Filling In: Main St. Bus Shelters

This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published March 02, 2015 and can be found here.

     By       Matthew Denker

A local collective of artists/illustrators known as     Hope Mountain

have been publishing art books in Rochester for the past 4 years. Now they're     in the middle of Kickstarting

this year's Volume 5 and they're asking for our help...

   That alone would probably be cool enough, but what's cooler, is if these guys raise $800 or more beyond their goal, they want to use the extra money to hold a book-release event and install artwork in one of the vacant bus shelters on Main Street... pending approval from the City, of course.

"We were looking at different ways of getting our work out there, and we knew there had been ideas tossed around for reusing the bus shelters. So if we can make this happen I think it'd be a good fit for us and a showcase of Rochester's creativity," said comic book artist and Hope Mountain co-creator Peter Lazarski.

   I can't tell you how excited I am at the proposition of getting more local artwork out on the street, and I hope you are too. So let's help these guys out.

You can contribute to their     Kickstarter here

. But hurry - the campaign ends this week!    * * *