A survey of Richmond Work by Rebeca García-González
Exhibition: January 20 – March 19, 2022* Closing Reception: Sunday, March 13, 12pm-2pm* Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 10am-2pm Location: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Presenting landscapes, portraits and drawings by Rebeca García-González, Feels Like Home is a visual tour of Richmond’s natural, industrialized and human beauty, as it exists side-by-side.
Feels Like Home also marks the unveiling of García-González’s new permanent mural at Richmond Art Center, We Found Joy In Art-Making / Encontramos La Felicidad Haciendo Arte (2021). Painted over a month in December 2021, the work was created with assistance by Richmond youth, Leslie Poblano and Denise Campos.
Thank you to John Wehrle for his technical assistance, and Rhonda Rosenblatt and her husband Stan for their generous support during installation.
This project is made possible with generous support from Blue Shield California.
*Exhibition and reception dates subject to change in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Image: Rebeca García-González, We Found Joy in Art-Making / Encontramos La Felicidad Haciendo Arte (detail), 2022
Es Mi Casa
Richmond Obra de Rebeca García-González
Exposición: 20 de enero – 19 de marzo de 2022* Recepción de Clausura: Domingo, 13 de marzo, 12pm-2pm* Horario de la galería: jueves a sábado, de 10 a. m. a 2 p. m. Ubicación: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Con paisajes, retratos y dibujos de Rebeca García-González, la exposición Es Mi Casa destaca un recorrido visual por la belleza natural, industrializada y humana de Richmond.
Es Mi Casa también incluye la presentación del nuevo mural permanente de García-González en el Centro de Arte de Richmond, titulado We Found Joy In Art-Making / Encontramos La Felicidad Haciendo Arte (2021). Pintado durante el mes en diciembre de 2021, el mural fue creado con la ayuda de las jóvenes Leslie Poblano y Denise Campos, ambas residentes de Richmond.
Exhibition: January 20 – March 19, 2022* Closing Reception: Sunday, March 13, 12pm-2pm* Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 10am-2pm Location: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Dreamforms is a look into the whimsical imaginations of two Richmond-based ceramicists, Lauren Ari and Julio del Rio.
Through a selection of works that include colorful ceramic figures and works on paper, this exhibition explores the intrinsic relationship between the imagined form and the material form.
Both Ari and del Rio approach ceramics as a medium that offers a magical ability to materialize dreams and imaginations into physical realities. Both artists adopt a multidisciplinary approach to their creative process and often take inspiration from their dreams, personal experiences, and imagined realities. Dreamforms highlights the artistic practice that both artists adopt in playing between the ethereal and the corporeal by manifesting visions onto paper and materializing these visions into ceramic forms.
From Julio del Rio’s textured ceramic busts to Lauren Ari’s storied ceramic vessels, Dreamforms opens up a conversation between the imagined and the material.
ALSO SEE: Virtual Exhibition curated by Lauren Ari and Julio del Rio showcasing ceramic art made by NIAD artists. Presented by NIAD Art Center. *coming March 2022*
*Exhibition and reception dates subject to change in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
About the Artists:
Lauren Ari: Lauren Ari is an artist and educator based in Richmond, California. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts from U.C. Davis after undergraduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her primary focus is on drawing and sculpture. Lauren’s work is in the permanent collections of the Legion of Honor Achenbach Foundation and the De Young Museum. “Lauren Ari’s art roars out of the deepest part of her psyche and arrives with great tenderness into the world. It is fiercely honest, playful and provocative. She speaks directly what is still unfettered in all of us, our wild, free, animal selves.” — Poet Alison Luterman
Julio del Rio: Julio Del Rio is an artist from NIAD in Richmond, CA. He has assembled a small militia of powerful and strange, sometimes humanoid, ceramics figures (frequently seen on paper or canvas as well). Some are based on modern and post-modern sculptures by the likes of Jeff Koons or George Condo. Many of the figures sport a skin etched with text or symbols, creating a connection back in time with the terracotta warriors of ancient China. But, unlike the uniform drabness of the funerary sculptures, Del Rio’s pieces are glazed in bursts of colors.
