Something-or-other Link Tuesday

Eleanor Rufty

Alyssa Salomon
(Salomon and Rufty's exhibitions open this Friday at Page Bond)

Nov 6th- Check out the unveiling of Connecticut's new home

This Friday- Connecticut's arm comes to Gallery 5 (and lots more First Friday happenings, too)

First Fridays website update coming soon!

Style on Eric Yevak at Eric Schindler

RVA Mag on Alyssa Salomon upcoming at Page Bond and on Ben Keys (up ‘til Sep. 30^th) at J. Fergeson

Artist meeting at Studio Two Three Oct. 4^th :find out about using their printmaking facilities

Talk20 tonight at 1708

Lantern making workshops at 1708- get ready for InLight 2010!

Great things about Richmond and ways to improve upon them (lots of arts mentions)

Artists- Contact 9WG Studios/Gallery if you are interested in exhibiting your work in their space in November

New businesses added to First Friday area

This Thursday- preview and artist talk by Eleanor Rufty and Alyssa Salomon at Page Bond for both artists' Friday opening

Continued notes on Richmond's love/hate relationship with grafitti from Style and RVA Mag

Oldies, goodies, and newbies link Tuesday

MAE exhibitions opening Sep. 30th at Metro Space and Oct. 8th at the Whitley Gallery

Donald Shrader opened Sep. 10^th at Chop Suey

Artemis Gallery opened trompe l’oiel show Sep. 10

Stephen Lewis opened Sep. 10th at the Gallery at Frame Nation

Christopher Stephens opened Sep. 17th at Red Door Gallery

Richmond.com’s First Fridays Sep. picks (check 'em out while you still can)

Old but good write-up on C’est La Vin (wine and art, y'all)

Grid on October shows at Page Bond

Minority Art Exhibition and Whitley Gallery (up now!)

Priscila de Carvalho at Russell/Projects

Style’s Fall Arts Guide and on "Mute" at Reference

Fall exhibitions and events at UR

Check out Whitley Gallery’s new website

1708 Monster Drawing Rally follow-up

CultureWorks’ August report: arts calendar under way!

RAGE on Susan Lamson's show at Visual Art Studio and Tina Palmer's show at Chasen Galleries

Calls for entries:

2011 New Waves: Call for entries, deadline Nov. 5

VMFA Fellowship, deadline November 12th

1708 InLight Wearable Art, deadline Sep. 27th (calls for artists: students and professional)

Pics from long gone summer shows at Page Bond

(Both shows closed August 27th.)

Lana Waldrep:

(sculpture in foreground by Sandy Bond)

Summer Solstice:

Robert Walz

Sarah Rebekah Byrd Mizer

Catherine Brooks

Michael Jones McKean

left: James Stroud, right: Ruby Palmer

Ann Lyne

Ruby Palmer

Reni Gower

Tanja Softic

Amber George

B. Millner

Sarah Irvin

Alyssa Salomon

Currently on view at Page Bond: Barbara Crawford and Lee Saloutos. Check out Page Bond's website for more information and images about this and upcoming exhibitions.

Openings this Friday at Page Bond

Barbara Crawford's "Anticipating Memory"

Lee Saloutos's "The Salton Sea"

An opening reception with the artists will be held this Friday, Sep. 3rd from 7-9 PM. More information about these shows is available at Page Bond's website.

Imminent Art Events!

Opening reception tonight at Reference Gallery for "MUTE," featuring works by John Henderson and Justin Swinburne- from 7- 11 PM

Closing receptions at Page Bond for Lana Waldrep's "New Paintings" and "Summer Solstice"
Tonight- 6 to 8 PM

Waldrep's "Flats"

"Sponge HQ" opening tonight at Anderson Gallery from 6- 9 PM (check out Ester's new website!). Also opening: "Imaging South Africa: Collection Projects by Siemon Allen"

Plant Zero/Manchester art openings tonight at Artspace, Artworks, and Russell/Projects
Tonight from 7-10 PM

Susan Jamison's work is part of "MISSIVE" currently showing at Russell/Projects

1708's Monster Drawing Rally- tomorrow, Aug. 28th from 2- 7 PM

Drawing by Mark Luetke

Second of August Link Monday

Style: Lana Waldrep's monumental paintings at Page Bond (on view until Aug. 30th)

Grid: Marcie Paper's "Mama Pajama Rolled Out of Bed" will open at 1708 Sep. 3rd and free family events at VHS this month

The Hat on "Reflecting and Collecting" at Linden Row Inn and Craig Pleasants' "Octagonal Living Unit," and with some links about the history of the Pollak Prizes

Great Art 180 events coming up this week, including "Paint Outside the Box Day" and the 3rd Annual Johnny Z Festival

Richmond Public Art Commission info

"The Arts Can Help Our Region Soar"- RTD reports on John Bryan's (of CultureWorks) talk to the Chesterfield Business Council of the Greater Richmond Chamber

CultureWorks' fb page

More from RTD on Jun Kaneko's sculptures at VMFA and on VMFA's new attitude towards outdoor acquisitions and exhibitions

Opening this Wednesday at Page Bond Gallery

Lana Waldrep, "Flats," 2010, oil on canvas

"New Paintings" by Lana Waldrep and "Summer Solstice," a group exhibition featuring work by:

Sandy Bond
Catherine Brooks
Nancy Bruce
Corey Drieth
Amber George
Reni Gower
Sarah Irvin
Julian Jackson
Rosemary Kate Jesionowski
Michael Jones McKean
Gigi Mills
B. Millner
Sarah Rebekah Byrd Mizer
Ruby Palmer
Curtis Ripley
Alyssa Salomon
Tanja Softic
James Stroud
Robert Walz
Frank Webster

Opening receptions for the artists will be held Wednesday, July 7th from 7 to 9 PM. Get more information about these exhibitions at Page Bond's website.

