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A PUBLICATION OF THE ARTS & CULTURAL COUNCIL<br />
FOR GREATER ROCHESTER<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong><br />
A Design Icon<br />
Blackfriars <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Melanie’s Voice<br />
in a Br<strong>and</strong> New Key<br />
Sue Cotroneo<br />
Empire State Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
AXOM Gallery’s<br />
Margot Muto<br />
FALL 2012 | ROCHESTER, NY
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Experience the<br />
ights & S ounds of . . .<br />
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY<br />
500 University Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong>, NY 14607<br />
(585) 276-8900<br />
mag.rochester.edu<br />
With its permanent collection spanning 50 centuries<br />
of world art, the Memorial Art Gallery is considered<br />
one of the finest regional art museums in the country.<br />
Among its treasures are works by such artists as<br />
Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Homer, <strong>and</strong> Cassatt. <strong>The</strong><br />
Gallery offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions,<br />
tours, <strong>and</strong> events, as well as a restaurant, gift shop,<br />
<strong>and</strong> art school. During your visit, experience the<br />
recently renovated gallery of ancient art <strong>and</strong> enjoy<br />
concerts on North America’s only full-size Italian<br />
Baroque organ, on permanent loan from the<br />
Eastman School of Music (schedule on our website).<br />
EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC<br />
26 Gibbs St., <strong>Rochester</strong>, NY 14604<br />
www.esm.rochester.edu<br />
<strong>The</strong> Eastman School of Music enhances the lives of<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>ians with hundreds of world-class orchestral,<br />
wind ensemble, chamber music, jazz, <strong>and</strong> opera<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mances each year. In its historic Kodak <strong>and</strong> Kilbourn<br />
Halls, <strong>and</strong> now in the remarkable Hatch Recital<br />
Hall in the architecturally stunning new Eastman East<br />
Wing, Eastman musical events add immeasurably to<br />
the artistic <strong>and</strong> cultural life of our region. In addition,<br />
more than a thous<strong>and</strong> adults <strong>and</strong> children each year<br />
take advantage of the Eastman Community Music<br />
School’s renowned private <strong>and</strong> classroom instruction.<br />
See www.esm.rochester.edu <strong>for</strong> a schedule of upcoming<br />
concerts <strong>and</strong> events.<br />
WRUR-FM & WXXI-AM<br />
88.5 FM <strong>and</strong> AM 1370<br />
www.wxxi.org/radio/wrur<br />
Catch eclectic music programming <strong>and</strong> NPR favorites,<br />
such as Morning Edition <strong>and</strong> All Things Considered,<br />
on 88.5 FM, thanks to a partnership with WXXI <strong>and</strong><br />
University affiliate WRUR. NPR is currently simulcast<br />
on WRUR 88.5 <strong>and</strong> AM 1370, Monday–Friday, 5–9<br />
a.m. <strong>and</strong> 4–6 p.m. For a complete list of programs,<br />
please visit our website.
Nazareth College <strong>Arts</strong> Center | 2012-2013 Season<br />
artscenter.naz.edu<br />
SERIES SPoNSoRS:<br />
585-389-2170<br />
Photos top to bottom, left to right: Complexions Contemporary Ballet, photo: Jae Man Joo; Just Imagine; Anonymous 4; Cashore Marionettes; Mermaid <strong>The</strong>atre of<br />
Nova Scotia, Guess How Much I Love You, photo: Margo E. Gesser.<br />
SeaSon highlightS<br />
• Internationally renowned contemporary dance from some<br />
of the most sought-after companies;<br />
• Wonderful family programs, including a per<strong>for</strong>mance by a<br />
master marionette maker; three popular musicals presented<br />
by the <strong>Rochester</strong> Children’s <strong>The</strong>atre; <strong>and</strong> an adaptation of<br />
a beloved classic, per<strong>for</strong>med by one of the country’s most<br />
acclaimed children’s theatre companies;<br />
• A range of musical programs, from a one-man John Lennon<br />
tribute to authentic African drumming, <strong>and</strong> from sacred medieval<br />
music to the pipes <strong>and</strong> drums of an elite military group;<br />
• Special events, including a remarkable illusionist <strong>and</strong> his<br />
breathtaking, state-of-the-art magic; New Year’s Eve with the<br />
politically based satire of <strong>The</strong> Capitol Steps; <strong>and</strong> a powerful<br />
presentation of letters written by soldiers serving in Afghanistan<br />
<strong>and</strong> Iraq.<br />
Subscribe with Five <strong>and</strong> Save 20%!<br />
Visit artscenter.naz.edu <strong>for</strong> tickets <strong>and</strong> more info!
From the Editor About the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong>, Inc.<br />
A Request of Our Readers<br />
<strong>The</strong> magazine you hold in your h<strong>and</strong>s has just completed its<br />
seventh year of publication. It was born from a series of ideas<br />
I had early on in my role as the head of the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong>, a charitable nonprofit organization with<br />
the mission of strengthening <strong>and</strong> promoting arts <strong>and</strong> culture<br />
in the greater <strong>Rochester</strong>/Finger Lakes region. We are the only<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>-based organization with this unique role. To be<br />
effective, I knew we needed a new <strong>and</strong> powerful promotional<br />
vehicle—Metropolitan magazine.<br />
Due to recent shifts in both the local <strong>and</strong> national economy,<br />
funding <strong>for</strong> nonprofits in general has become more tenuous. As<br />
part of a necessary evolution, there<strong>for</strong>e, we look to you, our readers,<br />
to consider making a difference, by contributing a tax-deductible<br />
gift in support of our ongoing ef<strong>for</strong>ts—simply fill out <strong>and</strong> return the<br />
envelope inserted in this issue.<br />
Help us continue to bring to the <strong>for</strong>eground the full range of arts<br />
<strong>and</strong> culture that our community has to offer.<br />
My thanks, in advance, <strong>and</strong> my very best wishes to you <strong>for</strong> the<br />
upcoming holiday season.<br />
Sarah E. Lentini<br />
Editor, President, <strong>and</strong> Publisher<br />
2 Fall 2012 | Photo by John W. Retallack<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong> is a nonprofit<br />
corporation serving arts, culture, <strong>and</strong> education in the ten-county<br />
greater <strong>Rochester</strong> region. Our mission is to strengthen the<br />
creative sector through grant programs, constituent services, <strong>and</strong><br />
special initiatives; <strong>and</strong> to act as an advocate, planner, <strong>and</strong> funder,<br />
supporting artistic vitality <strong>and</strong> cultural diversity.<br />
Metropolitan is produced <strong>and</strong> published on a quarterly basis by<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong>. <strong>The</strong> magazine<br />
promotes our region <strong>and</strong> is supported primarily through donations<br />
<strong>and</strong> advertising sales.<br />
For more in<strong>for</strong>mation about our programs <strong>and</strong> services, visit<br />
<strong>Arts</strong><strong>Rochester</strong>.org.<br />
Board of directors<br />
Grace Tillinghast, Chair<br />
Sarah E. Lentini, President <strong>and</strong> CEO<br />
Jeffrey B. Crane, Vice Chair<br />
Richard E. Rising, Vice Chair<br />
Jonathan Gonder, DMA, Secretary<br />
Trevor Harrison, Treasurer<br />
Hon. Jeffrey R. Adair<br />
Christopher C. Dahl, Ph.D.<br />
Joseph Darweesh, Esq.<br />
Steven DelMonte<br />
Honorary advisors<br />
Peter Giopulos, Ph.D.<br />
Roslyn Bakst Goldman<br />
Nancy Gong<br />
Suzanne Gouvernet<br />
Suzanne Gouvernet<br />
This issue of Metropolitan is made possible, in part, with funds from<br />
the Gouvernet <strong>Arts</strong> Fund of <strong>Rochester</strong> Area Community Foundation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong> is supported, in<br />
part, with public funds from the New York State <strong>Council</strong> on the <strong>Arts</strong>,<br />
a state agency.<br />
promoting creativity <strong>and</strong> innovation<br />
277 North Goodman Street<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>, NY 14607-1179<br />
(585) 473-4000<br />
<strong>Arts</strong><strong>Rochester</strong>.org<br />
Hon. S<strong>and</strong>ra L. Frankel<br />
Sabrina Gennarino<br />
Margery Hwang<br />
Hon. Cynthia W. Kaleh<br />
John F. Kraushaar<br />
Dawn Lipson<br />
Dr. Jacques Lipson<br />
James C. Moore, Esq.<br />
Hon. Carla M. Palumbo<br />
Pengcheng Shi, Ph.D.<br />
Robert Hursh<br />
Nathan Lyons<br />
Nathan J. Robfogel, Esq.<br />
Jean Gordon Ryon<br />
arts & cultural council staff<br />
Sarah E. Lentini President <strong>and</strong> CEO<br />
Jerry Gombatto Senior Director of Programs <strong>and</strong> Marketing<br />
David B. Semple Director of Development <strong>and</strong> Grant Programs<br />
Bruce M. Watson Director of Finance<br />
Jim Giffi Volunteer
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AXOM Gallery’s<br />
Margot Muto<br />
Renowned designer<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong><br />
Melanie Safka<br />
at Carnegie Hall<br />
FALL 2012 VOLUME 7/NUMBER 4<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong><br />
A Trailblazer in Full Throttle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14<br />
Shaping Her Own Space<br />
AXOM Gallery’s Margot Muto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8<br />
Empire State Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Brings Opera to New Audiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12<br />
Melanie’s Voice in a Br<strong>and</strong> New Key<br />
A World Premiere at Blackfriars <strong>The</strong>atre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18<br />
Departments<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5<br />
In Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6<br />
On the COver<br />
Amber Fields, 24x24 oil on canvas (detail) by Carolyn Marshall. “In my life there<br />
are no happier times than those spent immersed in nature,” says Marshall,<br />
whose expansive gardens <strong>for</strong>m a significant part of the inspiration <strong>for</strong> her<br />
paintings. She is one of 10 women who comprise DRAW, a <strong>Rochester</strong>-based<br />
artist group that encourages its members to collaborate as they pursue their<br />
individual goals. <strong>The</strong> DRAW group, a longst<strong>and</strong>ing member <strong>and</strong> past exhibitor<br />
at the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong>, has been growing in sophistication<br />
<strong>and</strong> visibility, with additional recent exhibitions at Bausch & Lomb <strong>and</strong><br />
RIT’s Dyer <strong>Arts</strong> Center. To learn more about Carolyn Marshall <strong>and</strong> DRAW, visit<br />
