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Clothesline Festival – Come Rain or Shine!

By Rebekah Moraites, Visitor Services Representative One of things that consistently delights me about Rochester is our dedication to local artists. I have never lived anywhere before that cared so much about paying tribute to these wonderfully talented locals. You probably won’t believe it, but I heard about the Clothesline Festival several years ago – […]

An Inspiring Film

This weekend I borrowed & watched a new acquisition in the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library–the DVD Between the Folds, which looks at the artists, scientists and educators who work in and with the folded universe of origami.  This award-winning documentary is about inspiration and epiphany, about exploring the limitations of medium and technique, about dedication […]

Hungry for more Paley?

By Meg Colbert, Visual Resources Assistant/Creative Workshop Registrar Just a few months ago, I wrote about Albert Paley briefly as he was highlighted in Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York, as the premier ironmaster both regionally and nationwide. That 12-page spread served as an appetizer to the hearty entrée of […]

Claude Bragdon and the Beautiful Necessity

By Meg Colbert, Visual Resources Assistant/Creative Workshop Registrar Architect Claude Bragdon and Rochester are closely tied not only by his buildings around the city, but also through his work as graphic artist, author, public speaker, festival organizer and theatrical set designer. This connection has led to the collection of the Bragdon Family Papers by the […]

Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York Preview

By Meg Colbert, Visual Resources Assistant/Creative Workshop Registrar Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York Edited by Barbara Lovenheim Contributors: Suzanne Ramljak, Paul J. Smith Breaking Ground provides a comprehensive survey of the flourishing craft art movement in Western New York from conception to contemporary examples. Editor Barbara Lovenheim gives an […]

Picturing The Story Now Live!

By Sydney Greaves, Estelle B. Goodman Assistant Curator of Education   There are two camps of moviegoers – some like to see the movie before they read the book; others prefer to read the book first, then see the movie. What did people do before there were movies? How did artists visually share, interpret, and adapt the […]

New Resource for K-12 Teachers

Since December 2008, the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library & Teacher Resource Center has offered area K-12 teachers access to ARTstor, a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. […]

A Hidden Treasure

By Lu Harper, Art Librarian and Webmaster Did you know that the Gallery has a Library? We do, and have had one since the Gallery opened in 1913! This little-known treasure, the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library & Teacher Resource Center, is located on the third floor of Gallery’s historic Cutler Union building. Many museum libraries […]