Apr
1
to Apr 30

Beatburg Interactive Poetry Path

You are invited to participate in the Beatburg Poetry Path. Use the interactive Poetry Map to guide you on your walk as you find all 30 poems displayed throughout the downtown Lynchburg! The poems displayed were selected amongst over 150 submissions from children, teen and adults.

Click on the interactive map to find where the 30 poetry posters are located. Participants are encouraged to take a selfie next to the posters and tag Riverviews Artspace on Instagram and Facebook. Use the hashtag #Beatburg2024. Stay tuned for daily posts throughout April featuring a new poem each day.

Do you have a poem to share? Join us for an open mic night reception during First Friday on April 5, 2024 from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

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May
3
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: May 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm.

'DON'T TELL ME THE SKY'S THE LIMIT WHEN THERE ARE FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON.' —PAUL BRANDT

Riverviews Artspace presents an exhibition in celebration of flight in all of its historical, metaphorical, and symbolic possibilities. This group exhibition will feature the astrophotography of NASA astronaut and Lynchburg native, Leland Melvin, along with a number of local artists and those from around the country. The exhibition is sponsored by The Lynchburg Regional Airport and will coincide with events at Amazement Square, Legacy Museum and Anne Spencer House, all of whom will be celebrating the specific accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen.

The Sky Is Not the Limit opens on Friday, May 3, 2024 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm in the Main Gallery and will remain on view through June 13, 2024.

You won’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind First Friday! It promises to be an unforgettable evening for all ages. Discover the intersection of art, science, and solar observation in a unique way in our Pop-Up Planetarium, sponsored by Amazement Square.

Plus, this will be the opening night of the Jubilee Student Art Show with works related to Flight and there will be a special talk at 6:30 PM by Anne Spencer House and Garden's Executive Director, Shaun Spencer-Hester titled, “Who is Chauncey Spencer?”

Enjoy live music by Selah Vie, and wander through our galleries and visit open artists studios to see where all the magic happens. Meet NASA astronaut and Lynchburg native, Leland Melvin. Bring your copy of Chasing Space to be autographed by Leland Melvin

Photo Credit: Leland Melvin, Atlantis



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May
3
5:00 PM17:00

Pop-Up Planetarium Event

Discover the intersection of art, science, and solar observatioN!

The Pop-Up Planetarium event is sponsored by our community partners at Amazement Square.

Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind First Friday on May 3, 2024, in conjunction with the opening of The Sky Is Not the Limit in the Main Gallery featuring the astrophotography of Leland Melvin. The Jubilee Student Art Show featuring works related to flight will be on view in Gallery 108.

Enjoy live music with Selah Vie. Wander through our galleries and visit open artists studios to meet artists and see their process. Cash bar in the Main Gallery.

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May
18
10:00 AM10:00
Events

Riverviews at Art in the Park

Above Left: Artist Christina Davis

Location: Riverside Park

Price: FREE

Date: Saturday, 5/18/2024

Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Ages: All Ages

We are excited for this annual event that connects people through art and showcases the talents of local artists! Wander through Riverside Park to enjoy exhibitions of local artists, interactive children’s activities, and live demonstrations including painting and wheel thrown pottery. Be sure to stop by the Riverviews Artspace booth and enjoy a free hands-on art activity. See you there!


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Jun
7
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: June 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm. During this free event, you’ll discover new exhibitions, meet talented artists, enjoy live music. Your invited to wander through our galleries and open artist studios. Stop at the bar in the main gallery for a selection of wine, beer, signature cocktails, soft drinks and other non-acholoic beverages. The aim is to make art and culture more accessible to the Lynchburg community.

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Jul
5
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: July 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm. During this free event, you’ll discover new exhibitions, meet talented artists, enjoy live music. Your invited to wander through our galleries and open artist studios. Stop at the bar in the main gallery for a selection of wine, beer, signature cocktails, soft drinks and other non-acholoic beverages. The aim is to make art and culture more accessible to the Lynchburg community.