www.carolyn-marshall-artist.com <strong>and</strong> www.drawgrouprochester.com.<br />
Metropolitan<br />
Sarah E. Lentini Editor, President, <strong>and</strong> Publisher<br />
Jerry Gombatto Assistant Editor, Director of Advertising <strong>and</strong> Production<br />
Bruce M. Watson Director of Finance<br />
Steve Boerner Typography & Design, Inc. Layout <strong>and</strong> Design<br />
Canfield & Tack Printing<br />
advertising <strong>and</strong> distribution<br />
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(585) 473-4000, extension 205<br />
gombatto@artsrochester.org<br />
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24<br />
Copyright 2012 <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
Metropolitan is published quarterly by the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong><br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>. Metropolitan may not be reproduced in whole or in part without<br />
written permission from the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong>.<br />
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Transfer & Career Programs in Fine <strong>Arts</strong>,<br />
Music Per<strong>for</strong>mance, Education, Liberal<br />
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Design, Communications & Media <strong>Arts</strong>,<br />
Visual Communications, Graphic <strong>Arts</strong>/<br />
Printing/Photo/TV<br />
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Images couRtesy oF the aRtIsts<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gallery at<br />
Balance III, 48x27x12, sterling silver, acrylic, resin, Jiwon Han<br />
<strong>The</strong> Balance<br />
Jiwon Han<br />
October 3–26<br />
Reception, Friday, October 5, 6–9 PM<br />
To become one with body <strong>and</strong> calm breathing<br />
as the moving wind; it delivers the trustworthy<br />
com<strong>for</strong>t of balance through <strong>and</strong> through<br />
—Jiwon Han<br />
A native of Korea, Jiwon Han has worked in the<br />
Evolved Paintings, 2012<br />
William Sellers<br />
November 2–30<br />
Reception, Friday, November 2, 5–9 PM<br />
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, William Sellers<br />
has had an extensive career as an artist<br />
<strong>and</strong> teacher.<br />
He attended the University of Michigan,<br />
where he received a Bachelor’s degree in architecture<br />
(1954) <strong>and</strong> a Master of Fine <strong>Arts</strong> (1962),<br />
majoring in sculpture <strong>and</strong> ceramics. Upon<br />
graduation he came to <strong>Rochester</strong> to teach 3D<br />
design <strong>and</strong> drawing at <strong>Rochester</strong> Institute of<br />
Technology. He later taught studio art courses<br />
at the University of <strong>Rochester</strong> <strong>and</strong> at Lehman<br />
College, City University of New York.<br />
Until recently, Sellers was primarily known<br />
<strong>for</strong> his sculpture. Three of his pieces are in the<br />
fields of metal craft <strong>and</strong> jewelry design <strong>for</strong> over<br />
20 years. Han is a graduate of both the Hong-Ik<br />
University in Seoul <strong>and</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong> Institute of<br />
Technology’s renowned School <strong>for</strong> American<br />
Crafts, where she earned a second Master of<br />
Fine Art degree in 2010. She has had an extensive<br />
career as a professor of fine art <strong>and</strong> has<br />
exhibited widely throughout Korea, including at<br />
the Korean Craft <strong>Council</strong> Exhibition, Korean Fine<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Association Exhibition, <strong>and</strong> the Hyundae<br />
Metal Artists Association Exhibition.<br />
Memorial Art Gallery’s permanent collection—<br />
including Six Cubes <strong>and</strong> Converging Cubes,<br />
which can be seen in the Gallery’s outdoor<br />
sculpture display.<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
277 N. GoodmaN Street, rocheSter, (585) 473-4000<br />
Gallery hourS: moNday–Friday, 10 am–4 pm<br />
In addition, she has received numerous<br />
awards including an Honorable Mention at<br />
the 26th Korean Industrial Artist Exhibition,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Copper Prize at the 21st National Art<br />
College Exhibition.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Balance, her solo exhibition at <strong>The</strong> Gallery<br />
at the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong>, represents<br />
the expression of human emotion as motion,<br />
with an implicit tension <strong>and</strong> harmony between<br />
<strong>and</strong> among body, space, <strong>and</strong> mind—between<br />
the human being <strong>and</strong> nature.<br />
Untitled, 12x12, acrylic on wood panel,<br />
William Sellers<br />
Other large outdoor sculptures of his are installed<br />
at the corporate headquarters of <strong>Rochester</strong>’s<br />
Sentry Group <strong>and</strong> at SUNY Cortl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Sellers’ work has also been included in two<br />
annual exhibitions of sculpture at the Whitney<br />
Museum of American Art.<br />
Since the year 2000, Sellers’ artistic activity<br />
has evolved into painting. “Early on, occasionally,<br />
I created paintings based on views of the<br />
sculptures—I called them ‘semi-diagrammatic<br />
elevations of sculpture’. However, since the turn<br />
of the century, painting has come to the <strong>for</strong>efront<br />
in my artistic ef<strong>for</strong>ts. <strong>The</strong> paintings have<br />
taken a direction no longer related to sculpture,<br />
though they maintain a loose relationship to<br />
simple geometry <strong>and</strong> three dimensionality.”<br />
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6 Fall 2012 |<br />
In Brief New<br />
Misfit Robot, an example of<br />
Bob Conge’s recent work<br />
Bob Conge: <strong>The</strong> Toy As Art<br />
A seasoned painter, illustrator <strong>and</strong> sculptor,<br />
Bob Conge has exhibited extensively throughout<br />
the US, Europe <strong>and</strong> Japan. Over the years,<br />
his clients have included American Express,<br />
Sony Music, Bank of America, <strong>and</strong> Eastman<br />
Kodak Company. His work is represented in<br />
collections throughout the world, including the<br />
Museum of Modern Art in Toyama, Japan; Le<br />
Musée de la Publicité in Paris, France; <strong>and</strong> the<br />
International Poster Museum in Warsaw, Pol<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Conge’s most recent work connects with<br />
a worldwide movement, based on an age-old<br />
idea of the toy as art—much of which currently<br />
centers on the Japanese vinyl toys of<br />
the ’60s <strong>and</strong> ’70s.<br />
For the first time in close to twenty years,<br />
Bob Conge will be showing locally, with a oneman<br />
exhibition, September 22 to October 20,<br />
at Phillips Fine Art, 248 East Avenue, located<br />
next to <strong>The</strong> Little <strong>The</strong>atre.<br />
To learn more about the artist, visit www.<br />
bobconge.com <strong>and</strong> www.plaseebo.net.<br />
Panni Speirs: Promoting the<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> of the Circus<br />
Last May, Panni Speirs, founder of the <strong>Rochester</strong>-based<br />
Flexibility Plus Institute of America,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Noteworthy<br />
presented the first-ever <strong>Rochester</strong> Regional<br />
Circus <strong>Arts</strong> Festival, a youth-oriented event<br />
sponsored by the American Youth Circus Organization,<br />
which regularly presents national<br />
circus arts festivals <strong>and</strong> educator conferences<br />
in cities across the country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> one-day festival, which was hosted by<br />
Aerial <strong>Arts</strong> of <strong>Rochester</strong>, offered several workshops<br />
<strong>and</strong> training opportunities, focusing predominantly<br />
on youth, in a wide range of circus<br />
disciplines, including mime, prop making, contortion,<br />
<strong>and</strong> juggling. A showcase per<strong>for</strong>mance,<br />
which featured diverse <strong>and</strong> talented students,<br />
alongside their instructors, punctuated the<br />
day’s activities.<br />
“Our mission is to promote the participation<br />
of youth in the circus arts,” says Speirs. “Local<br />
circus arts supporters provided key assistance<br />
in leading workshops, <strong>and</strong> numerous volunteers<br />
helped to make the event a success.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> group is planning to organize a similar<br />
event <strong>for</strong> 2013. For in<strong>for</strong>mation, visit www.<br />
flexibilityplusiofa.com.<br />
Taylor Commissioned<br />
<strong>for</strong> Veterans’ Memorial<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong> artist Mary Taylor has been commissioned<br />
to create a sculpture <strong>for</strong> a new<br />
Veterans’ Memorial Park being developed on<br />
Westfall Road, in the Town of Brighton. <strong>The</strong><br />
Town is also working with architectural firm<br />
Bergmann Associates to design the park, which<br />
will honor Brighton Veterans. Taylor’s American<br />
Bald Eagle, a stainless steel sculpture<br />
(54x120x60) will be perched on a<br />
large boulder <strong>and</strong> displayed with<br />
its wings outstretched 10 feet in<br />
breadth. <strong>The</strong> work is slated to be<br />
installed in October, with<br />
Maquette of Taylor’s<br />
American Bald Eagle<br />
a dedication date scheduled <strong>for</strong> November 11,<br />
2012—Veterans’ Day.<br />
Taylor, who specializes in wildlife sculpture,<br />
has exhibited widely throughout the country<br />
<strong>and</strong> has numerous public <strong>and</strong> private commissions<br />
to her credit. To learn more about the artist,<br />
visit www.marytaylorsculpture.com.<br />
BOA Editions Releases<br />
Major Poetry Collection<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton<br />
1965–2010 may be the most important book of<br />
poetry to appear in years.”—Publishers Weekly<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>-based<br />
BOA Editions has just<br />
published the definitive<br />
compendium of renowned<br />
poet Lucille Clifton’s<br />
work, including 50<br />
previously unpublished<br />
poems.<br />
Clifton, who passed<br />
away in February 2012,<br />
was the first African American woman to<br />
receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize,<br />
honoring a US poet whose “lifetime accomplishments<br />
warrant extraordinary recognition,”<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Robert Frost Medal <strong>for</strong> lifetime<br />
achievement. <strong>The</strong> book features<br />
a <strong>for</strong>eword by Nobel<br />
Prize–winning author<br />
Toni Morrison.<br />
“If you only read one<br />
poetry book in 2012,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Collected Poems of<br />
Lucille Clifton ought to<br />
be it.”—NPR<br />
Visit BOA Edition at<br />
www.boaeditions.org.
