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There are currently 158 art pieces in the catalog.

Art Title	Artist's Name	Description	Location
Dancers	Peter Macon	Abstract steel dancers	10 Seldon Street, in Grove Place
Threshold of the Dawn	David Stephanus	A grove of twisted tree-like shapes	100 North Chestnut Street
1041 North Clinton Avenue Mural	unknown	One of a series of murals on North Clinton Avenue	1041 North Clinton Avenue, at Avenue A
1233 North Clinton Avenue Mural	unknown	One of a series of murals on North Clinton Avenue	1233 North Clinton Avenue, opposite Kohlman Street
Gentle Woman	Leonard Urso	Raised copper figure	13 Seldon Street, in Grove Place
Austin Steward Bust	Calvin Hubbard	Bronze bust	2nd Floor - Clarion Hotel Riverside, 120 Main Street East
Labor Lyceum Sculptures	Unknown	Three carved stone fugures	580 St. Paul Street
Planter and Bench	Paul Knoblauch	A fanciful bench and planter	80 Cascade Drive
Let Me Be Your Shelter	John & Laurie Grieco	Bus shelter	822 University Avenue
928 North Clinton Avenue Mural	unknown	One of a series of murals on North Clinton Avenue	928 North Clinton Avenue, at Laforce Street
960 North Clinton Avenue Mural	unknown	One of a series of murals on North Clinton Avenue	960 North Clinton Avenue, at Mead Street
Sentinel	Albert Paley	A towering display of Paley's superb skill	Administration Circle, Rochester Institute of Technology
Mosaic Light Poles	Betsy Weber	Standard city light poles tricked out with mosaic tile work by Betsy Weber and other artists	Along ARTWalk, mostly on University Avenue
Seat of Forgetting and Remembering	Adriana Ippel Slutzky	Four columns covered with over 600 impressions of faces and hands	Along the trail above Lower Falls, behind the YMCA
Bridge Flower	Mark & Diane Weisbeck	4 lighted sculptures on each of three bridges	Ames, Child and Saxton Street bridges over Rte 490
Mercury	J. Guernsey Mitchell	Messenger on top of the Aquaduct Building	Aquaduct Street, Between Main and Broad Streets
Threshold	Albert Paley	An abstract steel sculpture that looks like a giant erector set fantasy	At Klein Steel Corporation , 105 Vanguard Parkway
Genesee Passage	Albert Paley	Soaring formed and fabricated steel tower	Bausch & Lomb, One Bausch & Lomb Place
Legal Wall Graffiti		An impressive display of very creative and energetic graffiti applied to backs of buildings	Behind 200 Anderson Avenue, in the Neighborhood of the Arts
Twist	Wendell Castle	Pretzel-shaped red plastic sculpture	Between the Sister Cities Pedestrian Bridge and Mortimer Street
Ivory Soap Sign	John Deats and Christine Muratore	Perhaps the last original Ivory Soap sign	Bittersweet Building, 41 N. Main Street
Dragonslayer	Jim Gary	A dinosaur skeleton sculpture	Canal View Office Park, Canal View Boulevard
ADZ/Pick	Brad Spencer	A stone a pick suspended in a frame structure	Canal View Office Park, Canal View Boulevard
Omega ii	Beverly Pepper	Basic geometric forms that change their relationship as you view them from different angles	Canal View Office Park, Canal View Boulevard
Rochester Project	Richard Fleischner	6 part site-specific Installation in a riverside park	Charles Carroll Plaza, Andrews Street at the Genesee River
8 WPA Murals	Carl Peters	WPA murals in the school auditorium	Charlotte High School, 4115 Lake Avenue
Historical Charlotte	John Kastner	Mural representing Charlotte's history	Charlotte Library, 3615 Lake Avenue
RCSB Mosaic	Unknown	Mosaic tile	Citizens Bank, 40 Franklin Street
In Memory of Lives Lost	Lucien Casartelli	The monument consists of a stepped black granite base supporting two bronze towers topped by a waving American flag	Clinton Square Courtyard, 206 East Broad Street
Pride Symbols	Christine Knoblauch	Several fabricated steel symbols	Corner of Atlantic and Beacon Street
Josephine Baker Bench	Paul Knoblauch	Fanciful bench with teak seat with abstract metal curlicues	Corner of Gibbs and University Avenue
ARTWalk Cat	Vincent Massaro	A concrete cat on a base, with a time capsule sealed inside	Corner of Merriman and University Avenue
Dream	Dexter Benedict	Figure waiting at the door	Corporate Woods Office Park
Oracle	Dexter Benedict	One of 7 pieces at Corporate Woods.	Corporate Woods Office Park
Orpheus	Dexter Benedict	One of 7 pieces at Corporate Woods.	Corporate Woods Office Park
