A new studio and gallery space in downtown Rochester has become a place for Black visual artists to learn, create, and be inspired.
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Rochester street art darling Dellarious sets up shop at the Public Market
The ubiquitous, Rochester-centric street art of Mike Dellaria, aka Dellarious, gets its own brick-and-mortar shop.
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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 Art Collectors grows support for makers
A new grassroots collective, the Rochester Art Collectors, aims to grow the local base of art buyers and create a stronger, more efficiently networked art scene.
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Four galleries exhibit Danny Allen retrospective
Some people wake up from the fever dream of youthful turbulence and substance-tinged madness into steadiness; others don’t make it. Rochester-based artist Danny Allen was central to the city’s young art scene in the late 1960’s and early 70’s before he ended his life in 1974 at age 28. A four-venue retrospective exhibition of Allen’s […]
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‘And, Ain’t I a Woman’ conversation focuses on intersectionality
While there are a limited (but important) amount of concrete things we can do to challenge racist and sexist national policies, our ability to creatively tackle inequity on local levels is just about boundless. Arts community organizer Rachel DeGuzman is continuing her series of creative forums, “At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and […]
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The small things
From repurposed circuit breakers and maps to punk buttons, check out these five artists and online shops for interesting stocking stuffers
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No guidebooks, no masters
Shawnee Hill, Patrick Kinz-Thompson, Rebecca Lomuto, and Margaret Storms push their artwork outside conventional bounds
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Cthulhu and Krampus and Kaiju, oh my
When Matt Roberts proposed a monster-themed group show to some of his art homies, “unadulterated overkill” was the aesthetic directive he gave them. The resulting exhibit is a week-long pop-up show at Makers Gallery and Studio Space. The show is bookended by an opening party, which took place last Saturday, and a closing reception and […]
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The New Rochester Biennial hits three venues
The Memorial Art Gallery on six occasions presented the Rochester Biennial, an invitational exhibit that boasted the work of some of the best regional artists. The Biennial brand was passed to Rochester Contemporary a couple of years ago, and after some consideration and restructuring of the show, RoCo is sharing the stage. The New Rochester […]
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Poems and paintings pair together in Makers exhibit
Leading up to Monday afternoon’s Great American Eclipse, I visited Makers Gallery and Studio to see the current show, “Schemes,” which consists of eight collaborative paintings and poems arranged in artful installations. I had been reading some articles about how the sky show would affect minute animal life on Earth, so my dome was already […]
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Students of all stripes
CITY U: A guide to Rochester for students in and out of the classroom
