to take their works home earlier if they prefer.
Image: Camper Alanna shows the work she created in ‘Storytelling with Somé Zines’ with artist Shani Ealey.
Exhibition: July 3 – August 17, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 29, 1pm-3pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, August 10, 11am-1pm | Learn more…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
In 2023, artist Henry Frank secured funding from the William James Association and the Art for Justice Fund to provide opportunities for artists coming out of the California carceral system to connect with a supportive community of artists. The JUST ARTISTS group was formed consisting of William James Association teaching artists and program alumni from the San Quentin Prison Arts Project. Many of these artists had met in 2008 when printmaker Art Hazelwood had introduced a steamroller print opportunity to incarcerated students in a San Quentin block printing class taught by Katya McCulloch. Since then, most of the students had been released from prison, and those who could be located were invited to join JUST ARTISTS and a new iteration of the steamroller printing project.
JUST ARTISTS first met in June 2023 at Art Hazelwood’s studio in Richmond and regularly connected over the next ten months to plan, create, and present the Taking Liberties series of work. Taking the theme “The Horrors and Humanities of Incarceration,” returning residents and their teachers collaborated on linoleum cut works that were printed with a steamroller at a special event held at Diablo Valley College on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
Henry Frank reflects on the project, “Art’s studio in Richmond became an oasis from the everyday responsibilities, challenges, and stressors, just like the Arts in Corrections studio in San Quentin. Not that we were running or avoiding them, but while in these studios, we focused on the art, the process, the other artists, and their lives. As art was being created, we were giving and receiving support for each other with the challenges and celebrations in each other’s lives. Just like the studio in San Quentin, art was the reason for gathering, but community, compassion, and vulnerability encouraged us to stay.”
JUST ARTISTS: Henry Frank, Nicola Bucci, Gary Harrell, Isiah Daniels, Felix Lucero, Katya McCulloch, Beth Thielen, Art Hazelwood
Top image: Taking Liberties (2024) by JUST ARTISTS
Exhibition: July 3 – August 17, 2024
Reception: Saturday, June 29, 1pm-3pm | Learn more…
Richmond Open Studios at RAC: Saturday, August 17, 11am-5pm | Learn more…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
In its second year, Richmond Open Studios brings together nearly fifty artists in Richmond who are opening their studios to the public during the weekend of August 17-18. The Preview Exhibition offers visitors an advance showing of work by participating artists – an ideal spot to plan your self-guided open studios tour throughout different Richmond neighborhoods! Open studios are also being hosted at ar.ti.fact Gallery, NIAD Art Center, and Richmond Art Center.
Richmond Open Studios is organized by the Visual Artists of Richmond, an all-volunteer, fiscally-sponsored group based in Richmond.
Participating Artists: Tarnel Abbott, Sadiqeh Agah, Ric Ambrose, Lauren Ari, e bond, Jaqueline Sarah Brown, Jim Bruce, Patricia Chuson, Bob Colin, Brian Conery, Larry Craighill, Celeste Flores, Tom Franco, Michal Gadish, Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez, Regina Gilligan, Gregory Glover, Betsy Kellas, Regan Logwood, Ozi Magaña, Marvin Mann, Erin McCluskey Wheeler, Carmen Melendez-Lugo, Elly Momi, Audy Oregon, Isaiah Phillips, Patricia Pintner, Jeanne Rehrig, Jennifer Riggs, Brian Rothstein, Tatyana Ryevzina, Laurel Shear, Susan Shore, Riquelle Small, Kaci Smith, Sara Sunstein, Tony Tamayo, Ali Vaughan, Catherine Waller, Nancy Zeller, Bill Zindel
Exhibition: July 3 – August 17, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 29, 1pm-3pm | Learn more…
Panel Discussion and Paint Day: Saturday, July 13, 11am | Learn more…
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
San Quentin Prison Arts Project proudly presents The View from Here in collaboration with Philadelphia Mural Arts. Over the past year, incarcerated artists from San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and Philadelphia’s State Correctional Institution (SCI) Phoenix engaged in a creative exchange, bridging the art programs at both prisons. The theme – The View from Here – emerged from the artists’ communications, exploring life inside prison and the realms where their minds wander beyond its gates. This exhibition features artwork from incarcerated artists at both prisons, alongside letters exchanged between them. The collection will be displayed in Philadelphia and the Bay Area, reflecting a bi-coastal collaboration.
Top image: Jeffrey A. Isom, Bridge to Freedom, 2023, Oil on canvas board, San Quentin
Above banner: (left) Keith Andrews, What 50 Years Looks Like!, Acrylic on Canvas Collage, SCI Phoenix; (right) Jon D. Goldberg, Urlik the Red- Moons of Wisdom Series, 2023, Acrylic on canvas board, San Quentin
