Finally Feels Like Fall Link Monday

Now showing at Main Art: "Limited Reading Required"

Lots of great coverage last week for First Fridays:

Style Weekly on First Fridays’ 10^th season

Richmond.com on new additions to First Fridays programming

First Fridays’ Season 10 Free Parking sponsor

First Fridays' new website is up and running- see how you can help support Richmond culture (VOLUNTEERS WANTED!)

Other good stuff around town:

RVA Magazine on Joan Gaustad at ADA

Bill Fischer is currently showing paintings at the Pauley Center

New Richmond Art Space/Organization: The Highpoint-Project

Check out the Highpoint-Project's "Yet Another Roadside Attraction"- did you get to see it this past weekend? (scroll over to page 2 of videos and click on "Billboard Art Project Coming to Richmond")

If you missed Chuck Close's talk at VMFA last Friday, be on the lookout for a YouTube video in the near future from VCU MATX dept (via VMFA's twitter)

Close’s show at VMFA closes Nov. 14^th

Recently opened at Main Art

Susan Singer (and more) now showing at Visual Art Studio

Coming Up- Tonight and This Weekend

Plenty of art things to do in the next couple of days...

First Friday tonight, and check out this post by Curated Culture Commentary for some "off the beaten path" sites to hit during First Friday- also, openings at Reference, Page Bond, and Main Art tonight

Printmaker/artist Gretchen Schermerhorn at Visarts this afternoon (and this weekend)

Jewelry artist Eric Burris at Quirk Saturday afternoon

Broad Appetit on Sunday- check out info about Metro Space's concurrent programming

First Friday Tomorrow Night- May 7th

The First Fridays website has been updated with exhibition info for tomorrow night's First Friday, and there's a new map of First Friday's venues here.

Also, Christina Newton of Curated Culture/First Fridays has compiled a list of additional events happening during tomorrow's First Friday (music and more) for Richmond.com here.

AND there are even more arts exhibitions with openings or receptions tomorrow night, slightly outside the realm of where you might usually spend your First Friday, but definitely worth a couple of drives around the city...

Linden Row Inn- "Reflecting and Collecting" (opening reception from 6-10 pm, live music and more- Linden Row Inn is included on the above map of First Fridays venues)

Reference Gallery- "Exit Light" (opening reception from 7-11 pm, also featuring live music-more info at their website)

Page Bond Gallery- First Friday reception for Michael Berringer and Amber George from 6-8 pm

Main Art Gallery- Jim Sconyers' "Contingency"- opening reception from 7-9 pm

VCU MFA Exhibitions, Round 2 (and more student exhibitions)- opening reception at Anderson Gallery from 5-7 pm

VCU is blowin' up Richmond in a big way tomorrow night with openings all over the place- be sure to click the links for more information, such as locations, etc.:

Six- VCU Sculpture + Extended Media MFA candidacy show- opening reception(s) 7-9/10 pm

Liverwurst- work by Ella B. Watson, VCU Sculpture + Extended Media student shows "work made at the onset of end stage liver failure and until live donor organ transplantation"- opening 5-8pm

Whichcraft- VCU first year grad students in Department of Craft/Material Studies- opening 7-10 pm (and opening May 8, too)

Breaking the Surface- VCU students in Naomi McCavitt's Surface Research class- opening reception 4-8 pm

Dept. of Photography and Film senior thesis exhibition- opening 6-9 pm

Graphic Design MFA exhibition- opening at 6 pm

Annual Juried Fashion Show at VMFA for VCU Dept. of Fashion Design and Merchandising- starts at 7:30

First Friday this Friday, April 2nd

Lots of First Friday info at Curated Culture Commentary and you can click the image below to make it bigger and read more...

And check out the fb page for Light House_1- set to return to Jackson Ward this First Friday. This is part of a series of events leading up to and highlighting the reopening of VMFA in May.

