We Did It!
Photo by Laura Kamian McDermott
We’ve had an incredible year, with our biggest exhibition ever, our most venues ever, and a record number of artists. It couldn’t have happened without our volunteers, our community partners and our sponsors.
We will need your support in the coming months as we look at feedback and decide how to turn an event like Richmond Open Studios into something sustainable. If you would like to help, in any capacity, please let us know:
Photo by Peitza Hirvonen
Photo by Sarah Calderon
Photo by Sarah Calderon
Photo by Sarah Calderon
Photo by Sarah Calderon
Photo by Sarah Calderon
Photo by Laura Kamian McDermott
Photo by Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez
Photo by Sylvia Y. Ledesma
Artist Gathering: Oct 9
The Visual Artists of Richmond is grateful to Bridge Storage Arts and Events for hosting our October artist gathering at their Gallery from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. We will share the results of the ROS evaluations with you, and artist Brian Conery will give a presentation about his recent art residency in Iceland. Please RSVP early, our last artist gathering welcomed 30 artists and it will help us plan. You can always cancel later!
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) brings together more than 123 visual artist members living in or working in Richmond, California. Our fiscal sponsor is Intersection for The Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We welcome, fabricators, muralists, animators, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, ceramicists, sculptors, printmakers, painters and designers.
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.
VAR was started to promote artists making their art in Richmond and its unincorporated areas, to expand the opportunities available to visual artists in Richmond, and to support such artists through advocacy.
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:
Marvin Perry Mann. Cherry Tree. Oil on canvas.