Events

Upcoming Events

June 7 — June 8

The Really BIG Show

Young people from across the Richmond area will come together on Friday, June 7, 2019, from 4-9 p.m. for a neighborhood block party to celebrate youth voices and their visual and performing art at...

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March 1 — March 2

Massive Resilience

New teen art exhibit opens at ART 180 showcasing a community history and interpretation project around Richmond’s role in the transatlantic slave trade For six months, ART 180’s Teen Leadership...

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Past Events

Wine Tasting
Help support ART 180 programs, enjoy some delicious wine, and recharge after a long week. We're partnering with Richmond Wine Station to host a Wine Tasting on Sunday, February 17 at 5-9 p.m.! What...
This Is Me
Join us during RVA First Fridays for our new teen art exhibit "This Is Me" featuring poetry about self-esteem and identity, beautiful watercolor creations created by youth in our mindfulness program...
Open Studio
Help us celebrate and support young artists from our fall 2018 programs as they work to create change in our community. Join us to see their work, hear their voices, and be inspired! Opening...
Atlas Holiday Market
ART 180 is opening its 5th annual pop-up market featuring art, jewelry, crafts, and handmade goods by local artists just in time for gift giving season! Shop one-of-a-kind finds while dancing to DJ...
Justice Parade for Youth
Over the summer, a group of uniquely talented teenagers gathered to share how our juvenile justice system is broken and the reality of what it is like for a young person to navigate the system...
Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out!
Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out! is the newest exhibition and mixed-reality experience by Performing Statistics (a project of ART 180), that connects incarcerated teens with artists, legal experts, and...
The Amazing Dream
ART 180’s annual grassroots giving campaign, The Amazing Dream, is coming soon! Help us sustain a platform for hundreds of young people across Richmond to express themselves, and to expand upon their...
Freeing the Cage
From utopias where everyone is helped and welcomed, to moving poems, and artwork inspired by music...these are the intricate projects our young people have been creating all summer. Now their amazing...
ART 180 Takes the Bus: 20th Anniversary Art Show
In the spirit of our 20th anniversary, we’re opening a new exhibition on August 3 to celebrate the hard work and generosity of our talented program leaders, who design projects that let our youth...
Everything Is Connected
New exhibition coming to ART 180, featuring abstract art created using acrylic painting techniques, alongside prints and video of performing art. The art, created by teens a part of our Atlas program...
All In My Head
An original play calling attention to some of the mental challenges and dilemmas young people face in their daily lives. Written and performed by ART 180 teens, under the direction of The...
What I Think I See
New exhibition coming to ART 180, featuring blind contour and gesture artwork created using observational drawing techniques, alongside poetry and video of step show performance art. The art, created...
little BIG
Join us this Friday, May 4, to celebrate the opening reception of our new Atlas exhibition: little BIG! little BIG features selected works from The Really BIG Show, spotlighting spring programs from...
Future Studio Opening Reception
We're hosting an opening reception for Future Studio on April 13 from 6 to 9 p.m., an exhibition featuring artwork by high schoolers in the first Future Studio program of VCUarts' Department of...
Don't Forget to Breathe
New exhibition coming to ART 180, "Don't Forget to Breathe,” features artwork created by Chesterfield County Public Schools elementary students who participate in their schools’ Get Ready to Learn...

We Believe in Young People

Each young person is a valuable part of our community. We promise to offer a supportive and nurturing environment, which allows our young people an opportunity to bring into being the beauty that exists within their creative spirits.

We Believe in Creative Expression

Everyone will be free to be an artist who can give birth to a masterpiece, because we recognize that innovation is the heartbeat of growth.

We Believe in Communication

We seek to provoke ideas and stimulate conversation that encourages self-awareness and expression of diverse perspectives, remove barriers of fear, create a better understanding of humanity, and illuminate hope.

We Believe in Compassion

We advocate kindness to heal division and resolve conflicts, because everyone has a right to be heard, to experience love, and to be treated with dignity and mutual respect.

We Believe in Community

We value the importance of collaborative relationships, which celebrate diversity. We recognize that by sharing together we're capable of making even greater creative contributions that can enhance the well-being and quality of life for the whole.

We Believe in Change

We embrace change as a gift that empowers young people to transform our world through creative expression. It provides opportunities to be passionately engaged in a natural process of learning, challenging complacency and discovering opportunities to live a meaningful life.