The new leader says she’ll focus on steadying the ship and expanding the center’s youth outreach programming.
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Calendar preview: Suddenly it’s summer
This week’s selection of events includes a celebration of World Otter Day, history talks and writing workshops, garden planning, music sessions, and artist talks.
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Flower City Arts Center director steps down
During her 15-year tenure, Janice Gouldthorpe put the 50-year-old organization on sound financial footing.
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Megan Joy May’s practical magic
The artist in residence at Flower City Arts Center performed a bloody, earthy ritual of rebirth at the opening of her photo exhibition. May’s artistic practice involves healing the wound of fear and achieving unconditional love for the self and others.
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Consuming local: media dieting tips for the New Year
During a recent guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey introduced the term “sheet caking,” which she used to describe the practice of eating an entire cake in response to upsetting news coverage. And although her satirical remarks led to a public debate about the ethics of joking about the use of dessert foods […]
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Collaborative creativity, curated
The 2017-18 arts season will feature group shows and exhibits that span multiple venues.
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Queering everything: Marval A. Rex discusses his art
Marval A. Rex is a trans man whose cross-disciplinary, norms-confounding work is currently on view as part of “Peripheral Of: The Periphery” at Flower City Arts Center. For a review of the show, click here. Rex’s work reflects a mind that connects a lot of dots, introducing new constellations from stars that have always been […]
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Flower City ceramic exhibition confounds the norms
“Peripheral Of: The Periphery” is one of four current exhibitions that showcase the culminating works by the most recent rounds of artists in residence at Flower City Arts Center. On view at the center’s Firehouse Gallery are works by the 2016 ceramics residents, Ryana Lawson, who is from Rochester, and Marval A. Rex, who is […]
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Affording the arts
The Trump Administration’s 2018 federal budget proposal cuts arts funding. How would that affect Rochester’s scene?
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The creative dissent of Stephanie Mercedes
The visiting artist explores the intersection of art and law and Argentina’s Dirty War in new project at Flower City Arts Center
