Monroe Community College-Mercer Gallery
Rochester New York 14623 USA
The Mercer Gallery's schedule of exhibitions and cultural events began in November of 1986. The purpose was to meet an instructional need for a department gallery which would present current, challenging work, not readily available in the Rochester another gallery exhibitarea in a context exemplifying excellent curatorial and gallery management practices. We envisioned a gallery which would present art and artists, which could be integrated with the work of our curriculum to serve as an instructional model of contemporary art for our students.
The mission of the Mercer Gallery is to provide aesthetically challenging, original, contemporary artwork which embodies current developments in the visual arts. The gallery and the exhibition schedule is integrated with our curriculum objectives and accessible to the students, faculty, staff and alumni of Monroe Community College and the greater Rochester community. Since it's founding, the gallery has been dedicated to presenting exhibitions that present work not readily exhibited in the upstate New York area. This policy has resulted in the gallery being cited as having "the most original exhibitions of any gallery in upstate New York"
The gallery was cited by dissonant artists of the Red Rider Group of Dresden in their negotiations with the then East German Democratic Republic as "a significant gallery having a major cultural impact in upper New York State"