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Stained glass window, designed in 2010 by<br />
Valerie O’Hara of Pike Stained Glass Studios, at<br />
University of <strong>Rochester</strong>’s Rush Rhees Library.<br />
MAG Tiffany Glass Exhibition<br />
with Pike Stained Glass Studios<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>’s Pike Stained Glass Studios, headed<br />
by Valerie O’Hara, is playing a key role in a major<br />
exhibition of original Tiffany stained glass at<br />
the University of <strong>Rochester</strong>’s Memorial Art Gallery,<br />
on exhibit through October 28.<br />
William Pike, who worked <strong>for</strong> Tiffany Studios<br />
in New York be<strong>for</strong>e moving to <strong>Rochester</strong>, established<br />
his own company, Pike Stained Glass<br />
Studios, in 1908. His great-niece, Valerie, not<br />
only manages the unique business that her<br />
parents, Jim <strong>and</strong> Norma Lee O’Hara, h<strong>and</strong>ed<br />
down to her, but is a masterful glass artist as<br />
well—creating <strong>and</strong> often recreating exquisite<br />
works of art throughout the country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> exhibition features seven 8' tall windows,<br />
removed from an Ohio church in 1964<br />
<strong>and</strong> discovered to be original works by American<br />
master Louis Com<strong>for</strong>t Tiffany. Pike Stained<br />
Glass is also featured with original works on<br />
paper <strong>and</strong> in glass, <strong>and</strong> materials showing the<br />
process of stained glass.<br />
Visit www.pikestainedglassstudios.com <strong>and</strong><br />
www.mag.rochester.edu.<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
is pleased<br />
to announce the<br />
29 th<br />
Annual <strong>Arts</strong> Awards<br />
2012 Award Recipients<br />
Artist AwArd<br />
Chet Catallo<br />
Internationally acclaimed musician <strong>and</strong> 6-time Grammy nominee,<br />
<strong>for</strong>merly of the renowned contemporary jazz ensemble, Spyro Gyra<br />
OrgAnizAtiOn AwArd<br />
University of <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
A leading cultural <strong>and</strong> educational institution with significant innovative<br />
developments <strong>and</strong> achievements that cut across all facets of the arts<br />
ChAmpiOn Of the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Nixon Peabody LLP<br />
A global award-winning law firm, which <strong>for</strong> over a decade has provided<br />
pro bono legal support to the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>and</strong> its membership<br />
of creative professionals <strong>and</strong> nonprofits<br />
Lifetime AChievement<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong><br />
Recognized as one of the top 10 international designers, a groundbreaking <strong>and</strong><br />
iconic artist, showcased in collections <strong>and</strong> exhibitions throughout the world<br />
29th Annual <strong>Arts</strong> Awards<br />
Wednesday, November 7, 2012<br />
Reception, 11:15 a.m.<br />
Lunch <strong>and</strong> Award Ceremony, Noon–1:30 p.m.<br />
Hyatt Regency <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
fOr event infOrmAtiOn<br />
COntACt (585) 473-4000, ext. 205<br />
<strong>Arts</strong>rOChester.Org
Own<br />
Shaping Her<br />
Space<br />
AXOM Gallery<br />
Director Margot<br />
Muto (left); 4-2-2,<br />
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AXOM<br />
Gallery’s<br />
Margot<br />
Muto<br />
an example of Susan<br />
Ferrari-Rowley’s<br />
powerful work on<br />
exhibit this fall at<br />
AXOM (bottom left);<br />
Fleeing Eve by Keith<br />
Howard, part of Eve’s<br />
Garden: <strong>The</strong> Lost<br />
Creation, exhibited<br />
at AXOM Gallery<br />
this September<br />
(bottom right).
“It was definitely not love at first sight,” says Robin Muto.<br />
It’s a lovely late summer evening. I’m sitting with Robin <strong>and</strong> Rick <strong>and</strong><br />
their daughter, Margot Muto, in the offices of Robin’s design business,<br />
adjoining the new AXOM Gallery & Exhibition Space, which<br />
the Mutos just launched, with Margot at the helm. Robin is talking<br />
about the first time that she <strong>and</strong> Rick, her husb<strong>and</strong> of many years,<br />
met—when they were both students at SUNY<br />
Oswego. “Rick looked just like Jerry Garcia,”<br />
she continues. “He had a lot of hair.”<br />
“Do you have a picture of that?” I ask.<br />
To my surprise, I learn that Rick, now an<br />
accomplished artist of many years most recently<br />
commissioned by Steinway & Sons<br />
to paint a commemorative piano unveiled<br />
in June in Beijing, was then a Russian studies<br />
major. Robin, now a design maven with<br />
a veritable Who’s Who of a client list from<br />
across the country, was the fine arts major.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y met when Rick took pottery as an elective<br />
<strong>and</strong> w<strong>and</strong>ered into Robin’s territory. After a lukewarm set of initial<br />
interactions—each found the other a bit distant—they ended up<br />
talking all night when jointly assigned to keep watch over the firing<br />
of the department’s salt kiln. Somewhere in there Rick brought Robin<br />
one of his Italian family’s specialties: a pickled eggplant s<strong>and</strong>wich.<br />
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By Sarah E. Lentini<br />
Rick <strong>and</strong> Robin Muto in 1975 at SUNY Oswego.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mutos’ studios <strong>and</strong> gallery are housed on the second floor of a<br />
charming old red brick building—newly designated the Art <strong>and</strong> Design<br />
Building—on Anderson Avenue, above the Steve Carpenter Art<br />
Center, in the heart of the Neighborhood of the <strong>Arts</strong>, half a block from<br />
my office. As I take the stairs, I note the extensive beautiful blanched<br />
oak wainscotting—at once old <strong>and</strong> modern—which I learn Margot refinished.<br />
Once upstairs, I’m greeted by Robin<br />
<strong>and</strong> Margot <strong>and</strong> their dog, Jasper, a total ham<br />
of a Bluetick hound who befriends me immediately,<br />
<strong>and</strong> by a glowing pre-sunset sky<br />
that shows off the panoramic view af<strong>for</strong>ded<br />
by oversized loft windows. <strong>The</strong> offices feel<br />
like an architect’s digs. Neighboring AXOM<br />
Gallery is clean <strong>and</strong> bright with blonde wood<br />
floors <strong>and</strong> high-end art work from the current<br />
exhibitor, Keith Howard, Margot’s <strong>for</strong>mer<br />
college professor. His pieces are beautifully<br />
stylized large nudes of a beguiling Eve, complete<br />
with apple in outstretched h<strong>and</strong>. <strong>The</strong><br />
whole place feels like SoHo.<br />
Not surprisingly, Margot Muto is fluent in the language of art. While<br />
she tells me that she feels a stronger kinship with her mother’s artistic<br />
style <strong>and</strong> sensibility, the warm brown eyes that gaze into mine with energy<br />
<strong>and</strong> confidence bring her father to mind. I realize that I’ve never<br />
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AXOM Gallery’s first exhibition earlier this summer showcased the work of Paul Garl<strong>and</strong>, Rick Muto’s <strong>for</strong>mer college professor.<br />
seen Margot’s paintings—which she’s put on hold while she builds<br />
AXOM—<strong>and</strong> hear that they’re abstracted l<strong>and</strong>scapes, much like the<br />
sophisticated work of the other artist whose work surrounds us, Paul<br />
Garl<strong>and</strong>, the first AXOM exhibitor <strong>and</strong> Rick’s <strong>for</strong>mer college professor.<br />
Margot is keenly aware of the challenges facing young artists, especially<br />
in <strong>Rochester</strong>, which while a great place to learn about art is<br />
ultimately not an easy place from which to<br />
launch <strong>and</strong> sustain a professional arts career.<br />
She very much wants to help the next generation.<br />
At the same time, she has an eye on<br />
connecting with the best artists <strong>and</strong> arts venues<br />
throughout the country. Showcasing the<br />
work of Paul Garl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Keith Howard is<br />
certainly a great start.<br />
And, this October, Margot is bringing a<br />
third arts powerhouse to the AXOM Gallery:<br />
Susan Ferrari-Rowley, an immensely talent-<br />
ed sculptor, whose large powerful pieces are an exciting—even if unintentional—testament<br />
to femininity. Originally from New York City,<br />
Ferrari-Rowley is a long-time fine arts faculty member at Monroe<br />
Community College <strong>and</strong> the recipient of the 2011 SUNY Chancellor’s<br />
Award <strong>for</strong> Excellence in Scholarship <strong>and</strong> Creative Activities. In person,<br />
she is every bit as strong <strong>and</strong> intelligent as her work, with an appealing<br />
intensity <strong>and</strong> directness. <strong>The</strong> exhibition of her work at AXOM<br />
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AXOM Gallery & Exhibition Space<br />
ART AND DeSiGN BUiLDiNG<br />
176 ANDeRSON AVeNUe, 2ND FLOOR<br />
ROCHeSTeR, NY 14607<br />
• New Directions by Susan Ferrari-Rowley<br />
October 5–November 17, 2012<br />
• www.axomgallery.com<br />
will be a preview of a show that will make its way to a major New York<br />
gallery later this year.<br />
AXOM Gallery is off to a great start.<br />
Much like her parents, Margot is happiest doing more than one<br />
thing. In addition to managing the gallery, she works with incarcerated<br />
youth through the New York State Literary Center. <strong>The</strong> Center’s Executive<br />
Director, Dale Davis, has told me more<br />
than once how much she has come to rely<br />
on Margot, <strong>for</strong> whom the work of the Center<br />
matters deeply. With a fearless <strong>and</strong> attractive<br />
vulnerability, Margot tells me that she struggled<br />
a bit in school, finding traditional academic<br />
subjects often <strong>for</strong>eign <strong>and</strong> confusing.<br />
Conversely, the arts represented a com<strong>for</strong>table<br />
mode of expression—perhaps in part because<br />
of her parents’ work, perhaps because<br />
of a genetic predisposition, perhaps because<br />
the arts offer the greatest range of modes of learning <strong>and</strong> expression:<br />
a set of rich universal languages. Because of her own challenges with<br />
traditional learning, Margot is particularly sensitive to the learning<br />
problems of young people. It is the space that she’s carved out <strong>for</strong> herself<br />
in a family of impressive creative spirits, <strong>and</strong> it promises to evolve<br />
<strong>and</strong> shape her leadership of AXOM in a way that will give the new gallery<br />
