Recent Shows at Crossroads Art Center

Art of Business Throwdown: Real Small Art League and Richmond Craft Mafia:

Susan Singer:

Adele Castillo:

(There is something going on here between Castillo's super-saturated-almost-fluorescent-in-spots color palette versus the extremely delicate touch with which some of the paint is being handled. Several of these paintings are haunting.)

Kathleen Westkaemper:

Linda Holland:

(I want this.)

E. B. Kellinger:

Info about Crossroads' upcoming shows can be found at their website.

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

Recently Opened

Close

At VMFA: (opened July 10th) Chuck Close's "People Who Matter To Me" and work by Jun Kaneko (opened July 17th)

At Crossroads Art Center: (opened July 16th) The Art of Business Throwdown featuring work by Real Small Art League artists and the Richmond Craft Mafia





At Reference Gallery: (opened July 16th) Space Slave Trade Presents New Work by Seychelle Obsidian Digiomi Allah and Chinonyeelu Uchechi Amobi





At ADA Gallery: (opened July 13) Kristin Beal-DeGrandmont's "Indigenous Territory"

Real Small Art League: Call for Artists

Opportunity to show your work, build your resume, and learn to "Make More Money With Your Art"- get the details here.

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?

LinkFool Monday

Deborah Turbeville's "Unseen Versailles," on view at Ghostprint Gallery until January 30, 2010

SynerGeo

Team 8 Press

Chris Semtner's "Poe's Women" and Anne Chaddock's "Loaded Brush" at Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen

What is the fate of the Daily Constitutional?

Cafe Gutenberg's call for artists

Murmur DC's interview with Eric Pfeiffer, currently showing at the Whitley Gallery

VMFA blogs about Mrs. Lewis's cabinet

Richmond Magazine on Deborah Turbeville (currently at Ghostprint Gallery) and local artisan Donna Silvestri

RAGE on Rob Tarbell (currently at Quirk)

Grid on 1708's upcoming "Painting (In Part and In Pieces)," work by Barbara Campbell Thomas

Real Small Art League's updates

The WaPo reports on Virginia's Minds Wide Open Campaign

Impact of state budget cuts on Virginia Commission for the Arts

RVA Mag's The Process featuring local tattoo artist Mike Moses

RVA's first Talk 20 at 1708

Artist Tiffany Glass Ferreira of Real Small Art League put together information for RVAAB from the Talk 20 presentation last night at 1708. Apparently, speakers' talks were really filled with information, and Tiffany was kind enough to provide a list of links for those of us who missed out:

Shaun Irving

Shaun Irving

Camera Truck Website: http://cameratruck.net/Site/Landing.html

Camera Truck Project: http://www.cameratruck.es/

Contact: irvings@cameratruck.net

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shaun-Irving/51613161805

Noah Scalin

Noah Scalin

Skull-a-day: www.skulladay.blogspot.com

Free Skull Font: http://skulladay.blogspot.com/2007/09/free-skull-font.html

Stencil Skull: http://skulladay.blogspot.com/2007/06/9-stencil-skull.html

Papercraft: http://skulladay.blogspot.com/2007/08/72-papercraft-skull-with-articulated.html

SKULLS (Paperback): http://www.amazon.com/SKULLS-Noah-Scalin/dp/1600593755

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ALRdesign

Thea Duskin

Thea Duskin

Artist website: http://www.ghostprint.com

Ghostprint Gallery: http://www.ghostprintgallery.com/

Contact: theaduskin@ghostprint.com

Michael Pellis of Baskervill

Michael Pellis

Baskervill Website: http://baskervill.com/

Cradle to Cradle: http://www.mcdonough.com/cradle_to_cradle.htm

2030 Challenge: http://www.architecture2030.org/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/baskervill

Baskervill Blog: http://baskervill.wordpress.com/

E. B. Kellinger

EB Kellinger

Artist’s Website: www.ebkellinger.com

Reveal/Conceal: http://ebkellinger.com/Asset.asp?AssetID=11589&AKey=23SVCF6S

Artist’s Blog: http://www.ebkellinger.blogspot.com/

Email: reveal-conceal@comcast.net

State of Scout Design

Charley Foley and Angeline Robertson

Website: http://stateofscout.com/

Client Website(Gordon Stettinius) http://www.eyecaramba.com/

Contact: info@stateofscout.com

Matt Lively

Matt Lively

Artist Website: http://mattlively.com/

Artist Website: http://www.matthewlively.com/index.html

Upcoming Children’s Book: The Wind Chill Factory

Short Film with Alex Germanotta: http://www.alexgermanotta.com

1708 Gallery

Website: www.1708gallery.org

Blog: www.1708gallery.org/blog

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/.../1708-Gallery/61390678668

Twitter: www.twitter.com/1708Gallery

C3, Center for Creative Change

Website: http://www.c3richmond.org

Talk20

Website: http://www.talk20.org/


Link to more event images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iknowtiffany/3991853620/


BAM also had some coverage of the event here.

