Calling All Paparazzi!
Capture the spirit of this year’s Clothesline on your camera or cell phone, then email your pictures to jury.clothesline@mag.rochester.edu. After the Festival, we’ll post the best on this website.

Ice cream from the Corn Hill Creamery
Children in the Creative Workshop

not your mother's clothesline!
Rochester’s largest and longest-running fine art and crafts festival is not your mother’s Clothesline! After 53 years, art is the still the main focus, but in recent years we’ve added activities for the whole family.

live on the soundstage
All day Saturday and Sunday, enjoy live entertainment on the main soundstage on the back lawn, on the front stage near the museum steps, around the grounds and in the Gallery.

entertainment schedule

food and drink 
Hungry? We'll have food for every taste. Enjoy diverse fare from Bayou Billy, Bunny’s Mediterranean, Camille's Sidewalk Cafe (new this year), Chef Marco, Papa John's, Red Osier and Simply Crepes. Just want a snack? Look for Corn Hill Creamery, Gallery Bakery & Café (featuring treats from Genesee Bakery) or Hal’s Kountry Kettle Korn. To wash it all down, stop by the tents operated by Canaltown Coffee Roasters, Coca-Cola, Heron Hills Winery and Genesee Brewing Co.

creative workshop open house / paint pen
From 11 am to 4 pm both days, learn about Creative Workshop fall and winter classes for kids, teens and adults. On our entrance patio, enjoy drawing, painting, framing, sculpture, clay and jewelry demonstrations by Workshop artists. Inside, see our latest faculty show, meet the Workshop team and sign up for a class. (All course registrations are $5 off during open house.) Kids can also enjoy the Paint Pen—free, supervised art activities for ages 4–7 and 8–12 in classrooms 7 and 9; sign in your child for up to one hour. Open House schedule

in the gallery
Your Clothesline admission also gets you into the museum. Don’t miss the 62nd Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, which showcases work by regional artists; Walter Goodman's The Printseller's Window: Solving a Painter's Puzzle; and the Creative Workshop Faculty Show. Learn more

student art show
Stop by the tour entrance (back driveway) to see works created by the next generation of artists. "Two Halves Gallery" is a student and community cooperative organized by University of Rochester students Emma Vann and Olivia Davis under a Kaufmann Foundaton grant.

hugs for art
Need a hug? Stop by "Hugs for Art," on the back driveway near the main stage, and pay $1 (or whatever you wish) for a hug from a famous artwork (aka Fairport High School volunteer). All donations benefit the Gallery.

cast your vote
NEW this year, visitors can cast ballots for two People's Choice winners (one on Saturday and one on Sunday). Your choices, to be announced at the end of each day, will receive half off the cost of a booth at next year's Clothesline.

merit award winners
Saturday at 4 pm, we'll announce 10 Merit Award winners selected by our panel of judges; they'll receive free booths at next year's Clothesline. Tune in to WXXI 91.5 (broadcasting from 1 to 4 Saturday) to get the scoop, or look for the blue ribbons designating the winners booths. Also look for these 2008 award winners.

live from the MAG
All day both days, follow us on News 10NBC’s live Clothesline Cam. In addition to WXXI 91.5 (above), WRUR FM 88.5 will broadcast live from 10 am to noon on Saturday, and representatives will be on hand from WARM 101.3, the Democrat and Chronicle, Genesee Valley Parent magazine and City newspaper (whose readers last year voted Clothesline "Best of Festival."