Earlier this year, Virginia Repertory Theatre came dangerously close to closing its doors. After facing a potential shutdown, the company rallied with help from more than 1,500 donors who raised over $600,000 to keep it alive. Now, Virginia Rep is celebrating its...
Our man with the camera, Todd Raviotta, is really carving out a niche for himself with his photoanimations documenting the goings-on in the RVA art scene. These combinations of thousands of still photos into videos that come damn close to approximating the speed and smooth movements of film never fail to capture my attention. And of course, it's...
The G40 Art Summit presented by Art Whino and RVA Magazine celebrated its opening here in RVA on April 6 as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Over the course of that weekend, several big events were held at multiple spaces along Broad St, centered around the temporarily installed G40 Gallery, located at 115 W. Broad St. A massive amount of art,...
Richmond artist Mickael Broth, a former graffiti artist who became a fine artist and sign painter after serving a 10-month jail sentence beginning in 2004, has spent the last year working on Gated Community, a memoir detailing his experiences with incarceration and the relevance of his personal story to society at large. Now, beginning on...
This was an amazing weekend for RVA. The RVA Street Art Festival lived up to the bill. The weather was perfect and tons of Richmonders came out to see some of the best artist from RVA and around the country. Ed Trask, Jon Baliles, and the team that organized this amazing weekend should be very proud. The artist could not have been more...
Yesterday was an amazing day for the RVA Street Art Festival. The weather was amazing and RVA took full advantage. This event is really a “festival” in every way. There are beer trucks, food carts, entertainment, all kinds of stuff going on. Today is the last day – so travel down to the wall by Black Finn and check it out. Yesterday was an...
The RVA Street Art Festival is underway. Ed Trask has brought to RVA some of the best artists from around the country and they are doing it at the Shockoe Bottom Flood Wall Power Plant (the part of the flood wall right by Black Finn). I went down twice yesterday to take the first round of Cheats Movement Photos. I will be down there again today —...
What once was a decrepit skeleton of steel and concrete in the shadow of Shockoe Bottom is now a canvas illuminated with brilliant colors and detail by local and non-local muralist for the first ever RVA Street Art Fest. Along the Kanawha Canal, 14 street artists from around the country are busy carefully constructing their masterpiece on this...
April 15 is not a Friday this year, nor is it ever the first of whatever day of the week it happens to be (Sunday, this year). In fact, for many people (independent contractors like myself definitely included), April 15 is the most dreaded day of the year--the day federal taxes must be filed. Oh no! We're in luck, though, because this year we'll...
This past Friday my twitter feed was abreast with updates and information about the G40 Art Summit and that evening’s openings at the galleries on Broad Street. It’s no news to anyone in Richmond that First Fridays has seen its ups and downs, but given the success of the G40 project and all of the musical events planned in conjunction with the...
