Artober 2020: Arts and culture live on
CultureWorks, a Richmond based nonprofit working to ensure that everyone in our community has access to the arts and amble opportunity to express their culture through the arts, has announced details for its fifth annual artoberVA. Designed as a month-long celebration of all things arts and culture throughout October, the event will showcase the organization’s […]
A Springboard for Conversation
Mending Walls is using art as a springboard for conversation, and everyone is invited to add to the dialogue. In recent months, Mending Walls, a public art project launched by Hamilton Glass, has brought together public artists from different cultures and backgrounds to create murals throughout the community that spark tough conversations about where we […]
20th Stay Home Dangit Show
Today Richmond Grid is co-hosting Erin Lunsford‘s 20th livestream with Starr Hill Richmond Beer Hall & Rooftop. Erin’s “Stay Home Dangit Show” series began in March featuring different guests and charity partners each week. Since that time Erin has donated $1,500 to 11 different organizations and featured over 20 guests on the show. “It’s been a really […]
To Be Here is an Accomplishment
Calvin Brown is Here. Known as Calvin Presents, he’s an accomplished jazz pianist and singer-songwriter based in Richmond with a newly released single with a message to celebrate. The single, appropriately titled “Here,” features longtime collaborator Sam Reed and is available on Bandcamp, Apple Music, and Spotify starting today (click here to listen). “Here is basically just […]
Coloring Together, Healing Together
Richmond artists Hamilton Glass and Matt Lively are all in. And they want you to be too. Glass and Lively recently launched a socially-distant community art project, called All in Together, to inspire Richmonders to make art together while remaining physically apart. To begin, Glass and Lively are asking the RVA community to download a series […]
Artists for Hope: Back Again for More Good Causes
Back again to support more good causes, the Artists for Hope initiative returns with new creations and new beneficiaries this week. Inspired by Richmond artist Ed Trask who sparked the movement, some of Richmond’s most talented artists are now banding together every Friday to auction off their work for a nonprofit or cause of choice. Richmond […]
LIVELY AND TRASK VIRTUAL EXHIBIT TONIGHT
Tonight, the Glavé Kocen Gallery will host its first VIRTUAL GALLERY OPENING featuring Richmond based artists Ed Trask and Matt Lively. For weeks, Lively and Trask have been hard at work finishing up new pieces for the exhibit that will be introduced online at 4 PM on a special section of glave kocen gallery’s website found HERE. Tune […]
The Damsel: A Visual Album Collaboration
Thirteen Virginia-based artists have joined together to launch a digital exhibit inspired by a newly released album by Erin Lunsford as part of The Damsel: A Visual Album Collaboration. Starting April 22, new works inspired by a track from Lunford’s album, The Damsel, will be released on Instagram every Wednesday and Friday from the artists. […]
Week Three: Artists for Hope
Week three of #artistsforhope is here and Richmond’s creative force is yet again offering up its finest work to benefit a variety of good causes during this time of need. Inspired by Ed Trask, this growing movement provides an opportunity for Richmonders to virtually bid on the work of some of the area’s most talented […]
COVID-19 Arts & Culture Fund Launches in Richmond
A coalition of arts and culture partners including CultureWorks, Studio Two Three, 1708 Gallery, BAAAR, The Visual Arts Center, Art 180, Afrikana Film Fesrival, Oakwood Arts, and other arts organizations in the region have joined together to create a COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund. The purpose of the fund is to provide artists from […]