a unique <strong>and</strong> essential character. a<br />
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Please visit us<br />
on our website<br />
cias.rit.edu<br />
Peter Byrne<br />
Chair, School of Design<br />
pjbfaa@rit.edu<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong> Institute<br />
of Technology<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>, New York<br />
College of<br />
Imaging <strong>Arts</strong> + Sciences<br />
Undergraduate<br />
<strong>and</strong> Graduate Programs<br />
School of Design<br />
BFA MFA<br />
BFA Graphic Design<br />
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Interior Design<br />
New Media Design<br />
3D Digital Design<br />
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Photo: Mariah Jade Cole<br />
Vignelli Center <strong>for</strong> Design Studies
An accomplished soprano <strong>and</strong> the founding executive director of<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong>-based empire State Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre, Sue Cotroneo has hosted<br />
multiple events designed to introduce opera to a broader audience.<br />
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EmpirE StatE<br />
Lyric<br />
S <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Sue Cotroneo has just come back from Tampa. She is wearing<br />
Brings Opera to New Audiences<br />
By Sarah E. Lentini<br />
an haute couture dress in black jersey that drapes <strong>and</strong> balloons at<br />
the knee in a style that, I realize later that evening as I’m watching<br />
a documentary on the history of supermodels, is retro ’60s modern.<br />
Her shoes are equally chic, high wedged plat<strong>for</strong>m s<strong>and</strong>als in a butter<br />
yellow leather that complements her deep inky purple pedicure <strong>and</strong><br />
echoes her silky blonde hair. Sue hugs me hello <strong>and</strong> we walk back to<br />
the kitchen to get coffee, where Sue selects an Italian Roast Keurig<br />
K-Cup, as I had already known she would, given her similar predilection<br />
<strong>for</strong> all things Italian.<br />
As the founding executive director of <strong>Rochester</strong>’s opera company,<br />
Empire State Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre, in just a few short years, Susan Cotroneo<br />
has <strong>for</strong>med an exciting new nonprofit organization that is filling an<br />
important role in the arts <strong>and</strong> culture of the greater <strong>Rochester</strong>/Finger<br />
Lakes region. Last year, the company mounted a production of<br />
I Pagliacci at the downtown Blue Cross Arena—a venue pretty much<br />
unprecedented <strong>for</strong> the art <strong>for</strong>m in <strong>Rochester</strong>. Its financial support has<br />
come from a variety of sources, including the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong>—which has provided the company with multiple<br />
grants in partnership with both the New York State <strong>Council</strong> on<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong> Area Community Foundation.<br />
In addition to drawing crowds to her company’s large-scale productions,<br />
Sue Cotroneo has all along coordinated a series of much<br />
more intimate events, aimed at cultivating new opera patrons. Her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong>, Anthony Cotroneo, a high power <strong>Rochester</strong> attorney, <strong>and</strong><br />
her partner in every sense of the word, has worked alongside her to<br />
establish <strong>and</strong> support the young opera company since the beginning.<br />
Originally an outsider to the world of opera, his perspective has been<br />
pivotal to her ability to attract <strong>and</strong> engage new audiences <strong>and</strong> supporters.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>for</strong>mula has been essentially to throw a party, with all<br />
the best elements of what draws anyone to an event: great food <strong>and</strong>
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wine, a beautiful setting, a good mix of people, <strong>and</strong> music. Sue Cotroneo<br />
knew that, if she could get her husb<strong>and</strong>’s “non-opera” friends<br />
to come <strong>and</strong>, even more importantly, to enjoy themselves, she would<br />
be well-positioned to sustain the company over time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cotroneos live in an exquisite home, reminiscent of a Tuscan<br />
villa, which Sue painstakingly designed <strong>and</strong> decorated. She has<br />
a marvelous aesthetic sensibility. <strong>The</strong> house is central to her work as<br />
well: it serves as an optimal venue <strong>for</strong> both intimate <strong>and</strong> gr<strong>and</strong> affairs,<br />
<strong>and</strong> it houses her business office, enabling her to stay close to<br />
their three young children.<br />
Susan Delly Cotroneo was raised in <strong>Rochester</strong>, the oldest of three<br />
children <strong>and</strong> the only girl, in a charming 1920s center Colonial on<br />
Seneca Parkway, in the city’s Northwest Quadrant, which her mother<br />
kept, “just so—it was always very nice.” Her parents had high expectations<br />
<strong>for</strong> her, she tells me, so that she learned from the beginning that<br />
she needed to work hard <strong>for</strong> the things she wanted. It is something,<br />
Sue says, that she has since come to appreciate greatly. <strong>The</strong>ir expectations<br />
gave her the self-reliance <strong>and</strong> the confidence, she explains,<br />
that made it possible <strong>for</strong> her to, among other things, contemplate<br />
starting an opera company.<br />
When Sue was 11 years old—she tells me this number two or three<br />
times as if it is an important point of demarcation—her parents enrolled<br />
her in the David Hochstein Memorial School of Music & Dance,<br />
where she embarked on ballet <strong>and</strong> music lessons. “I think they saw<br />
this curvy body <strong>and</strong> thought we need to keep this child active,” she<br />
says, with a wry smile. “I had to take a city bus each week, the Dewey<br />
10 to be exact, to get there—I was eleven years old. I wasn’t happy<br />
about it. I wanted a ride. My mother said to me, ‘It’s your voice. <strong>The</strong>y’re<br />
your voice lessons. If you want them, you need to figure out how to<br />
get there.’ And I would say to her, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t make<br />
me take the bus.’ Her response to me was, ‘It’s because we love you—<br />
it builds character.’”<br />
After a few years of lessons, again in response to her body type, Sue<br />
tells me, her mother suggested that it was unlikely she would ever be<br />
a ballerina, telling her, “Why don’t you focus on the singing.”<br />
Both of her parents worked. Her father owned <strong>and</strong> ran a contracting<br />
business. Her mother was a librarian, who later in life—after Sue<br />
was an adult—went back to school <strong>and</strong> got multiple graduate degrees,<br />
ultimately becoming the principal of School 46 in the city, be<strong>for</strong>e retiring<br />
this year at the age of 65. “A strong <strong>and</strong> impressive woman,” I<br />
say. “Oh yes. Very strong <strong>and</strong> impressive,” says Sue Cotroneo. “And<br />
tough,” I say. “And tough,” she answers. Were your parents just as tough<br />
on your brothers?” I ask. “No!” She laments.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y weren’t.”<br />
Also when she was eleven years old, Sue<br />
was put on an airplane to LaGuardia in New<br />
York City to visit her aunt, an accomplished<br />
Broadway per<strong>for</strong>mer <strong>and</strong> singer, whose career included touring the<br />
country with Robert Preston in <strong>The</strong> Music Man. “She would take me to<br />
the World Trade Center every day <strong>and</strong> we would buy tickets to whatever<br />
show was available.” In the space of two weeks, her aunt took<br />
her to 10 Broadway shows. Sue emerged from the two-week experience<br />
knowing what she wanted to do with the rest of her life: “I said,<br />
‘I want to do that,’” Sue Cotroneo points with her finger at the Broadway<br />
stage of her memory. “I wanted to be on Broadway.”<br />
Sue majored in both music <strong>and</strong> music education, getting her K-12<br />
Sue <strong>and</strong> Tony Cotroneo in 2004 at the famed Trevi Fountain in Rome,<br />
shortly after she had completed a production of Donizetti’s L’elisir<br />
d’amore in the near-by region of Abruzzo (top); Sue Cotroneo in italy<br />
with world-renowned tenor Gianni Raimondi (now deceased), with<br />
whom she studied early in her career.<br />
teaching certification. In fact, she tells me, it is the underpinning of<br />
the continued interest <strong>and</strong> passion that she has <strong>for</strong> teaching as well<br />
as music. After an early job working in a West Virginia School District,<br />
while attending graduate school at West Virginia University, her<br />
aunt connected her to a unique <strong>and</strong> life-altering singing experience<br />
in Italy—on the Italian Riviera—per<strong>for</strong>ming with two of Italy’s opera<br />
greats: Gianni Raimondi <strong>and</strong> Giuseppe Taddei. <strong>The</strong>y were shameless<br />
old flirts, but they were also marvelous sing-<br />
ers who combined with the backdrop <strong>and</strong><br />
Empire State Lyric <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
history of Italy to reignite her passion <strong>for</strong> per-<br />
• www.empirestatelyrictheatre.org<br />
<strong>for</strong>mance <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong> opera.<br />
When she returned to the US <strong>and</strong> finished<br />
graduate school it was her mother who introduced Susan Delly to Anthony<br />
Cotroneo, her future husb<strong>and</strong>, by setting her up on a blind date<br />
with him. Her mother had never met Tony but knew of him through a<br />
friend. Sue was 27 years old. A <strong>for</strong>mer high school <strong>and</strong> college wrestler,<br />
Tony had already graduated from Syracuse Law School <strong>and</strong> had<br />
started working at <strong>Rochester</strong> law firm Woods Oviatt Gilman, where<br />
he would ultimately become a Partner. He is equally smart <strong>and</strong> affable.<br />
And the two share a self-reliance <strong>and</strong> a drive that makes them a<br />
powerful <strong>and</strong> effective team. a<br />
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<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong><br />
•<br />
A Trailblazer in<br />
Full Throttle<br />
By Sarah E. Lentini<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong> (right) with his brother Wayne—circa 1942 in Coffeyville, Kansas—showing early signs<br />
of the creativity <strong>and</strong> ingenuity that would become the hallmarks of his groundbreaking work in design.
