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Music Student Recitals Visual and Performing Arts Department Tuesdays, October 24, 31, November 7, 14, 21 and 28 4:00 p.m. Building 12, Room 126 Free and Open to the Public Parking at Meters or Visitor Parking Lot Musical Combined Fall Concert Combined Spring Concert October 18, 2017 March 14, 2018 Productions 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus Building 4, Room 141 Building 4, Room 141 The 49th Annual Jazz Festival Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the Public Director, John Nyerges Wednesday, May 9, 2018 “It is Fall Instrumental Concert Spring Vocal Concert 7:30 p.m. December 6, 2017 May 16, 2018 MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus the marriage 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Building 4, Room 141 MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus Free and Open to the Public of the soul Building 4, Room 141 Building 4, Room 141 The Visual & Performing Arts Department’s Music with Nature Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the Public program, in conjunction with the Creative Arts Committee and the O ce of Student Life & that makes the Fall Vocal Concert Leadership Development, will once again hold its December 13, 2017 annual jazz festival in May. Great local, regional intellect fruitful, 7:30 p.m. and national artists have performed with our Jazz MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus Ensemble and Small Group students in the past, and gives Building 4, Room 141 and although this year’s guests have yet to be Free and Open to the Public determined, the event is bound to be impressive birth to when performed in the beautiful, newly reno- imagination.” 9th Annual Madrigal Feaste vated, acoustically enhanced MCC Theatre. Friday December 8, 2017 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Henry David Thoreau R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum 3-130 Admission $15 Parking in Lot M Tickets available at www.monroecctickets.com Dinner show with medieval music, games, skits, and food. Come one, come all, to this festival of food, merriment and song. Set in a medieval castle, this year’s dinner will leave you wondering where you are. Renaissance costumes encouraged. At The Forum Gallery: From the Mercer Collection Art Exhibition September 5 - December 12, 2017 Works will be displayed in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Forum, 3-130.
Artists in Unlikely Places January 22 - March 30, 2018 Reception for the Artist: Thursday, February 1, 2018 4:00 p.m. to another special season of creative arts programming at Monroe Community College. The Artists in Unlikely Places exhibition was inspired by Anthropology Professor Emeritus David Day. The exhibit The primary mission of MCC’s Creative Arts Committee is to develop a student-centered learning features works produced by non-art teaching faculty and sta from throughout the College. This show will Welcome!initiative that combines a holistic approach to the arts with the educational mission of our institution. demonstrate how critical art and the creative process are to all. We invite you, your family, and your friends to come and enjoy the rich cultural experiences that ...... these events provide. Members of the Rochester community are always welcome at MCC events. THE WALL PROJECT: Metered parking along Lot F is available for daytime events, and reserved parking is available in THE WALL is an area in the Building 4 corridor near the North Atrium and Mercer Gallery. Its dimensions are designated parking lots for evening programs. To reach the MCC Brighton Campus, go to 12 feet x 20 feet. We are now accepting proposals for Fall 2018 and Spring 2019. This project commissions artists www.monroecc.edu/go/maps. from the MCC community and/or the greater Rochester area. Potential artists or groups of artists can submit ...... a proposal. Ticket Information: ...... Tickets for speci ed programs are available online at www. monroecctickets.com; at the Brighton General Notes: Campus Center Service Desk in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Building 3; or at the Downtown For more speci c information about Mercer Gallery events, proposal applications, up-to-date Internal Combustion Campus Bookstore. For further information, call the O ce of Student Life and Leadership Events, workshops and Mystery Video Hour schedules call, write or stop by the gallery. Development at 585.292.2534...... Mercer Gallery, Fine Arts Building 12 Parking for MCC Events: Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday / 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. We have two kiosks on campus, one located on the sidewalk area of Building 4 near the Theatre and Friday / 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. another located near Building 10, the Samuel J. Stabins Physical Education Complex. At these pay-by- Vacation and Summer Hours: plate kiosks, you can register your license plate and pay $5.00 in cash, Visa® or Mastercard®. Once the Tuesday - Thursday / 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. vehicle is registered at the pay- by-plate kiosk, the vehicle can park in any of the 11 student lots for Other times by appointment. the entire day until midnight. Parking is also available in the visitor lot (V) and at the parking meters Kathleen Farrell, Gallery Director located near the Communications/Theatre Building (Building 4). The meters hold a maximum of 2 585-292-2021 or 585.292.3121 email: [email protected] hours and the cost is $.50 per hour. Parking for Art Opening Receptions is free in Lot F. Other times parking is available in visitor parking (Lot V) or meters. For directions to the Brighton Campus, go to