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Aug
2
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: August 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm. During this free event, you’ll discover new exhibitions, meet talented artists, enjoy live music. Your invited to wander through our galleries and open artist studios. Stop at the bar in the main gallery for a selection of wine, beer, signature cocktails, soft drinks and other non-acholoic beverages. The aim is to make art and culture more accessible to the Lynchburg community.

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Sep
6
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: September 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm. During this free event, you’ll discover new exhibitions, meet talented artists, enjoy live music. Your invited to wander through our galleries and open artist studios. Stop at the bar in the main gallery for a selection of wine, beer, signature cocktails, soft drinks and other non-acholoic beverages. The aim is to make art and culture more accessible to the Lynchburg community.

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Oct
4
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: October 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm. During this free event, you’ll discover new exhibitions, meet talented artists, enjoy live music. Your invited to wander through our galleries and open artist studios. Stop at the bar in the main gallery for a selection of wine, beer, signature cocktails, soft drinks and other non-acholoic beverages. The aim is to make art and culture more accessible to the Lynchburg community.

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Oct
12
9:00 AM09:00

Big Ink Workshop I

Saturday, October 12, 2024 or Sunday, October 13, 2024 in the Main Gallery at Riverviews Artspace.

Workshop Time: 9 AM to 5 PM (one day of attendance for in-person instruction is required)

Minimum/Maximum Woodblock Size: 24 by 36 inches/40 by 72 inches

Registration Fee: $325 (see FAQs for materials you’ll need to purchase separately)

Summary: Join BIG INK at Riverviews Artspace for a relief printmaking workshop of epic proportions! Learn how to carve a woodblock, then print your carving on a custom-built giant printing press. Individuals of all skill levels are encouraged to register. Click here for more information or to register for the workshop.

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Nov
1
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: November 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm. During this free event, you’ll discover new exhibitions, meet talented artists, enjoy live music. Your invited to wander through our galleries and open artist studios. Stop at the bar in the main gallery for a selection of wine, beer, signature cocktails, soft drinks and other non-acholoic beverages. The aim is to make art and culture more accessible to the Lynchburg community.

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Dec
6
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: Deember 2024

FIRST FRIDAYS IS A MONTHLY OPEN HOUSE FOR THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY.

Join us for  First Fridays on the First Friday of each month from 5:00 - 8:00pm. During this free event, you’ll discover new exhibitions, meet talented artists, enjoy live music. Your invited to wander through our galleries and open artist studios. Stop at the bar in the main gallery for a selection of wine, beer, signature cocktails, soft drinks and other non-acholoic beverages. The aim is to make art and culture more accessible to the Lynchburg community.

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Apr
14
12:00 PM12:00

Beatburg: Youth and Teen Poetry Reception

Please join us for an open reception at Riverviews on Sunday, April 14, 2024 from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm. During this event the selected teen poets will be invited to read their poems at 12:00 pm followed by selected youth poets at 1:00 pm. This is an opportunity to celebrate and honor the wonderful work of these young poets. Event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP with the number of guests attending to kasey@riverviews.net.

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Apr
5
5:00 PM17:00

First Fridays: April 5, 2024

HERE’S WHAT HAPPENING ON FIRST FRIDAY: APRIL 5, 5:00 - 8:00 PM

MAIN GALLERY:

SIGNALING TEHORY EXHIBITION BY SIOBHAN BYRNS

Musical Guest: Midnight Radio

Cash Bar: Accepting Cash and Credit

GALLERY 108:

BEATBURG POETRY OPEN MIC NIGHT & RECEPTION 6:00 - 7:30PM

Experience the magic of spoken word and the power of community at our open poetry mic night hosted by Steve Willis. Steve is a former RVAS Board Member, and current Board Member at Endstation Theatre Company. He is the Special Assistant to the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Randolph College. Steve is a seasoned theatre professional with a BA in English/Dramatic Arts & Speech and an MFA in Theatre with an emphasis in Acting/Directing. Don’t miss this evening of creativity, connection and inspiration in Gallery 108. Event is free. Cash Bar: Accepting Cash and Credit.

