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two people pose for a photo, smiling, sitting on a coach.
The Arts
September 16, 2019 | 03:48 pm

Spotlight on the performing arts: Alumni on the Fringe

Siena Facciolo ’19 and Chris Palace ’18 worked together on musical projects while students at the University of Rochester, and as alumni that work continues at the Rochester Fringe Festival.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute for the Performing Arts,
Overhead view of a high crowd in downtown Rochester watching a display of giant balloons.
The Arts
September 6, 2019 | 12:33 pm

University on the Fringe

We ask a few University participants in this year’s KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival what draws them to the Fringe, and what—besides their own shows—they recommend attending.

topics: Eastman School of Music, events, featured-post-side, humanities, Institute for the Performing Arts,
Alex Johnson standing behind a practice carillon
The Arts
July 16, 2019 | 11:56 am

Winning the ‘Olympics’ of the carillon

Recent physics graduate Alex Johnson ’19 had never played the bells before coming to Rochester. Now he is one of the best musicians in the world at the instrument, taking first place at the international Queen Fabiola Carillon Competition.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, awards, Class of 2019, Department of Physics and Astronomy, featured-post-side, global engagement, Hopeman Memorial Carillon, School of Arts and Sciences,
people in lawnchairs on the quad in front of Rush Rhees
The Arts
June 26, 2019 | 01:49 pm

Carry on, carillon

The free summer carillon recitals on the University of Rochester’s Eastman Quadrangle continue on Monday evenings in July.

topics: events, Hopeman Memorial Carillon,
The Arts
May 30, 2019 | 10:29 am

‘The great democratic voice’

May 31 is the 200th anniversary of poet Walt Whitman’s birth, and Rochester has a few ties of its own to the poet who contained multitudes.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post, River Campus Libraries,
detail from the book cover of Dubravka Ugresic's Fox.
The Arts
May 21, 2019 | 03:18 pm

Open Letter novel is a Best Translated Book Award finalist

Fox, a novel by Croatian author Dubravka Ugrešić and translated into English by the University’s nonprofit literary translation press, is a finalist for the annual award honoring literature in translation.

topics: awards, Best Translated Book Award, Open Letter,
The Arts
May 14, 2019 | 04:43 pm

Studio art graduates put on a show

Works in the Class of 2019 senior art exhibition explored themes such as interpersonal relationships, environmentalism, and emotional expression.

topics: Class of 2019, Department of Art and Art History, School of Arts and Sciences,
a traditional portrait of Queen Victoria, next to two modern ones.
The Arts
May 3, 2019 | 02:01 pm

Victoria depicted, Victoria defined

A new exhibit in Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation chronicles the often radical difference between the real and figurative queen through illustrations, etchings, letters, photographs, and other ephemera.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries,
photograph of a dandelion with seeds, and colorful geometric designs connecting each seed head.
The Arts
May 2, 2019 | 03:59 pm

Finding the ‘Art of Science’ in a dandelion

The Art of Science Competition continues to embody the “complex yet elegantly simple” systems found in nature, in engineering, and in all scientific fields, as this year’s winners show.

topics: awards, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester Libraries,
artist Ash Arder stands in a music library, looking through a long shelf filled with record albums
The Arts
May 1, 2019 | 11:34 am

Is ‘convincing’ the new ‘real’?

As the University’s first artist-in-residence, Ash Arder brings her artist’s sensibility to explorations of conceptual systems, from computer science and the nature of virtual reality to ecology and environmental humanities.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, School of Arts and Sciences,