VSW will host an Opening Reception for Current Seen: Seeing Change, on display through November 17.

Visual Studies Workshop is pleased to present new works recently made in Rochester, NY by contemporary artists that approach or call for changes to current world subjects including, but not limited to environment, immigration, health, race, policy, social awareness, feminism, gender, and activism. Artists in the VSW exhibition include Alicia Taylor Austin, Alejandro Cartagena, Trevor Parlo Clement, Kes Efstathiou, Rachel Fein-Smolinksi, Cody Filardi, W. Michelle Harris, Ileana Doble Hernandez, Jason Lazarus, Adam Maida, Rigoberto Diaz Martinez, Louie Palu, and Lytton Smith.

"Seeing Chang" is part of the biennial project "Current Seen" October 4-November 17, 2019, organized by Rochester Contemporary Art Center (Roco). Director of Roco, Bleu Cease, writes that, "Current Seen is intended to support the region's growing contemporary art community by bringing new curatorial voices and new artworks together in Downtown Rochester."

[source: Visual Studies Workshop website, 2019-Sep-30]