www.monroecc.edu/go/maps. The Mercer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building 12, Room 114, in the North Atrium on the Brighton Campus. This non-pro t gallery is sponsored in part by Monroe Community College, the MCC Visual and Performing Art Department, the O ce of Student Life and Leadership Development, the MCC Creative Arts Committee, the MCC Student Art Organization, and the MCC Student Life Fee. The Mercer Gallery is a member of the SUNY Association of Museums and Galleries, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), the American Alliance of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. Joseph Laurro - Recent Painting April 5 - May 3, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 5, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Visiting Poet:Visiting Marie Howe Writer Series Gallery Talk: Thursday, April 5, 2018 Reading & Book-Signing Poetry Workshop Thursday, October 12, 2017 Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 12-12:50 p.m. Laurro’s work was featured by Rachel Thomas, the Senior Curator R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum, 3-130 Building 8, Room 200 of the Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), and by Chief Curator Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the MCC Community Rebecca Wilson in Saatchi Art collections, and Brooklyn Independent Parking in Lot M Media (BRIC) interviewed Joseph Laurro as part of their "On Air” Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time documentary series on local artists. His work is in several private (W.W. Norton, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the and international collections and has exhibited nationally at various Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The galleries including Mercer Gallery, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. According to the late Stanley Kunitz, Collette Blanchard Gallery, Metro Pictures, Greenpoint Gallery, and “Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of esh and spirit, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch Local Projects. Laurro enjoys working as an artist-educator in NYC with the sacred.” public and private schools. He resides in Brooklyn, NY.” ...... Visiting Fiction Writer: Robin McLean “For me, being an artist is being a conduit- anything is possible and Reading & Book-Signing Fiction Workshop images are developed along with the re-contextualized and imaginary. Thursday, November 2, 2017 Friday, November 3. 2017 My love for nature, animals and dance are never far from hand. 7:00 p.m. 12-12:50 p.m. It is visceral, so I start from there. The work also comes out of a need to R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum 3-130 R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum 3-130 counterbalance despair and the negative forces at work in the world. Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the MCC Community At times, they are contemplations on our environment; the plight of Parking in Lot M honey-bees, butter ies, our water. They become meditations on Robin McLean’s rst short story collection, Reptile House (2015), won the BOA Short Fiction Prize and was a nalist for the movement, migrations… they turn to folklore, the sacred, curiosities Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize in 2011 and 2012. McLean’s stories have appeared widely in such places as The and the ine able. Not always certain as to where the work is leading, Nashville Review, The Malahat Review, Gargoyle, The Common, and Copper Nickel, as well as the anthology American Fiction: is very challenging- I love that process and trust it.” --Joseph Laurro The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers. For more about Robin McLean, visit www.robinmclean.net...... Visiting Non ction Writer: Sarah Glidden ...... Reading & Book-Signing Non ction Workshop Thursday, April 5, 2018 Friday, April 6, 2018 7:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 42nd Annual Warshof Conference Center, Monroe A Building 8, Room 200 Student Art Exhibition Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the MCC Community May 11- June 21, 2018 Sarah Glidden was born in 1980 in Massachusetts and studied painting at Boston University. Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 2018 She started making comics in2006 when she was living at the Flux Factory artists collective in Queens, New York, and soon began working on her rst book, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less. 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The rst chapters of this were self-published as minicomics, earning her the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent in 2008. The This exhibition includes the work of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Photography, Television complete book was published in 2010 and translated into ve languages. Glidden’s work has appeared in various newspapers and Video, Commercial Illustration and Interior Design majors graduating in May, August or December 2018. and magazines, as well as in the Best American Comics anthology. She spent a year as an artist in residence at the Maison des MCC faculty, sta , family and friends of the graduates are encouraged to attend and celebrate this exhibition Auteurs in Angoulême, France. Her second book, Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, was published by of hard work. Music provided by the MCC Jazz Band. Drawn & Quarterly in October 2016, quickly becoming a New York Times bestseller and appearing on fteen best of the year lists. Glidden lives in Seattle, Washington. Spring Production: Bus Stop by William Inge Friday April 13, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Director’s Choice: