Richmond Artists Showing at Contemporary Art Center of Virginia

Jenn Figg's solo show "Forest Thrall" will be on view until May 23rd. Check out her website- her work is awesome.


Also...


"New Waves 2010" features:
(quite a few RVA artists/artists with RVA ties in this list)

Angela Allen
John Henry Blatter
Shane Butler
Warren Craghead III
Mary Elkins
Ana Esteve Llorens
Ryan Gothrup
Christi Harris
Akiko Jackson
Paul Jeffreys
Andre Kozlowski
Aurora Lutty
Aaron McIntosh
Sara Mizer
Sonya Paclob
Nikki Painter
Pamela Pecchio
Tate Pray
Kristen Rego
Matthew Damian Ritchie
Susan Tolbert
Keith Varadi


CACV's also exhibiting the work of Maurice Sendak in "Where The Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak In His Own Words and Pictures."

If you're in the VA Beach area, check it out- CACV regularly shows lots of good stuff- get more information about them here.

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.

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.