Our Next Gathering
Our Tuesday, January 14 Artist Gathering will be at Seaport Studios, 6:30-8:00 pm. This gathering will be our opportunity to learn more about this collective space and its thriving artist community. If you know you’ll be in town that day, don’t miss the chance to RSVP right now with the button below. RSVPs help us plan! You can always cancel later if you can’t make it.
A grassroots community of artists in Richmond California.
Our overall goal is to create opportunities to celebrate and promote our work, share resources, and support each other's art practices via two projects:
Six artist gatherings per year let us network with other visual artists, learn of new opportunities and discuss topics of relevance to artist living or working in this community.
An independent online directory, free to artists who live or work in Richmond. This directory serves as a single source of artists in our area, allowing potential clients, collectors, colleagues and organizations to learn more about the art made within our city.
An annual Richmond Open Studios, enabling almost 50 participating Richmond artists to sell directly to the public and giving art lovers in West Contra Costa the chance to learn about the visual arts thought studio visits and conversations with artists.
March 6 Artist Gathering at Rich City Gallery
June 29 Preview Exhibition at Richmond Art Center
E Bond. Letterpress Experiment.
Visual Artists of Richmond (VAR) is a fiscally-sponsored project bringing together more than 75 visual artist members living in or working in Richmond, California. VAR’s leadership is made of five artist volunteers. Our fiscal sponsor is Intersection for The Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In our group there is cultural and ethnic diversity, various age groups, high and low socioeconomic levels and emergent as well as established working artists.
Artists: Get Promoted!
If you have a profile in our directory, we’ll be happy to promote your shows or art classes! And if you are an artist but not a VAR member, listings are just $10. Listings are free for our community partners!
All you need to do is fill out our form and email us your images with captions:
Betsy Kellas. Ceramic Bowl.