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still from a black and white film shows a person lying in a box like a vampire
The Arts
June 1, 2018 | 03:39 pm

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.

topics: community, events, Memorial Art Gallery,
abstract painting by Sam Gilliam
The Arts
May 31, 2018 | 04:00 pm

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.

topics: featured-post-side, Memorial Art Gallery,
woman holding an iPad up, revealing hidden artwork in graffiti projected on a wall
The Arts
May 11, 2018 | 01:20 pm

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.

topics: augmented reality, community, Department of Art and Art History, featured-post-side, humanities, Sage Art Center, School of Arts and Sciences, virtual reality,
The Arts
May 11, 2018 | 01:08 pm

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.

topics: Class of 2018, Department of Art and Art History, featured-post,
single dancer on stage
The Arts
May 8, 2018 | 11:38 am

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.

topics: Class of 2018, Department of Biology, featured-post, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
two actors on stage, one sitting on a couch, the other holding a cat
The Arts
April 23, 2018 | 08:52 am

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.

topics: events, featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
group of students dancing in a classroom
The Arts
April 10, 2018 | 10:26 am

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.

topics: community, featured-post-side, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
artist on a ladder, painting a mural of a woman with floweres on the side of a building
The Arts
March 21, 2018 | 02:35 pm

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.

topics: awards, community, featured-post-side, Lillian Fairchild Award,
still from a video featuring a young woman smiling in front of a map
The Arts
March 20, 2018 | 09:08 pm

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.

topics: global engagement, literature, Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center,