Arts & Crafts Party

Come get creative with your community with Free Art Collective and Community Cuties at our Arts & Crafts Party! It is free to attend and we are taking over Boulder Coffee with arts and crafts supplies! We will have a ...

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Featured Artist Heather Deal

Heather Deal is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Rochester, NY. She grew up in a small town south of Rochester and has been drawing and painting all of her life. After high school, she went on to pursue fine art ...

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Create 6x6 Art at Studio 305

Come and join us on Friday, March 6th at Studio 305 on Elton St to create some 6x6 art between 6pm and 9pm (we will be open at 5pm if you want to come early). Whether you are a regular ...

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Featured Artists Mary Jean Lambiase & Carol Domenico

See the work of fiber artist & weaver Mary Jean Lambiase along with hand-painted silk artistry from Carol Domenico at Studio 312.

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Old Building, Big Heart: A One-Weekend Art Pop-Up

We’re hosting a one-weekend art pop-up featuring works donated to The Yards over the years. Buying artwork helps support studio supplies, building upkeep, and our ability to continue supporting emerging artists. Leftover works will be available online via Red Dot ...

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Portraits by Jodie Traugott

Jodie Traugott has been a member of Pittsford Fine Art for one year, but has been an exhibiting artist for 52 years. Jodie started college at 32 and was a Summa Cum Laude graduate with Honors from Elmira College. As ...

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6x6 Art-Making Session at Fine & Splendid Things

On March 6, you're invited to an evening of art-making at the Fine & Splendid Things studio. Visitors are welcome to drop in and create original artwork on a 6x6 panel as part of a collaborative, citywide project. Painter and teaching ...

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Certainty is the Cage

Charles Coté is a Rochester-based artist and poet whose visual work explores attention, repetition, and presence. Working primarily with ink and watercolor, he uses simple structures—circles, grids, and returning marks—to create spaces of quiet containment. These works are not intended ...

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Opening Reception of Authenticity as Illusion

Join us for the latest collaboration between the Institute for Electronic Arts (iea) at Alfred University and RoCo. "Authenticity as Illusion" features two recent video artworks by Jake Brush (iea alum) and Kelli S Williams. The exhibition is curated by ...

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Rising on the Wind: The Messengers

Rising on the Wind is a multimedia installation centering on sculptural kites, each acting as a visual vessel for personal stories of transformation. Presented by Rochester-based artist Lydia Boddie-Rice in collaboration with brothers Donald Brooks Jones and Philip Mallory Jones. "My ...

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Soft Living

Soft Living is a plush creature habitat created by Rochester artist Dina Noto, on view at Lumiere Photo March 6 through 28. The exhibit features Noto’s Fuzzpatch Studio line of custom hand-sewn creatures in the fuzzy and colorful world they ...

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Celebrating Color and Form!

Our Old Shoe Factory turned artists' community includes Four Floors of amazing and unique Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Textile Art, Weaving, Hand Painted Silk, Jewelry, Ceramics, Glass, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Exhibits & Sales (guest artists & more)! Handicap Assistance Elevator East ...

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Opening Reception of Lifelong Bills Fan

Bills Mafia, this one's for you! "Lifelong Bills Fan" by Paul M. Nicholson explores the intersection of community identity, ritualized celebration, and the intimacy of grief. The work was conceived following the death of the artist’s mother Mary, whose final ...

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Open Studios

Visit RoCo Upstairs to view new work by studio artists: Bespoke Designs Studio Michaelino k.torg studio Christine Banna Lunar Berserkr Art Department of Dream Collection + Guest Artist, Julie Shea Enter through RoCo's main entrance. Normal gallery admission applies.

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Paintings & Sculpture

Check out new artistic works by Judy & Peter Gohringer.

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Canvas and Cannabis - Ana Hogan and Richard Sassone

Wicked Reserve is officially joining Rochester’s iconic First Fridays — and we’re opening our doors as a brand-new venue in the Neighborhood of the Arts. Each month, our dispensary will transform into a creative gallery space, showcasing original work from ...

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6x6 Recycled Art Making Workshop with Reggie McCann + Gallery Opening for 'Better Together'

Come join us for a night of upcycling and art making to support RoCo with a workshop led by local artist Reggie McCann, and view works by Western New York Artists in our Spring Call 'Better Together', our 4th Annual ...

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rebekkah palov: The Plane(s) / Open Studio with Yanbin Zhao

The Plane(s) is a weekly livestream show featuring original sound and video recordings combined and composed in real-time using original computer programs, created by artist rebekkah palov. For First Friday, The Plane(s) Extended will perform the second iteration of “The ...

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Opening Reception of Anne Havens / Sue Havens

Join us for the Opening Reception of "Anne Havens / Sue Havens," an exhibition that brings together two distinct and accomplished artistic practices. Featuring a selection of works drawn from different periods and media, the exhibition honors each artist’s work ...

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Open Studios

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. ...

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Spring 2026 Opening Reception

Visit COMP Studios at RoCo Upstairs for the Opening Reception of Sabrina Nichols' spring residency project. Sabrina is a visual artist based in Rochester, whose practice blends digital media, sculptural form, and offbeat humor to explore the absurd, the uncanny, and ...

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Flower City Fragments - 6x6 Art-Making at RoCo

Join us and Magnus Champlin at RoCo for one of six collaborative 6x6 art-making events on Make Art Day! He will help you craft a unique artwork that will be included in our collaborative Rochester City Logo installation for 6x6 ...

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Making Marks

This exhibition features paintings that explore the space between abstraction and recognition, where landscape, floral forms, and the human figure emerge through intuitive mark-making. The works are driven by gesture, rhythm, and layers of paint which are used as their ...

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