Talks begin January 26 at 6:30pm We've heard from artists that Rochester can be a little hard to break into. This event is intended to help us all connect and support each other, especially those who are new to Rochester. Welcome! brings together a diverse and eclectic group of creatives to help build a more supportive and sustainable art community. This gathering will highlight several artists ranging from dancers to photographers to musicians, and will focus on those who have recently moved here or have returned to Rochester. Each creative will introduce themselves, their practice, and what they hope to achieve in Rochester. Come out and show these artists a warm welcome! Attendees should expect to make introductions, propose collaborations, and network. Artists will be announced closer to the event. If you would like to attend don't wait. Attendance is free but limited. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcome-ii-tickets-480851408507 About the Artists Susan Begy is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores topics such as power dynamics, gender, nurturance, polarity, hypocrisy, and productive cooperation. She makes graphite drawings and stone sculptures using sinuous, twisting forms that embody our entanglement with one another and how we wrestle with living together. She develops collaborative projects that playfully reimagine human interactions and institutions, with her Econival project selected as a finalist for a 2015 Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields and featured on Creative Capital’s On Our Radar in 2016. Her Art Collision & Repair Shop project, in which teams of artists transform the "stalled" work of other artists, debuted at Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe in 2014-15 and was a coalescing force in the Santa Fe art community. In Spring 2022, as Artist in Residence at Writers & Books in Rochester she created the Wishbones project in which she carved abstract alabaster sculptures in response to stories collected from comm