Art6

Art6, also spelled art6, (2004-2014) was an internationally known incorporated non-profit (501C-3) member-run art gallery and performance space located at 6 East Broad Street in historic Jackson Ward in the area which would eventually be designated the Arts and Cultural District of Richmond, Virginia. Four of the artists who previously established the original Artspace 1306 Gallery (and later Artspace Gallery on Broad Street) were joined by two other artists to become the original six founders of the new gallery Art6. The original six co-founders of Art6 were Henrietta Near, Mitzi Humphrey, Marian Hollowell, Doug Hayes, Chuck Scalin, and Thomas MacGillivray Humphrey, Jr. Art6 Gallery had its first organizational meeting at Café Gutenberg in Shockoe Bottom.

Art6 was an anchor gallery for Richmond's First Friday art walk events, with a public opening reception for new exhibitions every month of its existence and single-night attendance which sometimes exceeded one-thousand visitors.

In 2004, as part of its educational outreach program, Art6 began a series of Pinkney Near Memorial Lectures in Art History featuring outstanding museum curators and art historians honoring Pinkney L. Near (1927-1990), the long-time curator of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Midway through Art6's Broad Street presence, pioneer Broad Street art galleries, of which Art6 was one of the earliest and most popular, were honored by Style Weekly as "Broad Street Revivalists: 2009 Richmonders of the Year."

Both Art6 gallery and Artspace Gallery evolved from Artspace 1306, a non-profit 50l(c)3 organization gallery which began in a donated, rent-free space at 1306 Cary Street in Richmond's historic Shockoe Slip. Upon the loss of its rent-free space in the Slip, Artspace moved to North 18th Street in Shockoe Bottom, retaining its original name of Artspace 1306. The gallery's next move as Artspace 1306 was to a historic building at 6 East Broad Street in Jackson Ward, and the name of the gallery was changed at the request of the Richmond post office to Artspace, removing its former street number to prevent confusion at the new location. Artspace was the first of the Shockoe Bottom art galleries incorporated as non-profit organizations to locate on Broad Street, and it soon became an anchor gallery for Richmond's First Friday Art Walk and one of the most popular and long-lasting venues for the Richmond Arts and Culture District formed for Broad Street and Downtown Richmond. When the majority of artist members of Artspace voted to move to Plant Zero in Manchester, six dissenting Artspace members became the founding members of Art6 and remained in their historic building, a former large hardware store located at 6 East Broad Street in downtown Richmond's Jackson Ward.

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