Videos
SMFA Art School Cheerleaders performing at the Art Now! March on Washington protesting significant budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998
SMFA Art School Cheerleaders traveling to the Art Now! March on Washington for the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998
Rebecca pre-performance interview
Getting ready
Makeup/pre-performance ritual
Transcript: Rebecca pre-performance interview
Jocelyn Bandas: So are you guys nervous?
Mary Burruss: No. In fact, I even I forgot what I was doing. Oh, are we doing something today? What?
Jocelyn Bandas: Rebecca, you know this. Did you have a moment when you step back in there when you’re looking at it like, I can’t believe we’re actually doing this, finally? Like I like feel like I could read your brain. When you stepped off of the stage, I felt like I like read your thoughts.
Rebecca Goldberg: Yeah, ’cause it’s been ten years. Right? Right. So, ten years ago I was doing this exact same thing with different people.
Jocelyn Bandas: Did you have a flashback like, weird?
Rebecca Goldberg: Yeah, that was definitely a flashback. It was weird. It was a whole part of my life I thought I was never gonna experience again. And then I was like, yay. And what a great place to debut, the Museum of Fine Arts! Yeah, talk about starting at the top. I mean starting at the top and then the Style party where there’s gonna be tons of media next Tuesday. Let’s hope the media is where we are. Hopefully. But if you like look at all the gigs we’re doing this year in the list, they’re all pretty interesting and yeah, slummy things too. Good PR. Yeah, slummy. Like I know! It’s excellent.
Jocelyn Bandas: Did you say slummy?
Rebecca Goldberg: Yeah.
Jocelyn Bandas: Alright. Do you like that word? [To Rebecca Behrman] Are you nervous?
Rebecca Behrman: Dying inside.
August 2007, Richmond Art Cheerleaders pre-performance backstage interactions before their first performance at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Copyright The Art Cheerleaders, video by Jocelyn Bandas.
Before gig arrival
Lobby footage
Performance line
August 2007, Richmond Art Cheerleaders at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Copyright The Art Cheerleaders, video by Jocelyn Bandas.
Table and wares
Public Interaction
Street Performance
Richmond Art Cheerleaders at the First Fridays Artwalk, in front of Gallery 5, holding a “homecoming” bake sale and t-shirt sale to raise money for uniforms and pompons. First appearance of the Make Art! logo on the t-shirts for sale at this event. Cheerleaders in attendance included Mary Burruss, Robbie Kinter, Kendra Wasworth, Rebecca Behrman, Jocelyn Bandas, and others. September 7, 2007. Copyright The Art Cheerleaders, videography by Jocelyn Bandas.
“Style Weekly 25th Anniversary” Performance
Toad’s Place, Richmond, Virginia
October 30, 2007
Copyright the Art Cheerleaders, videography by Jocelyn Bandas.
Left to right: Mary Burruss, Lizzie Basch, Rebecca Berhman, Robbie Kinter, Kendra Wasworth, and Rebecca Goldberg, with Jocelyn Bandas on cameras.
“An Evening With Bill Plympton” Performance
Canal Club, Richmond, Virginia
November 9, 2007
Copyright the Art Cheerleaders, videography by Jocelyn Bandas.
Left to right: Mary Burruss, Rebecca Berhman, Robbie Kinter, Kendra Wasworth, and Rebecca Goldberg, with Jocelyn Bandas on cameras.
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