Rochester, NY
Rochester's NOTA — the Neighborhood of the Arts — is one of New York State's most concentrated outdoor art districts, a walkable stretch of galleries, studios, and building-scale murals that anchors the city's creative identity. The South Wedge's independent storefronts add a grittier counterpart. Rochester's legacy as the home of Kodak, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony runs through its walls — a city that has always been ahead of itself.
Featured Artists
All artists →Shawn Dunwoody
Rochester's most celebrated muralist, Dunwoody's figural work has made him the city's leading voice in public art. His Frederick Douglass portrait on University Avenue — painted on the bicentennial of Douglass's Rochester arrival — stands twelve feet tall on a building two blocks from Douglass's former home, a work that insists on the permanent relevance of Rochester's abolitionist heritage.
Traci Sherrill
South Wedge–based painter whose Genesee River series translates the waterfalls that power Rochester's industrial history into building-scale celebrations of the city's natural foundation. Sherrill's South Avenue mural captures the High Falls at spring flood — the same force that powered the Erie Canal mills that made Rochester the Flour City.
Valentina Greco
Italian-American photographer turned muralist whose NOTA installation translates Kodachrome slide-film aesthetics into wall painting — the particular warm color science of the film that made Rochester famous, applied to portraits of Rochester residents in the neighborhoods where Kodak workers once lived. A work about image, memory, and what a city carries forward.