The arts advocacy group launched a new website that lists opportunities and resources for local artists and small arts organizations.
Bleu Cease
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RoCo’s latest exhibit is a real artpocalypse
Rochester Contemporary’s ‘Last Year On Earth’ showcases creative responses to the events of 2020.
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Rochester’s arts support: beyond a big-show theater
Representatives of some of Rochester’s arts organizations will be meeting next week to reignite a discussion they’ve been having for years: creating an endowment or some other kind of ongoing arts funding. Elaine Spaull, who chairs City Council’s Arts and Culture Committee, is convening the meeting, which is scheduled for December 14. The big arts […]
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Rochester organizations come together for Year of Douglass
Frederick Douglass lived in Rochester for 25 years, and during his lifetime, the abolitionist, social reformer, speaker, and writer was a prominent figure in American political action and had important discussions about race and slavery with President Lincoln. For much of the recent past, however, there’s been a disconnect in what the larger Rochester public […]
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Arts Council board is restructuring
Big changes are afoot with the Arts & Cultural Council. Last Thursday, the board elected philanthropist Dawn Lipson as its new president. Other new officers include former Brighton Supervisor Sandra Frankel; Bleu Cease, director of Rochester Contemporary Art Center; Eric Townell, artistic director of Rochester Lyric Opera; Baal Bhagat, a director with the Kalidas Indo-American […]
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RoCo to host Rochester Biennial
Rochester Contemporary Art Center and the Memorial Art Gallery have announced on Tuesday that The Rochester Biennial, which has been organized by and hosted at MAG for six years, will be organized by RoCo starting in 2017. In the immediate future, Biennials will be based at RoCo, but they won’t necessarily always be held at […]
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Bordering bodies
Sometimes we learn something about ourselves through an outsider’s fresh-eyed perspective. This concept is being explored as part of a project by poet and performance artist Moheb Soliman, who is currently in the middle of a mission to trace the borderlands of the Great Lakes, documenting and digesting bits of interest along the way. Later […]
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ART REVIEW: “State of the City: Street-ish”
Four young artists are the stars of “Street-ish,” a show of contemporary work that is informed by street art and culture, though was created within a studio practice. Now in its sixth season, this edition of Rochester Contemporary’s “State of the City” exhibition series was co-curated by RoCo’s Executive Director, Bleu Cease, and Memorial Art […]
