VSW Salon Salon Fall 2025

  • Salon Fall 2025
    Artwork credit: Samantha Box, Portable Homeland #6, Acrylic box, growlight, soil, plants and seeds, image (Fracture) printed on acetate 22x22x8 in, 2022.

  • The VSW Salon features film screenings, artist talks, Community Curator™ events, performances, photo presentations and conversations, showcasing the work of local and national artists working in hybrid and experimental approaches to film, photography, performance, installation and archival research. Tickets are available online, or at the door for all in-person events. Download the calendar PDF here or stop by to pick one up today.

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    VSW program funders include The New York State Council on the Arts with support from the New York State Legislature, The Joy of Giving Something Foundation, and Monroe County, NY. 

    Logos for Monroe County and New York State Council on the Arts

     

  • TV static

    Sept. 5: Prism Path (performance)

  • A brightly lit room with shelves filled with film cans and boxes.

    Sept. 11: Open Archive + Open Studio w/ Carmen Lizardo

  • Diasporas are the Landscape promo image with an embroidered flower design in the background.

    Sept. 25: Diasporas are the Landscape Opening Reception

  • Building graphic that reads: Refocus: Celebrating VSW at King Street. October 4, 2025, 6 to 9pm.

    Oct. 4: Refocus: Celebrating VSW @ King Street

  • Three cushion leather black couch with wooden legs on a wooden floor with a large grey wall behind

    Oct. 9: Holding Space: Creating Belonging in Rochester (postponed)

  • Claudia Claremi uses a light table.

    Oct. 11: Claudia Claremi + José López Serra: La memoria en la diáspora (Virtual)

  • Dark room with a green rectangle projected on a wall.

    Oct. 17: Open Studio + Performance w/ Valentina Alvarado Matos

  • Four video tapes in different formats.

    Oct. 18: Intro to Video Preservation (workshop)

  • Illustration of an ice cream cone with a jack-o-lantern face on a pile of film reels.

    Oct. 23: SLUDGE the IV: Bride of Sludge

  • Pixel graphic blocks stacked up in a pile.

    Nov. 6 + 7: esc to leave: games by droqen

  • A grid of self portraits of the artist changing their makeup and hair.

    Nov. 13: Open Studio with Jamie Ho

  • Triptych: Portrait of Hernease Davis; installation photograph by Samantha Box; film still by Claudia Claremi.

    Nov. 15: Diasporas are the Landscape Curator Walkthrough

  • Lantern slide image of a boat in water.

    Nov. 20: Witness Palestine Film Festival Presents: Palestine’s Image

  • Photo portraits of Qiana Mestrich and Carla J. Williams

    Dec. 4: Qiana Mestrich + Carla J. Williams: Decolonizing Photography History

  • A cat sits in a Christmas stocking.

    Dec. 5: Spirit of the Archive

  • Screenshot from Chao Bing: A Read-Only Memory Experience, Jackie Liu, 2023, Web-based game.

    Dec. 11: Open Studio with Jackie Liu

  • A self-portrait in a mirror; image cropped.

    Dec. 13: Diasporas are the Landscape Closing Events + Party