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Wednesday, March 29

Celebrate Women's History Month at VMFA

March is Women’s History Month, and VMFA’s growing collection includes the voices and stories of women artists across time and cultures. Throughout March,...

RVA Arts District , Free
Creative Art- Butterflies
Richmond Public Library

Celebrate National Butterfly Week and come make some beautiful butterflies with your creativity. Directions provided.

RVA Downtown , Free
Studio Time

Join our CMoR Play Guides every Wednesday from 2:30 – 3:30pm in the Art Studio for structured craft time. We’ll explore new materials and creative skills...

Take & Make: Create on Canvas
Richmond Public Library

Check out our take and make kits for tweens/teens ages 10-18! This month's kits include supplies and suggestions to make a unique piece of art on...

RVA West End , Free
The Art of Housing

Tickets to The Art of Housing, our eighth annual signature event, are available now. Join us for a casual and fun atmosphere, great food, a fabulous venue,...

Henrico , $$
Westover Teens: Mystery Kit
Richmond Public Library

Visit Westover Hill’s young adult section to check out our take and make kits! This month’s kit is a mystery grab bag, visit Westover Hills to find out what...

RVA Southside , Free
Youth Art Month
Richmond Public Library

Stop by any of our Richmond Public Libraries during the month of March to see some amazing art by Richmond Public School Students.

RVA Downtown , Free
Library of Virginia Exhibition | 200 Years, 200 Stories
Library of Virginia
9am

The Library of Virginia, one of the oldest state libraries and archives in the nation, will mark its bicentennial in 2023 with a free exhibition — 200 Years,...

RVA Downtown , Free
Andras Bality, View From Middlebrook Mountain, 2022, Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches
Reynolds Gallery
10am

Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce Andras Bality: Terroir, a solo exhibition of new paintings at our Main Street location. The exhibition will open...

RVA The Fan , Free
Carlton Newton, Drawing 2, 2020, Brush and opaque ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches/Esther Ruiz, Well XXXIII (left), 2022, Neon, acrylic, MDF, hardware, paint, 27.25 x 23.5 x 3.5 inches, edition of 5
Reynolds Gallery
10am

Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce Carlton Newton and Esther Ruiz: Shapes in Space, a two-person exhibition of drawings and sculpture at our Main Street...

RVA The Fan , Free
English Language Acquisition ELA class (pre-registration is required)
Richmond Public Library
10am

English Language Acquisition (ELA) Richmond Public Schools Adult Services program offers ELA classes (also known as ESL) for two semesters each year. ...

RVA Southside , Free
FORGING FREEDOM, JUSTICE, and EQUALITY 40th Anniversary Exhibition
Black History Museum and Cultural Center
10am

Forging Freedom, Justice, and Equality is a riveting interactive, multi-themed immersion into the Black experience in the history of the Commonwealth of...

Ashland, Charles City, Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Hopewell, New Kent, Petersburg, Powhatan, RVA Arts District, RVA Downtown, RVA East End, RVA Northside, RVA Southside, RVA West End, RVA The Fan, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Fluvanna County , $
Book Babies Storytime
Richmond Public Library
10:30am

Join us at the West End Branch for a storytime full of songs, stories, movement, and play - perfect for babies and younger toddlers up to 17 months with a...

RVA West End , Free
Family Storytime
Richmond Public Library
10:30am

Join us at the Broad Rock Library for Storytime, perfect for children aged 0 - 5!

RVA Southside , Free
Toddler Time
Richmond Public Library
10:30am

Join us for fun and interactive stories, music and play for ages 18-36 months with their caregiver.

RVA West End , Free
Chester Artists Association: Impressions of Spring
Perkinson Center for the Arts & Education
11am

Saturday, February 18, 2023 through Saturday April 1, 2023 Please join us to see this collection of art from the Chester Artists Association. The...

Chesterfield , Free
LovingPsyche
Art Works Gallery
11am

We are putting winter behind us and preparing for spring with the annual Recycle Show. This year we plan on contributing and donating a project of recycle...

RVA Downtown, RVA Southside , Free
DysFUNctional Beauty by Danielle Escadero
Artspace
12pm

Three solo exhibitions that examine contrasting themes of beauty and disruption will be on view at the nonprofit gallery in Richmond, VA Artspace...

Free
JOB SEARCH & TRAINING, RESUME HELP: Office of Community Wealth Building Barrier Navigator Office Hours
Richmond Public Library
2pm

Visit the Career Station in YOUR Community! Come talk to a Barrier Navigator about the Office of Community Wealth Building's workforce development programs,...

RVA Southside , Free
Movie Matinees @ West End Branch Library:  The Outfit  (2022)
Richmond Public Library
2pm

Enjoy a movie with us that you may have missed at the theater! Synopsis: An expert cutter must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a...

RVA West End , Free
Office of Community Wealth Building Barrier Navigator Office Hours
Richmond Public Library
2pm

Come talk to a Barrier Navigator about the Office of Workforce Development's programs.

RVA Southside , Free
Share Your RPL Stories and Memories @ West End Branch
Richmond Public Library
2pm

Richmond Public Library is celebrating one hundred years in RVA! Has the library been a part of you and/or your family's life? Has the library or its...

RVA West End , Free
Homework Help & Reading Together
Richmond Public Library
3:30pm

Help with reading and homework! ¡Ayuda con la tarea escolar y la lectura!

RVA Southside , Free
Chalk Up the Lot
Richmond Public Library
4:30pm

Celebrate Youth Arts Month by helping us add some color to the East End Library's parking lot! Together, we'll color a section of the parking lot using...

RVA East End , Free
A Woman's Place is in the House...of Delegates
6pm

In 1923 the first women won election to the Virginia House of Delegates. In the century since then, 109 women have served in the House, with a record number...

BlackGrounds #1, Lectures in Art History: Cherise Smith
6pm

BlackGrounds is a new lecture series co-presented by VCUarts’s department of Art History and the ICA at VCU.

Free
Happy Hour Poetry
Firehouse Theatre
6pm

HAPPY HOUR POETRY Wed March 29 @ 6pm $5 suggested donation at the door ​ Break out of the work week routine with a dose of hot verse at...

RVA The Fan , $
MURRMUR: [NAME] INEVITABLE OBJECTS WORKSHOP
6pm

This workshop aims to use Rafael Domenech’s exhibition The Medium is the Massage as an invitation to local artists and students to explore the ways in which...

Free
"Art, Community, and Wellbeing" Gallery Reception and Performance
Art for the Journey
7pm

Join Art for the Journey's staff and dedicated volunteers who are exhbiting beautiful light filled paintings and showcasing the mission of Art for the...

Chesterfield , Free
SABOTAGE BY SOUND EFFECTS
On The Air Radio Players
7:30pm

On the Air Radio Players presents SABOTAGE BY SOUND EFFECTS ON Tuesday, March 28 and Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 pm at the Cultural Arts Center. Performances...

Free

Wednesday, March 29