Featuring the work of RIT'S Visual Activism class, this exhibition arrives in a season of transformation—when voices rise to be heard, ballots are cast, and nature reminds us of the power in renewal.
Through weaving, stitching, and felting, students' acts ...
Rochester Artists Michelle Roberts and Nina Gaby will be featured at the Rochester Fine Art Gallery for November’s upcoming First Friday event, showcasing their unique work and perspective.
Michelle Roberts is known for her impressionist oil paintings capturing the calm, connection ...
Celebrating its third year, Thanks 2 the Streets Volume 3 showcases the graffiti artists that contribute to the personality and identity of urban environments in western New York, and the photographers who document their artistic exploration. Featuring many of the ...
Since 2018, Small Show has invited artists of all mediums, who work in a wide array of subject matter, to all show their work together for two months. The result? An absolutely dynamic group art show, made by Rochester. Each ...
Come to Boulder Coffee to celebrate First Friday with Free Art Collective, Community Cuties, and Nourish the City at our free to attend event! Come get creative and crafty at our art party alongside your community and help us dream ...
An exhibition of selected works by students in RIT's School of Art, School of American Crafts, and Art Experience program curated by Matthew Vanderlee.
Fall exhibit featuring artists David Burke and Adrian Morris - refreshments served and meet the artists.
David Burke is a local artist whose works feature a variety of acrylic paintings inspired by local nature, flora, and fauna. His pieces share a ...
Poet Catherine Valleroy will be reading her poetry at 7:00 at the Nancy Wiley Studio.
Brand new posters featuring Valleroy's poem 'Grocery Shopping' and Nancy Wiley's artwork, will be for sale. A percentage of the sales go to Jennifer House, ...
Artists and artisans at the historic Vacuum Oil Refinery open up their studios to share their in-process and completed work. Come see printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, painting woodworking, culinary arts, photography, stop-motion animation, and more. Enter at corner of Exchange St. ...
Madison Gardner is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is deeply rooted in her passion for the outdoors. From an early age, she took pride in recycling. This evolved into her art practice — one that values sustainability as much as ...
Join artist Heather Gray for an open studio, featuring new works that capture the restless beauty of wind, sky, and motion in the natural world. In ‘Shifting Light’, color and energy blur the line between landscape and feeling — where ...
Check out work from this month's featured visual artists: Reesa Rene, Jordan Pizarro and whopainteddat. The monthly showcases are curated by Richard B. Colón, Quajay Donnell and Rob Bell, who also record a podcast with the featured artists to take ...
After sunset is the perfect time to see Curfew, an exhibition featuring work by two keen cultural observers who draw inspiration from the city of Rochester after dark. Moving through neighborhoods, corners, parking lots, bodegas, and empty streets, SALUT (Bradd ...
The public is invited to the opening reception this First Friday to celebrate outstanding photography and the vibrant spirit of the local arts community.
Founded in 1970, Camera Rochester has grown into a dynamic and supportive organization that inspires photographers to ...
Connie Ehindero’s abstract landscape paintings bridge the literal and the primal. She turns again and again to the places where land meets water. In the Rochester area, her favorite spots are painting plein air from the viewing platform at Braddock ...
Rochester, NY-based collage artist and designer JT Fitzgerald builds surreal architectures and hallucinatory objects that walk the line between anxiety and excitement. A self-taught artist, he began cutting, pasting and photocopying imagery in 2018. Drawing from punk collage, psychedelic imagery, ...
Check out the opening receptions of three new shows this First Friday.
MX. MEDIA
MX. MEDIA is a multimedia salon-style show that aims to showcase the immense skill and creativity within the region's queer community. The exhibition features work from various locations ...
Experience (and shop) in our Colorful & Unique Art Studios, at this old Shoe Factory turned Arts Community! Painting, Mixed Media, Pastels, Sculpture, Weaving, Textile Art, Jewelry, Glass, Ceramics, Photography, Printmaking & Payton Violins offer an a variety of amazing ...
Step into Jonathan Monaghan's surreal world of playful and unsettling forms. A Trace Left by the Future presents prints by Jonathan Monaghan that explore collective anxieties about a technology-driven future through the use of historical references. Using 3D modeling, Monaghan ...
Part workshop, part curiosity cabinet, Fine & Splendid Things is a working studio and shop where handmade meets reclaimed, and every nook holds a delightful surprise.
You're invited to Open Studio Night to see the new bag collection in progress, browse ...
Focusing on pay phones that have all but disappeared in Rochester, NY, photographer and RIT faculty Eric Kunsman reveals the socio-economic disruptions around this essential form of communication, still utilized and depended on by many.
VSW is hosting a pop-up arcade with droqen (Alexander Clair Tseu Martin), a Toronto-based experimental video games artist. droqen’s work often takes the form of the 2D platformer, mixing action, puzzles, performance, and poetry to interrogate games and play. This ...
Garth Fagan Dance is Western New York's leading artist-led, predominately Black cultural institution that develops young dancers, especially those of color. Garth Fagan Dance is founded by the man who taught more than 100 million audience members to move as ...
A collection of unique paintings in which each artist expresses their message through a visual narrative inspired by the transformation of the seasons. On view alongside the main collection.
Image: "Bolero" by Linda Kall
November 7 is the last First Friday to view Jonathan Monaghan's public art project! Late Capital Pods features a series of three opulent, spacecraft-like forms that reimagine Rochester’s Gilded Age architecture as hybrid objects hovering between historical ornament and futuristic ...
