Think globally. Create, experience & collect locally.

Panelists and ​audience members​​ consider the implications of the broader art world on creating, collecting and experiencing art at the regional level. Is art made outside the region any more or less relevant to Rochester? Do artists ​& viewers ​with a regional point of view have something to contribute to the global marketplace of ideas? What should ​gallerists & ​collectors be thinking about work made in our region vs. across the nation and around the world?

Louis Perticone from Artisan Works will take a regional perspective while recently retired gallerist, Nan Miller, will speak from a national and international point of view. Bradley Butler, a practicing artist as well as the gallery director/curator at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, New York will offer his observations as well. All the panelists will talk about the impacts experienced right here in the Rochester-Finger Lakes Region. The audience will be encouraged to participate in the discussion.

• Starting at 6:00 pm there will be a social mixer featuring craft cocktails (cash bar) with the program to begin thereafter.

• Tickets are $2 at the door for non-members

• No charge for Members of Rochester Art Collectors and Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

• Non-members pleaes pay at the door.

The program will take place at Rochester Contemporary during the Federico Solmi – The Good Samaritans exhibition that runs from April 6th through May 12th.

The Good Samaritans is a solo exhibition comprised of several video installations by Italian artist Federico Solmi. His installations include different media such as video, drawings, mechanical sculptures and paintings. Solmiemploys bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present-day society. The exhibition includes a new text about Solmi’swork by Larry Ossei-Mensah, an independent curator and cultural critic.

Think globally. Create, experience and collect locally ​will be open to the public.

This program is being produced by Rochester Contemproary and Rochester Art Collectors