Mending Walls RVA

05/26/2026

🌸 TOMORROW NIGHT RVA 🌸
Some art traditions are about more than what gets made. They’re about the conversations that happen while creating.
Join Mending Walls artists Emma Scarvey and Davi Leventhal for a special Fuxico workshop as part of the Care is Resistance collaboration with Health Brigade.
Fuxicos are handmade fabric flowers created from fabric remnants, rooted in a beautiful Brazilian tradition of gathering, making, storytelling, and connection. The word comes from the Portuguese fuxicar, meaning to gossip, because these pieces were traditionally made while sharing stories in community.
Now we get to continue that tradition here in Richmond.
🌸 Wednesday, May 27
🕕 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
📍 Quarry
2707 W Cary St, Richmond, VA 23220
🎟 Tickets: $15
✨ All materials included
💛 No experience needed
Come create, connect, and be part of something meaningful.
Participants will help create pieces connected to the evolving Care is Resistance collaboration.
Reserve your spot here: Link in comments
Tag a friend who needs a creative night out ✨

05/22/2026

Some collaborations take time to become what they’re meant to be.

Almost three years ago, our friends at Health Brigade reached out with a vision to create something together around care, healthcare access, and community. Like many meaningful things, the journey had its pauses. Funding shifts. Capacity changes. Life.

But the conversation never stopped.

And now, we’re so excited to share that this collaboration is moving forward in a new and meaningful way through Health Brigade’s Care is ResistanceStorytelling Project.

This project is an invitation.

An invitation to reflect on what care means.
To think about access.
To consider the systems that shape our health and our communities.
And most importantly, to add your own voice.

This is for everyone.

As part of this collaboration, artists Emma Scarvey and Davi Levanthal will be listening deeply to the stories shared through this project and transforming them into a multimedia exhibition that reflects both the history and evolving future of Health Brigade’s work in our community.

Our original vision may have looked different, but this feels exactly right.

Please take a moment to explore Care is Resistance.
Read the stories.
Share your own.
Be part of what’s being built.

Because the most meaningful work starts with listening. 💛
📸 Patience Salgado

05/21/2026

Hey RVA! 👋
Wellllll… you all did a thing. 🥹
Our very first Mending Walls Walking Tour SOLD OUT and we are feeling all kinds of grateful.
Let’s celebrate by giving ONE lucky winner + a friend TWO tickets to TOMORROW’S walking tour!
If you’ve been wanting to experience the murals, hear the stories behind them, and walk through Richmond in a way that sparks conversation and connection… this is your chance. 💛
HOW TO ENTER
1.) Follow us
2.) Like this post
3.) Comment below and tag the friend you’d bring along
4.) Share this post to your stories (tag us so we can see it!)
✨ Winner announced TONIGHT at 8PM
🚶‍♀️ Tour is TOMORROW
📍Downtown Richmond
And if you miss this one, don’t worry… our next walking tour is happening Friday, June 19th! More details coming soon 👀
Let’s gooooo!
Kat Jones Creative
Mural by Humble & Nadd

05/14/2026

Hey friends… we are really excited about this one. 💛
We’re officially launching Mending Walls Walking Tours!
If you’ve ever walked by one of our murals and wondered about the story behind it, this is for you.
Come walk downtown Richmond with us as we share the conversations, artists, partnerships, and moments that helped shape the work you see on our murals.
Our first tour is hosted by Hamilton Glass on May 22nd starting at 9am!
This isn’t your average walking tour. It’s a chance to experience Mending Walls in a much more personal way.
-Approx. 2 hours
-Downtown Richmond
-Stories you probably haven’t heard
-Limited spots
Wear comfy shoes, bring a friend, and come curious.
Registration is OPEN!
Link in comments and in our story!

03/31/2026

From If These Walls Could Dance…
It starts with a question.
Am I next?
The kind of question rooted in fear.
In uncertainty.
In everything we’ve seen… and everything we carry.
This moment lives inside the mural
It’s Time for a Change.
But what happens when that question… shifts?
When it grows?
When it’s held, shared, moved through?
We watched it transform.
From:
Am I next?
To:
Am I THE next.
Not fear.
But possibility.
Not waiting.
But stepping forward and
that’s what this work is about.
Taking something heavy…
and creating space for it to become something powerful.
And seeing these dancers hold that message, move through it, embody it. Sincerely,
it was one of those moments where everything just clicked.
this is why we do this.
💛
Videographer/Photography: Joseph Gabriel .mov
Mural by Sir James Thornhill & Kevin Orlosky
Dance Collaboration: RADAR DANCE, BROWN BALLERINAS FOR A CHANGE, & RICHMOND URBAN DANCE

03/24/2026

You've admired the murals. Yet, what often goes unnoticed are the dialogues that inspired them. That's the purpose of the Mending Walls book! Here we are preserving the stories, the bonds, and the fleeting moments. We’ve elaborated on it in a fresh blog! 💛 👉 https://loom.ly/sswVJ3E If you've had the chance to read the book, I’m curious, please tell us what resonated with you? Please share your thoughts!

There’s something that happens when you stand in front of a Mending Walls mural. At first, it’s just a mural. The color catches your eye. The size makes you pause. But if you stay with it for a minute… you realize there’s a whole lot more going on. The story. The people behind it. The connec...

03/11/2026

Sometimes people ask us what Mending Walls is really about.
Is it murals? Is it artists? Is it public art?
Yes… but it’s also about something deeper.
It’s about what happens between people when they decide to create something together.
Different backgrounds. Different experiences.
And somehow — through paint, dance, poetry, conversation, and a lot of listening — something new gets built.
That’s the work.
What does building trust look like to you?
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02/24/2026

Got friends who don’t live in Richmond…
and you’re always saying,
“You have no idea what’s happening here.”
The murals.
The artists.
The conversations that matter.
The way this city shows up.
It’s not hype.
It’s heart.
The Mending Walls RVA book captures it all —
the walls, the people, the trust built in between.
It’s a snapshot of a city doing the work.
So if you love Richmond like we do —
send them the book.
Tag your out-of-town friend.
Send a little Richmond their way. 💛

Link to purchase book in comments!

02/16/2026

February always brings the word “love” to the surface.
And when we think about love at Mending Walls…
we also think about trust.
About listening a little longer.
About staying curious.
About showing up even when it’s uncomfortable.
We’ve come to believe that love isn’t loud.
It’s steady.
It’s built slowly.
And honestly? That’s the kind of love we’re here for ❤️

What’s one small way you can practice love this week?

02/09/2026

I CAN/T BREATHE, created by artists Amiri Richardson-Keys and Emily Herr, invites us to look beneath the surface—of the wall, of the water, and of history itself.

At the heart of this mural is Solomon Northup.

Northup was a free Black man, a musician, and a father who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was trafficked through Shockoe Bottom once home to the second-largest slave trade on the East Coast before being shipped to Louisiana, where he was enslaved for twelve years.
After regaining his freedom, Northup penned Twelve Years a Slave, a powerful firsthand account that exposed the realities of American slavery and became a cornerstone text for abolitionist movements.

In this mural, Northup is honored as an ancestor. His raised fist emerges from coral, symbolizing the unseen struggle, labor, and resilience beneath the surface and what it took to support the next generation’s rise.

This wall reminds us that history is not distant.
It lives in our cities, our stories, and our breath.

We believe murals are more than art.
They are memory. They are truth. And they invite us to keep looking closer.

🎨 .life
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