Join us online at 6PM, Thursday, February 11! We’ll welcome NIAD Studio Artists Raven Harper and Shawna Kinard in conversation about their NIAD Windows Exhibition, “History in the Making.” In addition to curating this month’s NIAD Windows Show, Raven and Shawna join seven NIAD Studio Artists exhibiting in Richmond Art Center’s Art of the African Diaspora. At Thirsty Thursday, they will reflect on both exhibitions and their perspectives on African American History Month. Admission is free, but you must register to receive the join-in link. See you there!

About the exhibition This exhibition strings together graphic images developed by each artist to reconsider written language in relation to early human mark making. From a talk given by paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger in 2015 entitled Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?: “As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world — a place of perpetual gloom, of earthy smells, of hushed silence. Long ago in Europe, ancient people also entered these underground worlds. As witness to their passage they left behind mysterious engravings and paintings…triangles and zigzags from Read More …

About the exhibition For this exhibition, I decided to focus on a selection of paintings and fiber-based artworks by Carlota Rodriguez and Elena Rossi. In each artist’s work, I was immediately compelled by their use of vibrant color, pattern, and materiality, as well as their loose approach to geometric composition, which strikes me as playfully balanced between symmetry and asymmetry, pattern and disarrangement. About the selector Samantha Bittman is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work exists between painting, weaving, and installation, and within it she explores ideas around pattern, perception, and abstraction. She received her B.F.A. Read More …

This is the the seventh show in our new exhibition space NIAD Windows. NIAD Windows is four white walls in the front window bays of the Art Center. The shows can easily be seen from the sidewalk or from a passing automobile. From Dorrie Reid:“I’ve been thinking about when I retire. I’ve been thinking about my long-term goals, finding a place to settle down and work on my art. Somewhere I can have quiet time, and no hostility. I’m thinking about finding a place that’s quiet, and moving on to what I want to do in the future. Searching for Read More …

View the show. About the exhibition Pedal to the Metal Our music is fast.           Our food is fast.                      Our sports are fast.                              Our bite is faster.                                     Night shift, night rider, Catch us if you can                                    (you can’t) kiss kiss            meow About the selector Patrick J. Reed is an artist and art writer. He is a regular contributor to art-agenda and a staff writer for THE SEEN, where he is the author of “Sonic Avenues,” a monthly column that explores sound as it arises in, emanates from, and occurs around art. His criticism is also featured in Read More …

⁣Adams and Ollman is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Billy White (b. 1962, lives in Hercules, California, and works in Richmond, California). Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast, the show will feature a selection of his expressive portraits made between 2016 and 2019. The exhibition is open by appointment only. ⁣⁣With graphic marks and emphatic colors, White conjures portraits that are celebratory and personal. Muscular and energetic brushstrokes coalesce to form complex images that are more emotional than representational. White’s subjects include his family and himself, as well as iconic figures from Read More …

Visit Portland’s Adams and Ollman Gallery online for their amazing holiday shop. The project features work from some of the gallery’s artists as well as other local artists and a handful of NIAD artists. See it here.

This is the the sixth show in our new exhibition space NIAD Windows. NIAD Windows is four white walls in the front window bays of the Art Center. The shows can easily be seen from the sidewalk or from a passing automobile. About the exhibition Before the pandemic struck, NIAD Art Center would participate in numerous seasonal craft shows. The holidays were the perfect time to support artists by buying their work and gifting the pieces. Plus, maybe you would meet a few our artists manning the booth. Now, that we are sheltering in place, NIAD has asked our Jean Read More …

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Please join us online, Saturday, March 6, 2021, from 1pm to 3pm PST, for NIAD’s annual fundraiser, Win Win 9. You can participate from anywhere in the world! Bid on fabulous works by artists from NIAD, the Bay Area, and beyond. There will be music. There may be dancing. There will probably be Bingo. It’s called Win Win because everyone has a chance to take home fantastic art!  Do you want art just by buying a ticket? NIAD artists have made an incredible batch of 6×6” artworks—paintings, photographs, sculptures, fibers, and drawings ready to hang on your wall or sit prominently on a shelf. Purchase your ticket, Read More …

Back in 2014, we began asking artists, curators, literati, musicians, disability community members to sort through our online gallery and create a weekly exhibition. Our online gallery (believe it or not) was hosted on Tumblr. It was an arduous task, so we only ran the shows for part of the year, closing them down for the summer. Now, we use a better platform, and at last count we had nearly 8,000 art objects available online. In 2016, we began hosting a weekly online show throughout the entire year. And late in 2018, we began to archive the shows. Below is Read More …