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90 registered artists at our 2025 Richmond Open Studios is a record-breaking number! This year, artists will be showing their work at their studios and at four partner venues on Sept 6 and 7. Our four partner venues are the Richmond Art Center, the NIAD Art Center, the Richmond Museum of History and Culture and Point Richmond Gallery.
Made in Richmond is the name of our preview exhibition, showing work of 80 participating artists. The show opens July 9 - September 6 at the Main Gallery of the Richmond Art Center. The opening reception is on July 12, from 1 - 3 pm,
Our Next Artist Gathering:
July 16 at The Factory Bar
It’s summer and we have chosen a business that is doing a lot for our artist community as the place where we will gather on Wed July 16, 5:30 to 8:00 pm. Registered artists, this will be a chance to collect promotional materials for the Richmond Open Studios.
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.