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Open Studio of Priya Kambli This exhibition presents a migrant narrative, highlighting the complicated fragmentation of family, identity, and culture common to the migrant experience by combining labor intensive practice with playful experimentation, featuring installations of objects and text in a variety of materials and media. Kambli received her BFA at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and an MFA from the University of Houston. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri.

Open Studio with Lydia Smith Smith is an artist based in Columbus, Ohio whose multi-disciplinary research practice engages image-making, writing, performance, installation, and collaboration. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University and BA in Anthropology and Studio Art from Rice University. Her ongoing project Leave No Stone Unturned is invested in witnessing what is marked, lost, and lingers in the aftermath of death by examining the remnants of knowledge embedded within burial landscapes.

Open Archive Open Archive invites the public to explore the collections at Visual Studies Workshop, learn more about the variety of resources VSW offers to the Rochester community, meet the VSW staff, tour the historic building, visit the bookstore, and view the short program of recently digitized early video works showing in the VSW microcinema. This in-person event features guided tours of VSW’s extensive collections, including 16mm films, lantern slides, artist books, photographs and works on paper.

Visual Studies Workshop will no longer offer a masters degree for students of visual culture, but the community art hub still has important work to do.

From the history of waterfowl to the Spring Chickens at the Little, bird is the word. Plus something to do every night of the week, CITY has your arts, music and life happenings.