Who Will Be Next? Gun Violence Memorial
Rochester Contemporary Art Center
137 East Ave.
Aug 4, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us in the park outside of RoCo for a gun violence memorial associated with our current public art installation.

Social practice artists, Martin Krafft and Elena Makansi, are collaborating with Rise Up Rochester to host a gun violence memorial event at RoCo. The artists invite you to share beforehand the names of Rochester victims of gun violence by email at director@martinkrafft.com. At the event, participants will read the names, then share their memories and reflections as they are so led. By bringing the Rochester community together to mourn, the project intends to make space for collective, creative healing.

As an ongoing component of the public art installation project, “Who Will Be Next?” the artists also invite you to share a photo of a loved one lost to gun violence along with a letter to that person by email at director@martinkrafft.com. Visitors to the gallery exhibition will be invited to read your letters and trace the faces of those who have been lost as a way of creating greater empathy towards that unfillable void.

Learn more about the event here. In the event of rain, we will move inside RoCo.