First Fridays Redux Tonight

Get more info about what to see over at Curated Culture Commentary.



Debbie Quick is showing work in the Vault at Quirk

"First Friday Redux" This Friday

Dana Sperry's and Chad Erpelding's "Forest for the Trees" opens this Friday at 1708 at 6:30 PM

Get the latest on which galleries are having their First Friday openings this Friday, Feb. 19th at Curated Culture Commentary and @firstfridaysrva on Twitter.

Who Dat Link Monday

Jonathan Weston is showing work at The Belvidere

VMFA blogs about fiber art

Talk20 at 1708 this Wednesday

Nancy Smith showing at Ellwood Coffee

Jonathan Weston showing at The Belvidere

3 x 3's call for illustrators

Midlothian artist Robert L. Caldwell has been very busy

Eric Schindler Satellite to open March 5th

First Fridays and music

Quirk/VCU jewelry sale to benefit Haiti: Feb. 11th - 13th

Art 6 to perform renovations and reopen

Just missed: "Burst III" at Locker 50B

Now on view at the Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen- RTD reports

VA Independent Film Fest Schedule from RVA Mag

Gallery 5's call for artwork for "We Are 5"

Pauley Center photography show

RTD reports on Pam Reynolds and RVA art

VCA Grant Workshop this Friday

Lots of openings have been rescheduled for this Friday, Feb. 12th- double-check venues' websites if you are going out for openings this week.

Here are Feb. 12th openings we've heard about:

Reference- "Scouting Foul" 7 -11 pm

VMFA studio school- "Variations in Red: Recent Paintings" 5 -7 pm

Glave Kocen- "Click" 6 -9 pm

Richmond Public Library- "Pictural Colloquy" (and others) 7- 9 pm

Page Bond- "Cold Press," "Love Text," and "Night Light" 7- 9 pm

The Whitley Gallery- "Doing Time" 6- 9 pm

There may be more... check out First Fridays and Curated Culture Commentary to stay up-to-date.

February's First Friday Closures and Upcoming Events

Check out the list of First Friday venues over at Curated Culture Commentary to see who will be open this evening.

One show in particular we have been looking forward to is Tin Salamunic's "Pictural Colloquy," which will open at the Richmond Public Library Feb. 12th. Check out Salamunic's blog (with lots of images of his work) here.




Other upcoming events (which may or may not be rescheduled): Talk20 at 1708, currently set to happen Wed. Feb. 10th at 6 PM. More info/free registration here.

Also, the Virginia Commission for the Arts Grant Assistance workshop scheduled to take place in Richmond is coming up Fri. Feb. 12th, 10 AM -12 PM, at Richmond Triangle Players- more info can be found on VCA's facebook and on their website. Just read the "Funding Guideline Changes for 2010-2011"- major bummer.


Hey, on a sidenote, is there any kind of workshop for artists (happening in Richmond) about record-keeping for taxes, or about tax information for artists in general? Something like this, but in RVA?

Big Link Monday

Lots of love for First Fridays/Curated Culture this past week (it's about time, too):

* Style's Richmonder of 2009
* Curated Culture Commentary on the Style article
* NBC12 interviews Style ed. about Richmonder of the Year

Richmond.com's First Friday site- picks for 2010

AND Richmond.com has photos from Gallery 5's "Say Love" AND info about Josephine Durkin (currently showing at Metro Space)

VA Commission for the Arts offers workshops for artists and organizations interested in grants

Art 180's Open Studios, Jan. 12 (tomorrow)- 14th

Know someone who would provide a great home for Real Small Art? Nominate them here.

Art After Hours this Thursday at VMFA

Oh, my! Art criticism in RVA!

December's First Friday (Last Friday) from RVATV

RTD on Bernard Martin at ADA and Crossroads Art Center works at Bonvenu

VMFA blogs about "The Constructed Image: Christa Bowden and Robert Sulkin"

R.A.G.E. on shows at Visual Art Studio and Gallery 5

GREAT ARTICLE- What is RVA doing to keep its creatives here?