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have a long, interesting talk<br />
with <strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong> by phone. He’s<br />
uncharacteristically quick <strong>and</strong> garrulous—perhaps<br />
because he knows<br />
his topic so well or perhaps because<br />
we’ve known each other a<br />
while. <strong>Castle</strong> is known internationally<br />
<strong>for</strong> his groundbreaking fusion of<br />
art <strong>and</strong> design. Quite simply he has<br />
done what no one else did be<strong>for</strong>e. He<br />
has created furniture that is art, <strong>and</strong><br />
art that is furniture, over many decades,<br />
melding his <strong>for</strong>midable knowledge of materials,<br />
sculpture, painting, drawing, engineering, construction,<br />
<strong>and</strong> design to create an entirely new mode of expression—his<br />
is not simply furniture that is strongly<br />
artistic or aesthetic.<br />
Not surprisingly, <strong>Castle</strong> is known as the father of the<br />
modern art furniture movement. And, he tells me, no<br />
other American is regularly found on the international<br />
top 10 list of designers. Europe, he tells me more than<br />
once, is far ahead of us in this arena.<br />
And, even now, with certainly nothing in particular<br />
left to prove, <strong>Castle</strong> is hardly resting on his laurels. In<br />
addition to his longst<strong>and</strong>ing faculty affiliation with<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong> Institute of Technology (RIT), where he is<br />
Artist in Residence <strong>and</strong> frequently lectures (currently<br />
on topics such as “design as art” <strong>and</strong> “thinking about<br />
thinking”), <strong>Castle</strong> is working out new solutions to<br />
timeless problems, using cutting-edge digital robotics<br />
along with well-established unique design processes<br />
that are quite literally his trademarks.<br />
“Decision making is such an important part of art,”<br />
<strong>Castle</strong> says, exp<strong>and</strong>ing on the importance of thinking<br />
as part of the creative process. “We need to examine<br />
how we make decisions—it’s a natural human inclination<br />
to make biased choices. <strong>The</strong> biggest decision of all<br />
is whether to do a piece in the first place.”<br />
<strong>Castle</strong> has been going through a bit of a professional<br />
rebirth. He’s been recently profiled in both the New<br />
York Times <strong>and</strong> the Wall Street Journal; he was the undisputed<br />
star <strong>and</strong> center of attention at Design Miami<br />
this past year, edging out younger <strong>and</strong> newer designers;<br />
<strong>and</strong> over the next 12–18 months he is mounting<br />
a new solo retrospective at <strong>The</strong> Aldrich in Ridgefield<br />
(Connecticut), two new solo exhibitions at the Barry<br />
Friedman <strong>and</strong> Friedman Benda galleries in New York, a<br />
group <strong>and</strong> solo exhibition in Paris, <strong>and</strong> solo exhibitions<br />
in Louisville <strong>and</strong> Seoul (Korea). Beyond this, he is also<br />
the subject of two <strong>for</strong>thcoming books, including a catalogue<br />
raisonné, in which his work will be comprehensively<br />
documented, something rare <strong>for</strong> a living artist.<br />
In addition, <strong>Castle</strong> has been commissioned to create<br />
an anchor piece, <strong>The</strong> Unicorn Family, <strong>for</strong> the Memorial<br />
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At the University of Kansas, in his early 20s, <strong>Castle</strong> was finally<br />
connected to <strong>for</strong>mal training in art, giving him the framework <strong>and</strong><br />
tools <strong>for</strong> his future career. in short order, he was creating bold new<br />
designs that brought him early recognition.<br />
<strong>Castle</strong> explores various concepts through his work. <strong>The</strong> piece seen here,<br />
Distant Thunder (top), is an example of the cantilevered chair, from his<br />
designs of a few years ago. More recently, <strong>Castle</strong> has been intrigued by<br />
the idea of “unusual balance,” as seen in Black Star (bottom).<br />
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Art Gallery’s new Centennial Sculpture Park, Seen here at work<br />
scheduled to be installed in the spring of 2013. in his Scottsville,<br />
“This is the busiest year I’ve ever had,” NY, studio in 1969,<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong><br />
says <strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong>, with no trace of irony. “I<br />
has developed a<br />
guess I have a vocabulary that seems to have<br />
unique approach to<br />
an audience.”<br />
furniture making,<br />
<strong>Castle</strong>, who turns 80 on November 6, will using “sculptural<br />
receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from techniques.”<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
on November 7 at the 29th Annual <strong>Arts</strong> Awards.<br />
Now a long-time <strong>Rochester</strong>ian, who came to the area early on to<br />
teach at the renowned School <strong>for</strong> American Craftsmen at <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Institute of Technology, <strong>Castle</strong> grew up <strong>and</strong> went to school in Kansas.<br />
His mother was a grade school teacher; his father taught vocational<br />
agriculture at the local high school. <strong>Castle</strong> tells me that he was “made<br />
to spend time on a farm” <strong>and</strong> was “not fond of farming.”<br />
“As a child, I was only good at one thing: daydreaming,” <strong>Castle</strong> says.<br />
“I could draw very well. No one around me put any value on it.”<br />
When I ask what he daydreamed about, he says, “I daydreamed<br />
about a lot.”<br />
And then in a bit of a non-sequitor that perhaps tells it all, “<strong>The</strong> first<br />
thing I designed that went to Europe was the Molar Chair in the late ’60s.”<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong>, the oldest of three, was <strong>and</strong> remains the only one<br />
in his family involved in the arts. His parents neither appreciated nor<br />
supported his artistic interests.<br />
“I received no encouragement. I never had an art course in my life<br />
until college.”<br />
I ask how <strong>Castle</strong> connected to art as a child.<br />
“I drew all the time. In the ’30s, as a child, there was a soap carving<br />
contest that I won. It was Ivory Soap—a bar of soap. You were supposed<br />
to carve a monkey <strong>and</strong> send it in.”<br />
Another childhood project involved architecture <strong>and</strong> construction.<br />
<strong>Castle</strong> tells me that he focused on “planning a tree house better<br />
than other kids.”<br />
And yet another involved solving a design problem that presented<br />
itself to him in his second decade of life: in the ’40s. “<strong>The</strong> story of<br />
Leonard <strong>and</strong> the duck—I’ll never <strong>for</strong>get it,” says <strong>Castle</strong>. “My father<br />
subscribed to a small magazine called <strong>The</strong> Deltagram. It was a ‘how<br />
to make things’ magazine, which I enjoyed reading immensely. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
was an article about how to make a duck decoy that interested me<br />
more than any of the others. <strong>The</strong> article showed you how to laminate<br />
the duck from ¾" pine by giving you the pattern <strong>for</strong> the cross-sections<br />
Images couRtesy oF <strong>Wendell</strong> castle
Image couRtesy oF <strong>Wendell</strong> castle<br />
every ¾ of an inch. For some reason, I never did end<br />
up making the duck.” A decade later, when <strong>Castle</strong> was<br />
in college, he tells me, he came across an article that<br />
described how renowned American sculptor Leonard<br />
Baskin created his work. “<strong>The</strong> article explained<br />
his process step-by-step. He started working with a<br />
huge block of laminated wood about 3' x 3' x 7' tall, from<br />
which he would carve a figure. I thought to myself, ‘If<br />
only Leonard had read the article [on the duck], he<br />
could have saved himself a ton of work, <strong>and</strong> used less<br />
wood!’” Realizing that Baskin wasn’t approaching his<br />
work this way, <strong>Castle</strong> decided that he would—applying<br />
the method that he remembered from his youth,<br />
of approximating a <strong>for</strong>m. “I began to think in cross<br />
sections, such that I could laminate work close to the<br />
final shape. Ultimately, not knowing how to make furniture<br />
turned out to be a good thing. I had a br<strong>and</strong><br />
new approach to making furniture, utilizing sculptural<br />
techniques.”<br />
After high school, <strong>Castle</strong> wasn’t sure what he wanted<br />
to do. “During the Korean War, everyone went to<br />
college,” he tells me. <strong>Castle</strong> enrolled at a small Methodist<br />
college in Kansas where he began studying “liberal<br />
arts stuff.” During the first semester of his second<br />
year, he was given the choice of an elective. “I thought<br />
art might be interesting.”<br />
“I did super well. <strong>The</strong> instructor took me aside <strong>and</strong><br />
said, ‘You’ve got to leave this school.’ <strong>The</strong> University of<br />
Kansas had a very good art program.”<br />
“My parents were beside themselves. <strong>The</strong>y had no<br />
idea what I might do with an art degree. <strong>The</strong>y refused to pay my tuition<br />
anymore.”<br />
“My first degree, be<strong>for</strong>e my parents cut me off, “ continues <strong>Castle</strong>,<br />
“was in Industrial Design—I could tell my parents, ‘It’s about industry.’”<br />
<strong>Castle</strong>’s education was interrupted when he was drafted, during<br />
the Korean War. “I was the battalion artist, drawing illustrations <strong>for</strong><br />
the newspaper—signs, maps.” He was stationed <strong>for</strong> two years in Germany,<br />
mostly in the smaller cities. It was 1953. “Germany was still in<br />
ruins,” he tells me.<br />
He then went on <strong>and</strong> earned an MFA in Sculpture. Upon graduating,<br />
he went to New York City, where he got a studio <strong>and</strong> tried to find<br />
a gallery to represent him. “New York was the center of the arts—of<br />
everything—<strong>and</strong> it still is.”<br />
Roughly a year later, <strong>Castle</strong> was invited to teach furniture<br />
design at RIT by Harold Brennan, the Dean of the<br />
School <strong>for</strong> American Craftsmen in the ’60s “He was a great<br />
person—a visionary person,” says <strong>Castle</strong>. <strong>The</strong> school had<br />
previously been focused on Danish furniture. Brennan had seen <strong>Castle</strong>’s<br />
work on exhibit in New York City. “<strong>The</strong> students all knew more<br />
about woodworking than I did,” says <strong>Castle</strong>.<br />
<strong>Castle</strong> had only anticipated staying in <strong>Rochester</strong> a short while. Now,<br />
years later, he has built an international reputation <strong>and</strong> created a life<br />
