Richmond Artists Guild
Richmond Cultural Centre #180, 7700 Minoru Gate V6Y 1R9 Richmond, BC, Canada

I have exciting news everyone! I will be the Feature Artist of the Month at Opus Art Supplies for all of February 2021!!! The entire month will be devoted to t...he Theme of Practice where we will have 28 Days of Daily Practice together! Besides this, I have Two Virtual Demos coming up and registration is now open!!! 6 Feb (Sat), 11am: Charcoal Drawing of French Bulldog Puppy https://opusartsupplies.com//charcoal-drawing-of-french-b/ 20 Feb (Sat), 11am : Reverse Drawing of a Calla Lily https://opusartsupplies.com//reverse-drawing-of-a-calla-l/ See you there!

ART STUDIO FOR RENT ($475) (Commercial Drive Area/ Culture Crawl) Recently renovated, we have a spacious studio available approximately 150 sq. ft. (10 x 15 fe...et). This studio is semi-private with three large 12-foot walls (floor-to-ceiling), is located within a larger space with other artists, and comes with free additional storage space. Ideal for fine artists, designers, and craftspeople, the studio has a quiet, friendly and respectful vibe, an ideal space to make a world of your own. We choose our studio mates carefully, to ensure the community vibe is great. We look forward to meeting you. Please note, this is a working space, not a living space. Available: February 1st Location: 1610 Pandora Street, V5L 1L6 (near Commercial Drive and Powell Street) Rent: $475 per month To arrange a viewing, please call/ text Justin at 778.319.5756 Space Includes: - bright overhead lighting - 12-foot ceilings with exposed wooden beams - high speed wifi - extra storage shelves - private industrial sink - clean en-suite studio washroom - fridge, microwave and kettle - 24/7 building access - safe neighbourhood - ground level - lots of free street parking and easy bus route access - secure, friendly and well maintained building - month by month or long term rentals available - venue for East Side Culture Crawl!! (next year hopefully) - near Commercial Drive, the ARC, and the Waldorf Note: If you work with tools that make noise on a regular basis, or expect staff members/ clients, we apologize, but the space is not suitable for your needs. One artist per space. To arrange a viewing, please call/ text Justin at 778.319.5756 Looking forward to hearing from you. Cheers, Justin

Looking for new ways to rediscover your world, a change of pace from looking at your screen and 4 walls? Give outdoor sketching a try - drawing and careful observation take you out of yourself, it’s very therapeutic, time slows, and the nagging worries and demands quiet. Plus your world gets a whole lot bigger and more complex when you start to delve into everything else sharing your space. Free sketchbooks are open to adults and kids, or donate and help others discover the joy of getting back to nature, and exploring their creativity.

An old friend from Victoria, a painter with a career as an illustrator and designer behind him, he’s very good at discussing the process and putting his choices into words.

CALL FOR ARTISTS! TELEPHONE: AN INTERNATIONAL ARTS GAME Looking for diverse kinds of artists to participate in our worldwide Art game of TELEPHONE! TELEPHONE is a global art project based on the children’s game Telephone (also called Operator, Grapevine, Telefono Roto, Dengon, Stille Poste, Telefono Descompuesto, Phonebook), in which a message is whispered from person to person. In this game, the message is whispered from art form to art form. A poem could become a painting, and then animation, digital art, and dance. All kinds of media are welcome. Each completed artwork is assigned for translation to numerous artists around the world, so the game branches out exponentially. To play go to: www.phonebook.gallery

We lost a little ground, but Richmond still made the top 5 in our division for the amount of community engagement through Culture Days, despite this year's challenges! Way to go Richmond Arts! https://culturedays.ca/en/culture-days-2020 City of Richmond - Local Government How Art Works Fun Richmond Richmond, BC

Missing the energy and all the chance meetings we usually enjoy this Eastside Culture Crawl weekend, but studios are open by appointment with social distancing measures in place. Check out the website to book or contact your favourite artists for a follow-up. They've also put together a virtual catalogue this year: https://issuu.com/culturecrawl/docs/crawl_virtual_catalogue

