Street art exploded in RVA this spring! With the near-simultaneous arrival of Art Whino’s 2012 G40 Art Festival, and Ed Trask and Jon Baliles’ RVA Street Art Festival, this spring saw murals popping up all over town. We here at RVA Magazine were very excited to see this development occurring, and we figured there’d be no better way to celebrate it than to document this street art explosion in the latest edition of our ongoing mini-mag series. With our photographers patrolling the streets and stopping in at all of the developing sites, we were able to capture these murals in the process of being created, as well as in their finished form. You’ll see all of those in our brand new mini-mag, Street Heat, a pocket-sized collector’s item full of amazing RVA street art. Throughout the mini-mag, we’ve interspersed conversations with the artists themselves (including Chris Milk, Mark Jenkins, Dalek, and more), in which they share their thoughts about the events and what they could mean for the future of art here in RVA. The future’s looking bright to us, and this new mini-mag is even brighter, so pick up a copy and delight in the amazing images that RVA has to offer!
WINTER 2019
We begin by continuing the conversation around our always-fruitful music scene, as No BS! Brass Band’s Reggie Pace returns to our pages to keep us updated on the activities of local singer extraordinaire Angelica Garcia as she releases her second LP, Cha Cha Palace....