Memorial Art Gallery

In a partnership between the University's Memorial Art Gallery and the College's Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program, art objects become teaching tools to help students think and communicate critically.

2017: Celebrating 100 Years of New York State Women’s Right to Vote is a year-long celebration of women's suffrage in the state.

Seymour Schwartz, the University’s Distinguished Alumni Professor of Surgery, is also a renowned map historian whose collection has become one of the most acclaimed collections of rare maps in North America.

On Display, a “deconstructed art exhibit,” explores the diversity of the human form. The piece been performed around the world and had its Rochester premiere at the Memorial Art Gallery in October. A December performance is planned at the Disability Studies Cluster conference.

The $3.5 million commitment from a generous patron for the expansion, renovation, and perpetual support of the museum’s Grand Gallery is the largest gift the museum has received in its 104-year history.

As a PhD candidate in biophysics, Karl Smith studies glass filters 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. But his "hidden passion" is crafting stories on demand on his 1926 Underwood typewriter for 10 cents each.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra violist and Eastman School of Music professor Melissa Matson talks about her “hidden passion” for creating dyed fabric pieces and garments.

Throughout National Poetry Month, faculty and students will share their favorite poems as well as the poetic richness that can be found across the University, including this handwritten manuscript of Hyam Plutzik's poem, "Bomber Base" from Rare Books and Special Collections.

The only instrument of its kind in North America, the full-sized Italian baroque organ at the Memorial Art Gallery is a musical time capsule that was saved from destruction in 2005.

Acquiring and displaying world art from the last 70 years presents viewers with expanding notions of what art is and can be, comparing the classical or “traditional” with more overt sociocultural issues that can bloom in the context of modern works.