here, one that importantly includes his wife of many years, Nancy Jurs,<br />
herself an immensely accomplished artist. <strong>The</strong> two live in a rural spot<br />
outside the city, on a large parcel of l<strong>and</strong> that’s within walking distance<br />
of their studios. <strong>The</strong>irs is a partnership—a set of connections—<br />
that exists on many levels.<br />
<strong>Castle</strong> <strong>and</strong> Jurs have a son <strong>and</strong> a daughter. <strong>The</strong>ir son, Brian Jurs<br />
(<strong>Castle</strong>’s step-son), works with him in his shop, doing “finishing work.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir daughter, Alison <strong>Castle</strong>, lives in Paris,<br />
where she works as an editor <strong>for</strong> Taschen<br />
Press <strong>and</strong> is the leading authority on Stanley<br />
Kubrick, about whom she’s published three<br />
books. “We always went to the movies,” <strong>Castle</strong><br />
says.<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong> was born in 1932. “I have<br />
terrible visual memories. In the ’30s, there<br />
were terrible dust storms—in the stores, nothing on the shelves.”<br />
“What actually caused the Dust Bowl?” I ask, with pictures from<br />
the John Steinbeck classic in my head.<br />
“I always heard my family say that, in the summer of ’33, there were<br />
100 days of 100 degree heat,” <strong>Castle</strong> responds.<br />
“Out West, tractors had just come into play<br />
<strong>and</strong> had plowed up much more ground than<br />
had ever been plowed be<strong>for</strong>e.”<br />
I’ve never heard this be<strong>for</strong>e <strong>and</strong> am momentarily<br />
distracted by it: Tractors—the technological advance of the<br />
’30s—bringing with them an unanticipated misery.<br />
More importantly, it seems too perfect a poetic irony that, somehow,<br />
the Great Depression <strong>and</strong> the Dust Bowl shaped <strong>and</strong> nurtured<br />
one of the most creative minds of this era.<br />
It begs the question: Does deprivation lead to creation? Or is the<br />
creative human spirit undaunted in the face of deprivation?<br />
I ask <strong>Castle</strong> what idea currently interests him.<br />
“Unusual balance,” he replies.<br />
“I have an unusual balance situation with a piece that’s very<br />
heavy—500 pounds—<strong>and</strong> I only have legs under one seat,” he continues.<br />
“I’m developing a structural vocabulary <strong>for</strong> merging ellipsoids.” a<br />
<strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong> Studio<br />
• www.wendellcastle.com<br />
<strong>Castle</strong>, who owns a<br />
small collection of<br />
sports cars, poses<br />
next to a classic MG<br />
TC, along with his<br />
wife, Nancy Jurs—<br />
also a major <strong>for</strong>ce in<br />
the art world.<br />
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Melanie. I guess I should have understood<br />
who it was. But I hadn’t. It wasn’t until minutes be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
her arrival in my office, with John Haldoupis<br />
<strong>and</strong> her son Beau, that I realized who she was from<br />
the background materials that I finally opened<br />
<strong>and</strong> read.<br />
I remember being all of eleven years old, hanging<br />
out at the Limelight off Christopher Street <strong>and</strong><br />
Sheridan Square in the Village with my parents,<br />
drinking real American Coke with ice in a glass,<br />
ordering burgers <strong>and</strong> fries, playing What have they<br />
done to my song, Ma? on the jukebox, sung by Claudine<br />
Longet—years be<strong>for</strong>e she would be arrested <strong>for</strong><br />
killing her boyfriend, Spyder. It was a lovely, happy<br />
time <strong>for</strong> me, <strong>and</strong> nothing brings it back more<br />
18 Fall 2012 |<br />
By Sarah E. Lentini<br />
quickly than this particular piece of music—music<br />
I’ve since learned that was one of many songs written<br />
by Melanie.<br />
Her most famous song, of course, came right after<br />
<strong>and</strong> was emblazoned on the national psyche—it<br />
was played so very much on the radio. Br<strong>and</strong> New<br />
Key was everywhere. Much as Adele has taken over<br />
the airwaves in the last 12 months, Melanie ruled in<br />
1972. In fact, Billboard named her the #1 Top Female<br />
Vocalist of the year. Br<strong>and</strong> New Key, a sweet tune<br />
filled with what some saw as sexual innuendo, was<br />
a bit shocking—at least <strong>for</strong> the radio stations of the<br />
time, many of which banned the song. It charmed<br />
audiences with a youthful romantic directness <strong>and</strong><br />
simplicity that ultimately verged on feminism.<br />
Melanie Safka, one of the original<br />
32 Woodstock per<strong>for</strong>mers, seen<br />
here in a 1973 per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
at Carnegie Hall in a moment<br />
of connection with her<br />
audience, captured by leading<br />
international photographer<br />
<strong>and</strong> photo editor Maddy Miller<br />
(maddymillerphoto.com).
Photos oF melanIe couRtesy © maddy mIlleR<br />
You remember it, don’t you? Or, if you’re too<br />
young, perhaps you’ve heard it recently as it’s been<br />
picked up as the music <strong>for</strong> an HP commercial in the<br />
last few years. “I’ve got a br<strong>and</strong> new pair of roller<br />
skates; you’ve got a br<strong>and</strong> new key.” <strong>The</strong> opening line<br />
was delivered by a very pretty 22-year-old Melanie<br />
in a melodic youthful lilting voice.<br />
<strong>The</strong> success of Br<strong>and</strong> New Key in 1972 followed<br />
the explosion of Melanie on the scene in a national<br />
phenomenon that will live eternally in the history<br />
of American music: Woodstock.<br />
“I walked onto the stage an unknown,” Melanie<br />
says. “I walked off a star.”<br />
Woodstock had the power to do this. <strong>The</strong>re were<br />
half a million people in the audience. Melanie was<br />
one of 32 acts that per<strong>for</strong>med over the course of<br />
four days—August 15 through August 18 (strangely,<br />
the day that I find myself writing this)—<strong>and</strong> included<br />
the Grateful Dead, <strong>The</strong> B<strong>and</strong>, Janis Joplin,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Who, Santana, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Country<br />
Joe (later of Country Joe <strong>and</strong> the Fish), Clearance<br />
Clearwater Revival, Blood Sweat & Tears, Sly<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, <strong>and</strong> Jimmie<br />
Hendrix.<br />
Be<strong>for</strong>e Woodstock, Melanie tells me, there were<br />
no large outdoor music festivals in this country.<br />
And be<strong>for</strong>e Melanie, there was no tradition of<br />
lighting a c<strong>and</strong>le (a match, a lighter) by crowds at<br />
a festival. It first happened during Melanie’s set on<br />
the first day of the festival, at Woodstock, in 1969—<br />
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where she walked onto a very big stage <strong>for</strong> the first time. She later<br />
wrote a song about it: “C<strong>and</strong>les in the Rain.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> real miracle she tells me is that she walked out at all; she was<br />
painfully shy <strong>and</strong> agoraphobic. Moreover, she got the gig in the first<br />
place because another b<strong>and</strong> refused to play in the rain. She per<strong>for</strong>med<br />
seven songs <strong>and</strong> was s<strong>and</strong>wiched between Ravi Shankar <strong>and</strong> Arlo<br />
Guthrie. She was one of only three women per<strong>for</strong>mers. (Joan Baez<br />
<strong>and</strong> Janis Joplin were the other two.)<br />
Melanie Safka is originally from Astoria,<br />
Queens, the oldest of two girls. Her mother<br />
was a jazz singer who had per<strong>for</strong>med at<br />
clubs throughout New York; her father was a<br />
businessman, who wanted traditional things<br />
<strong>for</strong> his daughter, including having her come<br />
out as a debutante in high society—something in which she was not<br />
at all interested.<br />
At the age of 16, Melanie ran away from home. She took what little<br />
she had <strong>and</strong> bought a plane ticket to LA. She had no more of a plan<br />
than that. She had no money <strong>and</strong> no one to receive her on the West<br />
Coast. She knew her father would be looking <strong>for</strong> her, so she booked<br />
the ticket using a pseudonym. She happened to sit next to actor Robert<br />
Ridgely, then starring in a ’60s television show called <strong>The</strong> Gallant<br />
Men. He had a guitar with him. One thing led to another <strong>and</strong> by mid<br />
flight the two were singing <strong>and</strong> playing his guitar together. She had no<br />
idea who he was. Be<strong>for</strong>e they l<strong>and</strong>ed, he asked her <strong>for</strong> her real name<br />
<strong>and</strong> age. While she didn’t tell him the truth, he guessed most of it<br />
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Melanie emerged as a major presence on the<br />
music scene in the late ’60s <strong>and</strong> early ’70s,<br />
earning Billboard’s #1 Top Female Vocalist of the<br />
year in 1972 (left); Melanie with her late husb<strong>and</strong><br />
Peter Schekeryk, who devoted himself to managing<br />
her career over several decades (above).<br />
<strong>and</strong>, luckily <strong>for</strong> her, insisted on finding her safe accommodations in<br />
a facility <strong>for</strong> young women be<strong>for</strong>e night fell. She never saw him again.<br />
Strangely, they almost reconnected when her song, Br<strong>and</strong> New Key,<br />
was selected <strong>and</strong> played in its entirety <strong>for</strong> the movie, Boogie Nights, in<br />
which Ridgely had a part. He passed away be<strong>for</strong>e the move came out<br />
<strong>and</strong> Melanie doesn’t know if he ever connected her with the young<br />
runaway he had helped many years earlier.<br />
Melanie knows that she’s been both brave <strong>and</strong> lucky, so that she’s<br />
been taken care of in some important ways <strong>and</strong> in some key moments<br />
of her life.<br />
And, of course, Melanie explains, the man who became almost instantaneously<br />
both her manager <strong>and</strong> her husb<strong>and</strong>, Peter Schekeryk,<br />
was the great business mind behind her career, making every decision<br />
<strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>ling every detail, so that she was left with the freedom<br />
to create.<br />
He was an immigrant from Russia, the country Melanie’s family<br />
came from, with a <strong>for</strong>ceful personality <strong>and</strong> a fierce commitment to<br />
her from the start, so that he quickly got rid of all of his other clients<br />
in order to focus on her.<br />
Over her career, Melanie has recorded 34 albums—two of which<br />
have gone gold—<strong>and</strong> released 19 singles, including the gold single<br />
