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President’s Strategic Opportunities Fund: $5,709,849 pledged
Health Sciences Division: $2,174,747 pledged

FUNDS SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND ALLOW THE UNIVERSITY TO PURSUE EMERGING PRIORITIES EACH YEAR.

MEMORIAL

ART GALLERY

• The museum provided educational tours to nearly
10,000 K-12 students from our region

• Four hundred public elementary students from City of
Rochester Schools #23, #29, and #45 came to the
Gallery through the Expanded Learning Collaboration
program. Through more than 10 weekly sessions,
students created their own masterpieces in the Creative
Workshop from what they learned from the collection.
• The wildly popular M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion
showcased 120 iconic works by famed Dutch artist,
$2,977,697 M.C. Escher. The exhibition took us deeper into both
Pledged the real and impossible worlds he created over a career
that spanned five decades.