Registration Is Open!
We are excited to announce our 2025 Richmond Open Studios, September 6 & 7, from 11 to 4 pm. Registration closes on June 4. This year, we’ll have five partner venues. There will be one low fee throughout the registration period, $40. We’ll be holding three informational sessions. And we will hold our ROS preview show at the Main Gallery of the Richmond Art Center.
Our Next Gathering: May 10
Our May 10 Artist Gathering will be at the Richmond Art Center from 12-2 pm and will also be a Listening Session for Richmond Renaissance, the organization that will make our upcoming arts corridor a reality. They are working with VAR and the Richmond Art Center as collaborators.
Join us and you will get to describe your vision for our arts corridor and let us know how the corridor should support the arts in Richmond. We are looking forward to your questions, thoughts, and ideas with other members of the Richmond Arts community. We will listen, and share what you and others contribute. Please note that the time is 12-2 pm, in the Painting Studio.
If you are reading this and you are not a VAR member please know that you are more than welcome to join us. As always please, please, please RSVP!
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.
January Artist Gathering at Seaport Studios
2024 Preview Exhibition at the 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.