Image: Lauren Ari, Sleeping with death, 2010, Clay. Courtesy of the Artist
Richmond Art Center Exhibition: January 20 – March 19, 2022 Reception: Sunday, March 6 – CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND TO RSVP (required) Closing Event: Saturday, March 19, 12pm-2pm – CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 10am-2pm Location: Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Venues throughout the Bay Area Details published in the Art of the African Diaspora Catalog (pick up a copy at Richmond Art Center!) Open Studios: Saturdays and Sundays, February 26-27; March 5-6; March 12-13 Satellite Exhibitions: Throughout January, February and March
ABOUT ART OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 2022
Art of the African Diaspora, in partnership with Richmond Art Center, supports artists of African descent in the Bay Area through representation, professional development, and building a creative community.
In 2022 we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Bay Area Black Artists Exhibition at Richmond Art Center! Over 100 artists of African descent will showcase their work at Richmond Art Center, as well as in open studios and satellite exhibitions at different venues across the Bay Area. CLICK HERE to learn about the history of this special event.
Artistic Achievement Awardees 2020-2021: Tiffany Conway, Val Kai, and Fan Lee Warren (featured in 2022 exhibition)
Artistic Achievement Awardees 2022: Derrick Bell, Cynthia Brannvall, Pryce Jones (to be featured in 2023 exhibition)
Participating Artists (organized by first name): Abi Mustapha, Ajuan Mance, Akeem Raheem, Akili Simba, Alan Edward Dillard, Alix Magloire, Andrea McCoy Harvey, Angela Douglas, Anjuelle Floyd, Anna W Edwards, Antt’Smalls @AnttonioDesigns, Arthur Norcome, Ashara Ekundayo, Ashlei Reign, Atiba Thomas, Bahiya Spaulding, Bernadette Robertson, Bertrell Smith, Brianna Mills, Carla Golder, Carla Oden, Charles Curtis Blackwell, Christina Beni, Chuck Harlins, Claude Lockhart Clark, Cori Pillows, Cynthia Brannvall, Damon Powell, Daniel F. White, Dawn Rudd, Derrick Bell, Diamela Cutiño, Diasporic Sol, Doitshā Lexington, Donna Gatson, Donna Meke’da Bradley, Duane M Conliffe, Dulama LeGrande, Elishes Cavness III, Elmarise Owens, Ester M. Armstrong, Fan Lee Warren, Floyd Brown, Frederick S. Franklin, Gene Dominique, Halisi Noel-Johnson, Hilda Robinson, Iam4muze-Mianta, Iconic Vinyl Art, Irene Bee Kain, J. Inez, J.B. Broussard, James Knox, Janet Barnes, Janet M. Sheard, Jimi Evins, Joseph Robinson, Julie Atkinson, Justice Renaissance, Karen J. Anthony, Karen Smith, karinsArt – karin turner, Kelvin Curry, Kevin Lance Daniels, Kiesha White, Kim Champion, Kimberly Johnson, Kwahuumba, Latisha Baker, Lawrence Buford, LHolley, Lorraine Bonner, Louise Schine, Malik Seneferu, Marguerite T. Browne, Mark Sublett, Melanin Buford, Naomi Floyd, NoPrints, Nunu Kidane, Olubori G. Babaoye, Orlonda Uffre, Osaze Seneferu, Ozell Hudson Jr, Patricia Patterson, Paul Gladden, Paula deJoie, Paula Vaughan, Pete Dent, Photosynthesis By Ronwired, Pryce Jones, Raven Harper, Raymond L. Haywood, Renata Gray, Ron Calime, Ron Moultrie Saunders, Saida Hogan Nassirruddin, Shanju, Shawna Kinard, SiGiDiArt, Stephanie Anne Johnson and Kevin Myrick, Stephen Bruce, Stevens Jay Carter, Suzane Beaubrun, Thomas Harden, Tiffany Conway, Tomye, Val Kai, Valerie Brown-Troutt, Vaughn Filmore, VirgiNia Jourdan, Wanda Sabir, Will Johnson, Xan Blood Walker, Xioneida Ruiz, Yolanda Holley, Yolanda Patton “ThaSun”, Zoë Boston
Art of the African Diaspora is produced by a Steering Committee of dedicated participating artists.
