Rockwell Museum

Join us as we hear first-hand from artist Nathan Benn who photographed the Finger Lakes over the course of a year for National Geographic Magazine in 1975.

Mark Hirsch, Dr. Martin J. Collins, Dr. Jared Stabach and Dr. Autumn-Lynn Harrison will discuss how complex datasets can be transformed into emotionally compelling art pieces and tell the complicated story of life on a changing planet.

Elaine K. Ng is an artist whose work explores the physical and psychological structures of site. Ng used bamboo, sassafras, cotton thread and rice paper to create a cloud-like experience as visitors enter and exit the Museum.

Utilizing the American landscape as both a metaphor and lens, AIDS’ Dark Terrain illustrates Robin Tichane’s spiritual and intellectual journey in the midst a global pandemic. This series of woodcut prints, created at the height of the AIDS pandemic, encapsulates Tichane’s experience and perspective as an HIV+ artist as well...