The Greater Richmond Emerging Artist's Tribe (GREAT) is for visual artists who are emerging into the Richmond Arts Community and beyond. Though it's focus is on supporting Richmond's emerging artists, GREAT welcomes seasoned professionals, gallery directors, local art centers, and local non-profit arts organizations in order to encourage and promote a united and inclusive visual arts community. GREAT doesn't discriminate between academically-trained or self-taught artists.

GREAT is not governed by strict guidelines. Here you can annouce a show or calls for art, promote your latest class or workshop, ask questions, talk and discuss various topics related to art and meet other artists and art professionals that you might not otherwise run into in your daily travels. Though topics of discussion may evolve into other areas of interest to members as they influence his/her art, we ask that an off topic thread which continues more than a few days, be moved to private e-mail and pursued there.

We create art because we breathe. It's not enough to just love creating art, altering and transforming objects into art. We can't help it. It's in our blood and in just about everything we do. Art invades our dreams and our waking moments. If we're not creating art, we're nearly always thinking about creating art. If you live in the greater RIchmond area and this sounds like you, we hope you'll join our tribe.

http://tribes.tribe.net/greatartists