Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street. Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty. Works by May featured artist Mike Kraus. 732-0002. 540westmain.org. Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main Street, Suite #203, Door #5. Dwellings..remnant memories. Nancy Radzik’s collage & assemblage work. 210-3161. CreateArt4Good.org. Gallery 96, 604 Pittsford-Victor Road. George Wallace: Especially Trees. Reception May 4, 7-8:30pm. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Eastman Entertains: At the Movies. 23 styled table settings & floral arrangements inspired by films screening at the Dryden. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. Full Circle:. A Retrospective of Zanne Brunner’s art work spanning the last 5 decades. Artist reception May 20, 2-4pm. 258-0400. Lollypop Farm, Humane Society of Greater Rochester, 99 Victor Road. Fairport. Be Kind to Animals Art Show. 223-1330. info@lollypop.org. New Deal Gallery, 4 Livingston County Campus. Mount Morris. The Healing Properties of Art. Jim Burns, photography; Rich Della Costa, mix media. Reception May 3, 5-7pm. 243-6785. NuMovement, 716 University Avenue. Photographic Landscapes by Andrew E. Jurman. Opening Reception June 1, 6-9pm; closing reception July 6, 6-9pm. 704-2889. numvmnt.com. Out Alliance, 100 College Ave. Eric Bellmann: Just This. Through May 24. Watercolors, drawings, etc. 40 years, 40+ works. Reception and artist talk May 4, 6 to 9 p.m. ericlbellmann@gmail.com. Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Ode to Joy. Featuring interpretations of “Ode to Joy” by more than 50 artists. Reception May 19, 5:30-8pm. Patricia O’Keefe Ross Gallery at St. John Fisher, 3690 East Ave. Artifaks of the Artist’s Imagination. Reception and artist talk May 17, 5-8pm. Rosalie “Roz” Steiner Art Gallery, Genesee Community College, One College Rd. #ART too. Through may 20. Juried student exhibition. Receptions May 3, 12:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. genesee.edu/gallery. Wayne County Council for the Arts, 108 W. Miller St. Newark. William DeMott: A Newer Kite. Opening reception May 12, 6-8pm. Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. It’s on My Mind: Work by Antonia Orlando. Through June 4. Reception May 4, 6-9pm. 8200085. The Yards, 50-52 Public Market. Resident Member Showcase. Reception May 4, 6-10pm, with live music by Evil Hearted You. attheyards@gmail.com. attheyards.com.
Call for Artwork [ WED., MAY 2 ] Initial Stages & Fine Lines. May
ART | ‘A WOMB OF ONE’S OWN’ Visual Studies Workshop’s Summer Institute, running May 19 through June 29, offers intensive workshops by visiting artists, including Brooklyn-based creator Hernease Davis. Davis will be in town in early June to teach “Imaging Empathic Possibilities,” which will examine how empathy can be used by artists to create worlds that challenge complexity in community structures, systems, and their own artistic practices. But this week you can catch Davis’s solo show, “A Womb of One’s Own (Mistakes Were Made in Development)” on view at VSW’s Gallery through June 29. The exhibit includes photograms, cyanotypes, sound pieces, crocheted pillows and blankets, and performance elements. Davis uses her own body to create much of her work, transferring her form onto photo-sensitive paper and recording myriad emotional gestures. “A Womb of One’s Own” opens Friday, May 4, at Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince Street. The First Friday opening runs 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. A performance and artist talk will be held Saturday, June 16, at 7 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. 442-8676; vsw.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
2-Aug. 15. A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St Brockport All age groups & styles are eligible (mediums restricted to pen & ink, graphite, charcoal, and pastel) to exhibit work that features Initial Stages ( preliminary sketches) & Fine Lines (finished work). Deadline August 15 $20. 637-5494. differentpathgallery.com. Portfolio Showcase 2018, a Juried Exhibit. Through June 3. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Through June 3. Each entrant to submit a portfolio of eight images on CD or online to be selected for the exhibit running Aug 7-Sept 2 ImageCityPhotographyGallery. com. Replacing the Dentzel Carousel Panel. Through May 13. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. Due May 13. To be considered, artists should deliver sketches of their proposed design and samples of other finished work to RMSC. Proposed designs must include a black panther and should be consistent with other carousel panels and unsigned rmsc.org/ carousel.
Call for Participants [ WED., MAY 2 ] BOA Short Fiction Prize. Through May 31. BOA Editions is
accepting submissions through May 31. Winner receives publication in Spring 2020, plus a $1,000 honorariom $25. boaeditions.org. ImageOutWrite Literary Journal. Through June 15. ImageOut, 274 North Goodman Street LGBTQ authors & allies invited to submit original literary works. Submissions due June 15 2712640. office@imageout.org. imageout.org/press.php. Visit ROC Ambassador Volunteers. Through May 11. Highland Park, 171 Reservoir Ave. Needed For 2018 Lilac Festival. Other festival volunteer opportunities as well at visitrochester.com. [ MON., MAY 7 ] Sing with the Rochester Oratorio Society. 6:30-9 p.m Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave 473-2234. rossings. org.
Art Events [ FRI., MAY 4 ] Agitation Cycle. May 4, 5-9 p.m. Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St., Suite 242 New paintings by Jeana Bonacci-Roth. Donate cat food & spare change for Pet Adoption Network, a no-kill shelter 4145643. catclay.com. Anderson Arts Open Studios. First Friday of every month, rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21