CLICK HERE if you would like to make a financial contribution to the event.
100% of your donation will go to the Steering Committee who is committed to working with Black-owned businesses to make Art of the African Diaspora a success.
Every day we must struggle to stay focused on saving this beautiful planet
Mural designed and painted by youth of the S.P.O.T.S (Supporting People’s Outlooks, Talents and Speech) class at Richmond Art Center
Everyday We Must Struggle To Stay Focused On Saving This Beautiful Planetis a mural designed and painted by youth artists at Richmond Arts Center. Students in the class brainstormed and collaborated on creating this piece that focuses on the changing climate, possible causes, and creative strategies to bettering ourselves and the environment. Each participant contributed images that reflect a polarizing question of our day, When will we prioritize our earth over man’s advancement?
In the mural from the right, going clockwise, you will see an upside down city, symbolizing the extreme opposite of a well adjusted humanity. A grave yard below the city with ghost rising represents our ancestors whose energy contributed to the present. The graveyard is a space of limbo questioning the consequences of decisions made in the past. In the background there is a mandala like light source shining onto a person with their fist up showing support to the center image of a monumental figure holding a floating earth above the head of a small girl. The small girl symbolizes knowledge and learned behaviors received from the elders. These figures bravely exist next to a burning tiger and a bleeding tree, symbols of a collapsing environment terminally affecting all our relations, i.e. people, animals, trees… As we look to the top left of the mural we see a flying bee, who according to the international conservation nonprofit Earthwatch Institute is the most important species on earth and a person in a meditative pose rising above these act as symbols of life and possible solutions to human made turmoil.
“Every day we must struggle to stay focused on saving this beautiful planet,” is a quote by activist , artist, and healer Jorge Guillermo Perez Molina.
Directed By Fredericko Alvarado, Assisted by Keena Romano
Please join on Saturday, August 28, 2pm via YouTube to celebrate the launch of this new mural and hear from the artists about their experiences creating it.
Pragmatic beginnings and unexpected moments in the work of three Bay Area Artists
An opossum trapped in the studio. A collection of keys in a junk drawer. A gallon of leftover joint compound. The artists in this exhibition show how inspiration from day jobs and home life can spur unexpected creativity. Taking materials, forms and encounters from their every-day, Laura Kamian McDermott, Steven Morales and Leslie Plato Smith use creative problem solving processes that start close to home.
Laura Kamian McDermott is a textile artist who uses labor-intensive techniques to make work that insists on the value of creative labor in an era that shows little respect for such a pursuit. Inherent in her work is the belief in the power of the handmade to address social ills, support mental and community health, and bring out some of humanity’s more positive traits. Through her woven, knitted, and embroidered techniques – meticulously studied and executed – she produces high-quality textiles. McDermott studied Painting at Reed College and Textiles at San Francisco State University. She was born in Oakland and currently resides in Richmond. www.lrkmcd.com, @laurakamianmcdermott
Richmond-based Steven Morales is a practicing architect whose creative interests also include photography and collage. Many of his collage works incorporate construction materials such as joint compound, wood and sheetrock along with paper and occasionally house paint. www.studiosmdesign.com
Oakland-based and educated at UC Santa Barbara, Tulane, and UC Berkeley, Leslie Plato Smith spent much of her career as Associate Vice-Chancellor of Governmental Relations for City College of San Francisco. Highlights from her career include receiving a national award for bringing together 60 different art departments to create 125 life size statues to visually show how budget cuts negatively impact students and to fight for public education, and exhibiting at the European Cultural Centre’s Venice Biennale exhibition. Plato Smith’s grandfather was born on the Choctaw Reservation and her orphaned grandmother was born to immigrant parents from Denmark and Sweden. Migration, immigration and resettlement are key themes that resonate through her creative practice and professional work. leslieplatosmith.com
Magia de zarigüeya
Comienzos pragmáticos y momentos inesperados en el trabajo de tres artistas del Área de la Bahía
Una zarigüeya atrapada en el estudio. Una colección de llaves en un cajón de basura. Un galón de compuesto para juntas sobrante. Los artistas de esta exposición muestran cómo la inspiración de los trabajos diurnos y la vida hogareña pueden estimular una creatividad inesperada. Tomando materiales, formas y encuentros de su día a día, Laura Kamian McDermott, Steven Morales y Leslie Plato Smith utilizan procesos creativos de solución de problemas que comienzan en casa.
