Mural
Students at the Renaissance Academy Charter School of the Arts in Rochester, N.Y., unveiled a new mural titled “The Dreamer” on August 8, 2024, to celebrate the school’s 10-year anniversary. This project marked a return for local artist Sarah Rutherford, who had previously collaborated with students to create the school’s first mural a decade ago. […]
It’s been an entire year since the tragic death of Kobe Bryant on Jan 26, 2020. The basketball legend inspired countless artists to pay tribute in the form of paintings, sculpture and murals. From LA to Paris, artists who appreciated Kobe and his career began painting murals all over the world. To mark the one […]
In less than 10 days, a group of artists turned a 3,000 square foot empty wall space in downtown Rochester into a multi-story mural tribute to John Lewis. The mural on State Street is called “I Am Speaking” and it depicts Lewis delivering an impassioned speech in 1963. It sits steps away where […]
On Saturday, a mural reading dedicated to Black Lives Matter was vandalized by David Nelson and Nicole Anderson. The mural, which was painted in front of the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse had been approved, but Nelson and Anderson brought paint to the site shortly after it was completed and began to cover it up. Onlookers saw […]
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