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ART 180

Young people turning lives and communities around through art The name reflects their vision of turning lives and communities around 180 degrees.

ART 180 gives young people in challenging circumstances the chance to express themselves through art, and to share their stories with others. Since 1998, the nonprofit organization has worked with youth in the Richmond area to create art that explains and illustrates their feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Partnering with other organizations that serve young people, ART 180 designs projects tha

t allow for self-expression, and creates venues for this expression in the community. ART 180 also operates Atlas, an art center for teens and gallery space for young people in Jackson Ward.

08/26/2026

Protect Ya Neck
ART 180's final exhibition, August 2026

We Gon’ Be Alright
❤️

08/15/2026

EVERYTHING MUST GO!!

Our last show is coming down, so next Saturday we’re having a yard (gallery) sale! We need to clear out as much as we can from our storage unit, supply closet, office, and gallery. Come out and find a deal!

Browse through:
🚨art supplies
🚨office supplies
🚨furniture
🚨art
🚨tools
🚨furniture
🚨even kitchenware!

Saturday, August 22
10-2 p.m.
inside out Atlas gallery
114 W Marshall St.

07/22/2026

ART 180’s final exhibition is opening Friday, August 7, one more celebration of this space and all the people that are drawn to it. Protect Ya Neck: We Gon’ Be Alright is a showcase of all-youth artwork created across this summer in our Atlas Artist Residency, and curated by the teens in our summer curation program.

Protect Ya Neck, inspired by the Wu-Tang Clan song, is a call for community protection and collective support. The young artists working with us this summer have taken this theme and collaborated on an exhibition with pieces across mediums exploring ideas and visual styles from protection, history, anime and manga, and resilience.

Come out for one final send-off to support and uplift these young artists, and share our gallery with us one last time.

Big, big thanks to ET(A) for designing these flyers the show!!!

Protect Ya Neck: opening reception
Friday, August 7 from 5-9 p.m.
@ ART 180’s Atlas Gallery
located at 114 W Marshall St.
part of RVA First Fridays

The show will remain on view for one week through August 14, so stop in to check it out if you can’t make it to the opening!

We gon’ be alright!

07/13/2026

Meet Kiyah Harris, our communications intern from UR working with us this summer helping to document and create some fantastic social media content sharing the work and stories of our summer residency.

We are so thankful for her time and design perspective!

We added a link to her portfolio in our bio, so check it out! And stay tuned for more of her work coming soon to our feed.

07/02/2026

Tonight is our second Ripple Effect workshop! We’re hosting a Q&A panel focused on Fundraising + Grant Writing featuring:

- Lachelle Lewis, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Central VA
- Katie Rhodes, VP of Advancement Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond
- Scott Garka, President, Richmond CultureWorks

+ moderated by ART 180’s Development Director, Sherelle Rodgers Jackson. Get insight into proposal development, funding strategy, and donor engagement.

Space is still available to sign up, held tonight over Zoom.
Thursday, July 2
5:30-7:30 p.m.

Sign up at art180.org

06/24/2026

This Thursday is the first of our 6-part Ripple Effect workshop series to share the tools, knowledge, and connections needed to independently sustain youth arts programming in Richmond.

Workshop #1 is focused on Nonprofit Pathways: exploring how to navigate forming a 501(c)3, fiscal sponsorship alternatives, and much more! We’re so excited to welcome our friends Haus & Market Foundation and Consulting Agency | Online Education for Nonprofit Entrepreneurs two tremendous community partners who will be sharing their experience and perspective with attendees.

All of our Ripple Effect workshops will be held virtually, Thursdays, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. with the first kicking off this Thursday, June 25!

Sign up at art180.org

06/23/2026

Leading the 2026 Atlas Artist Residency cohort are two incredibly talented artists and mentors: Niyah McGee and Brian Cannady II.

Both have been involved with ART 180 for years and they’re the perfect pair to help us lead this final cohort of student artists.

Niyah ☽ ✰ Niyah McGee ✰ ☽ is a Richmond-based artist who was one of the young artists participating in our 2023 Atlas Artist Residency. Since then she’s led ART 180 programs and held residencies with The Art Seen and Visual Arts Center of Richmond

Brian Brian is a multimedia artist with a focus on digital creation, whose work focuses on self-recovery, specifically recovering his sense of self and severed connections to Black culture, exploring these topics in mixed media to develop narratives that center Black experiences. Brian is currently in an artist residency with Chromophore Artspace

Their work with this year’s cohort of students will wrap up with one final ART 180 exhibition, opening Friday, August 7. Mark your calendars and help us celebrate these artists and ART 180’s legacy as a community.

06/22/2026

Our final Atlas Artist Residency program is underway and we wanna take a moment to congratulate all the students from across Richmond joining us to be part of it. We’ll be sharing much more in the coming weeks about their projects, ideas, visions, and creations; all culminating in a final exhibition to close out our time, opening Friday, August 7.

06/17/2026

As part of ART 180’s transition and closure, we want to ensure that positive, impactful programming for the young people in our community can continue in our absence.

And so we present, The Ripple Effect: a new workshop series aimed at artists (with or without teaching experience), educators, and individuals working in organizations serving youth. Across 6 weeks, we’ll share the tools, knowledge, and connections needed to independently sustain youth arts programming in Richmond. Compiling and sharing knowledge from our experience, our successes and failures, as well as the knowledge from other people and organizations can cause a ripple effect that we hope leads to more access and opportunity for enriching programs built for young people.

Sessions will be led by ART 180 leadership, local subject matter experts, and community partners. Each participant will leave with a resource toolkit including templates, guides, and a curated list of partnership contacts.

All sessions are free and open to the public and will take place on Thursdays, weekly from June 25 through July 30. Sign up for one, two, or all that you’re interested in!

To register, head here: https://www.art180.org/therippleeffect

06/05/2026

We’re excited to spotlight and celebrate Tanesha, our Executive Director, as she passes the milestone of her one-year anniversary at ART 180.
💜💜💜
We are so SO thankful for her grounding presence, positive energy, knowledge, insight, and guidance over the past year. We've had an impactful and challenging year to say the least, and we were only able to navigate it thoughtfully through her leadership.

Show! This! Amazing! Human! Some!
LOOOOOOVE!!!

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114 W Marshall Street
Richmond, VA
23220

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm

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http://www.art180.org/

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