Posts Tagged ‘art’
A working family: the NIAD Art Center in Richmond
An art center in Richmond has been bridging artists with disabilities and the community for 32 years. The walls are colorful, and the people more so.
Read More“Street Literature” music video takes a stand on discrimination
Richmond residents gather at RYSE Center to celebrate the premier of “Street Literature” a hip-hop song and video created by local youth to speak out against the criminalization of minorities.
Read MoreKennedy High art teacher finalist for The Ed Fund
Dozens of palm-sized faces hang from the ceiling in Steve Mainini’s art classroom at Kennedy High School. The ceramic reflections of former students dangle in wire cages and defy gravity as if trapped in some sort of bad dream. But for the hundreds of students that have enrolled in Mainini’s art classes the past eight…
Read MoreRichmond students prepare for countywide Poetry Out Loud contest
It was less than two weeks until Contra Costa’s Poetry Out Loud recitation contest and 9th grader Allyson Gayoso, a 14-year-old from Richmond’s Salesian High School, was reciting a poem from memory with the confidence of a seasoned orator. Inside a small, quiet office, Gayoso practiced the words of “On an Unsociable Family,” an 18th…
Read MoreRichmond music video in support of Obama goes viral
A music video recorded by a coalition of Richmond-based artists, featuring an inmate and a parolee in support of President Barack Obama’s campaign for reelection, has gone viral on YouTube, attracting more than 80,000 views with at least 60,000 people having watched it in the past week. The song, titled “Change,” features the vocals of…
Read MorePoint Richmond is not your normal walk in the art
Every third Thursday, between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., downtown Point Richmond transforms itself into a little party and art mecca. Residents, near or far, roam the sleepy streets by the tunnel, and stop into a variety of galleries and studios to chat with artists or owners. And if that wasn’t cool enough, visitors are…
Read MoreArt Behind Doors
Sculpting our bedroom lives. Turning gas tanks into robots. Finding beauty in roadkill. Four artists open their homes to Richmond Confidential.
Read MoreCreating a community of learners
Since 2005, the Elders Learning Community has paired professionals in the community with elderly seniors learning lessons in areas such as astronomy, history, art. But time spent in these learning partnerships is teaching local volunteers other life lessons outside of these subjects.
Read MoreRichmond residents put a new spin on bicycle art
Two new Richmond residents are hoping to open the city’s first Bicycle Art Salon.
Read MoreRYSE kicks off school year with street festival
Hundreds of youths, community members and civic leaders turned out for the RYSE Center’s 2nd Annual “Back to School Summer Jam.”
Read MoreRichmond Tale: Local building tells story on its wall
Take a stroll down McDonald Avenue near Ninth Street west of downtown, and you might come face-to-face with a local legend.
Read MoreArtists with disabilities defy traditions, expectations
Working in a constant, fluid motion, artists at the National Institute of Arts and Disabilities honor creativity in its most spontaneous form.
Read MoreLocal artists unveil ambitious mural at Police Department
A new mural by artists from the National Institute of Art and Disabilities depicts Richmond’s colorful past and present.
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