Y'all Gonna Make Me Lose My Mind Link Monday

Jahn Page

RTD reviews "Glacial Speed" at 1708, posts images from VMFA collections, and reports on how Katherine Waller Boyd gets kids hooked on art

RVA Mag on Richmond painter Jennifer Holloway

Real Small Art League's "Lost Cat Project" to benefit Art 180

Richmond.com on RVA artists Ryan McLennan and Jahn Page

Australian artist Thea Weiss's "2065- A Healed Memory" at the Virginia Holocaust Museum

Current and upcoming exhibitions at the Richmond Public Library

PAAL History Exhibit now on view

CultureWorks: grants awarded and July news

Checking in with TAD (The Art Department) RVA via their blog

Style Weekly's comic strip issue and with a scoop on a possible Picasso show coming to Richmond

Kudos to VMFA for longer hours!

Self-serve pottery kiosks at Lamplighter and Plant Zero

Richmond arts/artists' Craigslist (opportunities to show your work!)

Virginia Art FB page (started by Farmville's J. Fergeson Gallery)

The women behind Tiffany

RVATV's Last Friday video (July's First Friday)

Don't forget to vote for Pollak prizes by July 30th!

Deadline for the 2010 Harnett Biennial of American Prints is August 9th

Gallery 5's call for artists for "Momento Mori"

Couple of missing links:

RVA Mag interviews VMFA

RVATV's The Process- featuring Courtney Elizabeth Ford

Artspace artists at Ashland Coffee and Tea

Style on Ryan McLennan

Link-lite Monday

Carmelo Midili, "untitled5," 2008
Midili's show "Spaziotempo" opens this Friday at Artspace

Student art showcased at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Daniel Pink Creativity Forum to be held at UR- more info here

Collectors Night at Visarts- March 19th

RAGE on Gallery 5's Sleight of Hand

RTD on Connecticut's new home

First Fridays is growing

RTD on Gerald Donato

Andrew Rhea now showing at Henry Gallery

New director for Modlin Center

Fourth Friday openings this Friday at Artspace: Laurie Hoen's and Holly Smith's "Places on Earth: A Brush with Nature," Carmelo Midili's "Spaziotempo," and Hazel Buys' "Baker's Dozen"

Fourth Friday openings at Artworks, too- and while you're in the Manchester area, enjoy a Fourth Friday cocktail reception with Russell/Projects and Helena Wurzel's "Vanitas"

RVA Mag/RVATV's "The Process: Episode 19" features Richmond artist Damion Bond a.k.a. "The Muse"

Indelible Link Monday

Tara Donovan has work in "New Year: New Work," now up
at Reynolds Gallery until Feb. 20th

Speakers for the next Talk20 at 1708 (Wed. Feb. 10th, 6 PM)

"The Figure In Relief x 6" opens at Main Art Feb. 5th

RVA photographer Gordon Stettinius has a show in NY

Emerging Artist Showcase from GCCR Gallery

Loose-Limbs: new site for RVA poster art and more

Style on "New Year: New Work" at Reynolds Gallery and on a show of textile art currently at ArtWorks

RAGE on "New Year: New Work" at Reynolds

RVATV: The Process 18, featuring Catherine Brooks

Chad Erpelding's and Dan Sperry's upcoming show at 1708

Visiting artists wanted at the Torpedo Factory

Art opening at VCU Starke house this Friday

The Hat on Helena Wurzel at Russell/Projects (with video!)

Virginia Alliance of Local Arts Agencies blog

VMFA's blog on paper

MAP's call for curatorial proposals (due Feb. 5th)

Top Ten Things RVA's Art Scene Needs

*Warning: few pictures ahead...

(In no particular order)

1. More web savvy organizations- posting about upcoming openings/events MORE than one week before they are set to occur would be nice.

2. More cheerleaders- is something coming up that you're excited about? A show, a film event, an artist talk? Spread the word! Fb, twitter- whatever- let people know! And if it was awesome, let people know about that afterwards, too.

3. More haters- haters serve an important purpose in every scene: they often get the action-oriented people fired up and working together. Think something's not so great in our little art world? Speak up! Your opinions might urge the powers-that-be towards change. (Note: We do not advocate for hostility or hateful behavior- voice your opinions with civility and respect, please. If you can do this, you will be more likely to be heard.)

4. More collaboration- the Carlyon retrospective forged connections between arts institutions in Richmond. So did Quirk's "Take A Chance On Me," benefiting the Visual Art Center. It would be nice to see our institutions, galleries, and spaces take more strides to support one another.

5. More upstart galleries- even temporary ones like Thanky Space. And by "gallery," we mean any space designated for the purpose of exhibiting art- these could be apartments, Stuffy's, or elsewhere...

6. More visual arts coverage- in general. Could be blogs, could be coverage in local publications- online links to said coverage are always nice, but twitter, fb- more Richmonders should be regularly talking and writing about what's going on here.

7. More art criticism- this may be a sub-category of #6, but in any vibrant art scene, there are people with some arts background critically discussing what's going on and how it compares with what's gone on in the past locally and in the context of art history as a whole. Where is this happening in Richmond?

8. More recognition of local artists. RVA Magazine does a great job of this, interviewing local artists both in print and via The Process/RVATV, but there are other publications/venues that could be doing more of this (ourselves included).

9. and 10. More divas and more gossip: The controversy stirred up by Crumb's UR visit back in October was not such a bad thing for Richmond. For one, it got people talking, which is something that needs to happen a lot more often around here.


What do you think RVA's visual art community needs? Feel free to share in the comments.

Link Panther Monday

Welcome to RVA - The Fan (Part 3, Visual Arts Center of Richmond) from RVA TV on Vimeo.

Aimee Joyaux, Director of Education at Visarts and RVA artist featured in RVA Mag (Visarts was also recently featured by RVATV)

Bizarre Market timelapse and facebook

Visarts winter-spring classes are now up on their website

RVA Mag on John Narron and Todd Hale at Studio 6 and Born Ugly #4 AND A Local Art Show for December (featuring work by artists of J Fergeson Gallery)

Glave Kocen's new online exhibition space

Video of Jackie Battenfield's October talk at UR

Winter Art After Hours at VMFA

I could go on and on on John Cage at Modlin Center for the Arts

Curated Culture/First Friday's blog

Maruta Racenis now showing at Main Art Gallery

Frank advice for artists

RVA TV's Last Friday: October

Just Another Manic Link Monday

"20/20: A Look Back at the Craft + Design Show" opens November 13th, 6-8 pm, at Visarts

First Friday this week

Richmond Zine Fest this week, too

AND Think Small 5 opens this week.

In Light attendance statistics inflated? Style reports.

Grid on Josephine Hadens' paintings at Richmond International Airport (Donald Kuspit comments!)

RVA Mag's call for indie film entries AND if you have local/regional artist recommendations, send them to parker@rvamag.com

RVA Mag's Local Art Show, featuring David Kennedy

Mark your calendar for the Art Works for Virginia Conference- Sarah Doherty of Art in Vacant Spaces will speak.

Call to Richmond artists

Grid's report on "20/20 A Look Back at the Craft + Design Show" at Visarts

Visarts president to retire

The Hat on "The Three Artists of 1212" and Crumb's RVA visit

RVATV's Last Friday (October First Friday)