Julie Chen and Alyssa Marzolf DeWitt

The Behind the Glass July showcase features the work of photographers Julie Chen and Alyssa Marzolf DeWitt. The gallery has maintained a monthly rotation of photographers and artists, creating a platform for emerging and underrepresented creatives to share their perspectives ...

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Rochester Pride Month Sip & Scent

Rainbow Cammo is excited to debut works by Christopher Craft for July's First Friday. This exhibition displays framed prints of acrylic paintings inspired by the Bear and Leather subcultures of the LGBTQ+ community, with a few spatterings of more whimsical ...

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Canvas and Cannabis: Featured Artist Hanna Schweitz

Wicked Reserve has joined Rochester’s iconic First Fridays — and we’ve opened our doors as a brand-new venue in the Neighborhood of the Arts. Each month, our dispensary will transform into a creative gallery space, showcasing original work from talented ...

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July Open Studios

Artists and artisans at the historic Vacuum Oil Refinery open up their studios to share their in-process and completed work. Come see printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, painting woodworking, culinary arts, photography, stop-motion animation, and more. Enter at corner of Exchange St. ...

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Featured Artist Joy Payton Daum

Join us for July’s First Friday as we showcase the work of Rochester visual artist and poet Joy Payton Daum. Joy is a visual artist and poet based in Rochester, NY, known for her work in gouache and sumi ink. Her ...

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Belong by Gianna Stewart

While you're out for First Friday, don't miss RoCo's new public art installation, BELONG by Gianna Stewart. In spring of 2025 several organizations including the New York Times documented the rapid redaction of certain words and terms from official government websites. ...

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Solo Show by kipdafog

ROCHESTER BUFFALO NEW YORK - come hang at the opening night of my solo gallery. Going to have limited tee shirts just for the night and obviously a whole lot of art. Excited for people to get to see some ...

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Contemporary Paintings & Sculpture

Swing by Studio 300 for contemporary paintings & sculpture by Judy and Peter Gohringer!

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Bringing Joy Through Art

Artist Andrea Nadel has loved drawing and painting since childhood. After a career as an attorney editor at Lawyers’ Cooperative Publishing, Andrea began her secondary career as an artist. She studied intensively to gain a great deal of knowledge about ...

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Weapons of Mass Deconstruction

Presented by SUBSECTOR Curated by INANNA GALLERY July 4th, 2026 marks the 250th year since the founding of the nation called the United States of America. To commemorate this historic moment, a group of American women/artists/poets/anthropologists/dancers/ filmmakers/vessels/voyeurs/extraordinaires will embark on a pilgrimage ...

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Coastal Landscapes

Come for COASTAL LANDSCAPES by mixed media artist Ann Langkopf and stay for the Brazilian drumming by Ricardo. From the artist: "My art work reflects time in Rochester, Hobe Sound, Florida and several places along the east coast. I graduated from RIT ...

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Summer-Lite

Featuring 14 artists in 6 amazing and unique working studios & Payton Violins! Gifts for others or yourself! Ceramics, Hand Painted Silks, Jewelry, Painting, Sculpture, Weaving demo & more! Open Studios (check back for updates!): Judy & Peter Gohringer Studio 300 Contemporary Paintings ...

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First Friday X Queer Craft Night: Pride Rock Painting

Join us for First Friday - Queer Craft Night edition July 3rd for Pride Rock Painting. Create painted rocks full of LGBTQIA+ Rochester Pride to leave around our lovely city. Take photos of where you have left them and tag #queercraftnight ...

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See Unsold 6x6 Artworks Only!

Beginning First Friday of July, you can view just the 6x6 artworks that are available for purchase! No more getting attached to an artwork only to find out it's sold - with a few thousand artworks still on the wall, ...

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Held in Atmosphere

This exhibition features the original work of Hervé Lenouvel, whose paintings move between landscape and abstraction. The work engages the experience of place as it is observed, remembered, and felt over time. Gestural surface, and tonal relationships capture atmosphere in ...

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A Study of Light and Land by Gil Maker

Image City Photography Gallery is excited to stage A Study of Light and Land, featuring photography by Gil Maker. Through striking black-and-white imagery captured in Belize, Ireland, and Scotland, Gil explores the emotional and elemental qualities of landscape, where shifting ...

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