[1] In 1936, Richmond-resident Hazel Salmi began teaching classes under the Emergency Education Program (EEP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

[2] Early classes included outdoor sketching, block printing, flower arrangement, color, woodcarving, and leather tooling.

[10] In 1971 Marioni was fired by the Head of Parks following a controversial performance by one of Judy Chicago's students that was part of the exhibition California Girls (1971).

[12] Richmond Art Center's facility is a u-shaped building wrapping around a courtyard garden and public outdoor space.

On-site classes and workshops are taught in the center's dedicated spaces for ceramics, weaving, metalwork, printing, painting and youth arts.