Events

Build the world you wish to see with Blockitecture, a set of architectural building blocks that can be stacked and nested to create towers, cities and dwellings in various configurations. Inspired by our current moment and our changing city, Blockitecture...

*Screening on Thursdays & Saturdays, 59 mins Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies, 1994 by John Maybury (b. 1958, London) is a landmark work, in terms of its use of high-end post-production techniques and visual f/x to construct an...

43ºN by 77°W is an exhibition of abstract contemporary photography investigating the effects of geographic climate on the industrial landscapes. Dating back to the 19th century Rochester, N.Y. has a been a hub for innovative thinking, modern manufacturing technology, and...

Permeable membranes like shelter, skin, city, and identity separate as well as connect insides and outsides. Where does one begin and the other end? Inside Out is a group exhibition of new and recent works curated by Colleen Buzzard. Image:...

Crafting Democracy showcases how objects of material culture can provoke and engage everyday citizens, including those of marginalized identities, as productive tools in deliberative democracies. Craft can also aid those wanting their voices to be amplified through the process of...

*Screening on Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays Avatar Poetics is a program of videos by artists who use animation, digitally mediated modes of performance, and computer-generated characters to explore themes of the virtual ‘self’ as it relates to queerness, cyberfeminism, fantasy world-building,...

Best Foot Forward explores the intimate connection between walking, thinking and making. This exhibition brings together artwork that is the outcome of walking; of being a pedestrian in a specific place and time as a way of knowing and connecting...

For 30 years, FUA Krew has grown from a local group of graffiti artists into a collection of some of the top graffiti artists from around the world. Experience their progression as seen through their own eyes. Featuring never-before-seen historical...

Read Art @ Greenwood is a performative exhibition that embeds artists books in the stacks of Greenwood Books, a beloved independently owned and operated used bookstore adjacent to Rochester Contemporary Arts Center. Artists books from independent publishers and presses, art...

In this series the artist Mara Ahmed has re-created her own history by using old, black and white photographs of her ancestors, juxtaposing them against South Asian architectural details, and subverting boundaries by placing them on the wrong side of...