Time and Tide: John Wehrle
Time and Tide: John Wehrle
Exhibition: 2025
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Abi Mustapha: Local Eco-Heroes
Abi Mustapha: Local Eco-Heroes
Exhibition: September 4 – November 21, 2024
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
As the culminating exhibition in The Greenhouse Series, artist Abi Mustapha has painted five large portraits of Richmond’s Environmental Justice heroes: Henry Clark, Torm Nompraseurt, Pennie Opal Plant, Doria Robinson, and Andres Soto. With floral-focuses, we celebrate and honor these great inspiring activists who have served our communities’ health, well-being, and joyous liberation.
The Greenhouse is an exhibition series presented in Richmond Art Center’s West Gallery. 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.
Top image: Artwork by Abi Mustapha
Sentinels & Saviors
Sentinels & Saviors
An exhibition of work by Joell Jones and Kim Thoman
Exhibition Dates: September 4 – November 21, 2024
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
The View from Here
The View from Here
Artwork by Artists at San Quentin and SCI Phoenix
Exhibition: July 3 – August 17, 2024
Reception: Saturday, June 29, 1pm-3pm
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
