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First Friday - Citywide Gallery Night in Rochester, NY

First Friday

is a monthly citywide gallery night that encourages collaboration between non-profit, university, and commercial art venues in Rochester, NY. This initiative showcases area artists and arts institutions by promoting the First Friday evening of each month from 6-9pm as a community night for experiencing art. First Friday ensures a healthy art scene and a healthy city through regular exchange and discussion between venues, artists and patrons. First Friday Rochester was initiated, and is administered by Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

April 2 Highlights:

NEW! Art Writing: Blogs & online publications about, inspired by, and directed at the art scene in Rochester, NY and beyond.

Elemental at Cobblestone School Contemporary Space
Other Worlds at Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Annual Auction Preview at Visual Studies Workshop Gallery
Adapting Suburbs at The Design Gallery at RRCDC

This map is a current and accurate representation of venues that will be open for the upcoming First Friday citywide gallery night. Click on the First Friday logos at left for venue name, address & phone number.

For more information about each venue's upcoming First Friday event, click on the date tab.

Shuttle buses were available for several months thanks to funding secured by NYS Senator Jim Alesi. They are no longer available.

First Friday encourages collaboration between non-profit, university, and commercial art venues in Rochester, NY.

Want to Join? Participating venues have agreed to:

1. Participate in a minimum of 9 out of 12 First Fridays per year, staying open from at least 6-9pm.
2. Promote First Friday with the logo on printed matter and a link on their website. (This is very important. When all participating venues are promoting First Friday we are all promoting each other!)
3. Contribute $100 per year toward the development and maintenance of this initiative.

If your venue would like to join First Friday please contact Bleu Cease: 585 461 2222
(bleu at rochester contemporary-dot-org)

Note:
This is an incomplete list of venues that have participated in First Friday Citywide Gallery Night.
For a list of venues participating in the upcoming First Friday, click on the date tab.

A.R.T.S Gallery at Aviv Cafe

321 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 729-9916
http://www.myspace.com/cafeaviv

Anti-War Storefront and Gallery

658 Monroe Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-3146
585 442-0015
http://www.metrojustice.org/pae_storefront...

Arts Center Gallery at Nazareth College

4245 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 389-5073

Baobab Cultural Center

728 University Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 563-2145
http://secondavesoftware.com/baobab

Bernunzio Uptown Music

122 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 473-6140
http://www.bernunzio.com

Big Picture Rochester

Main St. from Chestnut St. to Plymouth Ave.
Rochester, NY 14614-1331
(585) 200-1919
http://www.bigpicturerochester.com

Booksmart Studio

250 N Goodman St
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 598-9322
http://site.booksmartstudio.com

Cascade Art Center

150 W Main Street
Rochester, NY 14614
(585) 546-6509
http://www.fineartstore.com

Cobblestone Contemporary Space off site

Studio 350, Hungerford Bldg. Door 2
Rochester, NY 14609
(585) 489-5738
http://www.cobblestone.org

Cobblestone School Contemporary Space

10 Prince Street (between Univ. & East)
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 271-4548
http://www.cobblestone.org

Constance Mauro Studio

Studio 236, Hungerford Bldg. Door 2
Rochester, NY 14607


Creative Wellness Coalition

320 N. Goodman St
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 325-3145
http://mhcrochester.org

Crocus Clay Works

Studio 225, Hungerford Bldg. Door 2
Rochester, NY 14609
(585) 414-5643
http://www.crocusclayworks.com

Downtown Fitness Club

50 Chestnut St.
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 756-4090
http://www.downtownfitnessclub.com

Focus Grasshopper

708 Winton Rd N
Rochester, NY 14609


Fuzzy Toaster Studios

Fedder Industrial Building
Rochester, NY 14609
(513) 254-5493

Gallery 9

Hungerford Bldg. Door 9
Rochester, NY 14609
(585) 747-2727
http://www.gallery9-online.com

Gallery at Record Archive

33 1/3 Rockwood St
Rochester, NY 14610
(585) 244-1210
http://www.recordarchive.com

Gallery at The Art & Music Library

Room G-134, Ground Floor
Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-4476
http://library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAG...

