After filling up on turkey, stuffing, and pie, walk it off while checking out these fresh-air art treks.
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WallTherapy’s decade of rallying Rochester around murals
Ten years and 135 murals later, WallTherapy organizers reflect on the impact the initiative has had on Rochester.
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Rochester’s infamous ‘Sleeping Bears’ mural vandalized
The mural, created in 2012 by the Belgian artist ROA, was derided by many who saw in it the depiction of a sex act.
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Pandemic and racial reckonings fuel Black artists
Amidst a paralyzing pandemic and tumultuous social protests, Rochester’s Black artists kept creating.
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Arts advocates finger wag Mayor Warren for use of Daniel Prude mural
Roc Arts United criticizes the mayor for using images of murals of Daniel Prude and Rep. John Lewis in city promotional materials.
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No WallTherapy festival, still fresh paint
July is wrapping up, and for the only the second time eight years, WallTherapy is not putting on its annual mural festival. But the group’s organizers are still working to link WT artists with opportunities to paint new murals around Rochester.
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Preview: WALLTHERAPY 2018
Now it its seventh year, Rochester’s annual home-grown mural festival, WALLTHERAPY, is back this week with a scaled-down but nonetheless ambitious event. This year’s event features a tight roster of just six artistsinvited to paint walls around the city, as well as the second annual Art & Activism conference.
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Painting for the people
Rochester-based artist and homeless advocate Richmond Futch Jr. embraces humanity through art. His newest, literary-themed mural project on the Arnett Branch Library facade was a collaborative endeavor with youth mentees.
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WALLTHERAPY 2017: Todd Stahl takes a focus on Syria
Although WALL\THERAPY organizers set a theme of arts and activism for this year’s festival, they left the specifics up to the individual artists. Todd Stahl, a teacher at Webster Thomas High School, began working Sunday at 59 Pennsylvania Avenue, assisted by a few of his students. His mural features an oversize portrait of a young […]
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Mural series ‘Her Voice Carries’ lifts local women
Rochester-based artist Sarah Rutherford is in the midst of a new series of murals that spotlight local women who work to lift up the voices of others.
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MAG exhibit highlights Carl Peters and the era of WPA murals
In flourishing civilizations, public art was funded by the ruling class as a marker of how well society was doing. But in America today, arts funding always seems to be first on the chopping block. So it’s rather amazing that during the Great Depression, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal sought to create jobs […]
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WALLTHERAPY early progress
WALL\THERAPY 2015 opened on Friday night, July 17, with a reception for “IMPACT!,” an exhibition of work by each of this year’s featured artists at 1975 Gallery (89 Charlotte Street). And though the heat has been pretty oppressive during the early portion of the nine-day festival, a few of the artists have banged out one […]
