Issue 2: With Love…
Welcome to Richmond Art Center’s e-newsletter, With Love… . Through this publication we share art and ideas for creating together to help folks adapt, innovate and make meaning during shelter-in-place.
Community Survey (help shape future programs at RAC)
Hello Richmond Art Center Community,
Staff at RAC are working to create something new, exciting and special for our online programs and we would like to hear from you!
How can Richmond Art Center support you and your families’ creative needs? Please complete this quick online survey and help shape our efforts to reimagine programing and explore different ways we can continue to connect to each other through art.
We will be closing the survey by end of day on June 1.
Thank you for your help!
Thinking of you,
RAC Staff
Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRJDui62MExRW3bbtg9aN9fR4rEGRtBKkBfBujzTj5F9KOJQ/viewform
Press Release: Richmond Art Center Awarded Three California Arts Council Grants
State funds support in-school and after-school art programs, as well as a new artist residency at RAC
Richmond, CA: The California Arts Council announced grant awards totaling $57,000 to Richmond Art Center (RAC). The grants RAC will receive are Artists in Communities, Artists in Schools, and Youth Arts Action.
Artists in Schools and Youth Arts Action grants will support RAC’s in-school and after-school art programs in Richmond schools this upcoming school year. The Artists in Communities grant will fund, in part, an artist residency, youth art photography class and exhibition at RAC.
Issue 1: With Love…
Welcome to Richmond Art Center’s new e-newsletter, With Love… . Through this publication we’ll share art and ideas for creating together to help folks adapt, innovate and make meaning during shelter-in-place.
A message from RAC’s Interim Executive Director
Dear Richmond Art Center Community,
We are living through unprecedented and uncertain times. As the Interim Executive Director of the Richmond Art Center, I understand the important role it plays in the lives of our community. Our commitment to health and safety remains the top priority. To reduce the spread of COVID-19, our Board of Directors is following the recommendations of Contra Costa County Health Services and the California Department of Public Health by closing the Richmond Art Center through May 3. This is a painful step for us, and for the community we serve.
Contra Costa County Extends Stay-at-Home Order Through May 3
Contra Costa County Health officers today issued an extension of a previous stay-at-home order through Sunday, May 3. Read the press release HERE.
In alignment with the recommendations of Contra Costa County Health Services (CCHS) and the new stay at-home orders for six Bay Area counties, including Contra Costa County, the Richmond Art Center will be closed to the public through Sunday, May 3, 2020.
More information at richmondartcenter.org/rac-updates/
For up-to-date public health information and how to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, visit the Contra Costa Health Services, California Department of Public Health and CDC websites.
Featured artwork: Jeannette Kortz, Glen Alin High Sierra Camp in Yosemite, 2020
Richmond Art Center Closed Through Tuesday, April 7
In alignment with the recommendations of Contra Costa County Health Services (CCHS) and the new shelter-in-place orders for six Bay Area counties, including Contra Costa County, the Richmond Art Center will be closed to the public through Tuesday, April 7.
More information at richmondartcenter.org/rac-updates/
For up-to-date public health information and how to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, visit the Contra Costa Health Services, California Department of Public Health and CDC websites.
Coronavirus: Precautions at the Richmond Art Center
As you may have heard, public safety warnings have been issued for Bay Area counties to help limit the spread of the coronavirus. Please be assured that we here at the Richmond Art Center are monitoring the situation carefully and are preparing for any potential impact. Should we need to temporarily close, any class scheduled for that day will be rescheduled for a make-up session at the end of season.
Press Release: Dewey Crumpler: Crossings
The inventive power of Dewey Crumpler’s shipping containers
Richmond Art Center
2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 10am – 5pm
Exhibition: March 31 – May 30, 2020
Reception: Saturday, March 28, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 2, 11am
Location: Main Gallery
RICHMOND, CA: The Richmond Art Center announces Dewey Crumpler: Crossings, the first survey of Dewey Crumpler’s ‘shipping container’ work to be exhibited in the Bay Area. The exhibition will include over 120 works that ask us to consider the history, lived legacy and future impact of the global shipping industry.
Bay Area Art Beat: Art of the African Diaspora
Host Susan Duham Felix interviews Stephen Bruce, Steering Committee Chair for the Art of the African Diaspora and the 2020 artistic achievement awardee artists, KaliMa Amilak, Zoë Boston and Abi Mustapha for Bay Area Art Beat, February 2020.
