Gameplay Expected To Soar Following "First Friday" in December

Friday, December 6th is "First Friday" in Rochester. This will be the second First Friday during Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 gameplay. The last First Friday will be on January 3, 2025. Gameplay ends on January 31, 2025.

If you don't already know, the first Friday night of each month is a big deal in the Rochester arts scene. Many art venues hold special exhibition events (read: parties!) on the first Friday of every month. It's so popular that Rochester Contemporary Arts Center (RoCo) hosts a special page on their website to share information about events scheduled on "First Fridays": FirstFridayRochester.org

First Fridays have evolved to become a sort of progressive party celebrating the artists, arts organizations, galleries, and the art scene. To make First Fridays even more exciting it's common for art venues to host their exhibition "OPENING" event right on First Fridays. When you combine the excitement of a progressive party with an opening night event you get a crowd. Fun! 

On Friday, December 6th there will be OVER TWENTY-FIVE art events around town! See a sampling of the offerings below.

One of the largest annual exhibition of works offered for sale at a single venue in our region - the Rochester Contemporary Arts Center's Members Exhibition - will hold its opening celebration on Friday, December 6th. The exhibition will feature hundreds of works for sale displayed "salon style" (from floor to ceiling).  The works will be smaller in scale and priced accordingly. Artists typically submit works created in a wide variety of media. If you love to look at art, don't miss this wonderful show!

Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 players will be out and about looking at art on Friday night. They'll be taking pictures and posting their activities to their Instagram accounts. Not long after each player will  post photographs of their choices to their fantasy art collection albums on Facebook.

Learn more about all the ways you can participate in Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 alongside the players HERE.

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A sampling of "First Friday" events scheduled for December 6th:

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Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 is a program of Rochester Art Collectors.
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Participating in Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 is FREE and open to the public. None of the players are paying to play or receiving any compensation. The program is privately funded and entirely non-commercial. Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 is not a fundraiser of any kind for any organization.

​The works of art chosen by Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 players for their fantasy art collections are not being purchased with real money. Red Dot Challenge is a FANTASY art collecting GAME. Players are having fun PRETENDING to buy/collect the art and modeling art collecting behaviors.

In all instances the artists retain the copyright for their work as well as all other rights and privileges provided by the law.

If you are interested in purchasing a work of art you've seen during Red Dot Challenge, Season 1 gameplay, please inquire at the venue where the work is exhibited.​​