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🎂Happy birthday, Crossroads! Twenty years ago,

🎂Happy birthday, Crossroads! Twenty years ago, the @crossroadsrva fam opened its doors this week. Prior to the grand opening, they worked night and day for nine months to revamp an old garage along Forest Hill Ave. into what is today one of Richmond’s favorite local coffee shops.

❤️ “For twenty years this downhome Coffee shop has been so much more than a place of physical refreshment for it has been a second home to many, a place of warmth and comfort, a place where refreshment of the spirit has happened and where everyone regardless of education, religion, political views has been welcomed. The secret ingredient to the food and beverage is love,” says Susan Herring.

🍺 In honor of Crossroads’ milestone, we dug up this fun shoot with co-founder Will Herring riding a keg on the countertop at Crossroads. Join us in raising a glass in honor of this local business doing its thing for 20 years! Swing by for a Reedy Creek Float and other frozen creations, a wide selection of ice cream flavors, an impressive beer list, tasty baked goods, popular wraps and sandwiches like the Ultimate Grilled Cheese, breakfast goodies, and of course plenty of coffee.

📍3600 Forest Hill Ave.

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🎉 This year’s poster for the 2nd Street Festi

🎉 This year’s poster for the 2nd Street Festival (@2ndstreetfest) has been unveiled featuring the work of the talented Jowarnise Caston (@jowarnise), a Richmond based figurative artist and designer. Her painting, titled “Instrumental Reverberation,” will be featured on the official poster when the 2nd Street Festival returns for its 34th anniversary on Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2. This community festival celebrates the rich culture of the historic Jackson Ward neighborhood in Downtown Richmond.

🎨 Jowarnise, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from @officialvsutrojans, draws inspiration from African textile design, contemporary fashions, and urban culture. She blends classical painting with her years of graphic design experience. Much of her work combines a range of references from classical painting to pop culture to her personal experience. Jowarnise often explores race, social class, and culture through her art. She’s best known for her naturalistic portraits of women in eloquent poses, often focusing on the female African American experience.

🖼️ Jowarnise’s poster will be available for sale at the @venturerichmond tent on 2nd Street at the festival, October 1st and 2nd.

🔗 Learn more about the 2nd Street Festival, one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest street festivals, using the link in our bio.

📸 @2ndstreetfest

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🎉 The 18th official Richmond Folk Festival (@rv

🎉 The 18th official Richmond Folk Festival (@rvafolkfest) poster artist has been unveiled! This year’s honor goes to Cassandra Kim (@cassandralkim), a Virginia native who has been cranking out impressive creations for the past twenty years. Cassandra, who likes to work in acrylic and oil, often creates pieces that are animal-based with a surrealistic twist, typically inspired by art of the past. Cassandra is joining an All-Star roster of past artists to receive this honor, including the likes of @thenightowl, @milkhulburt, @hamglass and more.

“I seriously geeked out at the chance to create the poster because I love going to the festival as well as I have so much respect for the previous artists that worked on the poster in past years,” says Cassandra. “I wanted my poster to be my pop-surrealistic ode to some of my favorite illustrators of the past. The back circle has a Maxfield Parrish style gradient, and the James River Railway Bridge under the circle is playing on similar design elements I saw in Leyendecker and Rockwell illustrations on their covers of Saturday Evening Posts. I wanted to push a vintage vibe with this, so I hand lettered all of the big type. I also love animals and enjoy the challenge of painting them jamming out as a musical trio in some classy clothes. Overall, I hope the feeling you get from this is fun, because that’s what the festival is, fun and welcome to all.”

🍺 And not only will Cassandra’s art be featured front and center on this year’s poster, you’ll also find it on that tasty Richmond Folk Festival beer, brewed by @hardywood, that you’re soon to enjoy.

🖼️ Want to get your hands on the new poster? You can score one for sale at the Folk Festival at the two @plan9music merchandise tent locations. After the festival, starting October 11, it will be available to purchase at Plan 9 Music in Carytown.

Check the link in our bio for more info.

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Have you checked out Richmond’s newest murals al

Have you checked out Richmond’s newest murals along the Canal Walk yet? Thanks to a team of local artists behind the RVA Street Art Festival (@rvastreetart), we now have a new outdoor gallery to explore and celebrate. Featured here is co-founder Ed Trask’s contribution (@edtrask) to the impressive collection of murals that just went up as part of the 10th anniversary of the RVA Street Art Festival!

And a big thanks to our regular contributor and collaborator, @mylo.vid for capturing all of the local talent this weekend!

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The talented @nicocathcart, @memersweets, and @jow

The talented @nicocathcart, @memersweets, and @jowarnise enjoying @rvastreetart this weekend.

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RVA Street Art Festival (@rvastreetart) has done i

RVA Street Art Festival (@rvastreetart) has done it again! Another inspiring installment marking the tenth anniversary of watching art come to life while supporting youth art education, promoting local talent and revitalizing RVA.

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