Support the Richmond Art Center by participating in 24 hour “East Bay Gives” Online Fundraiser on May 5th
On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 get ready to give for 24 hours to benefit your favorite local nonprofits. This is a great way to donate to organizations doing fantastic work like the Richmond Art Center. One of the oldest arts organizations in the Bay Area and the largest arts center in the East Bay, the Richmond […]
Art in the Community: Families Create Floats for Richmond’s Cinco de Mayo Parade
Art in the Community Director Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez shares an exciting update on how the program is engaging Richmond families in support of one of the city’s most important cultural celebrations of the year, Cinco de Mayo: “Latino families are the students in a new class the Richmond Art Center is offering in collaboration with the […]
San Francisco Chronicle Review by Ken Baker: Mildred Howard at Richmond Art Center: Wide range of moods
We are pleased to share San Francisco Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker’s review of Mildred Howard’s Spirit and Matter retrospective. The exhibit runs through May 24 in the Main & West Galleries. Mildred Howard at Richmond Art Center: Wide range of moods By Kenneth Baker, Friday April 17 “Spirit and Matter,” Berkeley artist Mildred Howard’s retrospective […]
Radio Free Richmond: Mildred Howard on Art, Race, and Memory
Radio Free Richmond | April 1, 2015
Richmond Pulse: Art Center Tours Unveil its Possibilities
Our first Saturday bilingual See & Make Art Tours are a favorite part of our month! We love opening our doors to new (and returning) families and kids, showing them the art in our galleries, hearing what they think and inspiring them to create art during a hands-on activity. Last month we were lucky to […]
A Conversation with Mildred Howard
March 29, 2015 Over the course of four decades, Mildred Howard has created rich and evocative work by taking common objects of daily life and infusing them with the spark of meaning to illuminate the underlying significance and historical weight of cultural form. In free-standing sculpture, in wall-mounted musings, in graphic explorations and in representations […]
KQED Arts: 50 Years of Honoring Young Artists at the Richmond Art Center
KQED Arts | March 30, 2015
New Documentary Features Our Work
An amazing team from KTVU stopped by last month to produce this short documentary about our work. The video aired last night at the Lesher Center for the Arts before a talk by Robert Edsel, the author of The Monuments Men.
Donated Materials Needed For Upcycle
Our third annual Upcycle maker event is just one month away — Saturday, April 25 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. We’re busy planning a full afternoon of art-making for the whole family. A dozen upcycle workstation will feature hands-on activities to let you turn materials that would otherwise be headed for the landfill into art. […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Why Mildred Howard Wields 130 Butcher Knives for Art
San Francisco Chronicle | March 18, 2015
