Richmond Famous with Hamilton Glass

Live comedy. True stories. Completely unscripted.
Richmond Famous is the city’s premier storytelling and improv show, featuring an all-star cast
of Coalition performers and your favorite Richmond celebrities. Each month we welcome a new
Richmond-area citizen as our featured guest. The guests share true stories from their lives, which
the cast use as inspiration to create a hilarious comedy show right before your eyes!
Join us as we welcome artist Hamilton Glass for Richmond Famous's inaugural show of 2026
and celebrate the city we call home!
More About Hamilton Glass:
Hamilton Glass is a painter and public artist living in Richmond, Virginia. You have likely seen
his large, colorful murals brightening up walls across town. Glass’s extensive portfolio includes
decorative paintings for schools, local businesses, and non-profit organizations. His work centers
in Richmond, but you can also find his projects elsewhere in Virginia, as well as in Maryland and
Washington, D.C.
Glass is driven by an aspiration to use public art to build up communities and create spaces in
which the community members feel they have a stake in their surroundings. To that end, he is a
frequent collaborator with organizations that focus on community growth and outreach. In 2020,
he created the groundbreaking public art project Mending Walls RVA. The project paired
together 30 artists from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and perspectives to have
conversations about their lived experiences and to create 16 murals across the city with the hope
that their art would ultimately spark deeper conversations, foster empathy, and promote healing.
Recently, he collaborated with fellow artist Germany Ray to paint a mural honoring the
Richmond 34, a group of Virginia Union University students who staged a sit-in at the
Thalhimers Department Store lunch counter in 1960 to protest segregation. The mural was
commissioned by the Richmond Performing Arts Alliance (RPAA) and sits within the lobby of
RPAA’s Genworth BrightLights Education Center located in Dominion Energy Center.
For his work, Glass has received extensive (well-deserved, we might add!) acclaim. He has been
granted the Humanitarian Award by the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, recognized
as a “Richmond History Maker” by the Valentine Museum, and included as one of Style
Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40, among other honors.