Amanda Lynn

Whitman Works Company continues their tradition of supporting artists based in Rochester with their current exhibition, “A Study in Color, the Experimental Arts of Todd Bassage.” While working as a laboratory scientist during the day, Bassage’s has focused his studio art career on abstract painting, sculpture, and photography. He explores techniques, color, surface, and different […]

Since 2007, the annual two week Sankofa Festival has spotlighted primarily local playwrights, actors, and directors in a mainstage and variety of supporting performances. The first week of this year’s fest features “The Green Book Chronicles,” inspired by the Negro Motorist Green Book, a traveler’s guide used by a generation of African Americans seeking safe […]

Actor and photographer Jason Lee will this week speak in Rochester as part of the George Eastman Museum’s Wish You Were Here photography lecture series. Lee’s talk will center on his newest, Texas-focused installment of photographs in his ongoing series, “A Plain View,” which is a documentation of rural America. Lee created his images using […]

Western New York native Erin Dorney’s “I Am Not Famous Anymore” is a volume of poems drawn from media interviews with the sometimes inspiring, sometimes enigmatic Shia LaBeaouf. But by erasing parts of his statements and reframing the text as a poem, she’s turned LaBeaouf’s discourse into a poetic examination of fame and identity. Dorney […]

Genesee Country Village & Museum’s annual Fiddler’s Fair is a weekend filled with performances featuring fiddles, guitars, harps, and dulcimers. Performers include a variety of local and regional fiddlers, as well as the Jamieson Irish Dancers. Musicians who bring their own instrument will receive free admission and can participate in a series of free workshops […]

Local filmmaker Mara Ahmed will this week present a retrospective of her work in art and film during a multimedia, interactive presentation. Ahmed’s film “A Thin Wall,” about the 1947 partition of India, has won accolades and been shown around the world, and her current documentary project provides a look at racism experienced by women […]

Technology, paint, and collage are combined in the upcoming exhibition “OBJEKT: Matter in the Digital Age,” featuring new works by artist Rebecca Aloisio. Hoping to examine the notion of truth in imagery, Aloisio’s large-scale works are influenced by the glut of visual information that we are inundated with on a daily basis. For the artist, […]

Now in its fifth year, Movies With a Downtown View is a free outdoor movie night held downtown and presented by the City of Rochester. Food trucks, music, and giveaways are the introduction to the main event: a screening of a popular movie with the night sky as a backdrop. The Friday, August 17, event […]

E. B. White’s classic children’s book “Charlotte’s Web” tells the story of how a determined farm girl and a special spider save a radiant pig from the dinner plate. A team of talking barnyard animals work together with Charlotte the spider to save Wilber the pig, teaching lessons of love, compassion, and creativity along the […]

Calling all space cadets: Report for training, dancing, and a sci-fi costume contest at The Strong’s next event in its popular Happiest Hour series for ages 21 and up. “Happiest Hour: Join Me, Human, for Space Cadet Camp” is an after-hours event filled with lightsabers, arcade games, access to the “Rockets, Robots, and Ray Guns” […]

The Rochester Teen Film Festival each year presents young filmmakers in Rochester with an opportunity to participate in a true, competitive film festival. A jury reviews all submissions, screenings are held at The Little Theatre, and and a variety of rewards are given to the winners. This year the awards include the new Phillip Seymour […]

AXOM Gallery’s latest exhibition, “The Visionary works of Cathal Brendan O’Toole,” honors the work of the late Dublin, Ireland-born artist. O’Toole traveled around the world learning drawing, printmaking, and painting starting in the 1920s before landing in Rochester, where he retired as an art director in television in 1971. His work has been exhibited extensively, […]