Al Campanis was a scout for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1950s and 1960s. He said the hair on his arms only stood up twice in his life. Once when he saw the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the other time when he witnessed Sandy Koufax throw a...
This year, the senior students of VCU’s Comm Arts program reimagined their annual Senior Expo. The usual gallery-style show has received a modern reformatting to better spotlight the artists themselves and their works inspired by a convention-style. Students have always had the responsibility of putting on the Senior Expo. When the now-Event...
It's the first Friday in May and RVA First Fridays Artwalk is back with tons of exhibits, music, artist showcases, events and fun happenings for you to check out this month. Here are a few picks from this month's roundup that RVA MAG liked: Shop for a Cause at Dress for Success Join Dress for Success Central Virginia on Friday, May 5, 2017 for...
“I like taking up space. I want to take up so much space because I’m not supposed to,” says Elisa Rios, one-half of the creative force behind Richmond-based screen printing business Guard n Flags, when asked why she and co-owner Emma Barnes started printing flags specifically. This article was featured in RVAMag #28: Spring 2017. You can read all...
VCU's Institute of Contemporary Art, known as the ICA, has released details on its inaugural stretch of programming, including its opening exhibition, "Declaration". The ICA partnered with several contemporary artists, faculty and students from VCU as well as local talent to build relevant and far-reaching projects leading up to the October 28...
VCU's Institute of Contemporary Art, known as the ICA, has released details on its inaugural stretch of programming, including its opening exhibition, "Declaration". The ICA partnered with several contemporary artists, faculty and students from VCU as well as local talent to build relevant and far-reaching projects leading up to the October 28...
If you've driven through the Broad and Belvidere intersection at any point in the last year and a few months, you've noticed the construction of a hulking glass and steel building that will soon house VCU's new Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). In a press conference held today, VCU teamed up with BCWH Architects to offer some insight into the...
Anne's Visual Art Studio continues to showcase exhibitions that elevate the discourse of visual art as a living, breathing and evolving mode of creation. Specifically, mixed media artists Francis Scott Horner and Nickolai Walko have come together to deliver turn the Broad st. gallery into an experience that highlights moments of quietness and...
Cheryl Pallant has organized Richmond’s first ever lit crawl, a two-day literary festival scheduled this weekend, where writers will come to venues throughout the city and give public readings from their works. But by becoming the founder of RVA Lit Crawl, Pallant must also brave one big question: Today, when the options for entertainment have a...
Gallery5 has a birthday coming up this weekend and if you’ve ever been to one of their parties, you know they bring the weird, wacky and wonderful. The old firehouse-turned-art space is turning 12 and will celebrate the only way they know how - with fire spinning, a group art show, burlesque, live music and dance tunes in the streets this Friday,...
