Art/Spaces

While there are only a select few formal galleries in the Rochester area, there are many spaces that host art shows and display art that is for sale.

Galleries

Local Artists

• 1975 Gallery

• Art and Vintage on Main - East Rochester's newest art, jewelry, handcrafted materials, and vintage furniture boutique. Often houses local artist's work for sale.
  

• Art Museum of Rochester - Monroe Village
  

• Barnes & Noble - Pittsford location has a community art room
  

• Cascade Art Center - Located in a famous downtown art store; also offers classes.
  

• The Framing Edge "'Established as a fine arts framing store, we now hold frequent small intimate exhibitions of local artists, showing them here and via the internet."'
  

• Fran's Boutique - Gift store that sells framed works by local artists
  

• Gallery 821 carries work from local artists in a variety of media (Photography, drawing, sculpture and jewelery).
  

• Galvin Davis Studio is the gallery and studio of local artists Chas Davis and Tom Galvin.
  

• Gilded Square Picture Framing and Gallery
  

• High Falls Fine Art Gallery
  

• Link Gallery - in Rochester City Hall
  

• Mill Art Center and Gallery - art sales gallery with rotating exhibitions of regional art
  

• Orange Glory Cafe runs small exhibits.
  

• pandaman is Rochester's only gallery dedicated to the Street Art Movement.
  

• Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) is a venue for thoughtful contemporary art in downtown Rochester.
  

• Rochester Greenovation
  

• Rochester Pin-Up Gallery is a gallery housed with Booksmart Studio, featuring work primarily of Upstate New York artists.
  

• The Shoe Factory Art Co-op
  

• Smugtown Mushrooms - Occasionally hosts shows in their headquarters.
  

• Tap & Mallet - Bar that features a rotating selection of local artwork
  

• The Yards at the Public Market
  

Contemporary

• A/V "'Equal parts art gallery, concert hall, and computer music studio, we aim to provide an open and flexible space that welcomes a diversity of genres and breaks down the distinctions between high and low art."'

• The Art and Music Library is located in the University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library and hosts student and faculty art exhibits.
  

• Artisan Works is a huge, multi-building center for the creation, viewing and purchasing of art. — This place is incredible.
  

• ArtWalk Tile
  

• AXOM Gallery & Exhibition Space
  

• Baobab Cultural Center
  

• Black Radish Studio
  

• Books, Etc. is a Macedon bookstore that regularly exhibits two artists in their small gallery.
  

• Chartreuse Studios
  

• Dyer Arts Center is RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) gallery. website
  

• Gallery Kunstler is the largest of Booksmart Studios' galleries, a showcase of original art from artists & photographers Internationally.
  

• Gallery r is RIT's metro showcase for contemporary art.
  

• The Grassroots Gallery
  

• JGK Galleries - "Fine and Emerging Contemporary Art"
  

• Jembetat Gallery and Cafe Gallery of African Art
  

• Nan Miller Gallery
  

• Oxford Gallery '"For over four decades, the Oxford Gallery has brought the finest in contemporary art to private and corporate collectors in upstate New York.'"
  

• Phillips Fine Art & Frame features many new artists, as well as tribal art.
  

• strumGallery "Where Sight and Sound Collide." View the fine art of air guitar.
  

• University of Rochester/Hartnett Art Gallery Hartnett is a contemporary art gallery within Wilson Commons at the University of Rochester.
  

• Williams Gallery at the 1st Unitarian Church of Rochester
  

Traditional

• The Framing Edge "'Established as a fine arts framing store, we now hold frequent small intimate exhibitions of local artists, showing them here and via the internet."'

• International Art Aquisitions "represents 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century paintings, including Contemporary, Post-War examples."
  

• Osterling Howard Modern '"A gallery of twentieth-century works with an emphasis on Rochester, New York, artists.'"
  

• Oxford Gallery In Addition to their contemporary collection: '"We also offer a fine selection of American and European paintings from earlier periods: 18th, 19th, and 20th century artists."

Museums

• Memorial Art Gallery "'The Gallery's permanent collection of more than 10,000 objects has been called the best balanced in the state outside of metropolitan New York City."'

Music/Band Rehearsal/Practice Spaces

• Echo-Tone Music- Upscale space on South/Averill, no smoking/drinking. (585) 279-8948
  

• Some warehouse on West Avenue. (585) 732-4841

Studios

• Airigami Studio
  

• Cascade Art Center
  

• CoMMon
  

• Community Darkroom
  

• Ramón Santiago Studio
  

• Rochester Clayworks
  

• SC Fine Art
  

• Steve Carpenter Studio Gallery & studio
  

• Turk Hill Craft School - Instruction and studio rentals for ceramics
  

• University of Rochester/Sage Art Center — for students at the University of Rochester

Theaters

Organizations for Art

• Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester "'The local arts agency for the Rochester, New York metropolitan region."' - click for events calendar
  

• Rochester Association of Performing Arts

Comprehensive Lists of Exhibition Venues

• 'Exhibtion Spaces' List by the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester "'The local arts agency for the Rochester, New York metropolitan region."'

See also:

• Public Art
  

• Performing Arts
  

• Calendars