I recently met with Sare Harvell, a local florist and owner of Warm Flowers, following their floral feature via the Hirschler Flower Fund at the VMFA. We had a long conversation that stemmed from our mutual appreciation of flowers and their language. I have known Sare...
The fifth annual Carnival Of 5 Fires event at Gallery 5 has been going on since last week, and there are only three more events left before it goes away for another year! We've already told you about what The Amazing Stage Show are doing there tonight, so click the link if you don't know (and do it quick, because that event starts in a mere...
The term “Folk Artist” elicits specific qualifiers: untrained, poor, rural, usually Southern, often African-American. This last demographic points to the roots of the American Folk Art tradition, in which practices such as “face jugs” and quilt making were passed down to the descendants of slaves in the South. If there is an agenda to Three-Ring...
The fifth annual Carnival Of 5 Fires event at Gallery 5 continues this week with Immortality, a presentation of local performance art troupe The Amazing Stage Show. Immortality tells the tale of four immortal beings, portrayed by Deanna Danger, The Great Zwerdling, Mister S, and the Muse, as they traverse the waters between life and death....
Throughout the month of October, Ghostprint Gallery will be showcasing the art of Jeff Vincent, with his show Title Unknown. Title Unknown features both recent abstract paintings and a body of figurative work which combines acrylic and collage on canvas. Jeff Vincent depicts his vision of the individual in western society, plagued by social and...
Section 1.1: You Copycat! I say enough is enough, Mr. Campbell! Not only do you come out with about 50 new pairs of shoes in about 50,000 (mostly horrendous) colors and prints every month, but you also completely rip off pre-existing, slightly less horrendous shoes designed by other people about 75% of the time (disclaimer: numbers may be a bit...
On Tuesday, October 11th, Soiree Debauche will descend upon Gallery 5 as the kickoff event for the fifth annual Carnival Of 5 Fires, to deliver an evening of vaudeville, burlesque and music that will include an all-star line-up of talent, style and pure debauchery! Revel in hypnotic sounds, sideshow antics, vaudeville tricks, sinister singing,...
Are you tired of seeing light pink, cap-sleeved t-shirts that say random positive words like "hope," "peace," "love," or my personal favorite, "joy," in consistently disgusting typography and design? Do you ever/often feel the urge to tell people that you hate them, you don’t want to talk to them, you don’t want to look at them and/or you don’t...
Some fabrics are versatile. Others can quickly leap from fashionable to unsightly depending on the garment. One of the least forgiving fabrics on the market is denim. If you're paying attention to recent trends, denim is making a resurgence in many more places than jeans. The denim jacket is a risky move, but if done right it can come off pretty...
FEAST RVA is a not for profit community driven project to democratically fund the work of local creatives. FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) began in Brooklyn, New York as an organization that believed creative work should not have to rely solely on the support of exclusive, private capital. And now, the brand new RVA branch...
