The African history and Black cultural hub in NOTA has provided valued community programming for decades, but will not be reopening post-COVID.
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BlackOut Summer Series focuses on the fight for full freedom
Kicking off on Juneteenth, a trilogy of community conversations presented by At The Crossroads tackles enduring, systemic racism.
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Art | Rochester ArtStream
On Saturday, May 30, ShopLocalli will host more than 100 artists at its virtual art fair, Rochester ArtStream, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Calendar Preview: Traditions, off the wall
It’s May. Moms and grads each have their big day coming up, but any pomp and parties have to be virtual and distanced.
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$30K raised for artists of color, grant application period opens
WOC Art’s ambitious COVID-19 fundraiser received more than $30,000 in donations, which will be distributed as grants for artists of color.
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Calendar preview: Nowhere to be, but lots to see
Film, literature, and writing get the spotlight as Rochester’s arts community slates opportunities to connect and reflect.
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Art preview: ‘Current Seen’
In the past year or so, several groups of culturally-focused individuals and institutions have been organizing some new approaches to inject fresh energy into solving this puzzle. The newest of these hopeful endeavors, “Current Seen,” kicks off in earnest on October 4, pulling together loads of artists, curators, institutions, and venues to present more than 25 projects at 16 sites.
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New art & culture space on King Street
The Douglass Auditorium, in the building that formerly housed the Frederick Douglass Resource Center, will host visual art exhibits, performances, lectures, and artists talks. 540WMain’s Calvin Eaton will manage the space’s programming.
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Power peers
The new WOC•Art collaborative is a multi-generational, multi-racial, multi-discipline collective of creative women of color who are pooling their power to create a stronger, more visible platform for their projects and address inequity in the arts.
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‘Lessons of the Hour’ brings Frederick Douglass to MAG
Isaac Julien’s film installation is non-linear cinema, unfolding in episodes as an A/V collage across 10 large and small screens. Yet each richly-constructed scene reads as an immersive film, bringing Douglass to life.
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Review: Alan Singer’s ‘Shapely’ at AXOM
Singer writes computer code that recreates the natural phenomena of form and color, creating geometry-based abstractions that become dazzling monotype prints, which in turn inform the geometric visuals he paints in oil and acrylic.
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‘#Mobilize’ summons traces of social movements
Using GPS info from tweets with social justice hashtags, art collective Larson Shindelman creates images at the sites where the tweeter stood. The duo’s images are on view at Eastman Museum.
