Join us for First Friday; our gallery and studio spaces will be open to the public!

THAWW is an annual exhibition that celebrates the things we make while we rest.

This is a call for works in any medium that speak to the prompt.  The goal of The Yards Art Collective and Hungwell Art Services is to usher in spring again by putting up and putting away the winter. 

Prompt:

“Rejoice, and men will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go;

They want full measure of all your pleasure,

But they do not need your woe.”

                           - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

THAWWW gathers our woes.

It is the exhibition where we stop pretending that it isn’t hard. We collect  works that acknowledge we are all doing our best.  It is a space to make room for everyone in our community, in order to celebrate our most honest and imperfect form. 

This annual exhibition gathers works that explore the more difficult aspects of being an artist.  We frame this idea through the shared experience of winter.  THAWWW  is about the isolation of the cold gray months, The things we make when we turn inward and the works that grow from rest. 

On display through the month of March!

First Friday is a monthly citywide gallery night that encourages collaboration between art venues in Rochester, NY. This initiative showcases area artists and smaller arts institutions by promoting the First Friday evening of each month from 6-9pm as a community night for experiencing art. First Friday ensures a healthy art scene and a healthy city through regular exchange between venues, artists and patrons.