Thank you to our all of our 2024 Beatburg sponsors!

EMERGING ARTIST GALLERY:

VES VARISTY ART SHOW: COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCES

VES Opening Night Reception: 5:30 - 7:00 PM

First Friday Musical Guest: Midnight Radio

Cash Bars will be open in the Main Gallery and Gallery 108: Accepting Cash and Credit

Artist Studios: Open 5:00 - 8:00 PM

First Fridays is free to attend. Come enjoy a relaxing evening filled with music, art and poetry.

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Apr
1
to Apr 18

Beatburg: Hall of Poetry

New in 2024, discover poetry throughout the Riverviews’ Hallway Gallery featuring 30 poets including children, teens and adults. On view from April 5, 2024 through April 18, 2024.

You are also invited to participate in the Beatburg Poetry Path. Use the interactive Poetry Map to guide you on your walk as you find all 30 poems displayed throughout the downtown Lynchburg! The poems displayed were selected amongst over 150 submissions from children, teen and adults.

Click on the interactive map below to find where the 30 poetry posters are located. Participants are encouraged to take a selfie next to the posters and tag Riverviews Artspace on Instagram and Facebook. Use the hashtag #Beatburg2024. Stay tuned for daily posts throughout April featuring a new poem each day.

Do you have a poem to share? Join us for an open mic night reception during First Friday on April 5, 2024 from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

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Mar
16
10:00 AM10:00

Pop Up Poetry Workshop

We are excited to offer a new workshop as part of our 11th Annual Beatburg program. This brand new poetry workshop is designed specifically for children! Led by writer and arts activist Terry Bodine, this 2 hour workshop is designed for students in grades 3 through 5 who love playing with words.

Participants will engage in prompt-based exercises to create new poems while exploring metaphor, emotion, and sound. Class creations will be incorporated into a collective project for display at Riverviews during BeatBurg, April 5th through 18th, 2024. Space is limited. Register today!

Where: Riverviews Artspace Emerging Artist Gallery

When: Saturday, March 16, 2024

Time: 10a.m. - 12p.m.

Cost: $20 per student

To register, click on the orange button below. For questions or additional information, contact Kasey Forehand, Program Manager at kasey@riverviews.net.

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Mar
1
5:00 PM17:00
Exhibition

First Friday March 1st

Siobhán Byrns, Professor of Art at the University of Lynchburg and teacher in both the Art Department and the Westover Honors College. Her current research stems from sustainable darkroom practices and alternative process techniques that focus on current social and political pressures on women and the environment.

Siobhán received her MFA in photography from the Art Institute of Chicago and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, focusing both on traditional and time-based new media and photography. While a graduate student, she was formally trained as a fine art restorationist and conservator in some of the country’s most prominent museums. In 2004, while working in the Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago, she assisted in the digital restoration of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

Her exhibition, Signaling Theory, is invaluable in its lessons, using chlorophyll prints suspended in resin that explore the recent experiences of a post pandemic landscape, alongside an awareness of our entanglements to place and nature, and our perception of time/immortality. 

Signaling Theory will be on view from March 1st through April 18th, 2024. She will give an artist talk at 6:30 p.m. on opening night, March 1st, 2024.

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Pop-Up Art Event feat. Susan Timmons Antarctica Series
Dec
3
11:00 AM11:00
Events

Pop-Up Art Event feat. Susan Timmons Antarctica Series

Image Credit: Iceberg Arches, Oil on canvas, 24 x 48 in. by Susan Timmons.