2009's Last Link-y Monday

"House of Clouds" by Nancy Whitt

VMFA acquires work by William Wiley and Fred Tomaselli- also, continuing conservation efforts in the Worsham-Rockefeller bedroom

Style remembers Richmond artist Nancy Whitt- find out more about Whitt here

Notes on CultureWorks/bloggers' luncheon from December 10th

Richmond.com's Arts news stories of 2009

Curated Culture's new downtown location

Exhibitions and talks/events coming to UR museums, starting January 12th

Fool For Art's call for artists (from Lark Studio)

GCCR's call for emerging artist entries

"Uncommon Denominator" opening January 3rd at Artspace

RTD on "The Art of Remembrance" at the Virginia Holocaust Museum

James River Film Festival deadlines fast approaching

Register for Studio School classes at VMFA starting January 4th

Register online for winter classes at Visarts

Winter Wonderland '09 Link Monday

Josephine Durkin's "Relocation- 6M"

Grid on Chris Semtner at Visual Art Studio and Josephine Durkin at Metro Space

RAGE on Gallery 5's Sleight of Hand

RTD on Hauft's Counter Re-Formation at Anderson Gallery

A new home for Transmission

Artists Anonymous meeting January 9th at Cafe Gutenberg

ATR notes guerilla art downtown

New news on CultureWorks site: "CultureWorks Happenings" and more

Curated Culture news: Richmond.com now official online sponsor for First Fridays AND Curated Culture will have a new base of operations soon.

Elsewhere: The NYT on 94 year old Carmen Herrera's long-in-the-making success

New First Fridays Website Is Up and Running!

Check it out here.

Mayor Jones Vows to Protect First Fridays!!!

Style Weekly and BAM report on a meeting between Mayor Jones and Christina Newton of Curated Culture in which the mayor attested to his desire to work with galleries and organizations, while still maintaining safety in downtown spaces.

Click the links for the scoop- this sounds like progress!

News from Curated Culture- RVA Art Website!!!

We are really excited about news from Curated Culture that they and Metro R Media are working on a new website- could this be THE arts events aggregator Richmond art lovers have been waiting for? We've got our fingers crossed!

Read more at their website... (there will be a Richmond artist registry, too!)

First Friday this Friday, September 4th: Gallery 5 and Ghostprint Gallery

September's First Friday Artwalk will be held this Friday... Check out Curated Culture for more info on participating galleries and their shows (coming soon).

Exhibitions already announced:

Gallery 5 will be hosting a couple of events during the evening- check out their brand new website for more info.

Interactive art/archaeological dig event and opening of new craft gallery space (featuring work by Phil Barbato)...




Also at Gallery 5: Embedded Narrative- Works by Elka Amorim and Isobel Milena

At Ghostprint Gallery:

Sterling Clinton Hundley, "Another Black Sunday"

Sterling Clinton Hundley (read Grid's report on the artist) will exhibit new work in "Emergent" at Ghostprint Gallery, also opening this First Friday.

First Friday Tonight!

From Community Chest:

This year a new installation to the First Fridays art walk is a music showcase that takes place in a patch of land brilliantly located in the heart of the festivities (304 N Adams St). This week performers include: Dave Watkins, Zac Hyrciak & the Junglebeats and From Here on Blue.

Curated Culture's list of First Friday openings

Also, Thankyspace's final show!

And at Henry

"Poe's Playground" continues at Linden Row Inn, which will host a Manager's reception with live music and beverages from 6-11pm.

August First Friday

(Map of First Friday participants' locations)

First Friday will be held this Friday, August 7th. Get more information at Curated Culture's website.

Art 180 will be sponsoring an opening at the Schindler Satellite Gallery (8 West Broad Street), featuring monotypes by Katherine McGinn and other artists.