Richmond Art Center Presents
Art on the Greenway
Celebrating the City of Richmond’s 2012 Neighborhood Public Art Program

Exhibition: September 15 – November 9, 2012
Artist Talk, Film Screening: September 22, 12-2 pm
Reception: September 22, 2 – 4 pm
Top: Community Rejuvenation Project, Photo by Pancho Pescador. Bottom: EarthTeam's Green Screen crew and the Rosie's Girls, Photo by Lana Husser

This exhibition celebrates the incredible community collaboration of several Richmond-based organizations that received grants from the City of Richmond’s Neighborhood Public Art Program. These grants enabled them to engage
local youth in the arts by teaching them how to create murals, build cob benches and garden pavers covered with mosaic, weld decorative bike racks, and document youth at work on all the projects through video and photographs.

The Richmond Greenway is a pedestrian and bicycle path that runs along the former right-of way of the Santa Fe Railroad parallel to Ohio Street, between the end of the Ohlone Greenway adjacent to the intersection of Macdonald and San Pablo Avenues, and Point Richmond. After years of diligent community efforts by Lilly Mae Jones and others, the tracks were removed and the remaining land was converted into a bike and walking trail, which is now is landscaped with community gardens, native vegetation, daylighted portions of Baxter Creek, and an artificial creek channel used to filter pollution along its frontage. In March of 2012, the State of California awarded Richmond a $5 million Prop 84 grant to continue developing the Richmond Greenway from 2nd Street to 20th Street!