'Clarissa Uprooted' exhibit opens at Rochester NY gallery
An art exhibit celebrating Clarissa Street, the center of Rochester's Black community for more than 150 years, will run through July 24.
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An art exhibit celebrating Clarissa Street, the center of Rochester's Black community for more than 150 years, will run through July 24.
An art exhibit celebrating Clarissa Street, the center of Rochester's Black community for more than 150 years, will run through July 24.
Starting on June 3, the exhibit “Clarissa Uprooted: Unearthing Stories of Our Village (1940s-early 1970s)” will open in the RIT City Art Space. This show, created through a partnership between the Center for Teen Empowerment in Rochester and the Clarissa Street Reunion Committee, has involved a number of collaborators including RIT faculty and students from the College of Art and Design and the College of Liberal Arts.