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Volunteer art initiative in Rochester, NH. Based at the Community Center and Public Library. Dedicated to making exceptional art accessible to all.

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Don’t miss "You’ve Been Here", an exhibition featuring works by Stacey Durand in the Carnegie Gallery, open until December 4, 2026. Join us for a public reception on Saturday, November 7, 2026, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Everyone is welcome! The Carnegie Gallery is located in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more. by @rochester_mfa

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Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts @rochester_mfa. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.

In this episode, you’ll hear Paige Speight @paigesp8 discuss "Titanic", an exhibition on view in the Bernier Room until November 6, 2026. The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.

Check out Paige's work at paigespeight.com.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or stream it straight from our website at CreativeGutsPodcast.com.

#RMFA #RochesterNH #NewHampshire #Podcast #PodcastEpisode by @rochester_mfa

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Thanks to everyone for stopping by and supporting @paigesp8! by @rochester_mfa

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TODAY! Join us from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm to celebrate “Titanic”, an exhibition featuring works by Paige Speight in the Bernier Room. All are welcome to attend! The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more. taken in Rochester Museum of Fine Arts by @rochester_mfa

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We’ll be hosting a reception on Saturday, October 3, 2026, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm to celebrate "Titanic" by Paige Speight in the Bernier Room. All are welcome to attend! The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org for more information. Hope to see you there! by @rochester_mfa

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Join us in celebrating "Titanic", an exhibition featuring works by Paige Speight in the Bernier Room, on view until November 6, 2026. A public reception will be held on October 3, 2026 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. All are welcome to attend! The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more. by @rochester_mfa

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We’re thrilled to announce "Titanic", an exhibition featuring works by Paige Speight @paigesp8 in the Bernier Room, on view from September 8, 2026 to November 6, 2026. Join us for a public reception on October 3, 2026, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Everyone is welcome! The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.

*Images brutally cropped by Meta. by @rochester_mfa

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We’re so excited to announce "You’ve Been Here", an exhibition featuring works by Stacey Durand @staceydurandart in the Carnegie Gallery, on view from September 8, 2026 to December 4, 2026. Join us for a public reception on November 7, 2026, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Everyone is welcome! The Carnegie Gallery is located in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more. by @rochester_mfa

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There’s still time to see "Heart Of The Wild", an exhibition featuring works by Mike Durkee. Check it out in person at Back Hill Beer Co., located in the Gonic Mill, 73 Pickering Rd, Rochester, NH 03839. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more and explore upcoming exhibitions and events.

Mike Durkee is an artist, muralist, designer, and the founder of Durkish Delights Design Co. He specializes in large-scale, story-driven murals that bring energy, identity, and a strong sense of place to the environments they inhabit. His work has taken him across the United States, from ski resorts in New Hampshire to skateparks in Colorado, with each project shaped by the communities he engages and the landscapes he explores.

Durkee’s practice draws inspiration from culture, movement, and the textures and imagery he encounters through travel, resulting in dynamic, immersive compositions. He has designed and completed murals for the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in recent years, and his work is included in the museum’s permanent collection. Whether collaborating with brands, schools, or local businesses, Durkee aims to create work that enlivens spaces and leaves a lasting, meaningful impact.

@backhillbeer, @durkishdelights by @rochester_mfa

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It’s the final week to experience "Community Shapes", an exhibition featuring works by Drew DiPasquale in the Pixel Room, located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more about upcoming exhibitions and events.

Drew is an artist and father of two living in Portsmouth, NH. He has built his practice through deep study of art history, collaborations with artists locally and internationally, and relentless experimentation in the studio. Every opportunity becomes a way to expand his visual vocabulary—one that exists before words, in the space where feeling and material meet. Each painting is a negotiation between control and chaos, memory and invention. His continuous practice connects him to the raw immediacy of seeing and making, where imagination does not need permission or explanation. by @rochester_mfa

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It’s the final week to experience "Making Way", an exhibition featuring works by Denise Manseau in the Carnegie Gallery, located in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more about upcoming exhibitions and events.

Denise Manseau (b. 1959, Massachusetts) creates paintings that are inventions in response to place—inner landscapes that transform the visible world into tangible form. Her work emerges through a process of discovery, where observation and memory converge to shape environments that feel both familiar and imagined.

For Manseau, the act of painting is a journey into the unknown. She follows each convoluted path with faith, inquiry, and intuition: considering what medium will provide the proper translucency, what color will bring an element forward, or whether an entire area should be obscured. Within the uncertainty of this process, she takes comfort in knowing that every decision makes a way toward an elusive understanding—that moment when the eye and the heart become one.

Manseau holds a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has attended the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine as an Open Studio Resident and was a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center. Paintings developed during her residency in Monasterace, Italy were included in a traveling exhibition at the Monasterace Museo and at Hillyer Art Space for International Artists in Washington, DC.

Recent exhibitions include 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Five Points Arts in Connecticut; Westbeth Gallery in New York; and The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf in Boston. She currently lives and works in Rye, New Hampshire. by @rochester_mfa

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It’s the final week to experience "View To A Burnt World", an exhibition featuring works by Richard Yu-Tang Lee in the Bernier Room, located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more about upcoming exhibitions and events.

Richard Yu-Tang Lee is an emerging Asian American artist. Lee uses pattern as a vehicle to describe time, articulating the excellence and fallibility of memory. His work is informed by observation of natural phenomena and an ever-present awareness of the self as “viewer.”

Lee has worked as an art director and a cook, professional backgrounds that inform his painting practice and have given way to multidisciplinary projects such as the collaborative 4-year-long design, cooking, and manufacturing performance piece, “Little Brother Chinese Food,” completed in 2025 (documented @littlebrotherchinesefood on Instagram).

“View To A Burnt World” marks Lee’s fifth solo exhibition and third time showing in New Hampshire. Lee is scheduled to exhibit in his hometown of Chicago at the Bulgarca Cultural Center in the summer of 2027. by @rochester_mfa

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