December 2011
2 posts
VCU OPEN NITE
This is a fantastic evening!
Open Nite — Friday, December 16, 5:30 - 8:00 pm — is a collaborative event involving VCUarts departments of Fashion, Graphic Design and Interior Design.
It’s free.
It’s open.
It’s at night. (Hence, Open Nite.)
Come tour our studios and take a look at what design students have been working on this semester.
If that’s...
Fight Virginia's Proposal to De-Regulate Interior...
I write to you independently, not as a representative of VCU’s Interior Design Department, but as a professional and an educator concerned with the future of Interiors.
Virginia’s Governor’s Commission on Reform and Restructuring has recommended that Interior Design be deregulated.
If this moves you, please act before December 5, 2011! Otherwise, this will need to be fought in the General...
October 2011
1 post
pushing boundaries -- tonight!
Joshua Poteat and I will be @ pushing boundaries to discuss our work!
Check out the facebook link here!
August 2011
2 posts
radio daze
Tune into Richmond’s WRIR 97.3 (or listen online at http://www.wrir.org/) at 10:00am today for Open Source, where I’ll be a guest discussing architecture and design right here in the James River region!
THREE THINGS
3 GOOD THINGS TO DO TONIGHT IN RICHMOND:
1. Go to the First Friday Art Walk.
2. Check out the Green Spaces Exhibit at citedesign (301 N Adams Street).
3. Check out the 1708 Gallery Satellite Exhibition at the Linden Row Inn, because Joshua Poteat and I have our installation, for lucy and yard sale (erasure), on exhibit.
4. Purchase a piece of it and watch 100% of that purchase go to help...
July 2011
2 posts
for lucy and yard sale (erasure)
Bring home a piece of the installation and help support the Daily Planet as they service Richmond’s homeless population. Joshus Poteat and I want this opportunity to be accessible to everyone, so the pieces are priced from $15-$50.
100% of all sales go to the Daily Planet.
See it this week at First Friday, Linden Row Inn.
Thanks to Amie Oliver, 1708 Gallery and the Linden Row Inn!
tomorrow's in good hands
Just spent another great morning with the people behind “From the Ground Up,” a two-week crash course in architecture offered by the MathScience Innovation Center’s Summer Regional Governor’s School.
Teacher Dawn Burriesci and her assistants have been teaching local 7th & 8th graders in this course for the last few years, and they do a fantastic job taking students...
March 2011
1 post
buy art + help good peeps.
for lucy and yard sale is exhibited for a few more days in lovely Ashland, Virginia. Each component of the piece is for sale - prices range from $15 to $75.
Here’s the great thing: all of the $$$ goes to the Daily Planet. The Daily Planet helps out homeless populations in the Richmond area. Get some art, help people out; it’s win-win!
Artists and Writers, Round Two, wraps up this...
February 2011
2 posts
get art, feel good.
A touch more news about the collaborative piece Joshua and I developed — it will be sold off in pieces, with 100% of the proceeds to be donated to the Daily Planet (website), a local organization providing services to the homeless and at risk populations. The goal is to sell each piece, scattering the project across the area, and in doing so, providing some support for a really great...
for lucy and yard sale -- opening sunday, 20...
Artists and Writers, Round Two opens February 18 at the Flippo Gallery at Randolph-Macon College (directions) and runs until April 1 (no foolin’!). Joshua Poteat and I have developed our second collaborative installation for the show. Here is a link to the process photos that Joshua took.
The public opening reception is Sunday, February 20 @ 3:00 pm, and we invite you all to the...
August 2010
1 post
1708 gallery MONSTER DRAWING RALLY
I’ll be drawing from 2-3 at 1708 Gallery’s MONSTER DRAWING RALLY. Promises to be a great time for a great organization. Tell your friends! Details below, and on facebook:
Monster Drawing Rally is a performance, a happening, a bonanza, a rollicking good time of art making, kid activities, food and drinks! The event will consist of 5 one-hour shifts with several artists working ...
July 2010
1 post
summertime
Such a summer! I spent June traveling and studying design and landscape with students from Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, and Cal-Berkely on VaTech professor Terry Clements’s annual sojourn to Europe. I returned from Europe at the end of June with a reinforced respect and admiration for other design disciplines, especially landscape architecture.
Also, I was able to study more than...
April 2010
1 post
modern love: a requiem
Springtime…so love must be in the air. Or at least thru the ether. Or the tubes in the internet…
Modern Love wrapped up at the VCA a month ago — can it be so long already? By all accounts it was a rousing success! We had double the numbers we expected, and we received really great feedback form everyone involved.
Thanks once more to all the people who helped with the...
February 2010
3 posts
MODERN LOVE part iii TO-NITE: broken hearts
ahhh….with joy you have pain. broken hearts explores modernism after the heady days of the 1950s, where complexity and contradiction throw the modern movement a curveball…check it out!
MODERN LOVE: part ii TRUE LOVE, this Thursday!
We had our first installament of our MODERN LOVE series on understanding modern architecture last Thursday, and from all accounts it was a hit!
In FIRST KISS, we laid the foundation for modern design by looking back at some building innovations in the previous century (thanks Chicago!) and examining art and design movements around the WWI era. Wright, Mies and Corbu led the discussion, and we...
MODERN LOVE on WTVR TUESDAY MORNING!
We’ll be talking up Modern Love on Virginia This Morning (WTVR-CBS 6) tomorrow! Tune in after 8:30!
January 2010
7 posts
passion. beauty. betrayal. and architecture....
You’re invited to fall in love with modern architecture!
The Virginia Center for Architecture presents
Modern Love: Understanding Twentieth Century Architecture: a romance in four parts
02|04: first kiss 1900-1930 02|11: true love 1930-1960 02|18: broken hearts 1960-1980 02|25: anything goes 1980-2000
From its impassioned start through its reinvention, modern architecture and design...
C3 Breakfast Recap & Love is in the Air...
Thanks to all who came out for breakfast and our artist talk yesterday at 1708 Gallery! We had a great turnout, and C3 did a wonderful job organizing as usual. Josh and I always enjoy revisiting the For Gabriel installation and talking up the talented people like Allison Andrews, Elisabeth Reinkordt, Eric Saylor & Heidi Hess who helped it all come together.
We’re also always flattered...
Rob Ventura & Joshua Poteat discuss "For Gabriel"...
This month C3, Richmond’s Creative Change Center, presents: Collaborating on Creativity. Poet Joshua Poteat and designer Roberto Ventura teamed up to create “For Gabriel” a mixed media work of art for 1708 Gallery’s InLight Richmond (2009). Their first collaboration was selected by juror Adelina Vlas (from the Philadelphia Museum of Art) as the Best in Show. They will present “For Gabriel,”...
howdy!
look out, world. i am about to begin blogging. that says it all, i guess. this companion to the website, www.roberto-ventura.com, intends to be a sounding board for thoughts, notions, and observations on design, design in richmond, and all tangents in between, which, from as much as i can tell, is a pretty poor way of narrowing the focus. but it is a start, and starts are beautiful, if not...