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Fundraiser at Radio Social This Thursday from 6-9pm

admin May 22, 2017June 7, 2022 Artist, Event, Location

FUNDRAISER THIS THURSDAY AT RADIO SOCIAL!
Kick off Memorial Day weekend right with a WALL\THERAPY fundraiser at Rochester’s raddest new spot, RADIO SOCIAL!

Thursday May 25 from 6-9pm.
Radio Social
20 Carlson Rd
Rochester, NY 14610

A suggested donation of $10 that night gets you live music, game tournaments (with entry-fee going to the fundraiser), raffles, silent auctions, live painting , and of course bowling!

Funknut will be performing an instrumental funk set.
Mr. Prvrt and Lea Rizzo will be live painting, with the paintings to be raffled off at the end of the night.

We’re taking over the back room at Radio Social, and you’ll be able to walk away with select perks from the fundraiser that night! Radio Social will be offering a WALL\THERAPY themed drink, with a portion of the sale going to our fundraising efforts. We’ll be providing some light appetizers to snack on while you hang out and learn about this year’s event.

Stay tuned for more details, and we hope to see you there!

The event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/271353686607937/

Radio Social: http://radio-social.com

Our Fundraiser needs your help!!
We are still cranking away at our fundraising, but we still need your help! Please take a moment to check out our campaign, new perks are being added weekly!

https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/wall-therapy-2017-fundraiser/x/290103
We’ve got a lot of great perks, from WALL\THERAPY gear to Rochester-centric perks to original artwork. We’re also adding more perks as others sell out, so keep checking back throughout our fundraiser!

What is happening this year?

After taking a year to refresh and to do research, WALL\THERAPY is back for 2017! Inspired and honored by receiving the CITY newspaper’s “Best Group Improving the Community” for 2015 and 2016, we are energized to expand the project even more, caring the project’s momentum forward to significantly deepen our engagement with the community through new programming intended to connect Rochester residents of all ages and all walks of life.

In addition to our traditional murals, we’ll be working with local groups improving the lives of Rochester’s residents to directly impact even more lives in positive ways. We’ll also be launching our first-ever conference on arts and activism on July 29, followed by a special community music event that same night to cap off a week of art intervention.

Your continued support will allow us to support the local and international artists as they produce visually compelling murals in the Rochester cityscape, in turn improving and strengthening our thriving community.

Please visit our fundraiser to learn more!
https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/wall-therapy-2017-fundraiser/x/290103

WALL\THERAPY 2017 Fundraiser is live – Two ways to help!

admin May 4, 2017June 7, 2022 Event, News

Our Fundraiser is live!!
It’s that time of year! The biggest change of note is that we are using Generosity, which is Indiegogo’s platform for non-profits. Everything else will operate the same way as in previous years. We just launched it last week, and we’re already well on our way to our goal!

What is happening this year?

After taking a year to refresh and to do research, WALL\THERAPY is back for 2017! Inspired and honored by receiving the CITY newspaper’s “Best Group Improving the Community” for 2015 and 2016, we are energized to expand the project even more, carring the project’s momentum forward to significantly deepen our engagement with the community through new programming intended to connect Rochester residents of all ages and all walks of life.

Please visit our fundraiser to learn more!
https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/wall-therapy-2017-fundraiser/x/290103

We’ll be announcing more fundraiser events over the next month!

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We Still Need Your Vote for A Community Thrives!
Please Vote Daily!

Thank you to everyone who’s voted for us so far! Please remember that we need you to cast your vote DAILY for us to even get into the top 10 for consideration!

Click on the link below to vote:

http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60465569/

In case you missed our email last week, we are entered in a competition called A Community Thrives that enables community members to act on ideas that improve the people, organizations, government, and businesses around them by equipping them with the resources they need to thrive. There are a handful of $50,000 and $100,000 prizes, which would go a LONG way towards improving our sustainability, enabling us to deepen our engagement with this city we hold so dear.

Preliminary voting runs from until May 12 at noon. To get to the final voting round, we need as many of you to vote ONCE DAILY so that we can be in the top 10 semi-finalists. We hope that you will join us in pushing our project to the semi-finals!

http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60465569/

Download a calendar reminder!

We know voting every day is a lot to ask, but to make it easier for you help us on this, we’ve created a little calendar reminder. It will remind you every day at noon until May 12, the last day of voting. Doing this is a voluntary thing, but we hope you’ll jump in and help us! Just click on the icon below to download the reminder!

You can also download the Calendar Reminder as a .zip file.

WALL\THERAPY Needs Your Vote!

admin April 12, 2017June 7, 2022 Artist, Event

WALL\THERAPY Needs Your Vote!

Hello everyone! We have been hard at work preparing for WALL\THERAPY 2017 this July, and we’ll be launching our yearly fundraiser in just a short week or so as well as sharing a whole series of upcoming events.

In the meantime, we need your help! We are entered in a competition called A Community Thrives, starting TODAY, that enables community members to act on ideas that improve the people, organizations, government, and businesses around them by equipping them with the resources they need to thrive. There are $50,000 and $100,000 prizes, which would go a LONG way towards improving our sustainability, enabling us to deepen our engagement with this city we hold so dear.

Preliminary voting runs from April 12 at noon until May 12 at noon. To get to the final voting round, we need as many of you to vote so that we can be in the top 10 semi-finalists. Each of you can vote daily, and we hope that you will join us in pushing our project to the semi-finals!

Click on any of the photos or the link below to vote:

http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60465569/

You can also download the Calendar Reminder as a .zip file.

Thank you in advance, and stay tuned for more announcements next week!

– Ian, Erich, and The WALL\THERAPY crew!

A Note from Ian and Erich About Summer 2016

admin May 15, 2016June 7, 2022 Artist, Musing, News

Erich and Ian at BELIEVE/BECOME at Urban Nation Berlin. Photo by Nika Kramer

Hello Rochester!

