This Saturday, culture will spill across the steps of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture as Richmond celebrates its first Diwali Music & Arts Festival, a full-day gathering of color, rhythm, and connection hosted by The Rith Initiative, a new 501(c)(3)...
Patriarchy may celebrate the nude image of Titian’s Venus, but it gets uncomfortable when women take up the brush. Norfolk-based artist Alison Stinely became the center of a controversy in the city’s art community this year when a government agency censored her work for containing nudity. “There’s always been this tear between how people want me...
Nidaa Badwan lived in isolation for some 20 months in a tiny room in occupied Gaza, under a bare bulb and a single window. After her first hundred days of exile, she began a photographic self-portrait series, titled “100 Days of Solitude.” Fresh from exhibits across Europe and New York City, she’s making her Virginia debut in Declaration, the...
Combining starkly realistic photography with sculpture, interactive pieces, and a chilling audio/visual component, Virginia-based photographer Morgan Ashcom brings his solo exhibit, “What the Living Carry,” to life at Candela Books + Gallery. Like the Free Union native Ashcom himself, the exhibit is rooted in the south, depicting not only...
Returning to school can be a challenge for anyone, but for someone who has already spent years working and thriving in their field, it is an entirely unique experience. Such is the case for 48-year-old Nikolas Goodich, a local visual artist who’s decided to go back to school at the VCU School of the Arts to earn his BFA. For two decades, Goodich...
Tonight, Gallery5 hosts the opening reception of art show “Liminal Alchemy” in conjunction with RVA’s First Fridays. The show is a collaboration between three Richmond artists who use a variety of diverging forms, media, and materials to explore ideas of perception and reality, as well as “the transitional and artificial nature of surface and...
The aviation daredevils of the 1920s and 1930s forms the backdrop for Wings, the latest musical production from Firehouse Theatre. Emily Stilson, a former wing walker who defied death on the wings of a biplane, faces both her mortality and an accompanying language disorder after suffering a stroke. Kerrigan Sullivan directs the work, adapted from...
In collaboration with The Rose Group, The University of Richmond, and several other organizations around town have kicked off special programs this week to celebrate the annual ChinaFest: Year of the Earth Dog. The festival, which launched in 2004, celebrates Chinese film and culture to clarify misconceptions, and offer insights, to help build...
"It is a story of a false utopia...where humans are living in a controlled environment based on meeting their most instinctual desires, everyone is essentially conditioned and brainwashed," said Maggie Roop, Director of Quill Theatre's Brave New World production, which opened this past weekend. The parallels with our current society are...
Richmond’s arts scene started 2018 off right with a wealth of new exhibits, emerging artists, and cool showcases in January, and RVA First Fridays Artwalk continues to keep it up this month with fresh and unique events for you to check out. Here are some of our top picks from the city’s February First Friday happenings: Artspace Megan Mattax’s...
