January 15, – March 21, 2010
Fragments of Our Imagination: Robin Kranitzky and Kim Overstreet
Opening Friday, January 15, 2010, Fragments of Our Imagination: Narrative Jewelry by the Collaborative Partnership of Kranitzky & Overstreet surveys the creations of a pair of Richmond artists. The collaboration between Robin Kranitzky and Kim Overstreet began more than 20 years ago when a mutual interest in found objects sparked the beginning of their jewelry venture, Lost & Found. They started creating one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces from objects scavenged and saved, and sold pieces from this collection during the 1980s at Miller & Rhoads, Thalhimer’s, and the Visual Arts Center’s (then the Hand Workshop) annual Craft + Design Show, among local venues.
Robin Kranitzky earned her BFA in Crafts from Virginia Commonwealth University, majoring in ceramics. Kim Overstreet received her graphic design training at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke. The pair met when both worked at retailer Miller and Rhoads, collaborating in the store’s advertising department. They left Miller and Rhoads in 1985 to pursue creation of their Lost & Found designs full time.
Their exquisitely detailed, narrative brooches are sought after by major collectors and included in permanent museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The exhibition continues in the True F. Luck Gallery through March 21, 2010. Support for the exhibition is provided in part by Altria Group, Inc. Fragments of Our Imagination: Narrative Jewelry by the Collaborative Partnership of Kranitzky & Overstreet is presented in conjunction with Minds Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts, the first statewide celebration of its kind. Between March and June of 2010, thousands of special events will occur to honor contributions by women to arts and culture.
April 9, 2010 – June 6, 2010
Mourning Portraits: Loren Schwerd
The November/December 2008 FiberArts cover artist from Baton Rouge will visit for a site-specific installation utilizing fibers and artificial hair and memorializing homes and businesses lost in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Coordinated with Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts Statewide initiative organized through Virginians for the Arts March – June 2010
June 25, 2010 – August 1, 2010
[Work]
Annual exhibition of works in all media by the faculty, staff and artist board members of the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. More than 60 artists have participated annually.
August 20, 2010 – October 24, 2010
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa 1950 – Present
Organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the work on display is by eighteen South African photographers and video artists from four generations who primarily lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994).