This year has already been off to an incredible start, giving us the chance to bring a taste of Rochester and WALL\THERAPY to our friends in Berlin at Urban Nation. We’re so proud of our crew, bringing our special family vibe abroad and sharing what we do with a whole new community.

This year, as Ian and I discussed future plans, we both felt that it would be good to take a year off from our annual July event, giving our amazing crew a chance to visit other festivals, work on their own special projects, or just simply take some time off to relax! Our core team donates their vacation and personal time each year to bringing WALL\THERAPY to life, and we are so grateful for all that they do. We absolutely could not do this without them!

We do plan on having a few artists drop in on us this Summer, so you’ll still see some WALL\THERAPY happening around the city! Stay tuned to this site and our social media for announcements about our guests. We’ll be focusing most of our efforts this Summer on fundraising, building more relationships with partners, and taking some time to enjoy our awesome city.

Thank you so much for all of your support,

Erich and Ian!

WALL\THERAPY brings a touch of Rochester to Berlin

admin March 18, 2016June 7, 2022 Artist, Event, News

This spring, WALL\THERAPY will pack up its cans, brushes and paints and head across the pond to a city that has seen a flowering of street art and graffiti, and echoes the project’s guiding principle of the transformative power of art in our communities.

Following Urban Nation’s guest co-curation of our 2015 festival, WALL\THERAPY will bring the spirit of its five-year project to Berlin, Germany, spending a week creating an indoor/outdoor exhibit with Urban Nation.

$BELIEVE BECOME - WALL\THERAPY X URBAN NATION$

The event, entitled BELIEVE/BECOME, is the 10th edition of Urban Nation’s UNITE & IGNITE International Exchange Program. Named in part for WALL\THERAPY’s very first mural, BELIEVE/BECOME showcases the talents of a subset of WALL\THERAPY muralists, using their work to bring light to issues close to them, from those with global impact to those affecting their own local communities.

For the week of April 10-17, 2016, the artists will immerse themselves in Urban Nation’s Schoeneberg-Berlin neighborhood, starting their visit by working on a series of “human-scale” murals surrounding the Urban Nation offices, offering the artists a chance to interact with the adjacent community. WALL\THERAPY and Urban Nation will host a community discussion on the evening of Tuesday, April 12, examining the role of art in the public sphere as well as the evolving roles of mural festivals and institutions in the Street Art movement. These discussions will then be reflected in the group’s installation within the Urban Nation offices, culminating in an exhibit that will open on Saturday, April 16.

The project will serve as the second half of the international exchange program between Rochester and Berlin, launched in July 2015 in Rochester. Eight artists, who have all participated in past WALL\THERAPY events, have been invited to contribute to the program, curated by Ian Wilson (founder, co-curator) and Erich Lehman (co-curator, lead organizer).

Click on any of the images to open a larger version in a new window.

Artist Roster

Cern (New York, N.Y.)

Photo provided by Artist

Shawnee Hill (Rochester, N.Y.)

Photo by Jason Wilder

LNY (Newark, N.J.)

Mr. Prvrt (Rochester, N.Y.)

Faring Purth (St. Louis, Mo.)

Sarah C. Rutherford (Rochester, N.Y.)

St. Monci (Rochester, N.Y.)

Brittany Williams (Rochester, N.Y.)

Community members can get updates and track the artists’ progress by visiting this site and following the WALL\THERAPY social media channels:
Facebook: facebook.com/walltherapyny
Instagram: @walltherapyny
Twitter: @walltherapyny

Learn more about Urban Nation by visiting their site or following them on their social media channels:

Online: www.urban-nation.net
Facebook: facebook.com/urbannationberlin
Instagram: @urbannationberlin

WALL\THERAPY Book and Gear Now Available!

admin December 9, 2015June 7, 2022 Artist, Event

We’ve got so much to share since we last spoke! As the year winds down, we wanted to share a few notes.

CITY BEST OF 2015
A little belated, but we are so thankful for the residents of Rochester voting us the Best Art Exhibit of 2015 and, more importantly to all of us, the Best Group or Person Improving the Community. Everyone of us on the WALL\THERAPY team feels so strongly about our city, and these acknowledgements of our efforts mean a lot to us! Thank you!

To see who else won this year, visit the CITY site:
http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/welcome-to-rochester/Content?oid=2663092

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$WALL\THERAPY 2013 Book is now available$

WALL\THERAPY online shop and our 2013 catalog is finally available!

It took us a lot longer than we planned, but the result is well worth the wait!

This book commemorates our massive 2013 season, showcasing the work of 35 muralists, printed in a limited edition of 200. Measuring 9×9″ and weighing in at 120 pages with 2-color letterpress printed covers and hit of blue spraypaint. We want to thank our small but dedicated team who worked to put this book together!

It is currently available for domestic and international shipping.

DOMESTIC SHIPPING

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING

In addition, we’ve added the rest of our stock, including the last of some long out of print t-shirts and a handful of extras from our previous fundraisers.

Check out the book samples below, and you can view all of our offerings here: http://mkt.com/walltherapyny

SAMPLE SPREADS

TOOLS OF THE TRADE Letterpress Prints

Featuring a graphic listing of the tools of our craft, the 20″ x 10.5″ letterpress print features silver ink on top of blue spray paint so each one is unique. Hand-sprayed by members of the WT team and letterpress printed by our friends at Pistachio Press, this signed/numbered print has a total edition of 100 on 100# Midnight Black Strathmore Premium Cambric paper.
Image size is 18.5″ x 9″ with a 1/2″ border that enables easy matting and framing.

WALL\THERAPY Gear

Please Note: Holiday orders must be placed by December 17th!