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anne's Visual Art Studio gallery is a website-backed, unclaimed FAIR profile in Richmond, VA. FAIR lists Fine Art as the specialty and service category; the profile does not show a public fee statement, public USPAP education field, separate credential field, approved reviews, formal-use routing signal, or claim/control status. The sourceEvidenceUrl redirects through Square/Weebly to the gallery's Square site. That site describes an artist-run gallery and Anne's studio open to the public most Thursdays through Saturdays, First Fridays, and by appointment in the RiVA Arts District. The story section says Anne Hart Chay founded a contemporary art gallery with rotating exhibitions, a gallery shop, and her painting and photography studio at 208 W. Broad St.; renovations were done and the gallery opened in 2000 in Downtown Richmond's Arts and Cultural District along the First Fridays Art Walk. The live Square shop and sitemap show artwork, art classes, a gallery shop, artist categories, paintings, photographs, mixed media, ceramics, jewelry, cards, and related product pages, with pickup, Richmond delivery, and shipping policies. Reviewed source pages did not identify formal appraisal report services, a named appraiser for appraisal assignments, appraisal-specific fees, inspection methods, or appraisal education. Treat the FAIR fine-art signal as a comparison prompt and confirm directly whether the gallery offers appraisal reports or is primarily a gallery, studio, classes, and artwork sales source.
Source-owned evidence supports a Richmond contemporary-art gallery, Anne Hart Chay's painting and photography studio, rotating exhibitions, gallery shop, art classes, and online artwork categories covering paintings, photographs, mixed media, ceramics, jewelry, cards, and named artists. It does not show a formal appraisal-report practice on the reviewed pages.
Before using this as an appraisal lead, ask whether anne's Visual Art Studio gallery prepares written appraisal reports or only offers gallery, studio, class, and artwork-sales activity. If reports are available, request the named appraiser, report-purpose fit, inspection method, non-contingent written fee terms, object categories handled, and current education or credential details.
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