1708 says that the next Talk 20 event will likely be in January and anyone interested in presenting or nominating someone else to present should contact them.

Our thanks to Tiffany for all of the great information- we REALLY hope to attend the next one!

Karl Link-erfeld Monday

Ansel Adams at UR's Lora Robbins Gallery

Cherri Hankins's "Unsighted" at Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen seeks to provide unsighted viewers with a tactile art experience

VA's Arlington Arts Center is taking applications for "Image/Project," a national video/photography show

More First Friday fun on fb

RTD on Annie Hogan at Artspace

Richmond Art Gallery Examiner (R.A.G.E.?) on:
Julie Elkins at Eric Schindler, Paul Di Pasquale above Red Door, and Jackie Hoysted at Art6
(that does it- we are RSS'in' this lady's feed- look for it below)

GRID on:
Jake Urbanski's "The Stories I Want To Tell" at Main Art, October 2nd
John Barber and Josh Barber (father/son) at Gallery 5800, October 9th

The Hat on upcoming info about CultureWorks (the "reformed Richmond Arts Council")

Richmond magazine on up-and-coming arts events and spaces

Submit to RVA News's new photoblog

Checkin' in with the Real Small Art League

1212 Gallery's National Juried Photography Exhibition Finalists

Style's fall Gallery Guide

In case you missed them- pics from last LAST weekend's Guerrilla Art Show (from SLANTblog)

Innovators: Tiffany Glass Ferreira and the Real Small Art League (Part 2)

Real Small Art League founder Tiffany Glass Ferreira is excited about the possibilities of geocaching in combination with Real Small Art.

Geocaching involves objects hidden at locations for participants to find using GPS locations available on the internet. If you don't have a GPS system, you can get an app for geocaching on your phone, and it is possible to geocache with only a map and a compass (after you have obtained cache coordinates via the geocaching website).

Easy Steps to Geocaching

1. Register for a free membership.
2. Click "Hide & Seek a Cache."
3. Enter your postal code and click "search."
4. Choose any geocache from the list and click on its name.
5. Enter the coordinates of the geocache into your GPS Device.
6. Use your GPS device to assist you in finding the hidden geocache.
7. Sign the logbook and return the geocache to its original location.
8. Share your geocaching stories and photos online.

When we met with Tiffany, the task-at-hand was to prepare the Real Small Art for its placement at a cache Tiffany located via the geocache website. She mentioned that artists may protect their artworks inside of small weatherproof containers to be placed at caches.

Tiffany prepares artwork for placement.

We chose to meet at a location that was close to the cache, and we had a short walk to find the hiding place.






As we walked, the map on Tiffany's phone showed us nearing the cache. Tiffany explained that individuals who are experienced with a compass and map-reading could also geocache.





One of the nice things about the phone app was that when the map showed us as being at the location, Tiffany clicked on a "Hints" tab to get more specific clues about the cache's location.

Upon locating the cache, we checked out the log inside of it- this is where geocachers sign in to show that they have located this cache. Sometimes they leave an item that may be exchanged for something new by the next cache-finder. Tiffany signed the log, left her piece of Real Small Art, and showed us how she could log in to her geocache account to record her visit to this specific cache.




We hunted down a nearby cache and got really excited when we started to discuss the possibility of downtown caches... especially caches located in Hollywood Cemetery!

Tiffany is hopeful that this system of posting and locating Real Small Art could provide Real Small Art participants a new way to interact through art-hunts.

Our thanks to Tiffany for letting us in on Real Small Art and geocaching. We think this is a great innovation in the Richmond art scene, and we are excited to keep up with their evolution!




Check out Real Small Art League's blog for Tiffany's own account of her first geocaching experience and for more information- you can also contact her with questions.