Saturday, April 14, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15, 2018, 2:00 p.m. Includes eight showcases measuring 67.5” long x 34.5” wide x 3.5” deep which are located on the rst and MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus, Building 4, Room 141 second oors of Building 12. Artwork displayed in these cases is part of a curated exhibition of the Mercer Gallery. Free Parking in Lot F If you have ideas for a potential artist or artists, please submit a proposal. TheatreMCC at the Fringe Festival: Nevermore! In Motion Two cowboys, a nightclub singer, and a philosophy Created by Heather Rene Chang professor are stranded with the town sheri , two Points of Departure; Meditations on Mapping and MCC’s On The Edge Drama Troupe waitresses, and a bus driver at a small town diner during September - October 2017 September 14, 2017, 9:00 p.m. an unexpected snowstorm that has made all roads September 17, 2017, 6:00 p.m. impassable. As the night wears on, the strangers make Anthony Rigano - Photography School of the Arts, Black Box Theatre connections, confront broken dreams, and nd romance. October - November 2017 45 Prince St, Rochester, NY 14607 Ticket Prices: Witness unique retellings of the eerily haunting works $8.00 MCC Community / $10.00 General Public of Edgar Allen Poe. Through the art of pantomime and Tickets available at www.monroecctickets.com Jeana Bonacci-Roth - Recent Paintings ...... November - December 2017 masque, this unique theatrical experience will immerse audiences into the troubling mind of one of the earliest MCC’s Children’s Show: Mole Rat Badger Toad Jeana Bonacci-Roth makes art as a form of daily meditation and states, “It is my way to be present by David Henderson masters of horror. in the moment and get in touch with the automatic and subconscious.” Thursday, May 24, 2018 ...... 6:30 p.m. Fall Musical: Man of La Mancha MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus Tony Leuzzi & Peter Monacelli - Collage Book by Dale Wasserman January - February 2018 Building 4, Room 141 Music by Mitch Leigh These two artists have collaborated on many projects over the years. This exhibition will be made up of the collages Free Parking in Lot F Lyrics by Joe Darion they have done while working with discarded books. Free and Open to the Public Friday, November 17, 2017 ...... Mole, Rat and Badger return from their latest adventure Saturday, November 18, 2017, 7:30p.m. to nd Toad has run o to Big City for a chance to audition Artist Trading Cards and Sunday, November 19, 2017, 2:00 p.m. for If You Think You Can Sing! The trio nally catch up March - May 2018 Based on Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, this with Toad just as all four friends nd themselves in the Artist trading cards are miniature pieces of art that are traded around the world. Artists create, trade and collect iconic musical relates the story of Cervantes, imprisoned spotlight like they never imagined! A fresh, new play art at organized “swap” events. The only o cial rule for ATCs is the size: 2.5” x 3.5”. Open to any media, materials or by the Spanish Inquisition for committing a crime featuring the characters of Kenneth Graham’s The Wind techniques as long as the card ts into a standard trading card sleeve. ATC’s are traded, not sold. All artists are against the Church. As part of his defense, and with in the Willows from the writer-director team of MCC’s invited to trade at the closing reception on May , 2018 at 5:00 p.m. Guidelines for this event are available in the the help of his fellow prisoners, he performs a play The Reluctant Dragon. Mercer Gallery or contact Kathleen Farrell, the Gallery Director, for more details. telling the story of Alonso Quijana, an aging man who ...... enjoys books of chivalry and adventure, and who THEATRE AUDITIONS: Mystery Video Dailies believes himself to be a knight errant known as Don All auditions will be held in the MCC Theatre, Brighton Mercer Gallery, Building 12, Room 114 Quixote. With his loyal friend and squire, Sancho Panza, Campus, Building 4, Room 141 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Art and Artist video viewing with introductions and discussion. at his side, Alonso travels o into the countryside on For more information contact Theatrical Director Have an idea, a video, an animation, or a short lm and want to be part of this? numerous misadventures and befriends a reluctant, Heather Chang at [email protected]. Submit a proposal. Submissions of original work are welcome. bitter and hardened woman known as Aldonza, but Man of La Mancha: whom Don Quixote calls his Lady Dulcinea. Together, September 12, 2017 and September 13, 2017 the unlikely trio seek out “The Impossible Dream.” Bus Stop: Ticket Prices: January 29, 2018 and January 30, 2018 $8.00 MCC Community / $10.00 General Public Mole Rat Badger Toad: Tickets available at www.monroecctickets.com March 5, 2018 and March 6, 2018 INTERNAL COMBUSTION: What is an Internal Combustion Event? It is video, lm, sculpture, painting, drawing, dance, theatre, performance, installation, on the wall, o the wall, in the gallery, or outside the gallery. Eleventh Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting Competition We see Internal Combustion as open-ended, a vehicle for traditional and non-traditional forms Thursday, May 10, 2017 of expressions, often running concurrently with scheduled gallery events. How do you see it? 7:00 p.m Interested? Submit a proposal for the calendar. All Internal Combustion events are free and open MCC Black Box Theatre, Building 4, Room 145 to the public. Various exhibition spaces, such as the MCC Forum and the R. Thomas Flynn Center Reservations Required ON Exhibition Space, are also available for exhibition proposals.
