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The Art Your Walls Need Exhibit – Opens Fri Apr 26, on view through Sat May 18
Boyd Realty - The Art Your Walls Need: SHOW DATES: Friday, April 26, 2024 - Saturday, May 18, 2024 - Metro Richmond Artists Displays The Art Your Walls Need Discover the transformative power of art. Hosted by Boyd Realty, this exhibition is a celebration of creativity and diversity. We bring…
Upcoming Meeting – May 11, 2024 – Still Life & Outdoor Painting
Mark your calendars for May's MRAA Meeting. This month we'll be painting and sketching! We'll have a still life set up in the library's activity room, or you can set up anywhere around the East Franklin Street Library. There's a lot of great architecture, and a park behind it, Linden Row Inn…
Upcoming Meeting – April 13, 2024 – Member Share
Are you working on anything interesting? Come and share your artwork with other MRAA members for advice and feedback!
Upcoming Meeting – March 9, 2024 – Julia Pfaff
Come and listen to renowned quilter Julia Pfaff deliver a lecture titled "My Art - My Craft" about the history and growth of her work. Julia E. Pfaff is a recipient of a 2019-2020 Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine art and an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from…
Upcoming Meeting – February 10, 2024 – Diego Sanchez
"This body of work continues to reflect my interest in finding a comfortable place between representational and non-representational elements in the picture plane. Initially, my approach to painting is purely intuitive." Our February meeting will feature a talk by artist Diego Sanchez. Diego was born in Bogota, Columbia, South America…
Upcoming Meeting – January 13, 2024 – Robin Caspari and a Field Trip!
Our January 13th meeting will be a field trip out to Running Mare Farm in Maidens, VA to visit the studio of award-winning artist, Robin Caspari. Robin is an oil painter who uses a combination of tradition and abstract techniques to create each piece. She will be demonstrating the use…
Annual Member’s Show 2023 Continues Through Dec 29th
Our annual member's show is now on display! View members' artwork at one of Richmond's premier galleries, Crossroads Art Center. Our judge, Diego Sanchez, selected the following for awards: AWARDS: 1st Place Ribbon: “Peonies Abound” by Amy Myers 2nd Place Ribbon: “Group Portrait“ by Paul Candido 3rd Place Ribbon: “A…
Monthly Meeting – October 14, 2023 – Asian Brush Painting with Minh Chau Truong
One of our own members, Minh Chau Truong, will do a presentation entitled, "Bamboo and Pine in Asian Brush Painting”. She will discuss how these two evergreens are represented in Asian Brush Painting (or sumi-e in Japanese). After her talk she will demonstrate bamboo painting. Join us to learn and…
Monthly Meeting – September 9, 2023 – Acrylic Ink Demo/Talk With Monica Rao
We hope you've had a relaxing and creative summer! We're excited to start again our monthly meeting series. To kick things off Monica Rao will be giving a demo and talk about acrylic ink. Monica Rao joins us for our first meeting of the MRAA year to tell us of…
Participate in Art for the Journey’s upcoming annual gala!
Art for the Journey is a local nonprofit that promotes healing and well-being through art and community. During our May 2023 monthly meeting members Cindy Paullin & Lauren Paullin, Ed.M. gave a great presentation about the organization and the work they are doing. Art of the Journey is having their…