Messenger	Dexter Benedict	Bronze figurative sculpture	Corporate Woods Office Park
Birdman	Dexter Benedict	Cast Bronze	Corporate Woods Office Park
Thought	Dexter Benedict	Figurative sculpture, waiting outside the entrance	Corporate Woods Office Park
Workman Poet	Dexter Benedict	Bronze figurative sculpture	Corporate Woods Office Park
Zeus	Dexter Benedict	Bronze figurative sculpture	Corporate Woods Office Park
Zakor (Remember)	David Klass	Broken menorah & barbed wire	Courtyard, Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Avenue
Big Head	Sean Calyer	Welded steel head	Courtyard, Village Gate, 274 North Goodman Street
Tiffany Windows	Tiffany Studio	A series of Tiffany windows	Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 North Fitzhugh Street
Pharaoh	Leonard Urso	A tall, elegant, slightly ominous figure standing among the trees	Eastman Place, Gibbs at Main Street
Water Spirits	Mark & Diane Weisbeck	Planned to be a "gateway" marking the entrance to Corn Hill Landing	Exchange Boulevard at Plymouth Avenue
Balance	Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez	Soaring steel sculpture with elements balanced at the top	Flatiron Building, 706 University Avenue
Big Picture Rochester	Kenichiro Sato	A giant photo-mural	Former Sibley's Department Store Windows, Main Street, and other locations dowtown Rochester
Untitled Ceramic Mural	Kurt Feuerherm, James and Phil Secrest	Multi-panel ceramic mural	Formerly on the balcony, Midtown Plaza, Main Street. (Removed, wiating for a new location)
Gannett Building Relief	Unknown	Bas-relief panel with classical figures	Gannett Building at the corner of Broad and Exchange Streets
Edward Mott Moore	Thomas Hudson Jones	Bronze seated figure looking toward the river	Genesee Valley Park
Bette Midler Bench	Paul Knoblauch	Forged steel bench with a wave-like pattern back and teak slat seat	Gibbs Street at University Avenue, in the Grove Place
Vietnam War Memorial	William Yager	Soldier marching into a granite slab, set in a memorial garden	Highland Park
Poet's Garden		Benches inscribed with poetry along a wooded path	Highland Park, opposite the Lamberton Conservatory
Goethe	William Ehrich	Stylized head on a base	Highland Park, Reservoir at South Avenue
Frederick Douglass	Sidney Wells Edwards	Bronze figure	Highland Park, Resevoir at South Avenue
Tribute to Man	Kerro Bruegging	A walkway and observation tower suspended over a sunken fountain area with a concert stage	Howard Hanson Plaza in Manhattan Square Park Chestnut Street at Court Street
Chubby	Vincent Massaro	A horse and fireman representing the last fire horse in Rochester	In front of Craft Company #6, on University Avenue
Engineers Have Fun Too	Nancy Gong	Bus shelter	In front of Gleason Works, 1000 University Avenue
ARTStop	Ed Stringham	One of three ARTWalk bus shelters	In front of Memorial Art Gallery on University Avenue
9/11 Tribute	Richard Kron	Monument to the firemen lost in the attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001	In front of the Fire Department, Main Street
Equilateral Six	Duayne Hatchett	Twisted square	In front of the Kenneth B. Keating Federal Building, State Street
Prometheus	Zarub Tsereteli	A heroic - though tilting - figure reaching for a starburst	In front of the SUNY Brockport Administration Building, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY
Skystone 6	Glenn Zweygardt	A polished stone elevated to emphasize its importance	In front of the SUNY Brockport Fine Art Building on Holly Street, Brockport
Triad	Nancy Jurs	Site-specific ceramic sculpture	In storage at the Rochester International Airport, 1200 Brooks Avenue
Sundial	Alistair Bevikngton	A modern sundial, designed by an architect	In the Residence Quad, Rochester Institute of Technology
U of R Untitled	Arch Miller	Geologic forms protruding from the earth, at the entrance of the studio art building	Joseph Wilson Drive, University of Rochester
George Eastman Memorial	Leo Friedlander	Marble pillar with 2 figures	Kodak Park, 1700 Lake Avenue, near Ridge Road
Maplewood Arch	Dejan Pejovic	3 steel arches joined at the peak, connected by cables	Lake Avenue at Ridge Road
Family Tree	Eddie Davis	Bronze narrative sculpture	Lamberton Conservatory, in Highland Park
Liberty Pole	James Johnson	A modern interpretation of a traditional liberty pole	Liberty Pole Plaza, at the corner of Main and Franklin Streets