This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to provide MCC students a I competitive venue for their scripts, to o er winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION EVENT as staged readings with an eye towards future play development, and to o er VaPA students the opportunity to T Camera Building Workshop with Anthony Rigano participate in the new-play-development process. Three winning playwrights receive cash prizes. One winning Monday, October 9, 2017 playwright also will have his/her play submitted to a nationwide competition and performed at MuCCC on 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Atlantic Avenue as part of Rochester’s Annual College Theatre Festival. Scripts will be accepted for consideration Building 4, Room 115 beginning in September. US Anthony Rigano will conduct a workshop centered on demonstrating how to build and use a homemade camera. Participants will have the opportunity to build their own pinhole camera B as well as other types of cameras. He will demonstrate cameras that he has built, created from ...... salvaged materials. This workshop is geared towards anyone interested in old technology, do-it yourself projects or photography in general. M
2017-2018 Special Projects: No Face Cornhusk Doll Workshop The Sixth Act will continue to develop curriculum-support materials and post-production talk-backs for both Friday, October 11, 2017 VaPA’s and Geva’s 2017-2018 season in an e ort to encourage faculty across MCC to teach these plays in their 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. individual courses and to enrich this process for all involved. Building 12 Room 226 At this workshop, Ronnie Reitter from Ganondagan will discuss the importance of corn to the The Sixth Act also will continue to develop Drama on Demand, now as a Video Library. This popular program Seneca people and its many uses. Reitter will bring many di erent examples of cornhusk items now features web-based, lmed versions of VaPA students performing scenes from published plays so these to the classroom. Participants will construct their own individual doll. scenes can be used as co-curricular tools across campus. The Sixth Act Formed in 2004, The Sixth Act provides co-curricular support for the study of drama across disciplines at MCC. To this end, The Sixth Act (1) develops AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION EVENT co-curricular events and materials for MCC faculty and students, especially those who might teach or study plays Shane Logan, Illustrator and Caricaturist or playwriting, and (2) provides enrichment opportunities to encourage all MCC faculty, students, and sta to see Tuesday October 24, 2017 and talk about plays produced at MCC and in the Rochester area. 10:00 a.m. The Sixth Act seeks as its leaders faculty, sta , and students drawn Building 12, Room 228 from a variety of academic disciplines and departments. The Sixth Act Shane Logan, the owner of SPL Ink, will demonstrate his skills and and talk about his career with is supported by MCC’s Creative Arts Committee and School of Humanities caricatures, portraits, graphic design, personalized greeting cards, and character development. and Social Sciences. AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION EVENT / Jim Downer, Animation Workshops For more information see http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/sixthact/?a-zindex Visual FX. Chroma Key Workshop: Pixelation Workshop: or contact Maria Brandt at [email protected]. Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Wednesday, March 14, 2018 INTERNAL CO INTERNAL 2:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Mercer Gallery Mercer Gallery Indigenous Environmental Activism in Art November 9 - December 14, 2017 19th Annual Otis Young Motivational Speak-o Opening Reception: Friday, November 10, 2017 Saturday, May 5, 2018 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The No DAPL movement stimulated many to “Stand with Standing Rock” against big oil in 2016 and incited awareness MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus, Building 4, Room 141 of critical environmental issues and climate change. Indigenous communities have long been aware of various Free and Open to the Public problems of the environment and have re ected it in their art practice. Indigenous Environmental Activism in Art Parking in Lot F showcases how Indigenous artists are raising awareness of environmental issues. As a part of the show, posters This annual event provides students the opportunity to further develop their public speaking skills. To prepare of artists’ work will be available for purchase and proceeds will go towards charities that are taking a stand for this event students participate in a Honors course in which they develop, revise and rehearse an original against climate change. ve-to-seven minute motivational speech...... Bake-O /24-Hour Play Saturday, October 21 7:00 p.m. R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum, 3-130 Free and Open to the Public Parking in Lot M MCC students will meet in R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Regrouping for a Respite from the Doldrums: Forum, 3-130, at 7 PM on Friday, October 7, to begin the process of creating a series of short plays Valerie Berner, Bill Fricke, Howard Koft, Dunstan Luke, from nothing. 