Lazy Sunday Link Monday

Lana Waldrep's painting, "Flats" will be on view as part of Page Bond's "Summer Solstice" exhibition

RTD on Page Bond’s “Road and Rails”- current exhibition, on view until July ("Summer Solstice" is Page Bond's upcoming show, set to open July 7th)

Images from Roads and Rails with commentary by Page Bond

ArtAwards at RIR

Salon de Refuses at Crossroads Art Center (until July 4^th)

Style on Podium- collected writing and art of Richmond’s public school students

VMFA Muse Awards honors Fountainhead Properties and others

ADA’s pics from "Lonesome Canoe" opening

Happy Memorial Link Monday

work by Michael Jones McKean- check out his website here

Look At Me Photo Project at St. Peter's Episcopal Church June 10th

Tyler Green’s doing a series of posts on VMFA. His first: VMFA deserves more attention than it gets ...well, yeah.

RTD on “Mourning Portrait” (closing soon) and International Juried Women’s Photography Show at 1212 Gallery

Style on American art on view in VMFA’s McGlothlin collection and on Loren Schwerd’s “Mourning Portrait”

Richmond Magazine on Guggenheim fellow Michael Jones McKean

First Friday this Friday, June 4th

Opening receptions for Page Bond shows this Friday: “Roads and Rails- Photographs by Gordon Stettinius and Stacey Evans”

June 4th- Opening reception for “Subtraction: New work by Jesse Robinson” at Reference Gallery

Calls for entries:

InLight applications due June 21

Call for printmakers (deadline August 9th)

Register for the 48 Hour Film Project

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

May Flowers Link Monday

Francisco Amaya at Ghostprint Gallery

Grid on Francisco Amaya at Ghostprint (opening May 7) and on "Repressed V: Free to Speak" at Gallery 5 (also opening May 7)

Michael Berringer and Amber George opening this Wednesday at Page Bond

RAGE on Women's International Juried Photography Exhibition at 1212 Gallery

Community Art Show at Cafe Gutenberg- call for artists

Check out Reference Gallery flickr page- lots of pics from their shows and events!

"Exit Light" opens this Friday, May 7th at Reference

Next exhibition up at Gallery 5

Visarts Art Exchange May 13th- Visarts has a blog now, too!

First Friday this Friday, May 7th

Grants from CultureWorks???

Metric ton of VCU student shows opening in the next week (click the link and scroll down, and down, and down some more...)


VMFA coverage:

VMFA now open 7 days a week

The dress that launched some news blurbs (RTD covers it here)

Style on VMFA

WaPo on VMFA- "Mather's addition elevates dour 1930s museum"

RTD video from and coverage of VMFA reopening

Opening this Friday at Page Bond

An opening reception will be held at Page Bond Friday April 2, from 7-9 PM for Ron Boehmer's, Kristi Hager's, and Ann Lyne's exhibitions. Check out Page Bond's website for more information.

Ron Boehmer, "Hay Fields, Near Lowesville," oil on canvas

Kristi Hager, "Iris #1," pigment print

Ann Lyne, "Poppies and Peony," oil on canvas

Coupla Things Coming Up...

Photo by Jason Anderson, JMU student participating in the FORUM at 1708 this Saturday

First Friday AND First Fridays East- happening this Friday

Page Bond's opening reception for Philip Engelhorn's "Unbound" and Peri Schwartz's "Reflections"- this Friday at 7 PM (Preview reception tonight from 6-8 PM )

Openings at Reynolds Gallery for Ledelle Moe and Richard Roth- this Friday from 7-9 PM

"FORUM" at 1708- this Saturday, March 6th, 5:30-7:30 PM:

The FORUM, is an invitational outreach program organized by 1708 Gallery for art students from Virginia's colleges and universities. Students are nominated by their departments and invited to present their most recent work for critique by their peers and the community. The students also get a chance to participate in an exhibition hosted by Capital One.

This year's guest critic is Paul Ryan, Professor of Art, Mary Baldwin College and Contributing Editor of Art Papers Magazine. Students from Virginia State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Mary Washington, George Mason University, and James Madison University will be presenting their work.

Model Citizen at Gallery 5- First Friday and Saturday, March 6th

1708/C3's rescheduled Talk20- March 16th, 6-8 PM

What else? Feel free to use the comments to share info about Richmond arts events you are excited about.

Today: Gallery Talk and Coffee with Kathleen Markowitz at Page Bond

Richmond artist Kathleen Markowitz will discuss her current show "Night Light" today at 11 AM. More information is on Page Bond's facebook page.

Pics from "Cold Press" at Page Bond- Also "Love Text" and "Night Light" opening this Friday

"Cold Press" will be on view until Feb. 27th. In addition, "Love Text" and "Nightlight" will open this Friday from 7-9 PM with a reception for the artists.

*Opening has been moved to Fri. Feb. 12th, due to inclement weather.

More show information and images at Page Bond's website and on their facebook page.