First Friday Pop-Up Event
Friday, August 2 | 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
QUIRK gallery RICHMOND
Mark your calendars for a special First Friday event from 5pm - 9pm! We are thrilled to host a pop-up shop in our Main Gallery featuring a variety of sweet treats from Fat Rabbit bakery and all things selfcare from La Lyra. Be sure to stop by the Lobby Bar for their monthly First Friday wine tasting or grab a glass to enjoy as you walk through the gallery!
About Fat Rabbit
Fat Rabbit is a bakery and coffee shop located in the Union Hill neighborhood of east Richmond offering of freshly-baked sweet and savory pastries, assortment of indulgent treats, and an array of specialty espresso beverages.
About La Lyra
La Lyra’s offerings include soaps, candles, perfume, and skin care that are handcrafted in small batches in Richmond, VA. These formulations feature plant-based, organic ingredients and are made using traditional, folk methods that demonstrate the value of slowing down.
OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
QUIRK GALLERY CHARLOTTESVILLE
STACEY LEE WEBBER
FUNNY MONEY
Stacey Lee Webber meticulously manipulates currency with a unique set of technical skills creating artwork that challenges our preconceived notions of celebrated figures and their documented histories. Dollars and cents are not only a symbol of power and wealth but also contain printed and stamped imagery of internationally recognized institutions and icons. These historic people are taught as god-like, stoic individuals with unflawed histories. To confront these ideals, Webber utilizes an extensive knowledge of both metal working and textiles to manipulate the often masculine based imagery found on our currency.
In contrast to Webber's fiber banknotes are her rigid metal coin artworks. In these sculptures she is transforming pre-1982 solid copper US pennies into masterful hollow-formed objects. Her symbolic sculptures depict chain-link fences, hammers, ribbons and other allegorical metaphors associated with her working class neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia - a neighborhood that she has called home for the last decade. Each object is painstakingly fabricated utilizing countless hand-sawn coins to invite the viewer to question the value of her labor while memorializing the labor of under-appreciated workers.
American artist, Stacey Lee Webber was born in Indianapolis Indiana in 1982. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ball State University in 2005. Webber went on to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she was awarded a full time artist assistantship all three years of her degree program under her major professor, Lisa Gralnick. After earning a Master of Fine Arts in 2008 she went on to become an artist in residence at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago in 2009. In 2011 Webber moved to Philadelphia to pursue her dream of being a full time artist. After four bustling years of teaching at Tyler School of Art, University of the Arts and Rowan University while working as a production jeweler for a local jewelry company in Philadelphia, she made her dream come to fruition in 2015. Webber is currently working and living on the northeast side of Philadelphia where she has made a career of making and selling artwork and jewelry.
ARTIST TALK- BUKURU NYANDWI
Saturday, August 17 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
QUIRK gallery RICHMOND
Please join us in the Main Gallery from 2pm - 3pm for a conversation with designer Sarah Rowland and Milk River artists Bukuru Nyandwi + Barry O’Keefe. We encourage guests to participate in the discussion about Bukuru's exhibition, "Inawezekana: It Will Be Done", on view through September 15th.
Bukuru Nyandwi is a self-taught artist who works at Milk River Arts. He is known for work that imaginatively traces the story of his life experiences. Born in Congo in 1993, Nyandwi first took refuge in Tanzania. He came to Richmond, Virginia with his family when he was 15 years old. Bukuru loves singing and traveling with Richmond Free Methodist Church’s Semerera Choir.
About Milk River Arts
Milk River Arts connects and empowers a neurodiverse community of artists. We pair adult artists with disabilities with professional artist-mentors who accompany them in creating, exhibiting, and selling unique bodies of work. In addition to providing transformative mentorship, we create ambitious, risky public projects that demonstrate an inclusive vision of how people with different abilities & experiences can fully participate in life’s cultural conversation.
Print Run -one day print sale
Saturday, August 17
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
QUIRK gallery Richmond
Join us Saturday, August 17th as we invite our gallery artists to offer up prints for sale. We will feature limited editions, one day exclusives, as well as discounts on prints that are available every day in our gallery shop. Guaranteed to be something for everyone, but when they are gone they are gone! Think of record store day, but for art prints.