Category Archive: presenter

B+D7: Heath Matysek-Snyder

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Holy clampage, Beerman! If the evil-doers of Dry-County get ahold of this hop-neutralizing device B+D is done for! Fear not, boy-wonder, its merely a lesson in end-table technique by B+D:7 presenter Heath Matysek-Snyder!… Continue reading

B+D7: Phoenix Handcraft

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  Phoenix Handcraft sees the forest for the trees. While Kyle Lucia and Johanna Willsey create hand forged metalworks and crafted mosaics, they realize that their talents thrive through collaboration. This shared approach doesn’t… Continue reading

B+D7: Burt Pinnock

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Baskervill’s Burt Pinnock designs from memory. He works somewhere in the tissue between striving for a more inclusive tomorrow and remembering locally difficult yesterdays. Community-minded and a collaborative expert, he excels with various project types including… Continue reading

B+D7: Heath Matysek-Snyder

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Heath Matysek-Snyder, returned to his Ram roots and currently creating and inspiring at VCU’s Department of Craft/Material Studies, is a wood traveler. That’s right – Heath’s used the pulpy medium during internships, explorations, and endeavors in craft… Continue reading

B+D7: Phoenix Handcraft

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  Kyle Lucia and Johannah Willsey’s Phoenix Handcraft studio celebrates old materials fused with new. He’s a blacksmith, she’s a mosaic artist and both derive the greatest satisfaction from collaborative projects. They lead… Continue reading

B+D7: Homegrown

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Join us for an evening of Homegrown design, art, and craft. Thanks to our friends at Isley Brewing in Scott’s Addition for sharing their space and homegrown offerings.  Keep an eye on Facebook,… Continue reading

B+D6 Recap: Briget Ganske

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Briget Ganske was kind enough to share her entire presentation (including narration!) for all to enjoy.  It is 10 minutes of brilliant storytelling and visual poetry.  So whether you missed B+D6: Tall Tales,… Continue reading

B+D6

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Briget Ganske’s photography and documentary film-making talents carry her all over the world, including the James River. Her film Belle Isle with Retired James River Park System manager Ralph White recently won 2nd… Continue reading

B+D6; Amy Black

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If winning Style Weekly’s “Best Tattoo Artist” Reader’s Poll in 2011, 2012, and 2013, One of Richmond Magazine’s Best Tattoo Parlors 2011, RVA Mag’s “Best Local Tattoo Artist” in their 2012 Reader’s Poll, and… Continue reading

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+D 6: Kelly O’Keefe

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  What can you say about a Richmond-er who helped found the VCU Brand Center, is cited by Bill Gates, and rubs shoulders with these guys? Not as much as Kelly O’Keefe can… 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+D5 is in the books.

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Dan Zimmerman from Alloy Workshop, presenting to a capacity crowd at B+D5: Hammer & Pencil.  Thanks to John White and Heather Grutzius from 510, as well as Marie and Keith Zawistowksi from OnSite Architecture… Continue reading

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: Brian Barker

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Brian Barker’s creative talents outsize the theatah. He’s talented in advertising, creative identity, photography, and he apparently knows about slime. Find out more tomorrow at Beer+Design 5: Hammer & Pencil.  5:30pm, September 18th at… Continue reading

B+D 5: Keith and Marie Zawistowski

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Keith and Marie Zawistowski’s design/build LAB students help guide trusses into place at the Covington Farmer’s Market. There’s more to this story to be told at Beer+Design 5: Hammer & Pencil  at Balliceaux’s… Continue reading

B+D5: 510_

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  What are they doing in there? Collaborating with former B+D presenters Tektonics Design Group and fellow B+D5 presenters Keith and Marie Zawistowski and the VT design/build LAB team. Come here more from… Continue reading