No one is immune to the itch to check out until the sun returns. For their parts, artists must fight the urge to power down for the season, and instead keep the creativity flowing.
Sarah Rutherford
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WALLTHERAPY 2017: Notes from the weekend
WALL\THERAPY over the weekend announced its 2017 mural locations, which span a swath of Rochester on both sides of the river. A brief recap of the weekend’s progress follows, and stay tuned for individual artist spotlights and interviews coming this week. See the slideshow below for some visuals, and follow CITY on Instagram @roccitynews for […]
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WALLTHERAPY focuses on activism in 2017 festival
Rochester’s mural festival, WALL\THERAPY, returns Friday, July 21, through Sunday, July 30, presenting a theme of arts, activism, and community. The festival has been held each July since 2011, except for 2016 when the organization participated in an artist exchange with a Berlin-based arts group. The organizers originally had “storytelling” as a loose theme for […]
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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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WallTherapy 2013 Update: The artists speak
Thursday was Day 7 of the 10-day Wall\Therapy street-art festival, with at least eight murals completed and many more nearing completion. Wednesday night, an artist talk was held at School of the Arts, which included a panel of six muralists who engaged in a discussion led by Wall\Therapy co-founder Dr. Ian Wilson. The panel included […]
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Worlds collide on walls: WallTherapy 2013
Symbolically, walls stand to divide space, to enclose people and property. But for Dr. Ian Wilson and the network of medical professionals, artists, and volunteers he has organized around Rochester’s annual Wall\Therapy street-art festival, and the medical-philanthropy organization Impact, walls stand for something other than themselves. Through those initiatives, walls have the capability to unite […]
