New Richmond Filmmakers: Removal of The Eye
Friday, April 3rd, 6:00 pm at the ICA | Zoom Q&A with directors Prashanth Kamalakanthan and Artemis Shaw hosted by VCUarts Cinema Professor Yossera Bouchtia
KI Mixtape Listening Party
Thursday, April 2nd, 6:00 pm at the Seipel Gallery | The Department of Kinetic Imaging is pleased to present the KI Mixtape, a curated range of student sound art including: soundscapes, experimental sound, narrative audio, live code, music, performance recordings, and more!
A Space Between Beginning | 2026 BFA Photography Senior Capstone Exhibition Opening Reception
Friday, April 3rd, 5:00 - 8:00 pm at the Anderson | The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to present A Space Between Beginning, the 2026 BFA Senior Capstone Exhibition for the Photography + Film program.
Lecture | Paul Rucker: How to Succeed in the Arts Without Really Trying
Saturday, April 4th, 3:00 pm at the ICA | Rucker will use factual information interwoven with satire to talk about his personal journey from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum to opening his own art museum, from his first grant of $200 to multimillion-dollar grants from foundations. This lecture will include Rucker performing on cello and bass as well as an interactive performance lecture that invites audience engagement.
Workshop| RISO Animation Workshop
Friday, April 3rd, 3:00pm at the Pollak Building (Room 317) | The workshop will cover how to output frames, create contact sheets, and reassemble them into a final animation.
Envelope | Beto Ladarlo: Death to Machismo
Saturday, April 4th - Friday, April 24th| For the exhibit at Envelope, Beto is presenting a series of nine portraits that are part of an ongoing project called “Death to Machismo,” in which he examines how male-identifying individuals in the Latinx community create their own concepts of masculinity that deviate from the toxic notions of machismo.
Candela Gallery | Daytona - Larry W. Cook
Friday, March 6th - Saturday, April 18th | Larry W. Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and archivist working across photography, video, and mixed media.
Candela Gallery | she sees, pictured as she pictures - Natalie Krick
Friday, March 6th - Saturday, April 18th | Natalie Krick is a Seattle based interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the medium of photography, visual perception and pleasure through a feminist lens.
Eric Schindler Gallery | Tracey St.Peter: All My Monkeys Are Cats
Friday, March 20th - Saturday, April 18th | All My Monkeys Are Cats is a meditation on chaos, care, survival, and the fragile structures we inhabit.
1708 Gallery | Isabella Whitfield: Present Perfect
Friday, March 6th - Sunday, April 19th | Present Perfect asks how to move forward when the present feels dictated by an impermeable past and the future appears increasingly calcified: a collapse of destiny into fate.
Bond Millen Gallery | Reach
Thursday, March 5th - Saturday, April 18th | A trio exhibition featuring the work of Jackie Battenfield, Kazaan Viveiros, and Naomi McCavitt, with works that explore the forms, structures, and visual language of trees, branches, flowers, and botanical life.
VMFA | Alvin Lester: Portraits of Jackson Ward and Beyond
Friday, February 13th - Tuesday, May 5th | This exhibition showcases 20 portraits photographed by Alvin Lester in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when he set out to capture the people and businesses that defined Richmond's historic Jackson Ward, as well as nearby neighborhoods such as Northside and Church Hill.
VMFA | Titus Kaphar and Junius Brutus Stearns: Pictures More Famous than the Truth
Saturday, February 14th - Sunday, July 26th | Titus Kaphar and Junius Brutus Stearns: Pictures More Famous than the Truth juxtaposes famous 19th-century paintings of George Washington with contemporary portraits and sculptural works that offer 21st-century perspectives of those same subjects.
ART 180 | Black Queer GRITS
Friday, March 27th - Friday, April 17th | The show celebrates the power of artistic expression as tools for reflection, resistance, and collective healing. featuring original polaroid photographs from the broader BQG photovoice project alongside works by community artists.
ICA | 2026 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition - Round 1
Friday, March 20th - Sunday, April 5th | The 2026 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition will premiere cutting-edge works from twenty-eight emerging artists and designers, representing the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts departments of Craft/Material Studies, Graphic Design, Kinetic Imaging, Painting + Printmaking, Photography + Film, and Sculpture + Extended Media.
"Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World" (2026) Film Screening
Friday, April 3rd at 8:00 pm at the Grace Street Theater
James River Film Festival
Sunday, March 29th - Saturday, April 4th | The 32nd annual James River Film Festival (JRFF), established in 1994, is a volunteer-run festival celebrating independently produced film and video, featuring a diverse lineup of avant-garde, experimental, cult, and classic art house cinema.
Performance | Shoz, Sweet Wreath (AL), Caleb Flood, Hyphaen
Friday, April 3rd, 7:00 pm at 1609 W Main St | Artists: Shoz, Sweet Wreath (AL), Caleb Flood, Hyphaen
Discussion | Common Good(s): The Forecast for Public Arts and Media
Thursday, April 2nd from 6:00 pm at The Valentine | The Controversy?History series invites Richmonders to take stock of the city’s most pressing issues. Come join for a conversation about the landscape of public, independent, and community-supports arts organizations in Richmond.
Workshop | Walking with Awareness
Sunday, April 5th at 2:00 pm at Ours | A participatory workshop on psychogeography and talk on community involvement in Urban Design in Richmond.
Call for Entries | “Make Space” Exhibition with RVA Fatties
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 15th | Gallery5 is looking for fat artists and creators of Richmond (and surrounding areas) to participate in a group exhibition offering visibility and celebration to the artists themselves.
Call for Submissions | Photography Contest: Sharing and Caring Cities - Portraits of Collective Urban Life
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 15th | The Penn Institute for Urban Research invites photographers and visual storytellers around the world to enter our 10th annual photo contest.
Artist Residency | Olympic Heritage
Application Deadline: Monday, April 30th | This initiative provides artists with the opportunity to take part in three-month residencies at either institution to develop innovative, boundary-pushing artworks that deepen public engagement with Olympic culture and heritage.
Grant | The Hopper Prize
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 12th | The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis.
Call for Submissions | EMERGE Student Exhibition
Submission deadline: Thursday, April 23rd | Bond Millen Gallery is excited to announce the open-call for their tenth annual emerging artist exhibition. There is no theme to the EMERGE exhibition. We treat each year like a survey, encouraging a range of perspectives, concepts, and applications of the fine arts. We welcome young artists practicing in different media such as painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, craft, etc to apply.