Rochester Art Center

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Lauren Hutchinson, a former Metropolitan Museum of Art staff member now living in Rochester, recently visited "Forms of Care: The Art of Representing the Body" and called it a "thought-provoking" exhibition that explores medicine, the human body, and the ethics of representation.
"It really makes you question: Can one body be used to represent an entire population of diverse individuals?"
We especially love Lauren's hope that more doctors and medical professionals will experience the exhibition and discover the creativity and artistry woven throughout their work.
On view through January 2027 at Rochester Art Center.
Co-curated by Zoe Cinel & LaVanda Mireles
Listen to the Art Hounds feature and plan your visit today!
Artworks by Jessalyn Finch: "Letting Yourself Go," "Memory Index I"
Photo by Kalianne Morrison

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Photos: Alexandra Beaumont speaks to a group about her current installation, "Choreography." Curator: Zoe Cinel. Photo by Jacob Smithburg.

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Pictured: Our friends from Bloomington enjoying a public art tour at Renee Zhang's "Zodiac" sculpture in Mayo Park.

THIS WEEKEND
Due to a large event at Mayo Civic Center, we recommend entering through Rochester Art Center’s main entrance at Door #23 to avoid congestion.
Alternatively, guests may check in at the 2nd floor security desk inside Mayo Civic Center and request an es**rt to the museum. Call us if you have questions: 507-722-2552.
We look forward to seeing you!

Sign up for an upcoming Art Workshop on Friday, May 29th for folks who have lived with cancer. This will take place from 9:45AM - 2PM at Rochester Art Center! Space is limited so be sure to register soon! Scan the QR code or head to our website at:
https://www.rochesterartcenter.org/items/expressive-art-workshop

Artist and facilitator Robin Anderson will lead this workshop using a process called Touch Drawing, a creative and freeing way to make art. This activity requires no previous artistic skill or experience. The workshop is FREE, includes ALL ART MATERIALS, and LUNCH!

This program is brought to you by a partnership between Mayo Clinic Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine and Rochester Art Center.

Rochester Art Center presents a solo exhibition of Milwaukee-based artist Amy Cannestra ().
In this exhibition Cannestra examines how domestic spaces—traditionally understood as sites of comfort and refuge—can quietly transform into environments shaped by self-loathing, comparison, and depression. Through gestural pastel drawings, hanging and mixed media sculptures, and video works, the exhibition traces a shift in perception: what begins as a sanctuary becomes a crucible of diminishing thoughts and emotional unrest. Beds turn cold and unyielding, and bathrooms become stages of scrutiny—sites where the body is both observed and negotiated.

"Liminal Dwelling" opens at the Rochester Art Center on May 23, 2026 in the City View Gallery.
Opening Reception (during Free Family Day): September 27, 2026, from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Open hours: Wednesday-Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm. Learn more:www.rochesterartcenter.org
📷"Punching Bag 03" By Amy Cannestra
Image courtesy of the Artist
ID: A light green roll of foam is wrapped tightly and bound in a dark cord. The form is suspended by a thick silver chain from the ceiling in an all white room with concrete floors. The length of the chain reaches all the way to the ground and coils in a small pile under the hanging green foam.

Rochester Art Center presents "Forms of Care: The Art of Representing the Body." This exhibition grapples with this timely debate around the ethics of representation within the artistic fields that pride themselves on depicting the human body closely and with attention: medical illustration, figurative drawing, and portraiture, and how these fields have struggled to be inclusive and ethically center diverse perspectives. By bringing together fifteen artists that work regionally, nationally and internationally in these fields, "Forms of Care: The Art of Representing the Body," proposes contemporary pathways for “careful” representation.

Co-Curated by: Zoe Cinel & LaVanda Mireles

Featured artists: Leslie Barlow, Marra Evans, Sarah Faris, Jessalyn Finch, Ni-Ka Ford, Life Drawing for the End of the World, Lucia Garces, May Ling Kopecky, Marianne Petit, Steven Premo, Jenny Schmid, Christopher Selleck, Dan Thompson, Megan Vossler, Jess Kiel-Wornson







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Exhibition on view: Saturday, May 16, 2026 - January 31, 2027

Artist Spotlight Tour with Megan Vossler: Sunday, June 14
Figurative drawing workshop: led by Megan Vossler (in the Gallery): June 28, 10 AM - 12 PM. Registration on our website.
Reception: Saturday, August 22, 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Free
Artist Spotlight Tour with Marra Evans: Sunday, June 23

Learn more at www.rochesterartcenter.org

Illustration by Lucia Garces

A sepia brown colored hand extends its index finger, creating a finger print on a cream colored background. As the finger and knuckles meet the top of the hand, the skin fades and internal structures are present, in a traditional medical illustration style. At the top, Forms of Care is in a bold font with the dates, May 16, 2026 - January 31, 2027 centered beneath.

This weekend is your last chance to view "Ageless Art," an annual exhibition that showcases the creativity of RPS students. Artwork on view represents students ranging from Kindergarten to 12th grade and includes various mediums including painting, digital arts, clay arts and photography.
Plan you visit this weekend, Friday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm. Student artists and their families have free admission!
Lean more: https://www.rochesterartcenter.org/exhibition/ageless-art

Closing soon!

"Face in Clouds, invisible ink" is a solo exhibition by Ryan Woodring curated by Zoe Cinel and will be on view through May 10, 2026. Gallery hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 4pm.

Ryan Woodring "spot healing" 2024. Single channel video. 9 minutes.

A short film posing as a software tutorial from the “Image E.R.” YouTube channel in which the host undergoes a series of intense physical and emotional transformations while demonstrating how to “heal” sick images using increasingly experimental methods ranging from miming to machine learning. This metadrama plays with the intricacies of illness, diagnosis, and labor in post-AI visual culture.

Alt id: An HD (16x9) video still depicting three men in just about the same standing side-pose in a well-lit apartment. 2 of the characters are 3D-modeled construction workers identifiable by hard-hats and tool belts while the third is a white male in his thirties who tries imitating their posture.