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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Ribbon Cutting & Celebration Day for the Centennial Sculpture Park at MAG
MAG’s Centennial Sculpture Park (CSP) Ribbon Cutting and Celebration Day are almost here! Join the Memorial Art Gallery on June 4 at 11 am for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to officially open Phase II to the community at the corner of University Ave and Prince Street. MAG’s Celebration Day will follow the Ribbon Cutting and…
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The 68th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Award Winners
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), a long-running showcase for artists from western and central New York, is at the Memorial Art Gallery for its 68th installment. On view now – August 6, 2023, this year’s exhibition is being juried by Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.…
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Extending the Limits: Joan Lyons at MAG
Rochester has been a center for photography since George Eastman’s first Kodak camera was sold in 1888. In this fertile environment, artist Joan Lyons (born 1937), has challenged the authority of the traditional photographic image for more than six decades. This exhibition, the first museum retrospective dedicated to the artist in her hometown of Rochester,…
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The 68th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Artists Announced
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), The City’s oldest and longest-running juried exhibition for emerging and established artists from western and central New York, returns to the Memorial Art Gallery. The 68th installment will be on view from April 23rd – August 6th. What is required to be showcased in this exhibition? Artists have to live…
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Want to be an artist at the M&T Bank Clothesline Festival? Artist Application Open for 2023
Artists from across the United States are invited to apply for spaces at the 2023 M&T Bank Clothesline Festival. Now in its 67th year, the juried fine arts festival showcasing more than 375 artists will take place Saturday and Sunday, September 9th and 10th. HOW TO APPLY The online application can be found HERE. A…
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Sol LeWitt Artwork Brings Unique Experience to MAG
In late 2022, the Rochester community was invited to watch the installation of a major mural-scale drawing in the Memorial Art Gallery. Fifteen years after the death of artist Sol LeWitt (1928 – 2007), his iconic Wall Drawing #957: Form Derived from a Cube was rendered directly on a wall in the Vanden Brul Pavilion…
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New Opportunities on the Horizon for the MAG and Binstock
The Memorial Art Gallery will begin the search for a new director this year. Jonathan P. Binstock, who became the seventh Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery of University of Rochester in 2014, has accepted a new position as the Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection in…
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Artists Invited to Submit Art to 68th Rochester Finger-Lakes Exhibition through December 31, 2022
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), a long-running showcase for artists from western and central New York, returns to the Memorial Art Gallery for its 68th installment during the spring of 2023. On view from April 23 – August 6, 2023, this year’s exhibition is being juried by Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art at the…
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2022 Clothesline Festival Merit Award Winners
Congratulations to our 2022 Merit Award Winners! Rochester, NY, September 10, 2022 – Four artists were honored as Merit Award winners, including a First-Time Exhibitor Award at the 66th Annual M&T Bank Clothesline Festival, held September 10th and 11th at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Winners were chosen from almost 300…
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2022 Clothesline Festival Accepted Artists
Congratulations to all accepted artists! Please note: for this year’s festival only, the expansion of our sculpture park on the west side of the grounds will affect artists in Zone D with a booth numbered in the 500s and 600s. Pavement requests will be relocated to another pavement area and grass requests will be relocated…