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Digital Media Studies and the Memorial Art Gallery team up in digital equity project
Wed, 17 May 2023
With a Museum Initiative grant, a joint project of Verizon and NYC Media Lab, the Memorial Art Gallery and recent digital media studies graduates team up to expand the museum's digital reach.
Continue ReadingAn audiovisual journey into a performer’s mind
Mon, 08 May 2023
In a senior project, graduating dual degree student Mae Cooke integrates their studies of harp and studio arts.
Continue ReadingIn Art New York, Angelica Aranda ’23 finds a niche in book art
Fri, 07 Apr 2023
A program for University of Rochester students inspires the Queens native to build community through art.
Continue ReadingCan arts integration deepen students’ understanding?
Tue, 02 Aug 2022
A partnership between City of Rochester schools and the Memorial Art Gallery leads to innovation in arts education and furthers the museum's mission to serve the Greater Rochester community.
Continue ReadingScience under the microscope of visual art
Thu, 05 May 2022
An art and geology double major, University of Rochester student Gabrielle Meli brings scientific processes to her art.
Continue ReadingArtist Mizin Shin inspires change with printmaking
Thu, 07 Apr 2022
To counter anti-Asian hate, the Rochester professor has harnessed her love of a traditional art form combined with a digital sensibility.
Continue ReadingHow patents transformed the world of architecture
Thu, 08 Apr 2021
Associate professor of art history Peter Christensen has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim fellowship for his project exploring an understudied shift in architectural history.
Continue ReadingAn adapted classroom: Students and faculty find new ways to engage in teaching and learning
Fri, 18 Sep 2020
Students and faculty members adapt to new—and safety-conscious—ways of interacting as teachers, scholars, and researchers.
Continue ReadingRochester artists look to avant-garde past in new site-specific installation
Wed, 16 Sep 2020
Where traces of a once vibrant artistic residency program still stand, University art professor Allen Topolski and his artist daughter, Aster, seek to understand the present through what came before.
Continue ReadingA ‘different kind of wonder’
Wed, 27 May 2020
The European Renaissance’s engagement with the Arctic is a little-known chapter of history but a relevant one today, when the region once again has become a site of anxious attention.
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