Below is a selection of press releases about Memorial Art Gallery exhibitions and programs. Members of the media who would like additional information or publication-quality images should contact the public relations office.
We will gladly offer access to the museum to support press work related to MAG and its collections, please contact MAG’s Director of Marketing & Engagement to coordinate admission.
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New Acquisitions: Contemporary Indigenous Artists at MAG
With five recent acquisitions, MAG continues to move forward in its efforts to build a collection that better reflects our community. Sarah Jesse, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director, stated, “We are so pleased that these artworks are now in MAG’s collection, where audiences can engage with their rich conceptual meaning and marvel…
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VIP Pass Now Available for MAG!
Want to visit MAG for free? Starting July 1, you can “check out” MAG at participating branches through the Monroe County Library System using the VIP (Very Important Places) Pass Program. Library members can check out passes and receive free museum admission for children and grandchildren age 18 and under and up to two adults.…
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Pride Celebration Day at Memorial Art Gallery
Join the Memorial Art Gallery for our LGBTQIA+ Pride Celebration Day. This annual celebration of acceptance, community, diversity, learning, and love is on Thursday, July 11, from 5 to 9 pm. Visitors will enjoy free museum admission, drag story time with Vanessa LeRoux, music from Flower City Pride Band, food trucks including Chef’s Catering and Effortlessly…
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American Arts and Crafts Movement at MAG
“Faithfully Thought Out”: The Artistic Collaborations of M. Louise Stowell and Harvey Ellis will be featured in MAG’s Lockhart Gallery June 28, 2024–January 12, 2025. Rochester artists M. Louise Stowell (1861–1930) and Harvey Ellis (1852–1904) were critically acclaimed around 1900, in the era of the American Arts and Crafts movement. The Memorial Art Gallery’s collection…
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Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum National Tour at The Memorial Art Gallery
Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum will be featured in MAG’s Docent Gallery from June 1 to August 25, 2024. This exhibition illuminates the extensive collection built by Native philanthropist and arts patron Thomas Gilcrease (Muscogee Nation; 1890–1962). Surveying more than 3,000 years of Native American art, it reveals his unprecedented devotion to Indigenous…
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Celebration Day and Hurlbut Gallery Closing Ceremony with Avinash Kumar
Join the Memorial Art Gallery for our annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Celebration Day on Sunday, May 19, from 12-5 pm! This Celebration Day includes the Closing Ceremony celebrating the mural by South Asian artist Avinash Kumar in the Hurlbut Gallery, a collaboration between the Dogra Art Foundation and MAG. Schedule of Events Vanden Brul…
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Visual Artist Wendy Red Star, at MAG this Spring
Wendy Red Star’s Bi’ nneete (No Water), an installation of thirty original drawings in the Memorial Art Gallery’s permanent collection, will be featured in the museum’s introductory Forman Gallery from April 27 to December 1, 2024. Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow], born 1981), who lives and works in Portland, Oregon, grew up on her family’s ranch…
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Want to be an Artist at the 2024 M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival?
Artists from across the United States are invited to apply for spaces at the 2024 M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival. Now in its 68th year, the juried fine arts festival showcasing more than 375 artists will take place on Saturday and Sunday, September 7th and 8th. HOW TO APPLY The online application can be found…
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Kwanzaa Celebration at MAG
Join the Memorial Art Gallery for a Kwanzaa Celebration on Thursday, December 28th from 5-8 pm. Enjoy make-it, take-it art, drumming and dancing, live music, and more. This is a free event, and registration is not required. Museum admission is not included. Timed ticket entry for INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017, will…
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Sarah Jesse Named Eighth Memorial Art Gallery Director
University of Rochester President Sarah Mangelsdorf and Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) Board of Managers President Kathryn D’Amanda announced today that Sarah Jesse, director of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, has been named the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of MAG, effective Feb. 26, 2024. Jesse brings to Rochester more than 20…