Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week we’re featuring two...
From body snatchers to windowless basement clinics, the history of African-American health care in Virginia is an ugly one. And as The Valentine's Controversy/History series revealed last week, some of those problems are still all-too-prevalent today. Beliefs based in pseudoscience made access to Virginia’s healthcare system harder for...
Becoming the Virginia Museum Of Contemporary Art's new Executive Director is a homecoming of sorts for Norfolk native Gary Ryan. Born into a family of artists, Norfolk native Gary Ryan was destined to make a name for herself in the art world -- even it wasn’t in the most obvious way. The new director for the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art...
Welcome back, fellow comic book fans! Here comes the newest installment of your go-to column for what is new and coming in the land of comics. This week we are over-analyzing the quickest Avengers: Endgame teaser trailer we could have asked for. and topping it off with some nice and cute recommendations just in time for Valentine’s Day. So cuddle...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #35, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. Chris Smart is a photographer, artist, and visual engineer based in Richmond, Virginia. In Smart’s work, he brings to life the physical and metaphysical connections we all have with our surroundings. “We are constantly on the hunt for a connection,...
Using art as a platform, 1708 Gallery’s latest public project participates in the process of reclamation, cultural continuity, and community engagement present within historic Jackson Ward. This multi-site project consists of an off-site billboard in Jackson Ward, in-gallery research, and a public forum, which took place on Saturday, January 19....
Good afternoon, comic book fans of the greater River City! Welcome back to another solid issue of RVA Mag’s Comics X-Change, where we take a look at the new comics you need to dive into on New Comic Book Day, and talk about the hottest topics in comics culture. This week we have two exciting things going on. We sat down with local comic book...
Cathcart's mural exhibition at BOJUart Gallery is a great example of the growing artistic scene in Virginia Beach's ViBe Creative District. It’s the first First Friday of 2019 in Virginia Beach's ViBe Creative District, and Nico Cathcart is beginning her live mural; a 25-ft long stretch of wood, located in the main room of BOJUart Gallery. On it,...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #35, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. Author and academic Julietta Singh flunked out of college on her first try. Now almost 20 years later, she’s a tenured professor at the University of Richmond, and she’s authored two books -- both released in 2018. After spending over a decade in the...
Good afternoon, comics fans! Welcome to not only the first Comic X-Change issue of the new year, but the big whopper - Issue Number 10! For such a special issue, and to kick this brand new year off right, I decided to reach out to one of my very best comic friends and gurus, Kevin Smith of Third Eye Comics in Mechanicsville. This issue, we’ve got...
