Category Archive: art

B+D6: Visual Arts Center

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This place. Inside. 5:30 pm tonight. 1812 West Main Street. See you there!  

B+D6: Briget Ganske

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What started with borrowing a camera from her grandparents at age 16 has manifested itself in opportunities to travel, teach and share through documentary storytelling.  Briget Ganske’s photographic and film making journey traverses four… Continue reading

B+D6: Visual Arts Center of Richmond

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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond has been fostering creativity and community engagement for 50 years.  That’s a long time, people.  Take a stroll through their facility in The Fan and you’ll meet… Continue reading

B+D6: Amy Black

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  Huddled above the Cary Street glam promenaders, Amy Black  harkens us back to an image of old Richmond. Before we were the bike racers, the river town of the year, the flying squirrels, in… Continue reading

B+D6: Briget Ganske

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Briget Ganske pulls you quietly into a space, an opportunity, or an adventure. Through her photography and films, she invokes your senses and your own remembered experiences to take part in a way antithetical… Continue reading

B+D6: Tall Tales

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Join us for an evening of storytelling and embellishment.  Our friends at the Visual Arts Center open their art-filled home and the good folks from Three Brothers Brewing pour us a few.

B+D 5: 510_

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Heather Grutzius and John White’s 510_ visions include not just the process of how they make, but how that creative process looks, how it feels to manipulate the tools of their trade. They… Continue reading

B+D5: Balliceaux

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photo by RVA news Balliceaux owners Steve and Lanie Gratz reworked a popular Fan watering hole into a place you’d be proud to take your design-minded out-of-towners. Big sliding door, check. Concrete niches for… Continue reading

B+D4: Shaun Irving

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Shaun Irving‘s cameratruck lens looks a bit more U-Haul than Nikon. Learn more about the one of the only apertures capable of helping transport a sofa at Beer+Design 4: Get In Here, May… Continue reading

B+D4: Tom Rodriguez

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Its owner never picked up Tom Rodriguez’s first commissioned guitar. So others picked it up and played it, and ordered their own when Tom wouldn’t sell the original. The rest is a sweet sounding… Continue reading

B+D4: Shaun Irving’s Cameratruck

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One of Shaun Irving’s big ideas: find a box truck + drill hole + capture large format black and white images of his travels = Cameratruck. His work harkens historic images, vagabond high… Continue reading

B+D4: Craig Dodson & Richmond Cycling Corps

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Craig Dodson leads Richmond Cycling Corps – a non-profit whose goal is to get youth out of public housing projects. Lofty. How? The bicycle. Think broadly, think art, think mechanics, think long rides… Continue reading

B+D4: Tom Rodriguez

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Tom Rodriguez of Rodriguez Guitars quietly employs materials formula one racers flaunt. His interest in classical and Flamenco guitars manifests itself in a limtied number of finely detailed and crafted built works each… Continue reading

Nelly Kate and Dave Watson’s Interstitial Transduction

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  To describe Nelly Kate and Dave Watson’s Interstitial Transduction, the People’s Choice Award winner at the 2012 InLight Festival? How about interactive sound image sculptural with electric pick-ups on a leaf tree… Continue reading

Storefront For Community Design

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  Part studio, part community center, Storefront For Community Design also houses Middle of Broad Studio, a VCU Arts program centered on community design. Always a dynamic space, Storefront and MOB go into… Continue reading

Nelly Kate

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Nelly Kate Anderson is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia.  Her interests span a variety of genres and include music, photography, writing, and animation.  Her latest album, ish ish, was released last year… Continue reading

Beer+Design 3: Get Outta Here

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Make plans to attend our next installment – B+D3: Get Outta Here.  This will mark our third outing, and we are pleased to rebottle it under the Beer+Design label.  Stay tuned here and… Continue reading