Ten years and 135 murals later, WallTherapy organizers reflect on the impact the initiative has had on Rochester.
Wall Therapy
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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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Feedback 8/28
Send comments to feedback@rochester-citynews.com with your name, your daytime telephone number, and your city, town or village. We edit selections for publication, and we don’t publish comments sent to other media. School choice The title of the August 20 Urban Journal declares neighborhood schools to be “popular” (“Neighborhood Schools: Popular but Impossible?”). The conditions that […]
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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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WALLTHERAPY 2017: Lucinda Yrene’s mural celebrates motherhood, healing
A smudge stick and a good omen for GP4H: Lucinda Yrene’s WALLTHERAPY mural at 1112 East Main Street.
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WALLTHERAPY 2017: Jess X Snow, Chrysanthemum Tran, and the Queer Mother Earth
Rochester just got its first mural that spotlights queer identity
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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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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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Backward and forward vision with Jeff Soto and Maxx242
California-based artists Jeff Soto and Maxx242 finished their collaborative mural, “Love is Sacrifice,” at the Rochester Public Market early on Tuesday. Afterward, Maxx put up a second, more traditional graffiti-style piece at Hudson Avenue and Dayton Street of just the title script from the first painting. “It represents the sacrifices we make, when we become […]
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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 […]
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A study on symbiosis with Onur & Wes21
The two Swiss artists talk collaboration and envision nature taking its revenge.
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Fresh Paint
Rochester’s annual, week-long mural-making festival, Wall Therapy, kicked off officially on Friday, July 18. Most of the out-of-town artists have arrived and are now working on their large-scale public artworks under this year’s portraiture theme. Due to scheduling, a couple more artists will have arrived by midweek and have a later start. Gloomy weather and […]