Br<strong>and</strong> New Key, which sold over 3 million copies internationally. Her<br />
songs have been recorded by a host of other artists as well, including<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Seekers, Nina Simone, Macy Gray, Dolly Parton, Olivia Newton<br />
John, Cher, <strong>and</strong> Ray Charles, <strong>and</strong> she won an Emmy <strong>for</strong> her musical<br />
composition <strong>for</strong> the television series Beauty <strong>and</strong> the Beast. She was the<br />
first woman <strong>and</strong> only the second recording artist (after the Beatles) to<br />
Over her career, Melanie has recorded 34<br />
albums—two of which have gone gold—<strong>and</strong><br />
released 19 singles, including the gold single<br />
“Br<strong>and</strong> New Key,” which sold over 3 million<br />
copies internationally.<br />
Images couRtesy oF blackFRIaRs theatRe
Photos oF melanIe couRtesy © maddy mIlleR<br />
Melanie’s son, Beau Jarred Schekeryk, a<br />
uniquely gifted per<strong>for</strong>mer <strong>and</strong> composer, will<br />
be joining her on stage during the Blackfriars<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre production of Melanie <strong>and</strong> the Record<br />
Man (above); Melanie Safka continues to record<br />
<strong>and</strong> per<strong>for</strong>m both in the US <strong>and</strong> abroad (right).<br />
start her own record label in 1971, <strong>and</strong> she was the first solo pop/rock<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mer to play Carnegie Hall, unaccompanied by an orchestra.<br />
With a long-time European <strong>and</strong> international fan base, in 2007,<br />
Melanie per<strong>for</strong>med a sold-out concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall<br />
to critical acclaim in the British press, which placed her in the pantheon<br />
of iconic female singers, along with Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull,<br />
Janis Joplin, <strong>and</strong> Joni Mitchell.<br />
And, she’s just released a new CD entitled, Ever Since You Never<br />
Heard of Me.<br />
Peter had, in recent years, been exhorting her to write her story.<br />
He was devoted to her—so much so that her name was the last he<br />
spoke when he passed away suddenly <strong>and</strong> unexpectedly of a heart attack,<br />
while out running a shopping err<strong>and</strong>.<br />
His death was shocking <strong>and</strong> tragic. He had been a relatively young<br />
man. And it left Melanie <strong>and</strong> her three adult children, all musicians,<br />
now living in Nashville, with many things to learn <strong>and</strong> manage <strong>for</strong><br />
the first time.<br />
So how does Melanie Safka come to be sitting in<br />
my office in <strong>Rochester</strong>, New York, on August 7, 2012?<br />
She’s come as the guest <strong>and</strong> collaborator of<br />
Blackfriars <strong>The</strong>atre Artistic <strong>and</strong> Managing Director<br />
John Haldoupis, a long-time Melanie fan, who rather<br />
brilliantly reached out to her, at the right moment to<br />
invite her to participate in making his dream of bringing her story to<br />
the stage, here in <strong>Rochester</strong>, a reality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> timing was perfect. Melanie had been writing an autobiog-<br />
raphy, just as Peter had wanted her to do. And, with his passing, the<br />
story became, Haldoupis realized, the story of Melanie <strong>and</strong> Peter, a<br />
couple whose lives were fully intertwined. Haldoupis <strong>and</strong> Melanie developed<br />
a production, based on her writing, which she will personally<br />
narrate <strong>and</strong> which will be premiered at Blackfriars in <strong>Rochester</strong> from<br />
October 19 through October 28.<br />
“Peter was exciting, dramatic, fearless,” says Melanie. And their<br />
son, Beau Jarred Schekeryk, nods his head in bashful <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong>cefully<br />
vehement agreement.<br />
Beau is serving as musical arranger <strong>and</strong> director <strong>and</strong> will also be<br />
per<strong>for</strong>ming (singing backup) as part of the Blackfriars Production this<br />
fall. He has brought his guitar <strong>and</strong> a mini-amp, at his mother’s urging,<br />
into my office <strong>and</strong>, be<strong>for</strong>e leaving, plays one of his original guitar<br />
compositions <strong>for</strong> us, using an original style of picking he developed.<br />
Except <strong>for</strong> a stint allowing him to play high school sports, Beau<br />
was home schooled by Melanie <strong>and</strong> Peter. He had taken a few guitar<br />
lessons but didn’t originally seem all that interested. <strong>The</strong>n one night,<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e a per<strong>for</strong>mance, Melanie’s guitarist ab<strong>and</strong>oned her. “Beau said<br />
to me, ‘I could do it.’ I never even knew he could play,” says Melanie.<br />
“He’s all self-taught.”<br />
“Segovia is my idol,” Beau tells me.<br />
“Really? I saw him per<strong>for</strong>m live be<strong>for</strong>e he passed away,” I respond,<br />
thinking to myself that he’s actually the only solo guitarist I’ve ever<br />
seen per<strong>for</strong>m. And then Beau plays, <strong>and</strong> he’s really good—he’s great.<br />
And, as I look across the table at Melanie <strong>and</strong> Beau, I realize once<br />
again how impossible it is to be anything other than what you’re intended<br />
to be. a<br />
She was the first woman <strong>and</strong> only the second<br />
recording artist (after the Beatles) to start her<br />
own record label in 1971, <strong>and</strong> she was the first<br />
solo pop/rock per<strong>for</strong>mer to play Carnegie Hall,<br />
unaccompanied by an orchestra.<br />
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<strong>Rochester</strong> Institute of Technology<br />
Frans Wildenhain, 1950–75:<br />
Creative <strong>and</strong> Commercial American<br />
Ceramics at Mid-Century<br />
Drawn from RIT’s premier world collection, an exhibition of<br />
150 works created by Bauhaus ceramist, Frans Wildenhain.<br />
Runs through: Tuesday, October 2<br />
Location: RIT’s Bevier Gallery <strong>and</strong> Dyer <strong>Arts</strong> Center, One<br />
Lomb Memorial Dr., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: www.rit.edu/wild<br />
mOnDay, OCtOber 1<br />
International Art Acquisitions<br />
Master Graphics: Rembr<strong>and</strong>t to Dali<br />
Graphic work by Rembr<strong>and</strong>t, Renior, Chagall, Miro,<br />
Moore <strong>and</strong> Dali.<br />
Time: All Day<br />
Also: Thursday, November 1, All Day;<br />
Saturday, December 1, All Day<br />
Runs through: Monday, December 31<br />
Location: International Art Acquisitions,<br />
3300 Monroe Ave., Pitts<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 264-1440; iaainc@ix.netcom.com;<br />
www.internationalartacquisitions.com<br />
sunDay, OCtOber 7<br />
First Muse Chamber Music<br />
Amenda Quartet<br />
String Quartets of Beethoven (Op. 130) <strong>and</strong> Smetana<br />
(From My Life) per<strong>for</strong>med by the Amenda Quartet. David<br />
Brickman <strong>and</strong> Patricia Sunwoo, violins; Melissa Matson,<br />
viola; Mimi Hwang, cello.<br />
Time: 7:30 PM<br />
Location: First Unitarian Church,<br />
220 Winton Rd. South, <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $10 (adults); $5 (students)<br />
More info: (585) 259-2710; www.FirstMuse.org;<br />
info@FirstMuse.org<br />
Pegasus Early Music<br />
Apollo & Dafne<br />
Music by H<strong>and</strong>el including his dramatic cantata which<br />
tells the story of the Sun God Apollo <strong>and</strong> his love <strong>for</strong> the<br />
nymph Dafne, <strong>and</strong> a colorful orchestral suite by Telemann.<br />
Time: 4 PM (3:15 pre-concert talk)<br />
Location: Downtown United Presbyterian Church,<br />
121 N. Fitzhugh St., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $25 (adults); $20 (seniors); $10 (students);<br />
children free<br />
More info: (585) 703-3990; www.pegasusearlymusic.org;<br />
info@pegasusearlymusic.org<br />
FriDay, OCtOber 12<br />
Monroe Community College<br />
Jose Olivieri Rivera Radical Departure<br />
Opening Reception: Fri., Oct. 12, 7-9 pm; Gallery Talk: Oct.<br />
12, 12 noon; Exhbition: Oct. 12– Nov. 9.<br />
Time: 7-9 PM<br />
Also: Friday, October 12, 12 PM<br />
Runs through: Friday, November 9<br />
Location: Mercer Gallery, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 292-3121; www.monroecc.edu/go/mercer;<br />
kfarrell@monroecc.edu<br />
SUNY Geneseo<br />
An Evening of Choral Excellence<br />
Join us as two of our premier choirs, the Chamber Singers<br />
<strong>and</strong> Spectrum, present an exciting mix of traditional<br />
<strong>and</strong> contemporary choral works under the direction of<br />
Dr. Gerard Floriano.<br />
Time: 8 PM<br />
Location: Central Presbyterian Church,<br />
31 Center St., Geneseo<br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 245-5824; www.geneseo.edu/music;<br />
farrell@geneseo.edu<br />
FriDay, OCtOber 19<br />
Blackfriars <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Melanie <strong>and</strong> the Record Man<br />
Come on a journey with Melanie Safka—the first lady of<br />
Woodstock - as she shares both the challenges <strong>and</strong> soaring<br />
heights of a passionate life in pursuit of eloquence,<br />
music <strong>and</strong> love.<br />
Time: 8 PM<br />
Runs through: Sunday, October 28<br />
Location: Blackfriars <strong>The</strong>atre, 795 E. Main St., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $45 (adults)<br />
More info: (585) 454-1260; www.blackfriars.org<br />
mOnDay, OCtOber 22<br />
Penfield Symphony Orchestra<br />
<strong>The</strong> Four B’s<br />
Berlioz Hungarian March from the Damnation of Faust;<br />
Brahms Hungarian Dances No. 5 & 6; Britten Young<br />
Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; Beethoven Symphony<br />
No 3 Opus 55 (Eroica).<br />
Time: 7:30 PM<br />
Location: Penfield High School, 25 High School Dr., Penfield<br />
Cost: $14 (adults); $12 (seniors); free (students/children)<br />
More info: (585) 872-0774; www.penfieldsymphony.org;<br />
office@penfieldsymphony.org<br />
tuesDay, OCtOber 23<br />
<strong>The</strong> Little <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Annual Celebration of the Little!<br />
Join us in celebrating the Little with a Roaring Twentiesthemed<br />
celebration! Tickets go on sale Sept. 5th.<br />
Time: 6 PM<br />
Location: <strong>The</strong> Little <strong>The</strong>atre, 240 East Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $100 (adults)<br />
More info: (585) 258-0252; www.thelittle.org;<br />
membership@thelittle.org<br />
thursDay, OCtOber 25<br />
Hochstein School of Music & Dance<br />
Spotlight on Faculty Concert Series<br />
Fantastic Brass with Plymouth Brass Quintet; Barbara<br />
Hull & Roy Smith, trumpets; Colleen Wolf, horn; Steven
Zugelder, trombone; Jeremy Stoner, tuba; Music of<br />
Sampson, Sacco, Maslanka, <strong>and</strong> Arnold.<br />
Time: 7 PM<br />
Location: Hochstein Per<strong>for</strong>mance Hall,<br />
50 N. Plymouth Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $5 to $10<br />
