Student Exhibitions
On-Site Exhibitions
Stay tuned for more information about on-site exhibitions by our talented Trailblazers!
Off-Site Exhibitions
Theme & Variations – Art is Everything!
Work From Brightpoint Spring Semester 2024 Advanced Watercolor Classes
Instructor Michael A. Pierce’s advanced watercolor students from the Brightpoint Community College spring 2024 semester were each asked to create a body of work. Selections from this online exhibition were shown at Boyd Galleries in August 2024. This exhibition is dedicated to our dear friend and fellow student, James Parker. We will miss him dearly, but he will always be in our class and in our hearts.
Theme & Variations: Family
Spring 2023
Advanced Watercolor Student Exhibition
Selections from this online exhibition will be shown at Artspace Gallery, Elisabeth Flynn Chapman Gallery, 2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, VA 23225 in the Stratford Hills Shopping Center June 23 - July 22, 2023 with an Opening Reception, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, Friday, June 23, 2023
(Image: Nathan by Roni Kingsley)
Theme & Variations
Work From Brightpoint Community College's Fall 2022 Semester Advanced Watercolor Classes.
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, Downtown Branch, 101 E Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23219
On view: March 3 – April 4, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 2023, 6:00-9:00pm
Featuring student artists: Dale Burrell, Paula Delfs, Cece Gallo, Elaine Harris, Hannah Jones, Roni Kingsley, Susan Moncure, Beq Parker, James Parker, Alliyah (Beans) Riley, Janet Scagnelli.
Our First Brightpoint Show
Work From Brightpoint Community College's Spring 2022 Semester Advanced Watercolor Classes.
Artspace Gallery, 2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, VA 23225
Flynn-Chapman Room
Opening Reception: Friday, July 22, 6:00-9:00pm
Featuring student artists: Mary Early, Elaine Harris, Hannah Jones, Roni Kingsley, Susan Moncure, Sallie Lupton Rugg, Janet Scagnelli, and Clare van Loenen.
Highlights from the COVID Times
This exhibit will be on view at the Downtown Branch of the Richmond Public Library from March 4–30, 2022. This show includes paintings created in the middle of the pandemic by Michael A. Pierce’s Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 in Topics in Watercolor (ART 295) students: Amber Brantley, Jane Dowrick, Josh Cloninger, Susan Moncure, Opal Myers and Chia Yang
The Downtown Branch of the Richmond Public Library is located at 101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219. A First Friday, Opening Reception for the Artists is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m., March 4, 2022.
We Thought COVID Would Be Over By Now
Featuring watercolors from the fall semester of Michael A. Pierce’s Topics in Watercolor (ART 295) class, the latest installment of the Theme & Variations exhibition series will be on view through May 1, 2022. The work is displayed throughout the Collaboratory of Virginia/UTurn facility located at 2101 Maywill Street, Richmond, VA 23230.
Artwork from: Elaine Harris, Linda Hollett-Bazouzi, Hannah Jones, Roni Kingsley, Nishchay Patel, Sallie Lupton Rugg, Janet Scagnelli and Jeanette Wermuth. Exhibition space provided by Artspace, a non-profit gallery for the visual and performing arts.
Reception: First Friday, March 4, 6:00–8:00pm
Online Student Exhibitions
Theme & Variations Fall 2023
Fall 2023
Advanced Watercolor Student Exhibition
Selections from this online exhibition will be shown in the Gellman Room Richmond Public Library Downtown Branch 101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219 https://rvalibrary.org.
February 2 - February 27, 2024, with an Opening Reception, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, Friday, February 2, 2024.
2021 Memory Project: Nigeria
Instructor Colin Ferguson’s Painting I, II, III and IV students painted portraits for the Memory Project, an initiative that gives children who’ve been orphaned a personal keepsake. This year students painted the portraits of children from Nigeria.
Theme & Variations
Special Topics in Watercolor (ART 295
Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Pierce
Alternative Photographic Processes
Alternative Photographic Processes (PHT 247)
Spring 2021
Instructor: Anne Savedge
Electronic Darkroom
Electronic Darkroom (PHT 135)
Spring 2021
Instructor: Anne Savedge
Digital Photography II
Digital Photography II (PHT 264)
Spring 2021
Instructor: Anne Savedge
2022 Foundation Art Award Finalists
Since 1995 the Brightpoint Community College Foundation's annual art competition has highlighted the artistic abilities of Brightpoint’s students. Each year the winning entry is showcased with a poster and notecard design, and the artist receives a cash award. The 2022 Foundation Art Award will be selected from among these ten finalists and announced at the Student Awards Night in spring.