Lady Rochester	Nancy Jurs	Ceramic sculpture	Linden Oaks Office Park, 400 Linden Oaks
Present Passage	Larry Kirkland	An armillary suspended above a map of the world etched into the floor	Lobby, Bausch & Lomb, One Bausch & Lomb Place
Fred & Ginger	Arch Miller	Pair of dancing shapes	Main Street at Scio
Main Street Bridge Railings	Albert Paley	10 elaborate railing segments	Main Street Bridge across the Genesee River, Downtown
Welcome to Brockport	Helen Smagorinsky	A former commercial billboard transformed into a public art project	Main Street South. at the RR overpass
Sound/Play Sculptures	Bill & Mary Buchen	A playground featuring big ears, eyes, a gong, slapped pipes, twist, wind reeds and parabolic benches	Manhattan Square Park, Chestnut Street at Woodbury Boulevard
Mountain Piece	Hilda Morris	Shrouded figures, dancing	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Emergence (two sculptures)	Nancy Jurs	Ceramic sculpture with vaguely human form	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Playground	Tony Smith	Open steel cube that invites small people to climb on or crawl through.	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Millennium Bench	Albert Paley	Sculptural bench intended to impress rather than comfort	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Six Cubes	William Sellers	Carefully balanced arrangement of polished cubes	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Passenger Pigeon	Todd McGrain	Bronze bird near the ARTWalk Bus Shelter	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Penguins	Blanca Will	3 Bronze penguins	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Two Lines Up Eccentric Twelve Feet	George Rickey	Kinetic sculpture that responds to the slightest breeze	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Vertical Ventaglio	Beverly Pepper	Animated falling squares suggesting motion or a sequence	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Wallana	Deborah Butterfield	A larger than life horse that looks like it's made of twisted branches	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Woman with Curlers	Albert Leon Wilson	Folded steel sketch of woman with flowing hair	Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue
Playground Bench	Paul Knoblauch	A whimsical bench by an artist who works in The Neighborhood of the Arts	Meriman Street at University Avenue, in the Neighborhood of the Arts
Fireman's Monument	H.S. Hebard	A uniformed figure atop a pedestal overlooking the fireman's section	Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue
George Elwanger Tomb	Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti	George Elwaner's tomb in M.t Hope Cemetery	Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue
Laura D. Knapp Monument	Stonecarvers Collaborative	Elaborately carved stone marker	Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue
Civil War Monument	Sallie Farnham	Bronze monument of a soldier and boy	Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue
Weary Pilgrim	Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti	Aaron Erickson's tomb by Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti	Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue
Joy and Happiness to All Children of the World	Zarub Tsereteli	Multi-part sculpture in landscaped setting	Next to the Drake Memorial Library, New Campus Drive, SUNY-Brockport,
Morrie Silver	Dejan Pejovic	Bronze sculpture of Morrie Silver with his arm around a kid with a bat & glove	North Plymouth Avenue at Morrie Silver Way on Platt Street
Frederick Douglass Mural	K. Fitch	Portrait of Frederick Douglass	On a traffic signal control box at the intersection of Main, West and Chili Avenues
Cascade Drive Bench	Paul Knoblauch	An artist's bench that mimics the now renovated industrial buildings in the Cascade District	On Cascade Drive, opposite Bemis Alley
Prophets	Leonard Urso	Five elegantly slender figures	On the balcony, Bausch & Lomb, One Bausch & Lomb Place
Cab Calloway Monument		Monument to one of Rochester's own	Otto Henderberg Square, on Sycamore Street, Swillburg Neighborhood
Totem Pole	Walter Harris & Art Sterrit	A traditional Indian totem pole, carved on site	Present location is unknown

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