Summer Camp Volunteers Needed
Summer Art Camp for Kids Camps are held over 6 weeks in June and July. Each weekly camp runs Tuesday through Friday from 9:30am to 2:30pm. (With a break the week of July 1.) Camp volunteers support art activities for children ages 5–12, help supervise outdoor play, and assist staff with classroom management. VOLUNTEER BENEFITS Volunteering […]
Holiday Arts Festival 12/25
63rd Annual Holiday Arts Festival December 2025 Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA Every year the Holiday Arts Festival offers something for everyone, combining opportunities to explore, create, and shop for affordable, handmade goods from local artisans. Call for Vendors: Interested in becoming an arts and crafts vendor at the 2025 Holiday Arts […]
Positively John Wehrle – Thank you for your RSVP!
Thank you for your RSVP! If you are able, please consider making a donation to support Richmond Art Center. Time & Tide is our only in-person fundraiser for FY2024–2025, and your support will help us close out the fiscal year in the black. Every contribution makes a difference!
Positively John Wehrle 6/5/25
A Closing Reception for Time & Tide Thursday, June 5, 5:30pm-7:30pm | RSVP Required (see below) Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804 Supporters and friends of John Wehrle and Richmond Art Center are warmly invited to a special closing reception for the exhibition Time & Tide: The Art of John Wehrle. In […]
Richmond Art Center is looking for new Board Members
Join Our Board Are you passionate about art and community? If so, we want YOU to join our Board of Directors! Richmond Art Center’s board plays an important role in supporting and guiding the organization. Different individual board members bring different experience, skills, knowledge and connections to their Board work. Read Richmond Art Center’s FY2023-2024 […]
Getting Fired Up: New Metal Arts Demos, Open Studios & Workshops
This spring, we’re excited to launch a series of demos, studio orientation sessions, and workshops that highlight our Jewelry and Metals Studio. Practicing metal artists, as well as beginner prospective students, are invited to explore new programming that offers a range of ways to learn about and use metal smithing tools and equipment available at […]
KQED Arts: A Ride on the ‘Arty Bus’ with Oakland Painter Sloane Gross
Pendarvis Harshaw | March 18, 2025 Art lovers in the Bay Area are often faced with a funny conundrum: art is everywhere, but given traffic and the geographic size of the nine-county region, it’s hard to get to all of it. That was the intriguing pitch behind Sloane Gross’ Arty Bus, a party bus that took […]
We’re Expanding Our Teaching Artist Team – Join Us!
Call for Teaching Artists Richmond Art Center is looking for passionate teaching artists who center community engagement in their personal and professional practices. We seek artists working in a variety of visual arts media to lead programs across our Studio Arts programs, Youth programs (on-site and off-site), and community partnership initiatives. We strongly encourage applications from teaching artists with backgrounds in visual […]
Richmond Standard: Richmond artist John Wehrle poised for local exhibit in April
March 14, 2025 By Kathy Chouteau In the first major exhibition of its kind for Richmond-based artist John Wehrle, the Richmond Art Center will present “Time & Tide: The Art of John Wehrle” April 9 through June 14, 2025. Wehrle is renowned for his Richmond murals—which also appear throughout the Bay Area, California and the […]
Press Release: Richmond Art Center Presents Time & Tide: The Art of John Wehrle
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, March 13, 2025 Richmond Art Center Presents Time & Tide: The Art of John Wehrle Richmond, CA: Richmond Art Center is delighted to present Time & Tide, the first major exhibition to comprehensively survey the work of Richmond-based artist John Wehrle. Best known for his murals in Richmond, the Bay Area, and throughout […]
