Announcing our 2017 Events

admin July 19, 2017June 6, 2022 Artist, Event, Location, News

Announcing our 2017 Special Events!

First off, the mural making has already begun! Sarah C. Rutherford and Aubrey Roemer have begun working on the murals a little early, and you can start to see their progress at the following locations!

Sarah C. Rutherford
Working at:
548 W. Main St.
Rochester, NY 14608

Aubrey Roemer
Working at:
936 Exchange St., Building A,
Rochester, NY 14608

Follow Aubrey’s Instagram and Facebook Page for updates about how YOU can participate in the creation of her mural!

Locations for our other artists will be announced Friday! Artists will begin arriving Friday and painting over the weekend.

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In our efforts to make WALL\THERAPY even better than in past years, we’ll be hosting two special events during the festival. We are working to deepen our engagement with Rochester’s communities through new programming intended to connect Rochester residents of all ages and all walks of life. This year, we’ll also be launching our inaugural conference focusing on Arts and Activism on July 29th followed by a Block Party at the newly launching Kaleidoscope Collective Community Center featuring a performance by Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People!

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!!

The Little Theatre
240 East Ave (in Little 1)

July 29, 2017, 10am-3pm

Arts & Activism, the inaugural WALL\THERAPY conference, will explore the intersection of social change, community activism, and creative practice, initiating a critical dialogue between participating artists, organizers, scholars, and the local community of Rochester.

The keynote talk (10:30am) will be delivered by Dr. Jessica Pabón-Colón, Assistant Professor for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at SUNY New Paltz. Based on the framework of her upcoming book “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora” she will examine how contemporary street and graffiti art movements have responded critically to the demands of the creative neoliberal city, offering examples to provoke thought on the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Schedule of Events
10:30am – Keynote by Dr. Jessica Pabón-Colón

11:30am – Project Spotlight: Sarah C. Rutherford and Her Voice Carries

12:15pm – Panel Discussion: Art and Social Change at Times of Crisis

1:30pm – Project Spotlight: O+ Festival

1:50pm – Panel Discussion: Education and Empowerment: Enabling the Voice of the next Generation

Our Project Room (also in Little 1) will feature representatives from WALL\THERAPY, O+ Festival, WXXI, The Ghandi Institute, and more to be announced.

Light refreshments will be served during breaks courtesy of Hart’s Local Grocers!

The conference is free for all to attend; we hope you will join us for a day of discussion!

*Times are approximate, and participants subject to change.

Block Party with Danielle Ponder& The Tomorrow People!

Kaleidoscope Collective
936 Exchange St., Building A, Rochester, NY 14608

Come celebrate art, music and community! WALL\THERAPY and Kaleidoscope Collective are excited to host a wrapup summertime Block Party featuring Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People! With an open air artist market, food trucks, beverage service, live art and music to make you groove, this Block Party is not to be missed!

Admission is simply donate what you can! No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Donations go directly to support creating more WALL\THERAPY murals in Rochester. Come down and check out the newest spot in town and support the arts!

Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People will be going on around 8:30pm.

PLEASE NOTE!!!
There is a small parking lot behind the building and very limited on-street parking, so we HIGHLY recommend carpooling or biking! Please also be respectful of the neighborhood! We want to be the best guests possible!

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Mural by Brittany Williams, 2015.
Danielle Ponder photo by Jocelyn Mesiti.

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WALL\THERAPY still needs your help!

We are down to the wire, and we still need your help! Please take a moment to check out our campaign!

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!

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

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Announcing our 2017 WALL\THERAPY Roster!

admin July 5, 2017June 7, 2022 Artist, Event

We are very excited to announce our roster for the 2017 Edition of WALL\THERAPY, featuring a group of artists curated around arts, activism, and community.

We were inspired by receiving the CITY newspaper’s “Best Group Improving the Community” for 2015 and 2016, and this year we are looking to expand our project in even more meaningful ways.

We are working to deepen our engagement with Rochester’s communities through new programming intended to connect Rochester residents of all ages and all walks of life. This year, we’ll also be launching our inaugural conference focusing on Arts and Activism on July 29th followed by a Block Party at the newly launching Kaleidoscope Collective Community Center featuring a performance by Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People! We’ll be sharing info on those two events soon!

Ian Kuali’i

Roc Paint Division — Nzinga Muhammad, Etana Brown, and Kaori-Mei Stephens
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Our Fundraiser still needs your assistance!
We are still cranking away at our fundraising, but we still need your help! Please take a moment to check out our campaign, this is the last week to guarantee you can get our branded gear in your size!!

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!

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

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.

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!

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WALL\THERAPY Needs Your Vote!