This Weekend: The Whitley Gallery, Reference, and the Folk Festival

(detail of collaborative work by Hamilton Glass and inmates)

"Creative Freedom: In conjunction with the Minority Art Exhibition" opens at the Whitley Gallery this Friday from 6-9 PM.

"Star Map" opens at Reference- this is serious.
After you've checked that out, take a look at a video walk through of MUTE, their most recent exhibition.

The Folk Festival will also be going from Friday through Sunday.

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)

Not yet Labor Day Link Monday

Theodora Merry from Richmond Magazine on Vimeo.

Richmond philanthropist Lora Robins passes away

Continued rumblings about Richmond arts and culture district

Grid: 1708’s InLight returns and call for wearable art

Josh George’s “Establishing Shot” opens at Ghostprint Gallery in October

Christopher Stevens at Red Door Gallery, starting Sep. 17th

Special events at Gallery 5 related to Dia de los Muertos starting Oct. 31st

Comments relating to graffiti/art after Style's report on "Strassen Kunst" at Artspace got serious

Terry Brown and Theodora Merry document the trials of dealing with cancer

In-depth article on Merry’s struggle with cancer also highlights many artists’ lack of access to healthcare

"Two Skies - New paintings by Eric Yevak" opening at Eric Schindler Sep. 10th

Excellent write-up about the Whitley Gallery's mission from Richmond.com

1708's Wearable Art Call for entries

Tonight- Shockoe Wide Open

Frostick

Catch Dana Frostick's "Pattern Recognition" at Frame Nation before it closes August 14th. According to Shockoe Wide Open's fb page, Frostick will also be giving an an artist talk during the show's Shockoe Wide Open closing reception.


And there is more art to see at the Whitley Gallery and C'est La Vin, also in the area.

... So Why Can't We? Link Monday

Whitley Gallery Richmond City Public Jail art exhibition makes news

Monster Drawing Rally at 1708: Call for entries

Head of Visarts retires and is honored

RVA’s Happy the Artist on Virginia Currents

InLight 2010 deadline for entries extended to July 2^nd

ADA Gallery’s John Pollard has a new space going in NYC- check out pics from the opening

Thoughts from a VMFA museum associate

Victory for filmmaking in Virginia

RTD on: artists’ thoughts on Center Stage and on Modlin Center’s new director

New episode of Last Friday up at RVA Magazine (covering June’s First Friday art openings)

More on Triple Stamp Press (printers behind Ryan McLennan's "The Cost of Comfort" and other fine RVA screen printing projects)

Whitley Gallery opening "Captive Freedom," work by Kevin Greene this Friday

The Whitley Gallery's facebook page, with more information about this event, is here. "Captive Freedom" is one of the events scheduled to occur during Shockoe Wide Open this Friday (their facebook page is here).

RVA Magazine previously interviewed Kevin Greene here.

Also, at Frame Nation there will be a closing reception for Brett Busang's "Scenes from the River."

Mayday Mayday Link Monday

43rd Street Festival of the Arts

VMFA shopping and VMFA YouTube channel

RVA Mag covers VCU fashion show at VMFA and VCU Women's Studies Art Show and Nic Kuszyk's mural project at VCU's Temple building and Jesse Smith (RVA tattoo artist extraordinaire) AND the reopened VMFA and Strange Matter DIY Fest AND Makeout Creek (art! and literature!) (phew- get on over there and check out the news, y'all, because they've got it covered)

Call for artists: 43rd Street Arts Festival

Thanks and upcoming events from Whitley Gallery via RVA Mag

RVA’ers in Cannes

Here a Link There a Link Monday

"The Printers Show" is now on view at Studio Two Three

"Feed Me Art" UR senior thesis exhibition coverage

Short review of Amuse restaurant at VMFA

Art 180’s “The Big Show” May 26 at Plant Zero

The Hat reviews WaPo’s review of VMFA

Richmond Magazine on David Gray Turner, now showing at Glave Kocen

RVA Mag interviews Whitley Gallery artist Kevin Greene

Modern Art Notes goofs on Cucinelli and VMFA

Page Bond video interview with RVA artist Cindy Neuschwander

RAGE on “Arts for All” at 1708

Richmond Mag on Biennials and VMFA Biennial- John Ravenal says it’s something the VMFA will be “looking at” (!!!!)

Congratulations to VCU MFA candidate Janet Bruhn (we just posted images of some of her work here), who will be awarded a Joan Mitchell Grant for painting (this news via VCU Arts fb page)

Call for graffiti artists: “Strassen Kunst” at Artspace

The Printers Show at Studio Two Three will be on view until May 17th- info about May events and rental now up at their website

Jenny Nunez's "Life's Journey" opening tonight at The Whitley Gallery

Opening reception is tonight from 6-9 pm.



Check out Whitley's facebook page for more information on this and other upcoming events and exhibitions.

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.

Party Like It's 2010 Link Monday

Bernard Martin at ADA Gallery, opening this Friday

RVA Mag on Last Month (new artist collective)

Grid on Russell/Projects

Happy the Artist to paint Ukrops mural

Who is Happy the Artist?

"Jumpin''" to return to VMFA in June 2010

Whitley Gallery in Style

Gay RVA on RVA artist Louis Briel

Grid on Bernard Martin at ADA (opening this week's First Friday, Jan. 8th)

RTD on travel photography show at VMFA

First Friday THIS Friday, Jan. 8th



*RVAAB will be on a brief out-of-town hiatus this week. New posts soon.

Top Ten RVA Art Things To Look Forward To In 2010

Helena Wurzel's "Do I Look Expensive?"

Wurzel will be featured in Russell/Projects first show, opening January 2010

(In no particular order)

1. Reopening of VMFA in May 2010

2. Opening of Russell/Projects January 22nd, 2010

3. Next issue of Daily Constitutional

4. News on what this is...

5. Loren Schwerd's "Mourning Portraits," April 9th at Visarts

6. Barbara Campbell Thomas's show at 1708, opening January 8th

7. Art Works conference free-for-everyone session January 26th (registration is necessary, though this day is free)

8. Steps toward establishing a Richmond arts and culture district

9. More shows at the Whitley Gallery, Reference, and at Transmission's new home (In addition to Russell/Projects, these are Richmond's newest art spaces.)

10. More new RVA artist collectives doin' it for themselves- like Last Month (RVA Mag reports here) and 7 Degrees of Separation

Honorable Mentions:

*Brick Weekly hopefully will get its current content back online

*RVA artist Jen Figg's exhibition at CACV opening January 2010 (CACV is a little bit of a hike, but we have a feeling this show will be well worth the trip.)

*Return of Belinda Haikes's blog "Life, the Universe, and Art": Okay, so maybe Haikes isn't currently an RVA artist, but she has interviewed some past and present Richmond artists on her blog, plus, it's a darn good blog.

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

Eric Pfeiffer at the Whitley Gallery, Opening Dec. 4th

"The mission of the Whitley Gallery is to showcase juvenile and adult inmate art as well as art interpreting themes relevant to the criminal justice system." (from Whitley's fb page)


The Whitley Gallery has been showing work at 29 North 17th Street, Richmond, Virginia since October of this year.

Next up, Eric Pfeiffer's "On Account of the Poison" will open this Friday, Dec. 4th from 6-9 pm.




Check out the Whitley's fb page here and twitter here. There was also an article about their innaugural show in October's Richmond Voice- check out their fb page to read it, and be on the lookout for more info about this new gallery from RVA Magazine and Style Weekly.