Art of the African Diaspora 2024

Get Fired up!

Spring has sprung and Richmond Art Center is excited to offer new metal arts demos, studio orientations and workshops showcasing their Jewelry and Metals Studio. Whether you’re a practicing metal artist or a beginner, you’ll find new ways to learn and experiment with jewelry and metalsmithing tools at RAC.

Are you a metals artist looking for studio space? Attend our Jewelry & Metals Studio Orientations to learn about studio safety and use. This prerequisite workshop will then qualify you to register for Open Studio sessions. (Beginner students are welcome at these sessions also!)

New to metal art and jewelry making? Sign up for a range of beginner-friendly workshops to start your metal arts journey.

And stay tuned, Open Studios in the Metals Studio will return this summer! Questions? Email [email protected]

Jewelry & Metals Studio Orientation: Studio Safety and Use Thursday, April 24, 12-2pm

This class covers the basics of operating jeweler’s benches, saws, flex shafts, drills, polishing lathes, shears, rolling mills, hammers, anvils, mandrels, torches, and pickle.The orientation session lasts two hours, followed by an optional two-hour guided lab (2pm-4pm) for further exploration and practice with the tools and techniques covered. Register.

Richmond Art Center gallery hours: Wed-Sat 10am-4pm.

Art of the African Diaspora 2025

Fill your weekend with art. This show runs until March 22. Discover there is a marvelous evolution that brings the Art Of The African Diaspora organization to the public as the longest running event of its kind, within the San Francisco Bay Area’s oldest established Art Center, The Richmond Art Center (RAC). It originated from a salon for African American artists known as Colors of Black that was organized in 1989

In its 28th year, Art of the African Diaspora continues to express and celebrate the creative achievements of artists of African descent. This year, over 150 artists showcase their work at Richmond Art Center, as well as in open studios and satellite exhibitions at different venues around the Bay Area.

Featured here is ‘Resilient Divinity’ by participating artist, Alexis LeAnn Joseph, 2021 – 16 x 20’ Acrylic Medium.

Artistic Achievement Award Winners from 2024 and featured artists in the exhibition are Deborah Butler, Kim Champion, and Carrie Lee McClish.

Richmond Art Center gallery hours: Wed-Sat 10am-4pm.  Closing Party: Saturday, March 22, 2-4pm

Fill your weekend with art. Now in its 27th year, Art of the African Diaspora continues to express and celebrate the creative achievements of artists of African descent. Over 150 artists showcase their work at Richmond Art Center, as well as in open studios and satellite exhibitions at different venues around the Bay Area. The exhibit runs through March 16, 2024.

Artistic Achievement Award Winners from 2023/2024 and featured artists in the exhibition are John Broussard, Valerie Brown-Troutt, Stacy Mootoo, Deborah Butler, Kim Champion and Carrie Lee McClish.

The exhibition also includes a special tribute to the late Hilda Robinson, a beloved artist whose vivid pastels captured joy, love of family, and community in celebrations of life.