News by Topic: Galleries

RIT is a long-time supporter of the arts. Exhibits featuring bold and innovative works are regularly showcased across the campus’s many galleries, seeking to inspire, inform, and engage with the wider public.

  • September 7, 2018

    Three vertical images next to each other of stars, strings of bacteria and small blue and green fragments

    RIT to host third ‘Images from Science’ exhibition

    Scientists and photographers from around the world will have the opportunity to share their scientific research, discoveries and observations of natural wonders with the launch of the collection phase of “Images from Science 3.”

  • September 4, 2018

    RIT to open gallery space in historic Sibley Square

    The College of Art and Design is moving its gallery space to the historic Sibley Tower Building in the heart of downtown Rochester, where the newly named exhibition venue will invite the public to engage with RIT through creativity.

  • August 8, 2018

    ‘Cultivating Connections’ exhibit seeking artists

    NTID’s Dyer Arts Center is now accepting submissions for its exhibit “Cultivating Connections: Growing Communities in the Flower City,” which will showcase artwork that represents our local communities.

  • June 27, 2018

    Art piece from Dyer Arts Center. Abstract women with different shapes and colors around her.

    Exhibits highlight 50 years of deaf art and history

    As part of its 50th anniversary activities, NTID will host a “50 Artists 50 Years” exhibition through Oct. 20. On Friday, as part of the 50th anniversary reunion festivities, a triptych—or three-paneled work—by deaf artist Susan Dupor will be unveiled.

  • April 25, 2018

    App makes museum experience more accessible

    NTID is launching a mobile app to be used in its Dyer Arts Center that provides content in various forms, including video in American Sign Language, transcripts and audio and visual descriptions.

  • March 20, 2018

    image by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.

    University Gallery hosts exhibit of prints from space

    An exhibition of otherworldly photographic images taken during NASA astronaut Donald Pettit’s time aboard three space flights will canvas the walls of RIT’s University Gallery through the end of April. An opening reception will be held Thursday.

  • March 20, 2018

    an acrylic and pastel piece created by artist Tracey Salaway.

    Dyer Arts Center features ‘Beyond Form’ exhibit

    A new exhibit at NTID’s Dyer Arts Center features the artwork of deaf artists during “Beyond Form: Non-Objective Art.” More than 15 professional artists who are deaf or hard-of-hearing are participating in the exhibit; five of those artists are RIT/NTID alumni.

  • January 25, 2018

    Photo History Photo Future black and white logo.

    PhotoHistory/PhotoFuture conference at RIT

    More than 70 scholars from the United States and nine other countries will showcase their latest research about the past, present and future of photography at the three-day conference in April.

  • October 30, 2017

    man scraping a piece of wood with a chisel.

    RIT features sculpture by Cornell’s Roberto Bertoia

    “Confluence,” an exhibit featuring the unique sculpture of Cornell University artist Roberto Bertoia, explores site, context, material and craft as it relates to an artist’s investigation into isolation, absence and presence—all at the intersection of sculpture, landscape, architecture and design.

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