Finally Feels Like Fall Link Monday

Now showing at Main Art: "Limited Reading Required"

Lots of great coverage last week for First Fridays:

Style Weekly on First Fridays’ 10^th season

Richmond.com on new additions to First Fridays programming

First Fridays’ Season 10 Free Parking sponsor

First Fridays' new website is up and running- see how you can help support Richmond culture (VOLUNTEERS WANTED!)

Other good stuff around town:

RVA Magazine on Joan Gaustad at ADA

Bill Fischer is currently showing paintings at the Pauley Center

New Richmond Art Space/Organization: The Highpoint-Project

Check out the Highpoint-Project's "Yet Another Roadside Attraction"- did you get to see it this past weekend? (scroll over to page 2 of videos and click on "Billboard Art Project Coming to Richmond")

If you missed Chuck Close's talk at VMFA last Friday, be on the lookout for a YouTube video in the near future from VCU MATX dept (via VMFA's twitter)

Close’s show at VMFA closes Nov. 14^th

Recently opened at Main Art

Susan Singer (and more) now showing at Visual Art Studio

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)

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

Back to Reality Link Monday

Gallery 5's "Self Titled" will include this work by James Callahan and Nick Kuszyk

Teachers learn to incorporate arts in general classrooms at UR

RVA Mag on "Self Titled" at Gallery 5, opening Sep. 3rd

Studio Two Three garage sale Aug. 28th- help them get ready for their big move!

Steve Hedberg- opening at Glave Kocen Sep. 3rd

Nice write-up in Style about Richmond Renaissance man Ward Tefft and the many faces of Chop Suey

Style reports on "Strassen Kunst" at Artspace

Edwin Slipek on “Historic Photos of Richmond” book

Reference noted in Art Fag City June post (the "rise of the online gallery")

Congrats to RVA artist Katie Baines on show at UVA

Dr. Sketchy’s Richmond branch

VMFA show tapped by FT of London as must-see

Richmond Sightseeing Examiner on VMFA

Aug. 27th: Sponge opens at Anderson Gallery


Fall CLASSES!!:

At VMFA

At Visarts

At Petersburg Area Art League

This Weekend...

Diana Bagby is exhibiting with "New Pictorialists" at 1212 Gallery


RAGE has the scoop on 1212's "New Pictorialists," opening this Sunday.

VMFA's "Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa Since 1950" and its counterpart exhibition at Visarts open this Saturday.

Additionally on Saturday, Keith Ramsey will be giving an artist talk about his show "Dilluted Loss" at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center.

First Friday's website also has info on more events for the weekend and beyond.

You Say Tomato Link Monday

Keith Ramsey

RTD: "Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1960" at VMFA and Visarts and "Imaging South Africa: Collecting Projects by Siemon Allen" at Anderson Gallery, video from Art 180's "Paint Outside the Box" event

... and with some ideas for continuing revitalization of the area around downtown's Convention Center

Grid: Cathyann Burgess, Dan Rhett, Michael Mancuso, and Greg Lewis's "Pamlico" now on view at Visual Art Studio, "Wretched Glory" now at Ghostprint Gallery, and upcoming arts events "Monster Drawing Rally" at 1708 and "Band Together for the Well" at Capital Ale House

RVA Mag: The Process with Christian Breeden, Cynthia Camlin's "Glacial Speed" at 1708

Style: 1000 Strong Project's call for artists, on Keith Ramsey's "Diluted Loss" at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center

Richmond.com: Lost Cats Project- social art for RVA

Courtesy of VA Commision for the Arts: Norfolk emphasizes importance of public art to downtown revitilization (video)

Checking in with RVA's Creative Change Center

RVA Artist Dana Frostick on CBS (courtesy of Frame Nation)

CultureWorks' John Bryan comments on Jonathan Weston's show "Human," up now at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center (check out CultureWorks' August Monthly Report, too)

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

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

Happy Day-After-the-4th-of-July Link Monday

Check out more of Dana Frostick's work at her website, here.

