Analog + Digital Animation (Ages 9–11)
Explore basic animation skills, from the most rudimentary single image (a thaumatrope) to flip books and digital stop-motion animation using a free smartphone app.
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Create a Picture Book (Ages 6-8)
Everyone has a story to tell. Combine character drawings, environments and dialogue to create your very own picture books. This course gets everyone drawing their own characters on the first day, and then dives into techniques for visual storytelling. We'll look at picture books at the beginning of each class for inspiration and create several […]
ViewONSITE: Create a Picture Book (Ages 6-8)
Everyone has a story to tell. Combine character drawings, environments and dialogue to create your very own picture books. This course gets everyone drawing their own characters on the first day, and then dives into techniques for visual storytelling. We’ll create several books using a variety of media and look at picture books at the […]
ViewONSITE: My Book, It Has Three Corners: Triangle Books (This class is only offered twice a year!)
Make three sided books in three hours. This workshop will cover a variety of techniques and covers for constructing triangle books, focusing on accordion book structures.
ViewONSITE: Create a Picture Book (Ages 6-8)
Everyone has a story to tell. Combine character drawings, environments and dialogue to create your very own picture books. This course gets everyone drawing their own characters on the first day, and then dives into techniques for visual storytelling. We’ll create several books using a variety of media and look at picture books at the […]
ViewONSITE: Bookmaking
In this workshop, we will demystify how books are made. We will introduce and explore several techniques of assembling books from scratch, sometimes just using a needle, thread, and paper. By the end of this mini-course students will have several books to take home and a new passion for book art!
ViewQ&A With Richmond Author, Lana Krumwiede, Teacher of VisArts’ Yearlong Novel Writing Class
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond is giving aspiring novelists the perfect opportunity to kick-start their writing careers in 2020. VisArts’ yearlong novel writing class kicks off again this January. In this special class, writers will have the chance to spend an entire year workshopping their writing with Richmond-based author, Lana Krumwiede. Krumwiede is the […]
ViewONSITE: Create a Picture Book (Ages 6-8)
Everyone has a story to tell. Combine character drawings, environments and dialogue to create your very own picture books. This course gets everyone drawing their own characters on the first day, and then dives into techniques for visual storytelling. We’ll create several books using a variety of media and look at picture books at the […]
ViewONSITE: Create a Picture Book (Ages 6-8)
Everyone has a story to tell. Combine character drawings, environments and dialogue to create your very own picture books. This course gets everyone drawing their own characters on the first day, and then dives into techniques for visual storytelling. We'll look at picture books at the beginning of each class for inspiration and create several […]
ViewONSITE: Zines: Artist + Activist Mini Books (Ages 9-11)
Learn the art of making mini-zines. Zines are small books made by artists, activists, and musicians, among others. We'll discuss the history of zines and then make our own.
ViewONSITE: Long Stitch Books in Short Time
Long stitch book bindings are decorative and make wonderful sketchbooks, notebooks, travel journals and scrapbooks. because they are sewn, do not use glue, open flat, and have infinite possibilities. In this introductory one-day workshop, we’ll make books using two different basic long stitch bindings and learn some useful techniques to incorporate into your next bookmaking […]
ViewZines: Artist + Activist Mini Books (Ages 12-14)
Learn the art of making mini-zines. Zines are small books made by artists, activists, and musicians, among others. We'll discuss the history of zines and then make our own.
ViewONSITE: Zines: Artist + Activist Mini Books (Ages 9-11)
Learn about the art of making mini-zines. Zines are basically small books made by artists, activists, and musicians, among others. We'll discuss the history of zines and then make our own, both by hand and on the computer.
ViewZines: Artist + Activist Mini Books (Ages 12-14)
Learn the art of making mini-zines. Zines are small books made by artists, activists, and musicians, among others. We'll discuss the history of zines and then make our own.
ViewONSITE: Wooden Cover Books
Make three unique, blank books and develop skills in both bookbinding and woodworking. We’ll focus on coptic binding as well as wooden and hard covers. Bringing skills and techniques from other mediums is much encouraged in this interdisciplinary bookbinding course.
ViewONSITE: Buttonhole Books
Buttonhole books open flat. They can be made with pockets, inclusions and decorative spines and are perfect sketchbooks, journals, albums or scrapbooks. Learn to make this elegant and versatile book with a partially exposed spine using a buttonhole stitch binding. You’ll leave class with your own handmade book, knowledge to make more and ways to […]
ViewONSITE: Buttonhole Books
Buttonhole books open flat. They can be made with pockets, inclusions and decorative spines and are perfect sketchbooks, journals, albums or scrapbooks. Learn to make this elegant and versatile book with a partially exposed spine using a buttonhole stitch binding. You’ll leave class with your own handmade book, knowledge to make more and ways to […]
ViewONSITE: Zines: Artist + Activist Mini Books (Ages 9-11)
Learn about the art of making mini-zines. Zines are basically small books made by artists, activists, and musicians, among others. We’ll discuss the history of zines and then make our own, both by hand and on the computer.
ViewONSITE: Buttonhole Books
Buttonhole books open flat. They can be made with pockets, inclusions and decorative spines and are perfect sketchbooks, journals, albums or scrapbooks. Learn to make this elegant and versatile book with a partially exposed spine using a buttonhole stitch binding. You’ll leave class with your own handmade book, knowledge to make more and ways to […]
ViewZines: Artist + Activist Mini Books (Ages 9-11)
Learn the art of making mini-zines. Zines are small books made by artists, activists, and musicians, among others. We'll discuss the history of zines and then make our own.
ViewONSITE: Wooden Cover Books
Make three unique, blank books and develop skills in both bookbinding and woodworking. We’ll focus on coptic binding as well as wooden and hard covers. Bringing skills and techniques from other mediums is much encouraged in this interdisciplinary bookbinding course.
ViewONSITE: Zines: Artist + Activist Mini Books (Ages 12-14)
Learn the art of making mini-zines. Zines are small books made by artists, activists, and musicians, among others. We'll discuss the history of zines and then make our own.
ViewLocal Artist Holly Camp Illustrates VisArts’ Winter 2017 Catalog
What do adult coloring books, infertility support greeting cards and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s winter catalog have in common? They’re all illustrated by Richmonder Holly Camp. Camp has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator ever since she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in 2004. “Illustration was always my […]
ViewVisual Arts Center Of Richmond Adds New Studio During Summer 2018 Expansion Project
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond has kicked off a construction project that will add an additional art studio to the facility. Construction begins on July 23 and includes: the consolidation of staff offices, the creation of the new Vivian Keasler Letterpress + Books Arts Studio and the transformation of the current letterpress studio into […]
ViewVisArts to Make World’s Largest Cyanotype on May 20
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for World’s Largest Cyanotype at its spring open house on Saturday, May 20. Play Day, VisArts’ spring open house, runs from noon to 3 p.m. and takes place at the arts center’s 1812 W. Main Street location. The cyanotype will be […]
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