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ARTISTAS
Laura Kamian McDermott es una artista textil que utiliza técnicas de trabajo intensivo para realizar trabajos que valoran el trabajo creativo en una era que muestra poco respeto por esto. Inherente a su trabajo es la creencia en el poder de lo hecho a mano para abordar los males sociales, apoyar la salud mental y comunitaria y resaltar algunos de los rasgos más positivos de la humanidad. A través de sus técnicas de tejido y bordado, meticulosamente estudiadas y ejecutadas, produce textiles de alta calidad. Laura estudió Pintura en Reed College y Textiles en San Francisco State University. Nació en Oakland y actualmente reside en Richmond. www.lrkmcd.com, @laurakamianmcdermott
Steven Morales, con sede en Richmond, es un arquitecto cuyos intereses creativos incluyen la fotografía y el collage. Muchos de sus trabajos de collage incorporan materiales de construcción como compuesto para juntas, madera y placas de yeso junto con papel y ocasionalmente pintura para casas. www.studiosmdesign.com
Leslie Plato Smith, con sede en Oakland y educada en UC Santa Barbara, Tulane y UC Berkeley, pasó gran parte de su carrera como Vicecanciller Asociada de Relaciones Gubernamentales del City College of San Francisco. Los aspectos más destacados de su carrera incluyen recibir un premio nacional por reunir a 60 departamentos de arte diferentes para crear 125 estatuas de tamaño natural para mostrar visualmente cómo los recortes presupuestarios afectan negativamente a los estudiantes; luchar por la educación pública; y exponer en la exposición Bienal de Venecia del Centro Cultural Europeo. El abuelo de Platón Smith nació en la reserva Choctaw y su abuela huérfana nació de padres inmigrantes de Dinamarca y Suecia. La migración, la inmigración y el reasentamiento son temas clave que resuenan a través de su práctica creativa y su trabajo profesional. leslieplatosmith.com
Images: (top) Laura Kamian McDermott, Jagged Skyline of Car Keys, Sand, 2021; (above l-r) Steven Morales, Untitled, 2021; Leslie Plato Smith, White Rabbit (from the Vulnerability series), 2020
This exhibition highlights the work of three artists – Saif Senussi Azzuz, Kim Champion, and Emily Van Engel – who use abstraction to express ideas related to land care. Employing approaches that range from personal to cultural to imagined, selected works here show how abstraction can be a powerful tool for exploring how we can situate ourselves within the land; a vital first step towards restoring and protecting it.
Saif Senussi Azzuz
Saif Senussi Azzuz is a Libyan-Yurok artist whose paintings explore the interconnected and dynamic practices of Indigenous land management. Created using acrylic, dye and enamel on canvas, his bold large-scale works use an abstracted visual language to show care of ancestral lands as a process that is characterized by constant change and activity (a stark contrast to the idea of an unchanging ‘pristine wilderness’). The titles for his pieces are conversational and often include Yurok language, further highlighting traditional and contemporary culture side-by-side, and asserting Yurok people’s deep, ongoing commitment to land stewardship.
Kim Champion
Bay Area artist Kim Champion’s series My Father’s Garden is a visual tribute to the connection she shares with her father and the importance of her family’s land. Drawing the flora she remembers from her father’s extensive Mississippi garden, Champion uses abstraction to blend different plants into one organic form. The connection between different elements in these beautiful drawings become a metaphor for a family’s bond with each other and with their land. In a similar way, Champion’s Quiet drawings are meditations on nature that use line and shape to nurture a deeper connection with the landscape.
Emily Van Engel
In her new series of paintings, Emily Van Engel searches for a future without crisis through assigning positive meaning to colors – lavender is peaceful and represents health, mauve is collaborative and represents democracy, and so on. While her past representational landscape work has literally exposed environmental exploitation through the use of the medium of pollution, in this new work Van Engel is more compassionate and visionary. The colors are uplifting and the fluid forms, including a repeated web pattern, represent the weaving together of disparate elements to create a structure that Van Engel describes as “what it feels like to support each other to create a society and environment in balance.”