Dana Frostick's "Pattern Recognition" opens this Friday, July 9th at Frame Nation

VMFA to be open 365 days a year, plus longer hours

Mini documentary on Eldridge Bagley, who recently exhibited at Glave Kocen

Patrick Dougherty, resident artist at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden- coming up in May of 2011

Arlington Arts Center’s SOLOS application deadline extended to July 8th

Midlothian Exchange on Worn Again Fashion Show at Art6 (during last week's First Friday)

RAGE on photography exhibitions up now at 1212 Gallery

Style on Jo Kennedy's retirement as head of Visarts and on a couple of things to see around town

... 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)

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

Languishing Link Monday

Katie Baines (above: "Tightrope") is currently showing at ADA as part of the gallery's "7th Anniversary Show"

Art 180 and students change the face of Manchester

Tommy Emmanuel Benefit Concert (to benefit CultureWorks' grant program) at CenterStage- June 25^th

Style's Call for cartoonists- deadline July 12^th

Richmond (public art) fountain?

Style on Tiffany

Arlington Arts Center Solo Exhibition proposals due July 1^st

Visarts' blog post and Dan Pink video

School's Out For Link Monday

Craig Pleasants' "Octagonal Living Unit 2.0," now on view at Linden Row Inn as part of the exhibition "Reflecting and Collecting." Get more info about this and other works in the exhibition at 1708's website here.

Individual grants for artists from NEA???

Wall street Journal on VMFA

RTD on wall st journal’s article

Don’t forget about innovative arts grants from CultureWorks- TODAY'S THE LAST DAY TO APPLY!

RVA News on Tiffany exhibition

Style on Joe DeRoche at Eric Schindler Satellite Gallery and on 400 years of women in art on view now at the Chrysler Museum

Affordable Art and Job Johnson now at ADA Gallery

Be on the lookout for Visarts' faculty, staff, and board members’ art exhibition to open (at Visarts) later in June

Upcoming Shockoe Wide Open- Friday June 11^th- opening at Whitley Gallery for Kevin Greene

RVA Mag on Yarn-bombing. RVA has a yarn-bombing crew!

Preorder RVA artist Ryan McLennan’s Cost of Comfort at Chop Suey (before July 1^st) or here

I could go on and on on Craig Pleasants’ “Octagonal Living Unit 2.0” now on view near Linden Row Inn and on VMFA

Heather Russell of Russell/Projects will be curating “Homegrown,” a show of Artspace artists for Artspace, opening June’s Fourth Friday

Opening receptions for Lori Esposito and Scott Hunt at Russell/Projects this Thursday, June 10th

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

I Love You a Bushel and a Link Monday

Richmond.com on Michael Jones McKean (RVA artist, prof, Guggenheim fellow)

Jumpin’ at VMFA will return June 3^rd in the new sculpture garden

Call for artists: Recycled Book Art at Art6

Call for artists: want to show your work as part of next Shockoe Wide Open? Contact Mary Fender at Frame Nation.

Illustrators Club Show opening at Ghostprint Gallery June 4th

Keith Ramsay tackles themes of racism and loss in “Diluted Loss” opening June 4^th at the Black History Museum

Art 180’s Big Show- opens May 26^th

Support Art on Wheels when you search and shop the interwebs

"Grotesque Heads", drawings by Dawn Latane now through June 6 at Chop Suey

New: Main Art's "X Gallery"

MAP's tips for artists’ portfolios

Gallery 5’s Sustainable Richmond forum group and show opening June 4th

Lots of shows opening in Manchester this Fourth Friday- Artspace, Art Works, reception at Russell Projects

***Artblog posts may be a little light this week... apologies in advance!

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

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

VMFA Is Reopening This Weekend Link Monday

Cheers to Art! At Lewis Ginter Thursday April 29

Todd Raviotta reports on “The Taint” for RVA Mag (btw, the film's getting some comments over at our previous post about its debut)

Grid on Joe Deroche at Eric Schindler Gallery

Commonwealth Times on Reference Gallery

RVA Mag on Chalk up the Town

VCU Prof Michael Jones McKean wins Guggenheium Fellowship

RAGE on Thea Augustine Eck opening at 1708

The Hat on Charles McGill’s golf-bag artworks at Russell/Projects

Style on Neal Iwan showing at Ghostprint Gallery

VanGogh: Brush With Genius showing Sat. May 1-Sun. June 18 at Science Museum of VA

VA artful districts conference in Norfolk, May 27- 28

Pics from First Fridays east at St Pauls Episcopal Church/Gallery


More on VMFA...

Richmond.com on things to see at VMFA grand opening

Tons of VMFA coverage from Richmond Magazine

RVA News on VMFA

Boulevardizen’s sneak peak at VMFA

Richmond.com on German expressionism exhibition

VMFA’s reopening will spark tourism and business in VA

Curated Culture Commentary with reflections on VMFA and Lewis Ginter, too

RTD on Rockefeller bedroom at VMFA and here, too