Join us at Riverviews Artspace on Sunday, December 3rd from 11am to 4pm. for a one-day only event featuring Susan Timmons’ Antarctica series in our Artists in Residence Studio. This is your opportunity to own one of her 9 remaining original works. Original works, limited edition prints, and note cards from the series will be available for purchase. There will be a cocoa bar and make-your-own custom holiday ornament station! Free entry. 100% of all sales of Susan Timmons’s Antarctica Series go directly to support the Riverviews Artspace Artist in Residence program.

Purchase raffle tickets and Antarctica greeting cards. Raffle is for a chance to win a limited edition 18 x 24” framed print of the Ascent of the Red Parkas by Susan Timmons’ Antarctica Series, a $300 value. Preorder both sets of the Antarctica greeting cards today. Each set features 5 original works from the series. These make perfect holiday gifts!

Where is the Pop-Up Art event being held?

The event is at Riverviews Artspace. Enter through the main gallery doors at 52 9th Street. Once you’re inside the main gallery, go straight down main hallway to the Artist in Residence Studio, which is the last door on your left. There will be signage to guide you to the correct studio.

Buy raffle tickets and Note cards here!

Pick-up your Antarctica Notecard Set at Riverviews Artspace on December 14th, 15th, and 18th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please use main gallery entrance.

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LUMC PRESENTS: ALIEN
Oct
25
7:00 PM19:00

LUMC PRESENTS: ALIEN

Lynchburg’s Underground Movie Club is a monthly film program hosted by national bronze artist and local film connoisseur, Ken Faraoni. This month, LUMC presents: Alien (1979) [R]. “The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.”

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Read Right Now
Sep
14
6:00 PM18:00

Read Right Now

Join us as our “Write Right Here” writers return to Riverviews to share their work on Thursday, September 14th, for “Read Right Now!” During this special reading, program participants and facilitators will share what they've been working on since the August writing workshop.

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Art in the Park
May
13
10:30 AM10:30

Art in the Park

Come out and have a great time with Riverviews!

Lynchburg Parks and Recreation and 7 Hills Art Club are excited to bring people together through our annual art and showcase the talents of local artists! Wander through Riverside Park to enjoy exhibitions of local artists, interactive children’s activities, and live demonstrations, including painting and wheel thrown pottery. This FREE event is open to people of all ages.

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April is BEATBURG – a month long celebration of the spoken word!
Apr
1
to Apr 30

April is BEATBURG – a month long celebration of the spoken word!

Beatburg logo

BEAT BURG IS RIVERVIEWS ARTSPACE’S ANNUAL EVENT CELEBRATING ALL WORD-CENTERED ART FORMS.

FROM POETRY, TO RAP, TO TYPOGRAPHY, BEAT BURG ENCOURAGES COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO CONSCIOUSLY ENCOUNTER LANGUAGE AND THE ART THAT STEMS FROM IT. THE PROGRAM AIMS TO ENGAGE PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, BUT PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE, WITH LITERATURE, POETRY, AND MUSIC.

The events that make up Beat Burg change from year to year to accommodate and reflect the current cultural movements at home and afar. In previous years, Beat Burg has featured a regional poetry competition where winner’s poems were printed and posted throughout Lynchburg, including a live rap battle tournament, spoken word poetry events, lettering lessons, and live concerts. 

Join us as we honor the selected poets in each age group!

Children’s Reception: Monday April 17, 2023, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in Gallery 109.

Youth Reception: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6:00 pm. - 7:00 p.m. in Gallery 109.

Adult Reception: Friday, April 21, 2023, 7:00 pm. - 8:00 p.m. in Gallery 109.

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Riverviews Artspace, Jefferson Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24504, United States434-847-7277 info@riverviews.net

Riverviews Artspace: 54 9th Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504

Mailing Address: 901 Jefferson Street, Suite 113, Lynchburg, VA 24504

Phone: 434-847-7277 | Email: info@riverviews.net

Current Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday: 12pm-4pm

Riverviews is a tax-exempt arts organization under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code under EIN 54-1736664.

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