Works from Home: Richmond Art Center Student Showcase
Online Exhibition Dates: August 23 – November 18, 2021
In-Person Exhibition Dates: September 16 – November 18, 2021*
We’re celebrating the achievements of our students over this past year with an exhibition showcase. This online and in-person exhibition features work made in our online classes by students of all ages and all experience levels.
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*In-person exhibition dates are subject to change based RAC’s reopening and Covid-19 health and safety guidelines
Online Exhibition
Top image: Andres Serrano, Untitled, or, ‘Endless Love’ on repeat for the millionth time (detail), 2021. This work was created in Teaching Artist Cristine Blanco’s class “Sculpture – Experimenting with Everyday Material”
Summer Rites Looking Out Through the Lens of Richmond Youth Photographers
In the Summer of 2021, Richmond Art Center held a youth photography class led by esteemed artist Simone Bailey, where a group of Richmond youth came together to learn the fundamentals of digital photography. During the six-week course, the student photographers pointed their lenses towards themselves and their surroundings, capturing an essence of a Richmond summer. This exhibition showcases a selection of photographs created and curated by the student photographers.
Artists: Laisha Luna Aguilar, Lizbeth Alvarez, Myleyby Mora, Nayla Sequeira Cuellar, Oswaldo Navarrete, Román Cortes
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Top image: Photo by Laisha Luna Aguilar
This project is generously supported by the California Arts Council.
Ritos de verano Mirando a través del lente de los fotógrafos juveniles de Richmond
Fechas de exposición: 9 de septiembre – 19 de noviembre de 2021
En el verano del 2021, el Richmond Art Center llevó a cabo una clase de fotografía para jóvenes dirigida por la estimada artista Simone Bailey, donde un grupo de jóvenes de Richmond se reunió para aprender los fundamentos de la fotografía digital. Durante el curso de seis semanas, los estudiantes de fotografía apuntaron sus lentes hacia ellos mismos y su entorno, capturando la esencia de un verano de Richmond. Esta exposición muestra una selección de fotografías creadas y comisariadas por los estudiantes de fotografía.
Artistas: Laisha Luna Aguilar, Lizbeth Alvarez, Myleyby Mora, Nayla Sequeira Cuellar, Oswaldo Navarrete, Román Cortes
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Imagen superior: Foto por Laisha Luna Aguilar
Este proyecto cuenta con el generoso apoyo de el California Arts Council.
Time and Again is an exhibition centered on Rigo 23’s monumental sculptural tribute to Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Twelve feet tall, the sculpture sits at the center of the exhibition anchoring a narrative of Leonard Peltier’s 45-year long incarceration. For the first time, the sculpture is presented alongside photographs, letters, artwork, posters and ephemera from Rigo’s archive. By sharing these, the artist invites the visitors for an intimate and informal conversation, one that illuminates the artist’s more than two decade long journey – as well as present some of the historical context which helps understand Leonard Peltier’s ongoing cruel predicament.
About the Artist: Rigo 23 has exhibited his work internationally for over 30 years placing murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile work in public situations where viewers are encouraged to examine their relationship to their community, their role as unwitting advocates of public policy, and their place on a planet occupied by many other living things. His projects have included inter-communal collaborations with Native Tribes in North and South America; long-term partnerships with political prisoners; and alliances with underrepresented and disenfranchised individuals and communities. @rigo23studio @peltierstatue #freeleonardpeltier
*In-person exhibition dates are subject to change with new Covid-19 developments.. CLICK HERE to view our gallery hours before planning your visit to Richmond Art Center.