BUILDINGS PARTICIPATING VIRTUALLY Although these buildings cannot be booked through our online appointment scheduler, you are encouraged to virtually explor...e the incredible studios within via 360 degree online tours, live stream and/or live chat, and to directly contact the artists whose studios you would like to view in-person to inquire about scheduling a private visit. Explore the buildings in the gallery below to learn more about the abundance of creative experiences that await inside, whether you're #CrawlingFromHome or in-studio this year! #EastsideCultureCrawl

Phoenix Art Workshop has a new newsletter out with art project kits, #artsupplies on #sale and a new selection of #artclasses to check out! Cozy Up With Art Classes this winter! Both In-Studio and Online sessions available! ... Our classes have a limited number of students, with social distancing, mask-wearing, and sanitizing protocols in place to protect teachers & students. If you prefer to stay out of the classroom, let us come to you at home with the online options for our Drawing and Watercolour classes! Taking a break from classes for December, but will be back with more classes in January/February - watch for further details in our next Newsletter! Details and registration on the website: https://phoenixartworkshop.com/classes/class-schedule NEW! Fundamentals of Drawing: Exploring Pen & Ink Nov. 12 - Dec. 3 Watercolour Essentials Monday Evenings 7pm - 9:30pm Nov. 16 - Dec. 7 Morning Workshop with Chris Charlesbois Monday Mornings 9am - noon Nov. 16 - Dec. 7

New mural alert Next time you're downtown, stop by to check out this collection of 5 large-scale murals by local artists at Bentall Centre!

There are still a few free demos scheduled this month on Golden Artist Colors' Facebook page. Check them out this drizzly day to learn more about painting and mediums. 'This month, we rethink ink as we celebrate Inktober with GOLDEN Acrylics and QoR demonstrating GOLDEN’s High Flow Marker Set and QoR Watercolors for drawing. We’ll also talk about Whites and Tinting on Williamsburg, grounds for watercolors on QoR, and acrylics for silkscreen on GOLDEN, plus much more. All of ...these educational events are free and hosted via Facebook Live. To join the conversation, visit the Facebook homepage of the brand listed for each event. Don’t forget to refresh the page if you don’t see the video right away. If you've missed our live sessions so far or would like to rewatch a previous video, you can find them on the Golden Artist Colors, Williamsburg Oil Colors, and QoR Watercolors Facebook pages.'

Wednesday brought sun and shifting clouds for our final Culture Days | Fête de la culture #pleinair call-to-all to paint out at London Landing in #Steveston. It... was a perfect morning and we had a good turnout, widely cast across this scenic area. Thank you to everyone who turned out for these social & socially distanced events. Looking forward to extending our plein air season, with fingers crossed for good weather! BC Culture Days | Fête de la culture Richmond Artists Guild #paintingoutside #pleinairpainting #fastpainting #challenge Fun Richmond How Art Works #goplayoutside

There are just two more days to take advantage of South Delta Artists Guild's Artfully Anonymous *online* show - where sales of each 10x10" original helps support the guild and your local and well-known contributing artists! Check it out at https://southdeltaartistsguild.com//2020_artfully_anonymous

Capture Photography Festival Artist Call, Richmond, BC The Richmond Public Art Program and Richmond Art Gallery in partnership with the Capture Photography Festival invite artists and artist collectives to submit proposals for temporary photo-based public art installations to be presented at a Richmond Canada Line station. The artist projects will be part of the Capture Photography Festival in April 2021. Artist Fee: $1,500.00 CAD Deadline: October 20, 2020, 5:00pm PDT Durati...on: April - September, 2021 For more information and to apply for this artist opportunity, please visit: www.richmond.ca/culture/publicart/opportunities Public Art Program Arts, Culture and Heritage Services| City of Richmond 6911 No. 3 Road, Richmond BC V6Y 2C1 Ph. 604.204.8671 email: [email protected]

We have some new murals in Richmond! If you haven't been out recently, here's one at Thompson Community Centre

