4th Annual Art in the Community Show
The Art Center’s well-known Art in the Community program brings art-making classes to children and teens to various sites in Richmond, where professional teaching artists design and implement age-appropriate and engaging art experiences. The teachers give feedback, share their work and help students find meaning from art. Students listen to peers, share opinions and learn […]
Terry St. John: Close Views & Distant Vistas
This exhibition gives the viewer a deep view into the studio life of the painter Terry St. John. Building figures formed from the air that surrounds them in a space that expands, contracts, and at times, merges with the body, these works present a profound exploration of light and shadow. Maintaining strong ties to Bay […]
51st WCCUSD Student Art Show
In collaboration with the West Contra Costa School District (WCCUSD), the Richmond Art Center will present the annual West Contra Costa Unified School District Art Show in its Community Gallery. The Richmond Art Center has a prosperous and long-standing 51-year partnership with the WCCUSD, and this year there are over 300 works of various media […]
Our Town
The people and places which mark a town as “Our Town” are as varied as our lives. The histories and generations of schools and teachers, shops and customers, workplaces and co-workers, these populate our days. As the Richmond Art Center reflects on its 80th Anniversary, we are asking for your views, impressions, thoughts on what […]
The Human Spirit
Bridging the Art Center’s historical role in presenting formative exhibitions of the Bay Area Figurative artists in the 1950s, The Human Spirit: Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Humanism will extend our consideration of this legacy to the work of over 20 contemporary Bay Area artists who have continued and expanded the figurative art tradition through paintings, sculpture, photography, […]
David Park: Personal Perspectives
David Park produced a late body of work extraordinary for its focus and direction. In a sharp shift from abstraction to figuration. Park’s move stands out as a re-orientation of radical proportion. Yet it is as a teacher and mentor that Park presides as the cornerstone of an entire art movement and perspective, which came […]
The Art of Living Black: Our American Experience 20th Anniversary
The 20th Anniversary of the Art of Living Black: The American Experience speaks to a long history of social struggles, cultural affirmation and art making as a transformative practice. As a preview exhibition and self-guided open studio art tour that recognizes Bay Area artists of African American descent, the exhibition contains a vast range of […]
Family Portraits
Families grow and merge, shift and realign, relocate and re-establish. Ours is an embracing culture in a flexible society. The Richmond Art Center opened the Community Gallery to the question of just what shape and form families were taking in our community today. Family Portraits offers an opportunity to see the most contemporary interpretations of […]
Lewis Watts: New Orleans
Richmond photographer Lewis Watts, has a deep and personal connection to New Orleans. With an eye to detail and an ear to the cadence, Watts has created a body of work reflecting the perseverance and spirit of the people of New Orleans. Visits before and after the destructive force of Hurricane Katrina inform a portfolio of graphic rendering. Central […]
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 […]
