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Building A Collection, Building A Scene

Shockoe Artspace founder Ryan Lauterio's documentary, The Builder, spotlights Richmond art collector Don Childress in an effort to show how important collectors are to keeping the art world alive and thriving. In 2017, VCU professor and founder of Shockoe Artspace...

Looking Back at RVA Magazine: How This All Started

Back in 2005, Downtown Richmond was a dangerous place. There was no craft beer scene, no street art, crime was rampant, the city had no togetherness. It took the community deciding for themselves to be the change they wanted to see -- one project, one protest, one...

Bella, Bello

Studio Series: September, Richmond Ballet's first in-person performance since the pandemic began, demonstrated the new normal for live dance performances, and displayed some world-class talent. As gathering restrictions begin to ease by law, one local dance...

Richmond Now! Supports Richmond’s Future

Created by local artists Rian L. Moses and Virginia Murphy, Richmond Now! recently released its second downloadable Activity Book filled with illustrations and education about the Black Lives Matter protests in Richmond and beyond.  Richmond Now! began as a way for...

Dancing With Myself: Reflections of a Community No Longer In Touch

For the citizens of Richmond's hidden world of salsa and bachata, opportunities for dancing and being in touch with one another is yet another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week marked six months since the initial lockdown in Richmond due to COVID-19. These...

ICA Creates Art Hotline For Those With Zoom Fatigue

Sick of endless online meetings and video chats? VCU's Institute of Contemporary Art has an artistic solution for you. Just dial 1-844-NOT-Z00M. For those who might be struggling with digital fatigue during a time when many daily activities have been sent online, the...

Get Lost In Williamsburg with Phillip Merritt

The Lost In Williamsburg podcast tells listeners a supernatural story of the city, shifting from the 18th century to present-day through strange and unexplained happenings.  Phillip Merritt has “No F@%s Left to Give” when it comes to art. Phillip Merritt is an architectural landscaper by day, and a multi-dimensional artist by night. Merritt...

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Putting The ‘Sparc’ Into Richmond

Richmond non-profit organization SPARC uses art, music, and performance to help local youth, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, grow into creative, successful adults. Every child is different. They have different backgrounds, different family situations, and a different story to tell the world, good or bad. Some are in need of a...

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RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 37

Happiest of Tuesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your bi-weekly stop for comics and pop culture news in the River City. Every issue we talk to industry experts and Richmond creatives who love comics and dig deep to find their recommendations on the next big read, with a little bit of news so we eat our vegetables, too.  This week in news we...

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The Red Vein Army Wants To Help You Hunt For The Richmond Vampire

The Ashland-based troupe of haunters have expanded beyond their annual Halloween-focused activities to open Red Vein Escape, an escape room with experiences based around some classic Richmond spook stories. Every town has a legend. In West Passaic, New Jersey, it’s the 10-mile Clinton Road; in Stull, Kansas, legend has it that the local cemetery...

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LINES Ballet Speaks, Yet Also Listens

For their performance at the Modlin Center, Alonzo King LINES Ballet used their intricate movements to highlight indigenous languages that are approaching extinction. Alonzo King LINES Ballet brought their evening-length production, Figures of Speech, to the Modlin Center for the Arts on Thursday, January 23. This continuous, hour-long work...

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Lies About Murals Can Be Fun

Would I Lie To You? Mural Walk creator George Tisdale unreliably narrates tours of Richmond's murals. It's more entertaining than you'd think. The Would I Lie To You? Mural Walk showcases some of the most beautiful, and most hidden, murals in and around Richmond, but with a twist. The stories told at each mural could be complete lies, and it is...

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“We Have An Unhealthy Relationship With Food In This World”

Artist and Quail Bell Press co-founder Christine Sloan Stoddard's latest book, Force Fed, views the global issue of food insecurity and wealth disparity through an intensely personal lens. There’s a new book out on the shelves by Christine Sloan Stoddard, the interdisciplinary artist and writer who founded the feminist publication Quail Bell...

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RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 36

Happiest of Wednesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your favorite bi-weekly update on everyone that is up and coming and needs to be celebrated in the land of comics, in Richmond and beyond. This week, not only did I bring you more news in the land of pop culture -- there’s a comic-con museum afoot? -- but we also bring a new comic illustrator to...

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