Arts Features

Your artists at work: ARTs + Change Conference addresses bias, advocates for equity

Here’s the question for Missy Pfohl Smith: What prompted the creation of the ARTs + Change Conference? Worldwide, it’s the rising tide of polarization,...
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Wed, 06/02/2021 - 1:52am
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Boyz II Men to headline Rochester Summer Soul Music Festival

The Rochester Summer Soul Music Festival at Frontier Field is back on this year, with 1990s R&B icons Boyz II Men serving as the headlining act. The...
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Tue, 06/01/2021 - 9:36am
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North Star Players resurrect Tulsa Massacre, 100 years later

The Greenwood District, a thriving business community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, built by Black Americans, was known as Black Wall Street. But the success...
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Tue, 06/01/2021 - 6:25am
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‘Drunk Bus’ makes a stop this weekend in Rochester

The unnamed co-star of “Drunk Bus,” now showing at The Little Theatre, is Rochester. The film’s co-directors, John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke, and...
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Fri, 05/28/2021 - 7:44am
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‘Place Projectors’ explores the spirits of Rochester

Artist Annalisa Barron wants to keep you in the dark. Her current art series is called “Place Projectors.'' Its first element is a projector, fashioned...
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Thu, 05/27/2021 - 1:48am
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Art, and how it speaks to an NPR reporter

The prison in Central America was run down, the conditions horrible. Yet art was there. “Guys with tattoos on their faces, their eyelids, under their...
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Wed, 05/26/2021 - 6:53am
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Bello unveils JumpstARTS grants for suffering small arts organizations

Responding to mounting complaints from small arts organizations that they have been shut out of public funding for the arts, Monroe County Executive...
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Mon, 05/24/2021 - 12:53pm
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CMAC adds three new shows, vaccination clinic to summer schedule

A Southern rock bonanza featuring Blackberry Smoke and two locally grown shows are the first to be added to the summer season at Constellation Brands...
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Tue, 05/18/2021 - 7:28am
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Public Eye sees the heroes we need

As freelance artists in a time of pandemic drought, David Cowles and Josh Gosfield sensed it was time to put matters in their own hands. “Let’s not wait...
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Wed, 05/12/2021 - 5:16am
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New York arts organizers make best-laid plans for live events

I had my coming-out from COVID-19 about a week and a half ago. My first indoor concert in more than a year. Two solo acoustic performers: a ridiculously...
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Wed, 04/28/2021 - 1:49am
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