More info: (585) 454-4596; www.hochstein.org;<br />
FrontOffice@hochstein.org<br />
FriDay, OCtOber 26<br />
Perinton Concert B<strong>and</strong><br />
Fright Night<br />
Spooky music at its dreadful best!<br />
Time: 8 PM<br />
Location: Minerva DeL<strong>and</strong> School auditorium,<br />
140 Hulburt Rd., Fairport<br />
Cost: $7 (adults); $5 (seniors); $3 (children)<br />
More info: (585) 223-2207;<br />
www.perintonconcertb<strong>and</strong>.org; keithboas@gmail.com<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong> Community Players<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tempest, by William Shakespeare<br />
Shakespeare’s last play, re-imagined in ’Steampunk’<br />
style. Oct 26 to Nov. 10 at MuCCC.<br />
Time: 8 PM<br />
Runs through: Saturday, November 10<br />
Location: MuCCC <strong>The</strong>ater, 142 Atlantic Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $15 (adults); $10 (seniors); $5 (students/children)<br />
More info: (585) 234-7840; rochestercommunityplayers.<br />
org; rochestercommunityplayers@gmail.com<br />
Writers & Books<br />
4th Annual Masquerade Party:<br />
Something Wicked This Way Comes<br />
Come enjoy food, drinks, entertainment <strong>and</strong> prizes. Costumes<br />
encouraged. Raffle bags, music, <strong>and</strong> Halloween<br />
mayhem based on Ray Bradbury’s book, Something<br />
Wicked This Way Comes.<br />
Time: 8 PM<br />
Location: Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $12 to $15<br />
More info: (585) 473-2590; www.wab.org; chrisf@wab.org<br />
sunDay, OCtOber 28<br />
National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House<br />
Friends of Susan B. Anthony<br />
House Annual Fall Tea<br />
Come celebrate women’s right to vote & Election Day<br />
with a delicious fall tea. Tickets: $45 ea., $360 table (8),<br />
patron $65, sponsor $100. Featuring U of R YellowJackets,<br />
NBC <strong>The</strong> Sing-Off favorites!<br />
Time: 3-5 PM<br />
Location: Locust Hill Country Club,<br />
2000 Jefferson Rd., Pitts<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Cost: $45 to $100<br />
More info: (585) 381-2121; www.susanbanthonyhouse.org;<br />
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thursDay, nOvember 1<br />
JGK Galleries<br />
Murray Krueger<br />
West Coast artist. Digital art.<br />
Time: 7-9 PM<br />
Also: Friday, November 2, 6-9 PM<br />
Runs through: Saturday, December 15<br />
Location: JGK Galleries, 10 Vick Park A, <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 734-6581; www.jgkgalleries.com;<br />
Maria.jgkgalleries@gmail.com<br />
Visual Studies Workshop<br />
Hank Willis Thomas<br />
A solo exhibition of artist Hank Willis Thomas dealing<br />
with issues of race in contemporary culture co-curated by<br />
Carla Williams <strong>and</strong> Oscar Palacio.<br />
Location: VSW’s Bookstore <strong>and</strong> Gallery,<br />
31 Prince St., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 442-8676; www.vsw.org; info@vsw.org<br />
saturDay, nOvember 3<br />
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
12th Annual Fine Craft Show<br />
Ceramics, glass, jewelry, metal, leather, wood, wearable<br />
art. <strong>The</strong> Fine Craft Show showcases one-of-a-kind,<br />
limited-edition works by 39 craftpersons from 11 states.<br />
Sponsored by the Gallery <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
Time: 10 AM-5 PM<br />
Also: Sunday, November 4, 11 AM-4 PM<br />
Runs through: Sunday, November 4<br />
Location: Memorial Art Gallery,<br />
500 University Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
More info: (585) 276-8900; mag.rochester.edu/events/<br />
fine-craft-show/; maginfo@mag.rochester.edu<br />
University of <strong>Rochester</strong> Department of Music<br />
River Campus Jazz Ensemble Concert<br />
Featuring the best of both traditional <strong>and</strong> contemporary<br />
big b<strong>and</strong> jazz! Bill Tiberio, director.<br />
Time: 8-10 PM<br />
Location: Strong Auditorium, UR River Campus, <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 275-2828;<br />
www.rochester.edu/College/MUR<br />
mOnDay, nOvember 5<br />
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Time: 7:30 PM<br />
Location: Hilda D. Taylor Recital Hall, Hochstein School of<br />
Music & Dance, 50 N. Plymouth Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $25 (adults); $15 (students)<br />
More info: (585) 957-0284; ensembletwenty21.com;<br />
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WeDnesDay, nOvember 7<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> & <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
29th Annual <strong>Arts</strong> Awards<br />
Celebrate the outst<strong>and</strong>ing accomplishments of the 2012<br />
award recipients: Chet Catallo, Artist Award; University<br />
of <strong>Rochester</strong>, Organization Award; Nixon Peabody<br />
LLP, Champion of the <strong>Arts</strong>; <strong>Wendell</strong> <strong>Castle</strong>, Lifetime<br />
Achievement.<br />
Time: 11:15 AM Reception; Noon-1:30 PM Luncheon <strong>and</strong><br />
Award Ceremony<br />
Location: Hyatt Regency <strong>Rochester</strong>—Gr<strong>and</strong> Ballroom,<br />
125 E. Main St., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $60; $50 Members; Reservations Required<br />
More info: (585) 473-4000, ext. 205; <strong>Arts</strong><strong>Rochester</strong>.org<br />
FriDay, nOvember 9<br />
Nazareth College, Department of Music<br />
Nazareth College Symphony Orchestra<br />
A program inspired by Shakespeare <strong>and</strong> the blues, featuring<br />
a rare but witty solo turn <strong>for</strong> the tuba, Mourant’s<br />
Blue Haze <strong>for</strong> clarinet <strong>and</strong> strings as well as Mussorgsky’s<br />
Pictures at an Exhibition.<br />
Time: 7:30 PM<br />
Location: Linehan Chapel, Nazareth College,<br />
4245 East Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 389-2700; go.naz.edu/music-events;<br />
music@naz.edu<br />
Bob Conge / recent works<br />
September 22 thru October 20<br />
Opening reception Saturday September 22 / 1 to 5 PM<br />
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WeDnesDay, nOvember 14<br />
Skalny Center <strong>for</strong> Polish <strong>and</strong> Central European Studies<br />
Polish Film Festival<br />
<strong>The</strong> Festival will present new award-winning feature<br />
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Time: 7 PM<br />
Runs through: Monday, November 19<br />
Location: <strong>The</strong> Little <strong>The</strong>atre, 240 East Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $8 (adults); $5 (seniors); $5 (students)<br />
More info: (585) 275-9898;<br />
www.rochester.edu/college/psc/CPCES/;<br />
bozenna.sobolewska@rochester.edu<br />
FriDay, nOvember 16<br />
Cordancia<br />
Vintage to Modern<br />
Chamber music concert by Cordancia featuring Bruce<br />
Frank, organ soloist <strong>and</strong> conductor David Harman, part<br />
of the Concert Series sponsored by First Presbyterian<br />
Church of Pitts<strong>for</strong>d.<br />
Time: 7:30 PM<br />
Location: First Presbyterian Church of Pitts<strong>for</strong>d,<br />
25 Church St., Pitts<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Cost: Free<br />
More info: (585) 586-5688; www.cordancia.org;<br />
www.pitts<strong>for</strong>dpres.org; Cordancia@gmail.com<br />
saturDay, nOvember 17<br />
<strong>The</strong> College at Brockport<br />
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Faculty choreography will be per<strong>for</strong>med on Nov. 15 <strong>and</strong><br />
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Time: 7:30 PM<br />
Also: Thursday, November 15, 7:30 PM;<br />
Friday, November 16, 7:30 PM<br />
Location: Hochstein Per<strong>for</strong>mance Hall,<br />
50 N. Plymouth Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $15 (adults); $10 (seniors); $8 (students)<br />
More info: (585) 395-2787; www.brockport.edu/finearts;<br />
ssoloway@brockport.edu<br />
sunDay, nOvember 18<br />
Elizabeth Clark Dance Ensemble<br />
Multi-Generational Dance Afternoon<br />
Dances will be shared from many interesting perspectives<br />
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Time: 3-4 PM<br />
Location: St. Thomas Episcopal Church Great Hall,<br />
2000 Highl<strong>and</strong> Ave., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $5 to $10<br />
More info: (585) 442-5988; elizabethclarkdance.com;<br />
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FriDay, nOvember 23<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong> City Ballet<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nutcracker, with the <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
Begin the holidays with this special tradition. To<br />
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Time: 2 PM <strong>and</strong> 7 PM daily<br />
Runs through: Sunday, November 25<br />
Location: Kodak Hall at Eastman <strong>The</strong>atre,<br />
60 Gibbs St., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $10 to $75<br />
More info: RPO Box Office (585) 454-2100; www.rpo.org<br />
sunDay, DeCember 2<br />
<strong>Rochester</strong> Chamber Orchestra<br />
H<strong>and</strong>el’s Messiah, David Fetler, Conductor<br />
World-class soloists: Soprano, Tracy Chang; Alto, Jennifer<br />
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Time: 3 PM<br />
Location: Hochstein Per<strong>for</strong>mance Hall,<br />
50 N. Plymouth St., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: $25 (adults); $15 (seniors); $10 (students)<br />
More info: (585) 442-9778;<br />
www.rochesterchamberorchestra.org;<br />
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FriDay, DeCember 7<br />
Anderson Alley Artists<br />
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Time: 5-10 PM<br />
Also: 12/08/2012, 11 AM-5 PM<br />
Location: Anderson <strong>Arts</strong> Building,<br />
250 N. Goodman St., <strong>Rochester</strong><br />
Cost: Free<br />
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saturDay, DeCember 15<br />
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Time: 8 PM<br />
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Cost: $30 to $60<br />
More info: (585) 389-2170; artscenter.naz.edu
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in Webster that gives people more<br />
choices than ever be<strong>for</strong>e. From setting<br />
your own schedule, to enjoying small,<br />
friendly neighborhoods, to dining in<br />
cozy country kitchens—we make life<br />
what each resident wants it to be.<br />
We have also created the area’s first<br />
freest<strong>and</strong>ing transitional care center—<br />
the only rehab center in <strong>Rochester</strong> that<br />
is not located in a nursing home. So<br />
people can recover from major medical<br />
events surrounded by people just<br />
like themselves.<br />
It is a remarkable new way to care<br />
<strong>for</strong> people. Inspired by the people who<br />
deserve nothing less than the best.<br />
Learn more about the changes at<br />
St. Ann’s Community by visiting us<br />
at StAnnsCommunity.com.<br />
Caring <strong>for</strong> <strong>The</strong> Most<br />
Important People on Earth<br />
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