Posts Tagged ‘Richmond Art Center’
Richmond Art Center recovering after losing major donor: ‘We are in the black now, not red.’
When the Richmond Art Center lost its biggest donor last year, Executive Director José Rivera said he was worried about the future. “Over many years, that donor contributed $100,00 annually, making him the most significant benefactor in the center’s history when considering the cumulative sum of his contribution over time,” he said. “We lost him…
Read MoreRichmond Art Center celebrates Dia de los Muertos ‘to educate people about such an important cultural event.’
Amid the drug store offerings of Halloween consumer goods, any Dia de los Muertos-themed item invariably sticks out. Decorations featuring iconic skulls and cempasúchil marigolds, or candy branded with characters from Pixar’s film “Coco” speak to the growing commercialization of a holiday once outside of the corporate limelight. But the holiday has more cultural significance…
Read MorePHOTOS: A visual tour of new murals in Richmond
Downtown Richmond is a little brighter now thanks to the local muralists who participated in this year’s Bay Area Mural Festival. Rich City Rides is hosting a bike tour of the new murals this Sunday at 10 am.
Read MoreAround the Way: Rhythmic Metals
Ed Lay is a computer programmer and a metals teacher at Richmond Art Center. Learn how he found his passion for teaching metal artworks to the community in the first of Richmond Confidential’s ‘Around the Way’ video series.
Read MoreRichmond Art Center: building community through art
You don’t need to be an artist to work with clay or fibers. All you need is the desire. And a little support from your friends doesn’t hurt. The Richmond Art Center provides artistically inclined residents with potter’s wheels, electric kilns and looms to transform their creativity into a variety of art forms. Located near…
Read MoreHalloween treats for Richmond families
Trick or treat? Halloween is here! Richmond Art Center is treating children to seasonal chills and thrills with its annual family art making event: Skeletonfest. This event was free and open to the public. Three girls drew scary skulls on paper plates with colorful sugar paint. One girl couldn’t help taste her art work. No…
Read MoreRichmond Art Center provides a blank canvas for community creativity and learning
“Pinch and pull, pinch and pull” was the constant mantra of 12 kids molding their clay on a sunny afternoon. Each student was given a block of clay, water, molding tools and freedom to make their own clay birds.
Read MoreBlack art exhibit returns to Richmond to showcase Bay Area artists
An annual exhibition that showcases artwork from emerging and established African American artists will soon be on display at the Richmond Art Center.
Read MoreArt event to showcase teen photography, give insight into growing up in Richmond
More than 100 portraits of Richmond teenagers and the stories they shared with 19 young photojournalists will be on display at the Richmond Art Center from Jan. 11 to March 7 as part of “Unlock the Talk: The American Teenager Project in Richmond.”
Read MoreRichmond artist turns trashcans into art pieces, teaches youth
Richmond artist Daud Abdullah recently received a $3,000 grant from the city to decorate most of the city’s 300 trashcans with his mosaic art and teach the youth.
Read MoreFall exhibit opens at the Richmond Art Center
As part of the RAC’s Fall Exhibit, Feldman takes viewers through a timeline of events with references from her up bringing, world travels and the horrors of war and ethnic genocide. The work takes on dark topics, but does so playfully. For example, Feldman’s “War Toy” series juxtaposes the grandness and intrigue of lethal weapon with their ability and to destroy.
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 Art Center features artists abroad and close to home
Striking block prints illustrating scenes from the Cuban Revolution, pastel canvases full of memories from a childhood in Philadelphia, and a medley of photographs, sculptures and paintings from black artists throughout the Bay Area – in its first exhibitions of the year, the Richmond Art Center covers a lot of ground but keeps the connections…
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