Upcoming Exhibits

a color photograph of a person performing on stage lit in a neon blue light.

'What We Do' RIT National Press Photographers Association

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Rochester Institute of Technology’s chapter of the National Press Photographers Association is a forum for education and discussion among young professionals in the photojournalism industry. What We Do is an annual student competition hosted by RIT NPPA. The contest is an opportunity to showcase student work from the RIT photojournalism program. Each spring, students enter this contest, which is judged by three RIT photojournalism alumni. What We Do includes alumni lectures, live judging, and an exhibition featuring the winners.

a color photograph of a woman's facial profile while she is yelling.

Photo by Vincent Alban. Isabel Rosa a coordinator with Rise Up Rochester a grassroots anti-gun violence group chants into a megaphone at a protest in response to a recent shooting in the Marketview Heights Neighborhood on Sept. 19 2022. The neighborhood has experienced a lot of violence notably a shooting at a house party in 2020 that left 2 dead and 14 injured.

a color photograph of a group of lacross players lying on the ground in celebratory posed with a blizzard of blue confetti overhead.

Photo by Vincent Alban. North Carolina Tar Heels celebrate winning the NCAA D1 Women’s Lacrosse Championship between Boston College and University of North Carolina at Homewood Field at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Md. on May 29 2022. The Tar Heels won the game 12-11.

A color photo of a mourning young woman holding an urn.

Photo by Kayla Bartkowski. Stephanie Forrester comforts daughter Izabella Forrester who holds the ashes of her father Justin Forrester’s during the 2022 Rochester Overdose Vigil in Rochester N.Y. on Aug. 31 2022. Stephanie and Izabella have been active members of the New York Recovery Alliance after Stephanie became sober and Justin Forrester passed of an overdose in 2017.

a color photo of a firefighter climbing an angled ladder toward an upper story window with smoke pouring out.

Photo by Kayla Bartkowski. Kevin Holahan and Ryan Kohlmeier climb up the fire truck to reach the roof of the live burn training house with the Irondequoit Fire Department at the Fairport Fire Training Center in Fairport N.Y. on Oct. 13 2022. The fire department conducts the live fire training annually and requires all fire fighters complete the training.

a color photo of a firefighter wearing an oxygen mask and black coat in front of a fire red background.

Photo by Kayla Bartkowski. Lt. Josh Mastin helps conduct live burn training with the Irondequoit Fire Department at the Fairport Fire Training Center in Fairport N.Y. on Oct. 13 2022. The fire department conducts the live fire training annually and requires all fire fighters complete the training.

a group of five wood chairs that are on fire arranged in a circle on a sandy beach with blue water along the shore.

Sticks: Naomi Miller MFA Thesis

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"Small things can change you; they might not seem significant at the <me and perhaps they don’t happen
all at once, but the change is inevitable. The work I’ve made are representa<ons of that change, rooted
in my own personal narra<ve as a transgender woman. The star<ng point of much of the work are
comments or words people have said to me, the goal has been to translate those thoughts, words, and
percep<ons into objects. To decode this, I’ve chosen the chair for its connota<ons and connec<on to the
human body." - Naomi Miller

MFA Furniture design candidate Naomi Miller grew up in Maine and spent much of her early life on the
coast, developing an apprecia<on for the cycles and rhythms of the natural world. She did her
undergraduate work at St. Micheles College in Vermont and received her BA in Theater. She then spent
most of the next fourteen years as a proper<es ar<san working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania building
furniture for theatrical stage produc<ons. Coming to Rochester in 2020 to join the program in Furniture
Design, she now lives in Maplewood with her wife and dog Pollywog.
 

 

 

a color poster with an illustration of a solar eclipse in a darkened sky and a rainbow spectrum beam reaching from the top down toward a silhouetted cityscape.

2024 Total Solar Eclipse Posters

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The Rochester Eclipse Task Force sponsors a traveling art exhibition by eclipse artist and astronomer Tyler Nordgren, who designed the posters for Rochester, New York (in the and whose 2017 eclipse artwork is in the Smithsonian collection. 

The 30-poster exhibit that consists of eclipse posters from 2017 and 2024 and Dr. Nordgren's New York Parks series, will be displayed at Rochester-area locations each month in the year leading up to the eclipse, from April 2023 to April, 2024. RIT University Gallery hosts the exhibition in November 2024.

a color poster with an illustration of a solar eclipse in a darkened sky behind a golden silhouetted cityscape.
a color poster with an illustration of a solar eclipse in a darkened sky over a lake with text 'Finger Lake Eclipse'.
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Bella Walters MFA Thesis

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James Falotico: Senior Thesis, WWII Posters

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a lamp with a red metal base and white cylindrical shade against a white background.

Vignelli Center for Design Studies 2023 Summer Design Workshop

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This exhibition showcases twelve unique lamp designs created during the Vignelli Center for Design Studies 2023 Summer Workshop. Students and designers from the global art community participated in a week-long workshop divided between the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT in Rochester, New York and The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.

Inspired by the Vignelli Archives, participants develop a project of their own design that they explored under the supervision of Vignelli Center staff and through the facilitation of master craft glass blowers from The Corning Museum of Glass.

VCFDS Director Josh Owen designed a custom lamp base for the workshop in order to set some unifying parameters for the body of work to be produced. “Vignelli Red” was selected as the color for these bases in order to create a link to the Vignelli ethos and to offer ‘consistency in advance’ to the experimental grouping. Additionally, the famous Unipolar Slider Switch designed by Achille Castiglioni was selected to be a part of the lamp assembly to pay homage to the connection between the two designers.

a lamp with a red metal base and white cylindrical shade against a black background.
a group of people gathered around a person holding up an i-pad.
two people in a glass blowing studio working on a molten catch of white glass.
a person looking at a lamp with a red metal base and a white glass shade.
a line drawing of a square within a square.

Thematic Form Studies 2: R. Roger Remington

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Juilee Decker Exhibition

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RIT Interior Design Senior Capstone

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Over the course of two consecutive capstone courses in the senior year, RIT interior design students execute a self-generated and self-directed design research project. The goal of the Interior Design Capstone thesis is to respond creatively and imaginatively to an emerging circumstance, ongoing debate, or real-world issue and contribute to conversations relevant to the profession of interior design. The impressive array of topics includes design thinking approaches that consider not only the challenges of the global COVID -19 pandemic but research and creative agendas that have longevity with responsive, resilient designs.

Charged with independently identifying a problem based upon personal interests and using design as their vehicle, students propose a creative design solution. The proposals respond to theoretical and evidentiary findings collected from an exploratory research agenda and literature review. The capstone culminates with a written manuscript inclusive of a creative design proposal that is defended through formal, oral examination with a professional jury team.

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RIT Industrial Design Senior Capstone

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Industrial designers are part engineer, part artist. They create products to be used by factories, businesses, and everyday people. Each Senior Capstone project represents the culmination of a student’s academic experiences in RIT’s Industrial Design Program. This year over 40 Industrial Design seniors present concepts and designs across a range of categories: social service, education, transportation, UX/UI, consumer goods, home goods, apparel, health/medical and sustainability.

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RIT Industrial Design MFA Thesis

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a color photograph of three college students gathered in a colorful room, all reading books..

RIT Graphic Design Senior Capstone

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Rochester Institute of Technology's Graphic Design program presents its senior capstone exhibition, evidence of the creativity that reflects the vibrant spirit of the class of 2024. In this exhibition, you'll find design principles, methods, concepts, images, words, and ideas to convey distinct, visually compelling messages to a range of audiences.