Sponsor: Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester
The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester is our regional arts agency, serving artists and cultural organizations as well as the community-at-large. Its mission is to develop, promote and strengthen the cultural industry for the benefit of the people of the Rochester region.

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Artist: Stephen Merritt
Known for his massive and graceful, thin-walled porcelain and earthenware vessels, Steve Merritt is one of the most acclaimed ceramic artists in the area. His internationally recognized work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery, the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and the Memorial Art Gallery here in Rochester. The Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC hosted a large one-man show of his work during the summer of 2000. Steve works from his studio in Irondequoit, and his window is done with a series of textured and colored terracotta slabs.