Upcoming Exhibitions

Wild Waysides: Queer Ecology and the New Natural is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring how queer thinking reshapes our understanding of nature and belonging. Originally curated by Pearl Van Geest and James Fowler, the project has toured across Canada, presenting works that challenge conventional ideas of landscape, identity, and the natural world.

For its next presentation — curated by Kristy Boyce — Wild Waysides comes to the RIT City Art Space, where selections from the original exhibition will be shown alongside new contributions from artists in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The aim is to create a conversation between existing works and those responding directly to this context — to think about how queer relationships to land, place, and more-than-human worlds can be expressed in new ways.

Rising on the Wind is a multimedia installation centering on sculptural kites, each acting as a visual vessel for a personal story of transformation. Presented by Lydia Boddie-Rice in collaboration with brothers Donald Brooks Jones and Philip Mallory Jones.

Graduate students in the Schools of Art and American Crafts present their thesis exhibitions in various media in two locations: City Art Space (downtown Rochester) and Bevier Gallery (RIT Campus). Graduate students in Photography and Related Media present their work in William Harris Gallery (RIT Campus). 

Seniors in BFA Studio Arts present their capstone projects in various media in two locations: City Art Space (downtown Rochester) and Bevier Gallery (RIT Campus). 

With inspiration from vintage science fiction and a meticulous eye for detail, Lee Hoag's sculptures are assembled with wood, metal, ceramics, fabric and other mixed materials. Together, they become a strange but appealing family of otherworldly objects, challenging our skills of recognition and imagination.