Asking Kids “What’s Your Superhero Power?”

What’s Your Superhero Power? That’s one of the questions our teaching artist, Neil Rivas, is asking a group of 15 students in our “Clavo’s School for Young Superheroes” class at the Atchison Village community center. The students are using art, literacy and digital media to envision themselves as a superhero charged with the goal of […]
Contra Costa Times: Annual Richmond Exhibit Provides Showcase for Black Artists

Contra Costa Times | January 16, 2015
Radio Free Richmond: The “Art of Living Black” returns to Richmond Art Center

Radio Free Richmond | January 12, 2015
In Remembrance: Kato Jaworski, Colleague and Friend

It is with great sadness that we inform you that we have lost a longtime friend, creative artist and admired colleague. Kato Jaworski, our Studio Art Director, passed away on Sunday, December 28, 2014 after a serious illness. She will be dearly missed by her family, friends, and the artists, students and colleagues she touched […]
Meet Susan, One of our Studio Monitors

Susan Pulliam Education Department, Studio Monitor What is your favorite thing about the Richmond Art Center? “The amazing weaving studio. I don’t think there is another resource like it in the Bay Area!” Susan Pulliam, who volunteers as a studio monitor in the ceramics studio, is a weaver at heart. She fell into volunteering “for […]
Why I liked the Urban Arts Class

An inspired group of middle school students delivered a stack of letters to our executive director yesterday. The students loved our after-school Urban Arts class so much, they wrote persuasive letters to ask that the class continues for the entire year. Help us make this class and more happen by making a donation today. “Let me tell you why I […]
Press Release: Exhibition of Bay Area African American Artists Celebrates 19 Years

The Richmond Art Center announces its winter exhibitions which will include the Bay Area’s only exhibition of works by artists of African American descent. Three exhibitions will open on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015 at 10:00 am. “We are proud to be hosting the 19th annual exhibition for The Art of the Living Black,” says Richard […]
Press Release: Hands-On Creative Jazz Art Workshop

December 9, 2014
Need a gift for friends, family or coworkers?
Having trouble finding the perfect holiday gifts for your friends and loved ones? Look no further! The Richmond Art Center has three easy ways for you to give the gift of creativity! Gift Certificates Gift certificates to the Richmond Art Center are an ideal present and are good towards classes, workshops and memberships. Help your […]
Giving Tuesday To Inspire Generosity; Help Us Reach Our Goals

We hope you will support the Richmond Art Center during Giving Tuesday on December 2. This one-day national fundraising event aims to inspire people, like you, to donate to the nonprofits you love. Watch the video below and see the after-school art programs that generous people, like you, are helping us to deliver to children […]