Featured Illustrator Program

Each year, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond selects four artists to serve as Featured Illustrators. The artists illustrate a catalog and a special illustration project. Selected illustrators are also invited to lead a workshop on the topic of their choice. Take a look at our past featured illustrators.

Illustrators receive a $1,500 honorarium in addition to standard instructor fees associated with teaching a workshop. For the catalog, they are asked to produce one cover illustration and five spot illustrations. The illustration should touch one or more of VisArts’ 11 creative mediums:

  • Clay
  • Design
  • Digital Arts
  • Drawing and Painting
  • Fiber
  • Glass
  • 3D Printing
  • Metalwork and Jewelry
  • Photography
  • Printmaking
  • Sculpture, Wood Art and Furniture Making
  • Writing

In addition to the catalog, selected featured illustrators will design one additional illustration project from the list below:

  • [Work] Exhibition illustration
  • ArtVenture Summer Camp catalog cover illustration
  • Holiday Mini catalog cover illustration
  • Call for Illustrators poster illustration

We are not currently accepting applications for this program. If you have any questions, please email the Marketing + Communications team at [email protected] to learn more.