Tiempo y otra vez
Fechas de exposición: 9 de septiembre – 20 de noviembre de 2021*
Tiempo y otra vez es una exposición centrada en el monumental tributo escultórico de Rigo 23 al activista nativo americano Leonard Peltier. La escultura, de cuatro metros y medio de altura, se encuentra en el centro de la exposición y presenta una narrativa de los 45 años de encarcelamiento de Leonard Peltier. Por primera vez, la escultura se presenta junto con fotografías, cartas, obras de arte, carteles y efímeros del archivo de Rigo. Al compartirlos, el artista invita a los visitantes a una conversación íntima e informal, una que ilumina el viaje de más de dos décadas del artista, además de presentar parte del contexto histórico que ayuda a comprender el continuo y cruel predicamento de Leonard Peltier.
Acerca del artista: Rigo 23 ha exhibido su trabajo a nivel internacional durante más de 30 años colocando murales, pinturas, esculturas y azulejos en situaciones públicas donde se alienta a los espectadores a examinar su relación con su comunidad, su papel como defensores involuntarios de las políticas públicas y su lugar en un planeta ocupado por muchos otros seres vivos. Sus proyectos han incluido colaboraciones entre comunidades con tribus nativas en América del Norte y del Sur; asociaciones a largo plazo con presos políticos; y alianzas con personas y comunidades infrarrepresentadas y marginadas. @ rigo23studio @peltierstatue
* Las fechas de la exposición son sujetas a cambios con los nuevos desarrollos de Covid-19. HAGA CLIC AQUÍ para ver el horario de nuestra galería antes de planificar su visita al Centro de Arte de Richmond.
Join us online on Thursday, August 5 at 7pm as photographer Robin D. López (Shots from Richmond) will speak with three artists about their recent mural projects in Richmond: Deontá Allen, Rebeca Garcia-González, and David Solnit.
Presented here in conjunction with the talk are photos and video by Lopez documenting the artists’ work.
Deontá Allen is a Richmond-based artist who paints on canvas and apparel, and creates large-scale public murals. He is self-taught and his abstract style incorporates a signature color palette with iconic imagery from popular culture. In June of 2020, Allen in collaboration with Richmond Revolution and the community painted “Black Lives Matter” in large yellow letters on the street in downtown Richmond. Allen works for the East Bay Regional Park District and as part of the organization’s Diversity Committee which organized a successful petition calling for EBRPD to commemorate Juneteenth. www.deontaallen.com, @dallenart
Rebeca Garcia-González is a Richmond painter who grew up in a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico. After earning a BFA at the University of Puerto Rico with a focus on printmaking, she came to San Francisco in 1985 to pursue a graduate degree at the San Francisco Art Institute, but studied graphic design and education instead. Working within the public school system helped me develop an awareness of various US social movements, among them, immigrant rights, marriage equality, and racial justice. In 2016, after working as program manager in a couple of non-profits she became a full-time working artist and since then has been involved in public art. rebecasart.com, @rebecathepainter
Robin D. López is a Richmond freelance photographer, who aims to produce visuals that represent the voices and cultures of our communities. Other work also specializes in nature/wildlife and urban ecology. López has been actively engaged in the Richmond/San Pablo community throughout the past decade, having been a lifelong resident dedicated towards empowering and inspiring the next generation of change agents. López is currently working on his doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, and has been a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab since 2012. www.shotsfromrichmond.com, @shotsfromrichmond
David Solnit is an East Bay Area artist and arts organizer who uses the arts to help win positive change and to protect our people and planet. He collaborates with communities and movements using: giant puppetry, street-pavement murals, guerrilla projections, 300 foot banners, theater pageants, occupying a McDonalds roof to support striking workers, and painting a giant modified-with-skull Chevron logo directly in front of Chevron’s refinery gate. He collaborates with fast food workers, Indigenous water protectors, public school teachers unions, health care workers, climate justice groups, and farmworkers. Art Builds for Climate Justice and a Better World (Facebook Group)
VIDEO
Video by Shots from Richmond. Music by Mark Anthony Nawman and Shots from Richmond.
ABOUT RAC LIVE
This series of four online monthly zoom talks highlights the work of Richmond artists and their peers. Recognizing that the Covid-19 pandemic has severely limited opportunities for artists to present their work, RAC LIVE utilizes virtual platforms to show how artists are showing up, naming this moment and moving forward.
This Artists’ Talk and Online Exhibition are part of RAC LIVE, a project supported by a 2021 Neighborhood Public Art Mini-Grant from the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission.