24 hours later, those plays will be ready for Paula Santirocco, and Dan Scally an audience. Come laugh with us, cry with us, and help January 25 - February 22, 2018 us celebrate the magic of co-curricular, interdisciplinary Opening Reception: Thursday, January 25, 2018 collaboration at its most immediate. 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m...... Visiting Playwright: Judith Thompson An Early Work Late in Life -- The Art and Life of Danny Allen Reading & Book-Signing Playwriting Workshop March 1 - March 29, 2018 Thursday, March 1, 2018 Friday, March 2, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1, 2018 7:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Warshof Conference Center, Monroe A Building 8, Room 200 Daniel "Danny" Allen was a largely self-taught Rochester artist who lived Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the MCC Community and worked in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Allen’s work had a profound Parking in Lot M in uence on the regional cultural scene. He was openly gay and was one Judith Thompson is a playwright, director, actor, and artistic director of RARE theatre. She is the author of some of the rst artists to address this issue in his work. Allen worked in a fteen published plays, many translated and produced around the world. She has won the Governor General’s variety of mediums for his drawings, sketches, paintings, collages and Award, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Dora Award, and the assemblages. This exhibition will also include the work of Allen's friends: Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. The mandate of RARE theatre is to stage communities Kathy Calderwood, Bill Whiting, Juliana Furlong Williams, Eva Weiss, seldom heard and rarely seen. The rst production, rare, was performed by actors with Down Syndrome, while António Petracca, Steven Plunkett, and Ramon Martinez. During the the second, Borne, was co-written with actors who use wheelchairs, having both quadriplegia and paraplegia. exhibition, Mr. Bill Whiting will give a talk based on his book An Early The most recent production, Wild re, was written by Judith Thompson for performers with Down Syndrome, Work Late in Life—The Life and Art of Danny Allen, which he wrote following the discovery of one of Allen’s exquisite addressing the horror of recently closed institutions for those with di erences. Judith is also a Professor of surrealist miniatures lost in the archives of the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery. Several other artists will also talk about Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. their interactions with Allen during the turbulent artistic counter culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Points of Departure: Meditations on Mapping Cuban artists, Los Carpinteros, imprinted ip- ops with a map of Old Havana to convey the idea of walking in the shoes of another. In this exhibition dozens of mappings from multiple disciplines are portals into the thinking of others. Along with the anchor exhibit at the Mercer Gallery at MCC, six other venues will extend the scope of the show across the Rochester area, linking the various institutions and threading connections throughout. This exhibition was curated by Colleen Buzzard and Karen Sardisco. Tuesday, September 5 - Saturday, September 30, 2017 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 14, 2017 / 5:00-7:00 p.m. Art & Music Library Gallery (University of Rochester) Monday, September 11 - Friday, October 13, 2017 Lab Space@RoCo (Rochester Contemporary Art Center) Friday, October 6 - Sunday, November 12, 2017 Sunken Gallery, Wallace Library (Rochester Institute of Technology) August - September 2017 Visual Studies Workshop Tuesday, October 24 – Saturday, November 11, 2017 Rare Books & Collections (University of Rochester) Schwartz Map Collection Exhibit Autumn 2017 Art and Music Library (University of Rochester) Artist's Book Collection Autumn 2017 Fine Arts Building 12, Room 114
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Kathleen Farrell, Gallery Director Monica Jane Frisell 585-292-2021 or 585.292.3121 Looking Forward/Portraits from an RV October 5 - November 2, 2017 email: [email protected] Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Gallery Talk: Wednesday, October 4, at 12:00 p.m. Parking for Art Opening Receptions is free in Lot F. Photographs and collected stories by Monica Jane Frisell. Other times parking is available in visitor parking (Lot V) or meters. This exhibition documents Frisell’s 6831-mile journey during which she gathered portraits and stories from around the country while traveling in an RV with her dog Lucy. During this time, Frisell essentially formed a community of the people who came in contact with her RV. Through her work, she connects people who would otherwise be unable to meet.