Or The First Time I Learned How Fear Works Ed. note: This memory came back to me in the middle of the night, and it felt connected to the way fear shapes people and systems right now. It’s just a moment from childhood that suddenly made a lot more sense as an adult....
Happiest of Tuesdays, RVA comic fans! Welcome back to yet another week of comics, news, and pop culture in a one-stop shop that we call the RVA Mag Comics X-Change. April has been a pretty busy month, between various Marvel casting news (Stranger Things’ David Harbour is going to join the forthcoming Black Widow film? What?!), everyone and their...
For MK Abadoo, a professor in VCU's Department of Dance & Choreography, the art of interpretive dance is inseparable from the day-to-day struggle to fight racism and build stronger communities. 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the first time enslaved people were brought to Virginia. 2019 is also the year Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney...
Celebrating their new issue with silkscreens and face paint, VCU's INK Magazine took over the ICA for First Friday. INK Magazine celebrated the release of their new publication, INK Magazine Volume 11: The Camp Issue, at The Institute of Contemporary Art as part of ICA's First Friday celebrations on Friday, April 5. The completely free event...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #36, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. The work of illustrator and artist Abigail Larson is what you’d get if you mixed Neil Gaiman and Mary Shelley together with a mystical, wonderful paint brush. From paintings to comic book covers -- and even a tarot deck, currently in the works --...
Involving dancers of all body types and embracing inclusivity and diversity, Company 360 works to make dance empowering and accessible for all. Bailey Anne Vincent might make you cry when you see her dance company on stage. “We do tend to go for as much emotion as possible. We tend to make people cry,” Vincent laughed. According to their website,...
The return of Raven Mack's Southern Gothic Futurist Haiku Slam finds local poets going head-to-head in 17-syllable bursts. On Friday, March 29, Charlottesville poet, writer, and zine creator Raven Mack brought his long-running haiku tournament back to Richmond for the first time in 2019. Now known as the Southern Gothic Fvtvrist Haikv Slam, it's...
In their first showcase, Richmond's Snap Soup Dance mixed choreography and film to create a moving representation of the post-collegiate struggle. On Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, Snap Soup Dance held “Dance Film Animation,” their first showcase of modern dance, choreography, dance film and animation, at Dogtown Dance Theatre in...
The second annual Intersectional Wonder Womxn Art Show will bring an intersectional lens to the world of feminist art at Studio Two Three next month. There’s a wonder woman in all of us, and the perfect way to realize and celebrate this is coming next month. The second annual Intersectional Wonder Womxn Art Show Vol. 2: Truthsayer will celebrate...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #36, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. “The first time I feel like I really internalized what art was…” with that, Chris Visions begins the story of his first art teacher -- his mother -- sketching out a rose. The setting of the story was Visions’ grandmother’s kitchen, where Al Green...
