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)

Congratulations to the 2010 VMFA Fellowship Winners

Richmond winners of professional artist fellowships:


Sun Tek Chung- Photography

Stephen Vitiello- Mixed Media

Natalya Pinchuk- Crafts

Michael Jones McKean- Sculpture

Kendra Wadsworth- Drawing

Jeff Majer- Painting

Chris Mahonski- Sculpture

Bill Fisher- Painting

From VMFA:

Thirty-five Virginia art students and artists have been awarded a total of $202,000 in 2010 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowships.

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Fourteen professional artists won 2010 awards of $8,000 each. They are (in alphabetical order by hometown) Kevin Everson (film-video) and Janet Grahame (mixed media) of Charlottesville; Bill Fisher (painting) of Chester; Greg Stewart (sculpture) of Harrisonburg; SunTek Chung (photography), Chris Mahonski (sculpture), Jeff Majer (painting), Michael Jones McKean (sculpture), Natalya Pinchuk (crafts), Stephen Vitiello (mixed media), and Kendra Wadsworth (drawing) of Richmond; Ann Glover (painting) and Brett LaGue (drawing) of Roanoke; and Aaron Sanders (photography) of Springfield.

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Six graduate students won 2010 awards worth $6,000 each. They are Jesi Pace-Berkeley (painting) of Blacksburg; Christopher Oliver (art history) of Charlottesville; Sarah Kreiger (printmaking) of Lynchburg; and Leilani Gonzales (crafts), Justin Kroman (painting), and Jon-Phillip Sheridan (photography) of Richmond.

Twelve undergraduate students won 2010 awards worth $4,000 apiece. They are Erin Sonoda (photography) of Alexandria; Luke Harman (mixed media) of Blacksburg; Blair Condon (photography) of Fairfax; Jessica Dodd (sculpture) of Herndon; Samantha Cooper (crafts) and David Thompson (photography) of Mechanicsville; Phillip Nesmith (photography), Rachel Rainer (photography) and Allison Smith (drawing) of Richmond; Irena Stanisic (mixed media) of Roanoke; Amber Bender (photography) of Stafford; and Julianne Jamora (photography) of Virginia Beach.

In addition, three undergraduates were awarded 2010 Fellowships worth $2,000 each for their final semester. They are Michael Muelhaupt (sculpture) and Dena Sussman (photography) of Richmond and Chris Underwood (film-video) of Dumfries.

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See VMFA's site for more information about the awards and a slide show of work by all of the winning artists.

Apologies-To-Everyone-Who-Is-Not-On-Facebook-Link Monday

The Downtown Public Art Tour- on-the-cheap here

Paradise Park's Afterglow Potluck Music Jam and Art Cavort starting at 5pm sounds like the place to be TONIGHT.

Congratulations to UR professor Tonja Softic on her Pollock-Krasner grant, info here.

Information about Segway of Richmond's new public art tours will be available soon via their website, but is already a go on facebook. (It's half-price, people!)

More news via facebook: Serendipity Art and Consign of Bon Air currently has work by Richmond artists Theresa Pollak and David Freed.

Check out Gallery 5's website for info about the upcoming Carnival of 5 Fires.

Richmond artist Sandra Luckett (represented by ADA Gallery) has a show up at the CACV until January 3. (Camille Utterback also has work on view!!!)

CACV is currently calling for entries for New Waves 2010.

VMFA fellowship applications are due in November.

Purchase/Win local art from Quirk, (proceeds to benefit Visarts) during "Take A Chance On Me" on October 15th.

Wanna be part of the Handmade Holiday Craft Show at Visarts? Go here.

First Friday this coming Friday, new First Friday/Curated Culture website set to launch September 30th.


Elsewhere...

Richmond is not the only city with culture-tax woes.

Opening this Friday August 28th at Page Bond Gallery

Dragana Crnjak, Villages, Floor Instalation- Acrylic, Playdough, Charcoal on Paper, 4' X 16,'' 2008

"Crnjak, Millar, and Stroud" opens Friday at Page Bond with an artist's reception from 7-9pm. Visit their website for more information.

We are especially excited about this show, as we've been following Dragana Crnjak's work since she was a VMFA Fellowship recipient in 2004. Check out her website!