I was lucky to be held up in the morning for our plein air at Westham Island Herb Farm's #Pumpkin Paradise, because I was able to enjoy both the fog and the sun... breaking through. It was another fabulous experience, with complex colours and textures, and I have an amazing array of local farm goods and pretty squash on our table now. I was aiming to express the variety in the rows I painted without overworking it, and I'm actually happy with this little 9x12" all painted with one 1" flat. #Ilovebigbrushes Tuesday is our final plein air event for BC Culture Days | Fête de la culture October 13, 10-1 at London Landing in Steveston (South end of Number 2 Rd). It's free and everyone welcome, just respect social distancing margins. Check out the Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/627676727907950 or the www.culturedays.ca website for information and we hope to see you 6’ away there! Fingers crossed that our extraordinary luck with weather holds. Richmond Artists Guild Men In Hats Westham Island, British Columbia #pleinair #paintingoutside #allaprima #pleinairpainting #goplayoutside #theyarenotallmeninhats Culture Days | Fête de la culture Richmond, British Columbia Richmond, BC City of Richmond - Local Government Fun Richmond How Art Works #visitRichmond #tourismRichmond

Here at last are some photos from the glorious morning we enjoyed for the 2nd of our plein air, everyone-welcome events for Culture Days | Fête de la culture! A beautifully planned waterfront at the eastern tip of Lulu Island, Port Royal offered up layered views of the New Westminster waterfront, a whole palette of bustling tugs, barges loading, a pretty residential area with a community garden, and lots of sunlit Fall foliage. Our final plein air event for BC Culture Days |... Fête de la culture is this Tuesday, October 13, 10-1 at London Landing in Steveston (South end of Number 2 Rd). It's free and everyone welcome, just respect social distancing margins. Check out the Facebook event Plein Air Painting: Richmond South or the www.culturedays.ca website for information and we hope to see you 6’ away there! Fingers crossed for another lovely morning! Men In Hats City of Richmond - Local Government Fun Richmond How Art Works #visitRichmond #tourismRichmond #pleinair #paintingoutside #allaprima #pleinairpainting #pleinairart #goplayoutside #theyarenotallmeninhats #newwestminster

Plein air studies from the last few outings for @rartguild and meninhats.ca for @culturedays! Yesterday was another beautiful morning discovering the charming P...ort Royal neighbourhood of #newwestminster on the eastern tip of Lulu Island. Our third and final everyone welcome plein air event is October 13, 10-1 at London Landing in Steveston. Check out the Facebook pages for either group or culturedays.ca for information and hope to see you 6’ away there! #pleinair #paintingoutside #allaprima #pleinairpainting #pleinairart #goplayoutside #theyarenotallmeninhats

Capture Photography Festival Artist Call The Richmond Public Art Program and Richmond Art Gallery in partnership with the Capture Photography Festival invite artists and artist collectives to submit proposals for temporary photo-based public art installations to be presented at a Richmond Canada Line station. The artist projects will be part of the Capture Photography Festival in April 2021. Artist Fee: $1,500.00 CAD Deadline: October 20, 2020, 5:00pm PDT... Duration: April - September, 2021 For more information and to apply for this artist opportunity, please visit: www.richmond.ca/culture/publicart/opportunities See more

The The Community Arts Council of Richmond and the Richmond Branch of the BC SPCA (BCSPCA) are holding a joint fundraiser in November. If you are a 2d visual artist and would like to volunteer for this novel fundraiser, please email [email protected] and we will add you to our growing list of volunteer artists. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about our plans. Fundraising in the new normal is anything but easy, and they have missed out on many of their traditional fundraising activities this year. If you can help in any way, they would be most grateful.

Check out the Culture Days site https://culturedays.ca/en/events for a nice visual layout and intuitive, filterable listing of events ACROSS CANADA! Besides the scheduled events, there are a number of self-guided walking/cycling tours focused on Culture and Public Art in different communities, which you can do self-guided anytime. Richmond's cycling Art tour is one: https://culturedays.ca//b8a63384-6e0d-4144-9186-754f4a5c3d The False Creek waterfront to Yaletown is another art tour https://culturedays.ca//e7c9c9a7-81d8-4f4c-bd64-e4d48e881b There's a GPS guided route exploring the development of Vancouver's waterfront from Kits to False Creek https://culturedays.ca//f52ac703-004e-4bca-8a95-f96f993ff8