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Shirley M. Dawson on February 6th, 2008
"Wild by Design: 200 Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts," an exhibition of 25 new and old quilts, fills the Grand Gallery at Memorial Art Gallery. A one-man show by contemporary textile artist Michael James fills an ancillary space. Thirty-six small quilts are interspersed throughout the first floor
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Shirley M. Dawson on January 23rd, 2008
Edith Lunt Small is finally having a retrospective exhibit in Rochester, her hometown. Sixty or so pieces of art culled from a 50-year career fill the Dyer Arts Center at NTID. Paintings and sculpture have come in from major collectors such as Charles Rand Penney in Buffalo and Maurice Ochsman
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Shirley M. Dawson on December 26th, 2007
Jessica Marquez will graduate this spring with a master's degree in imaging arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. She is one lucky lady. Within Rochester's limited exhibition market, she found the ideal space to install her thesis show, "A Natural History." The exhibit is in the elegant gallery at Booksmart,
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Shirley M. Dawson on November 28th, 2007
Quilt people are a little obsessed. I know. I've been a quilt person since age 0. A quilt frame was installed in our house every winter when I was growing up. My mother and her friends made quilts that were completely functional, and special ones to mark the really important
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Shirley M. Dawson on November 7th, 2007
I spent November's First Friday looking at sculpture. Rochester Contemporary Art Center opened an interactive light/image show by Buffalo artist Michael Bosworth. Ted Lossowski's multimedia work is on display at Renaissance Art Gallery, and metal works by Jeong Ju Lee fill part of the Dyer Art Center at the National
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Shirley M. Dawson on October 31st, 2007
"Pop-Up Books: An Interactive Exhibition" at Rochester Institute of Technology is more fun than any adult should admit to having inside an art gallery. Lucky for me, I took a "cover" - my two grandsons, ages 8 and 10. When they were mere babes, I discovered a pop-up book of
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Shirley M. Dawson on October 10th, 2007
Happy 30th birthday to Rochester Contemporary Art Center (formerly Pyramid) and Community Darkroom (part of the Genesee Center for Arts and Education). Happy 31st to BOA Press, international prize-winning poetry publishers, and The Book Bus that morphed into Writers & Books. These are all culturally driven not-for-profit organizations that survived
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Shirley M. Dawson on September 12th, 2007
"Sea Folds" by Christina Parrett BrinkmanThrough October 13Ock Hee's Gallery2 Lehigh St, Honeoye Falls624-4730 Susan Ferrari RowleySeptember 14-October 23Renaissance Art Gallery74 St Paul St.423-8235, rochesterrenaissanceartgallery.com Christina Parrett Brinkman and Susan Ferrari Rowley have never met, but they are art twins. Here are their stories.Brinkman is a reserved pixie of a woman who
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Shirley M. Dawson on August 22nd, 2007
I really like the George Eastman House. I just never know quite what to call it. House? Museum? Gallery? It stayed in my peripheral vision for years. I was always glad it was there but it wasn't on my list of priorities. That changed after September 11, 2001. The exhibit
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