Below is a selection of press releases about Memorial Art Gallery exhibitions and programs. Members of the media who would like access to the museum to support press work, additional information, or publication-quality images should contact MAG’s Marketing and PR Specialist Paige Engard at pengard@mag.rochester.edu.
Press Releases
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Press Kit
The Memorial Art Gallery showcases art from antiquity to the present day, including the outdoor public Centennial Sculpture Park. In addition to its permanent collection, MAG offers a year-round schedule of special exhibitions, lectures, concerts, tours, after-hours social events, and…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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],…
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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.…
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LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER – This September at MAG
From September 14, 2023, to May 5, 2024, the Memorial Art Gallery will present one of Yayoi Kusama’s iconic immersive installations, INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, 2017, on loan from the Art Gallery of Ontario. MAG invites visitors…
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