Registration for Richmond Open Studios 2026 Opens March 1!
Watch this page for more information soon, or sign up for our newsletter. Registration will end on April 30. Our Made in Richmond exhibition will be in Richmond Art Center’s Main Mallery again this year. We have three partner venues, Richmond Art Center, Richmond Museum of History and Culture and NIAD Art Center. This year we will hold ROS over two weekends:
August 8-9 for Individual Studios
August 15-16 for Artist Collectives
August 15 for Partner Venues
Help Choose the Next Richmond Arts and Culture Manager!
This very short, anonymous survey (just 6 questions!) aims to collect community input so that City staff can be aware of community priorities as they shape the selection process for our next Arts and Culture Manager.
If you want to make your opinion count, please fill it out today. A group of 11 artists met on Monday with City staff, and learned they are moving fast to disseminate this job announcement. We will be sharing the survey results with City staff by Monday, February 9.
E Bond. Letterpress Experiment.
Visual Artists of Richmond (VAR) brings together more than 132 visual artist members living in or working in Richmond, California. Our fiscal sponsor is Independent Arts and Media, 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.
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
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.