As we look back on 20 years of publishing RVA Magazine, we’re diving into our origins, beginning with our official launch in 2005. That year marked the debut of RVA Magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1, and our April 15th kickoff event at Gallery5. In the process of archiving,...
This month, Ghostprint Gallery will be exhibiting the work of Sterling Hundley. The exhibit coincides with the release of Blue Collar/White Collar, from Adhouse Books. Sweet Bird of Youth Blue Collar/White Collar collects the art of award-winning illustrator and painter Sterling Hundley. This retrospective monograph is embellished with process...
Louis CK Thursday October 20 at The Carpenter Center As a young comedian, Louis CK struggled to achieve a personal sense of accomplishment. It wasn’t until, after 15 years as a comedian, he took a moment to reflect on the craft of comedy icon George Carlin that it all began to make sense for him. He learned to develop an act that he would throw...
Come to Quirk Gallery this Wednesday for an unusual and amazing event in which art will be created before your eyes. Local artists including Emerald Grippa, Jeffrey Alan Love, Bryan Woodland, Sara Gossett, Dan Owen, Marshall Higgins, Harrison and Reed, William Godwin, Eric Scott Pfeiffer, and more, will spend the evening sketching, creating works...
Young Broke And Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide To Living Cheaply by Broke-Ass Stuart (Seven Footer Press) Back before the internet came along and, if not killed, at least greatly diminished it, there used to be a thriving underground zine culture all over this country and the world. Plenty of zines were about underground music and art, but...
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...
