804 Art Drop

Want to participate but don’t feel like you have any time / don’t feel very creative? Here are some low-cost, easy ideas to get you started!

Photos

• Take a photo of something in the 804 area code. Maybe it’s something recognizable, maybe it’s something personal or local.
• Print it out at a local shop (some places that print photos for very low cost, and probably will even mail them to you: Richmond Professional Lab, CVS, Walgreens, Staples)
• Find a nice frame on your local Buy Nothing Group or a nearby thrift store (suggestion: Diversity Thrift)
• Optional: decorate frame with supplies from craft store (suggestion: SCRAP RVA)
• Put your photo into your frame. Voilà!

RVA Logo or Virginia Outline

• Print out the RVA Logo (there used to be a generator to create your own, but that seems to have gone away, sadly); OR
• Print out an outline of Virginia
• Create your design on top of the printout using whatever supplies you have – paints, colored pencils, markers, crayons, mosaics from magazines, found objects.
• Optional: put it in a frame (see above)!

Subject Ideas

Don’t know where to start? Here are some ideas for subjects:

• The James River
• Opossums
• Store cats (Francine, Cricket, etc – find a list here!)
• Richmond Flying Squirrels
• Hollywood Cemetery
• Main Street Station
• Carytown
• VCU
• University of Richmond
• Bicycles
• Tattoos
• Your favorite restaurant or store or park or library or whatever!
• Historical sites
• The Richmond, Virginia flag and boatman symbol
• Birds of Virginia
• Trees and flowers of Virginia
• Butterflies and moths of Virginia
• Local cryptids and spooky things
• Edgar Allan Poe

Top illustration by El Humilde Fotero del Pánico