Editor's Note: For further context, read our article HERE. Julien Creuzet with Ana Pi: Your Source at the Feet of the Green PeaksFriday, October 10 from 5 to 7 PMInstitute for Contemporary Art at VCUFree admission with RSVP HERE When French-Caribbean artist Julien...
Prepare yourself for some serious introspection. Friday night TheatreLAB opens “I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard,” a play by Halley Feiffer starring Alan Sader and Liz Earnest, who portray a father-daughter duo in a play that examines family ties. “The entire play starts to devolve into this conversation about what happens when we criticize each...
They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and in local artist’s Megan Mattax’s new exhibit at Artspace Richmond, she displays her own unique way of preserving things otherwise dumped by the wayside. Mattax’s mixed-media exhibit, "pər'peCHə, wāt”, opened at the East 3rd Street gallery earlier this month, and by burning and transforming...
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't. — William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206 Quill Theatre is no stranger to Shakespeare. But the everlasting words of Miranda spoken above inspired author Aldous Huxley to write his famous dystopian novel...
Science and art are such an uncommon intersection, which arguably makes for a curious theme. Candela Books + Gallery delves into this idea with eight artists in their latest exhibit, “Science As Muse.” The exhibit, which features photographic works from Walter Chappell, Caleb Charland, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Pam Fox, Daniel Kariko, Michael Rauner,...
Ten years ago, photographer Ashley Loth was in a dead-end job in Texas and her on-again-off-again relationship had hit another dysfunctional tipping point. Loth looked everywhere for help and came up dry in a state where she didn’t have any personal connections. Originally from Richmond, Loth began reaching out to friends back home, hoping...
A puppeteer from Chattanooga who gets his big break in New York developing a groundbreaking television show that ends up influencing a generation, then goes on to make his mark in the art world — not a story you hear every day, but one that describes the beginning and current career of artist Wayne White. Squeezed in the middle somewhere, is the...
Crossroads Art Center wants to remind us that at one point in time, we were all immigrants. This Friday, the gallery will host an open house for “Where We Come From: Honoring Our Immigrant Ancestors,” which will feature work from several of their 225 represented artists, as well as many individual exhibits in connection with the main project....
With a lacework that binds the vastness of the universe to endless depths of the ocean, local artist Shaylen Broughton constructs the depths of human awareness. “A lot of people ask me if I could be any place and time, what would I be? I say I would be the ocean in the winter, this place of total peace of mind, vast and nothing in the way. It’s...
Later this month, Firehouse Theatre will combine burlesque, Dolores Umbridge, sideshow acts, Jeffrey Dahmer, and improv games to bring fans and those with a passion for the weird and unusual with their latest production, Villains of Vaudeville by River City Vaudeville. Ray Bullock, Founder of River City Vaudeville, wishes to bring back the old...
