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student holding a viola standing in front of Eastman Theatre

Four years after picking up viola, dreaming big at Eastman

August 28, 2018

“I want to win competitions, perform in famous halls under major conductors, and show the world my heart through my craft,” says first-year viola performance major Adrain Jackson. “I want to be great.”

detail of a woman from a very colorful painting

Recovering an ‘audacious and radical’ voice in art history

The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota, an exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery, is bringing new attention to an unconventional artist whose talent as an “outsider” went largely unnoticed during her life as a Rochester seamstress.

people in lawnchairs on the quad in front of Rush Rhees

Summer carillon concerts return to Rochester

Free carillon concerts are back this summer, with music from top performers from around the world every Monday in July.

still from a black and white film shows a person lying in a box like a vampire

Media arts initiative reflects on city of Rochester

NOSFERATU (The Undead), a film installation by New York city-based artist Javier Téllez, is the first of three moving image pieces commissioned by the Memorial Art Gallery for its Reflections on Place series.

abstract painting by Sam Gilliam

MAG director showcases American artist on global stage

Jonathan Binstock is respected as an international expert on Sam Gilliam, one of America's most prominent abstract painters. Now the Memorial Art Gallery director is cocurating the artist's first solo museum exhibition in Europe.

woman holding an iPad up, revealing hidden artwork in graffiti projected on a wall

Seniors show beauty of urban art with augmented reality

Four Rochester students saw the beauty of graffiti art in abandoned city subway tunnels. Banding together as the ExSpace Artist Collective, they designed an augmented reality project to share that beauty with others.

An art exhibition of their own

Rochester’s studio arts majors cap off their senior year with an art thesis exhibition that serves as the culmination of each student’s hard work and dedication as artists.

single dancer on stage

Understanding the biology of grief through dance

Erin Dong ’18 didn't start dancing until she came to college. Now as she graduates with a double major in biology and dance, she is combining her two fields to explore how the body experiences both the emotional and physical aspects of grieving.

two actors on stage, one sitting on a couch, the other holding a cat

Theatre Program presents works by Harold Pinter

The International Theatre Program will close its season with “The Pinter Plays,” a double-bill of two of the most shocking one-act plays from the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter.

group of students dancing in a classroom

Students learn the art of community change through dance

How can high school students inspire political and social change with the instuments of dance, theater, and visual art? University of Rochester students in the Program of Dance and Movement are working with local high schools to answer that question.

artist on a ladder, painting a mural of a woman with floweres on the side of a building

Fairchild Award honors mural artist Sarah C. Rutherford

A tribute to five Rochester women who work to lift others’ voices in the community, the “Her Voice Carries” art project has earned local artist Sarah C. Rutherford this year’s Lillian Fairchild Memorial Award.

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Poetry a ‘powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace’

The United Nations created World Poetry Day to celebrate poetic expression in the world’s many languages. In honor of the day, University of Rochester students at the Language Center share some favorite poems in the languages in which they were written.