Memorial Art Gallery

  • Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) welcomed Sarah Jesse, the eighth Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the museum, in February of 2024. Jesse brings to Rochester more than 20 years of experience in American art museums, serving in leadership, fundraising, and educational and community programming roles.
  • MAG also welcomed South Asian conceptual artist Avinash Kumar, whose mural Illusionary Odyssey spans the walls of the Hurlbut Gallery corridor.
  • Two major Docent Gallery exhibitions were presented at MAG: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room -- Let’s Survive Forever, 2017 and Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum.
  • The MAG-RCSD Expanded Learning Collaboration (ELC) served 500 students in grades 2–4 from five schools in the Rochester City School District (RCSD), and kindergarten students from RSCD #19.
  • Each year, 180,000 people visit the Memorial Art Gallery, including more than 6,000 schoolchildren on school field trips.

Bullet points highlight impact made in 2023-24

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