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Small art is a big deal for Rochester's Janie Allen
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (696+ words) Allen moved to Rochester in 2011 from Lawrence, Kansas, to work at the Mayo Clinic, but she grew up in Salina, Kansas, which is a town of about 45, 000 people. She remembers the local Salina Art Center presenting national and international exhibitions....
Christine Atuti: Our "Year of the Whopper: Distraction and art
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (444+ words) Most people would dread a day silently contemplating in an art museum. While standing in front of the hundredth similarly positioned red square on canvas, all one feels is the ache of confusion compounded with sore feet. Whether it's a…...
Mayo Clinic's artist illustrated bodies and the city in the '70s and '80s
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (553+ words) Some of the most iconic sketches of Rochester landmarks were done by a man who drew body parts for a living. John Whitney Desley was a medical illustrator at Mayo Clinic. Normally, he applied his artistic talents to, as the…...
Lourdes grad " and the Rochester Symphony " bring the sounds of Voyageurs National Park to Presentation Hall
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (765+ words) How do you capture the beauty and grandeur of Voyageurs National Park using sound? That was Lourdes High School graduate Marko Bajzer's task as an artist in residence at the park. The Croatian-American composer spent a month living in the…...
Olmsted County advances concept of using Seneca site for arts complex
2+ mon, 9+ hour ago (508+ words) ROCHESTER " Options for providing a portion of the former Seneca Foods canning site to create a performing arts center continue to develop. "We are going to put an an idea to paper and see if we can make it work…...
Max Kroeger: In praise of true beauty
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (322+ words) There are times when the world has not seen beauty for such a long time that one begins to wonder if it ever existed at all, questioning the concept of beauty itself. And then there are rare occasions when the…...
Rochester Art Center invites you to touch " really! " its Cyclone exhibit
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (665+ words) Many art museums might remind you of MC Hammer's famous song: "U Can't Touch This." Not so with the current exhibits at the Rochester Art Center, which offers some exciting hands-on experiences. On a recent visit, I had the chance…...
Installation of statue honoring first woman elected to Rochester office receives added support
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (344+ words) ROCHESTER " Plans to install a statue in Central Park of Rochester's first woman to be elected to local office received added support Tuesday. "This project has been in the works for over a year, and it has gone through the…...
Bring out your inner artist at Rochester's Art Heads Emporium
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (555+ words) School closings and delays for Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025 While a picture might be worth a thousand words, painting one with your daughter is priceless. I recently had the opportunity to create a painting with my daughter Abigail at Art Heads Emporium,…...
Rochester's Kelly Sutton painstakingly takes time to create oil paintings
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (572+ words) While oil and water don't mix, Rochester artist Kelly Sutton has used oil paint to beautifully depict water in works like her piece "Heavenly Sky." The painting incorporates waves breaking on a beach amid flowers and is one of Sutton's…...