Events

Have you visited Rochester’s Small Venue Biennial for contemporary art, yet? Join us for a tour of CURRENT SEEN venues and public art on the following Friday nights. Each venue will include a brief presentation from artists and curators with...

Have you visited Rochester’s Small Venue Biennial for contemporary art, yet? Join us for a tour of CURRENT SEEN venues and public art on the following Friday nights. Each venue will include a brief presentation from artists and curators with...

Have you visited Rochester’s Small Venue Biennial for contemporary art, yet? Join us for a tour of CURRENT SEEN venues and public art on the following Friday nights. Each venue will include a brief presentation from artists and curators with...

Are you a business or property owner in Downtown Rochester? We want you to be part of Current Seen 2021! This year, Current Seen presents art exhibitions, public art and storefront pop-ups along East Avenue and Main Street. In addition...

The term “curating” has become common parlance in the business world and in the popular culture. Retailers tell us they curate their inventory. Coffee roasters and craft brewers tell us curate their raw materials. Our friends tell us they curate...

This interactive video installation by W. Michelle Harris names some of the Black people who lived in this area prior to the Civil War as a mode of remembrance—a simultaneous street-side and waterfront wake. Though they are often rendered invisible...

14 Plots (Spill File No. 0650898) is a site-specific installation by Colin Lyons which memorializes the environmental legacy of 62-64 Scio Street. On August 31, 2006, an oil leak was discovered during the removal of a 2,000 gallon underground storage...

Michael Goldman/Consolidated Studios (San Francisco, CA / b. Rochester, NY) considers himself part craftsman, part entertainer and part teacher. Employing ample humor Urban Pictograms expand upon his early signage experiments from San Francisco which made obvious some of the darker...

Hit the street each week to find the latest in this new series of paintings and public installations by Thievin’ Stephen. About the Artist Thievin’ Stephen (Rochester, NY) cuts through stencils, samples, and the world we inherited, in search of...

Rochester’s history with racial division is not unlike other cities in this nation. In spite of contributions that span generations, communities of color continue to struggle under the weight of biased policies. Pluralistic trends have done little to dampen motivations...