Adam LaPorta
In 2001 I was given a Pentax k1000 camera as a gift from my parents. It was a send off gift as I was headed to art school that year. Little did I know that I would always be drawn to the lens. Over the past eight months I have realized the gift I was […]
Meet Stacey Rowe
Painter Stacey Rowe, artist in residence during the month of April 2017, is working in one of our two studio spaces for the month. We asked her a few questions about her work, life, and more: Q: Tell us about your background. A: I moved from the Syracuse area to Rochester to attend college at Nazareth. I […]
Megan Armstrong
Megan’s artwork is on view in our juried exhibition “Small Works 2016”. Artist Statement: A line is a critical tool for communication – whether compositionally visual or textual, a line connected to another line creates a navigational thread to follow – this thread can be woven in and out as a form of coded language – the […]
Stacey Rowe
Stacey’s artwork is on view in our juried exhibition “Small Works 2016”. I started teaching myself how to paint while on a family vacation during the summer between eighth and ninth grade. I primarily painted landscapes on canvas in acrylic, but occasionally dabbled with oils and painting on other surfaces. While I always took art classes in […]
Elizabeth Durand
I have taught printmaking at RIT and at numerous workshops around the country. Presently I am teaching at St. John Fisher College and during the summer at the Artist’s Association on Nantucket. In my home studio my concentration is on traditional etchings and unique collagraph monoprints. The subject matter is the landscape, both regionally and […]
Tom Kredo: In the Basement
I was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of four with two sisters and a brother. When I was only 5 my father died, and my stay at home mother became the household breadwinner. I was too young to have many memories of my father, but I was told he had a darkroom in the […]
Jean K Stephens
The foundation for my artwork was laid in childhood–a mix of nature and art. Growing up in Gates, a rural suburb of Rochester, New York, I spent hours out of doors climbing trees, playing in fields and streams, my home surrounded by my Mother’s flower gardens. I loved to color and was a happy girl […]
Zach Dietl: Defining Your Space
My name is Zach Dietl. I’m a painter and sculptor, born and raised in Rochester New York. Currently I’m showing downstairs in Structurally Speaking as well as Upstairs at Main Street Arts in the Self-Portrait Invitational. This is my first blog post with Main Street Arts and I’m excited to share some of the thoughts […]
Amy Vena: Process
Art is my life-long passion. I’ve always maintained a connection with art, specifically drawing and painting. However, it wasn’t until graduate school that I really investigated using industrial materials as painting mediums. My relationship with high-gloss epoxy resin began in 2011 and has continued since then. Applying resin to both canvas and panel has taught […]
Jeanne Beck: Coming Home Through Creating
It seems to me my whole life has been a slow, steady evolution of coming home to myself. I suspect a lot of women of my generation feel that way. My earlier life didn’t offer a lot of stimulation or opportunity to study music or dance or art, all of which interested me greatly, but […]