Gallery at The Arts and Cultural Council

277 North Goodman St.
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 473-4000
http://www.artsrochester.org

Gallery One Fine Arts

36 W. Main St. suite #17
Rochester, NY 14614
(585) 230-1081
http://www.haygoodart.com

Gallery r

775 Park Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 242-9470
http://cias.rit.edu/%7Egalleryr

Galvin/Davis Studio/Gallery

339 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 770-0715
http://www.chasworld.com

Genesee Pottery

713 Monroe Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 271-5183
http://www.geneseearts.org/genesee-pottery...

Gilded Square

714 University Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 461-2808
http://www.gildedsquare.com

Greenwood Books

123 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 325-2050
http://www.rochesterbooksellers.com/greenw...

Hartnett Gallery

Wilson Commons
Rochester, NY 14627
(585) 275-4188
https://blogs.rochester.edu/hartnett

Image City Photography Gallery

722 University Ave
Rochester, NY 14609
(585) 271-2540
http://www.imagecityphotographygallery.com

Joy Gallery

551 Genesee St
Rochester, NY 14611
(585) 436-5230
http://aceckert.com/joygallery

Main Street Artists’ Co-op

Studio 458, Hungerford Bldg. Door 2
Rochester, NY 146
(585) 233-5645

Mercer Gallery

Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 292-2021
http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/vapa/mercer

More Fire Glass Studio

80 Rockwood Place
Rochester, NY 14610
(585) 242-0450
http://www.morefireglass.com

Night Gallery

650 South Ave
Rochester, NY 14607


Phillips Fine Art

248 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604-2640
(585) 232-8120

Renaissance Art Gallery

74 St. Paul Street
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 423-8235
http://www.rochesterrenaissanceartgallery....

Richard Aerni Ceramic Design

Studio 106, Hungerford Building, Door 5
Rochester, NY 14609
(585) 429-0211
http://www.richardaerni.com

Rochester Contemporary Art Center

137 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 461-2222
http://www.rochestercontemporary.org

Rochester Medical Museum and Archives

333 Humboldt Street
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 922-1847
http://www.rochestergeneral.org/rochester-...

Spot Coffee

200 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 613-4600
http://rocwiki.org/Spot_Coffee

St. Luke Gospel Jazz Cafe

1261 Dewey Ave
Rochester, NY 14613
(585) 271-2870

strumGallery

inside Black Dog Studios at 120 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 729-7625
http://www.strumgallery.com

Studio 34 Creative Arts Center & Bead Mercantile

34 Elton St
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 737-5858
http://www.studio34jewelryartslearningcent...

Studio 354

Hungerford Building, Door 1
Rochester, NY 14609


The Center at High Falls

60 Browns Race
Rochester, NY 14614
(585) 325-2414
http://www.centerathighfalls.org/art.htm

The Design Gallery at RRCDC

Hungerford Bldg. Door 4
Rochester, NY 14609
(585) 271-0520
http://www.rrcdc.org

The Garden Café Gallery

The Pieters Family Life Center
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 487-3500
http://www.pietersfamilylifecenter.org

Visual Studies Workshop Gallery

31 Prince St.
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 442-8676
http://www.vsw.org

Writers & Books

740 University Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 473-2590
http://www.wab.org

     
 
     

The Writers & Books Big Read Scavenger Hunt took place on October 2, 2009 at participating First Friday venues.

The event was a huge success!
There were two ways to win:

1. Pick up a Raven punch card at any participating First Friday venue. Get a single punch at each venue for a total of five punches, then go to Writers & Books to pick up your prize: a copy of W&B’s Big Pencil Press edition Nevermore: Prose and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. 

2. Find the raven or the gold bug at one of the venues and bring it to W&B that night to claim two complimentary tickets to our Masque of the Red Death Masqued Ball.

http://www.wab.org/

Check back for more collaborative First Friday events!

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