Day camps (and one overnight camp!) adjust offerings for a COVID-safe summer. Written By: John Sievers | ×
This year, the Rochester Art Center s Total Arts Day Camp will offer half its usual occupancy, and will enforce mask wearing, social distancing, and extra sanitizing to help decrease the continued risks of the pandemic. (Contributed photo)
From high ropes courses to horses, and from archery to art, area camps are gearing up to offer something for just about everyone this summer.
Amanda Peloquin, a music teacher and Rochester parent, fondly remembers attending camp and is excited for her children to have similar experiences.
Can this woman revive the Art Center?
“We lost sight of who we are and what we’re supposed to be in this community.” Seventy-five years after Rochester Art Center’s founding, executive director Pamela Hugdahl has some new ideas . about how to return the city’s premier art institution to its old ideals.
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Maggie Ginsberg & Jennifer Koski | 6:30 am, Mar. 5, 2021 ×
Rochester Art Center Director, Pamela Hugdahl, February 8, 2021. (Ken Klotzbach / kklotzbach@postbulletin.com)
When Pamela Hugdahl became the executive director of Rochester Art Center last summer, she faced a pandemic, financial difficulties … and nearly 75 years of history.
The 36,000-square-foot RAC has come a long way from its beginnings in a couple of unused rooms of the Rochester Public Library, and it nearly went under in 2017. But Hugdahl, who started her new position on June 1 one month before RAC reopened after three months of COVID-19 lockdown is optimistic we ne