The Lower Mill Galleries

The studios and galleries are what make every visit to The Lower Mill so unique and exciting. The main gallery space on the 2nd floor is available for special events and to the public Monday - Saturday, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM.

Starting at the top - on the 3rd floor is fine artist Teresa Torchia. On the second floor is the Mill Art Center & Gallery, and then be sure to take a look at the fine hand crafts on display and for sale at Talulah's Fancy and Friends. Exhibitions are also featured in The Rabbit Room restaurant on the 1st floor. Make sure to visit often.

Schedule Your Own Gallery Event

The stone walls and excellent acoustics make the gallery a wonderful backdrop for music, special events, and meetings. For catered events at the Mill Art Center and Gallery, contact The Rabbit Room restaurant: (585) 582-1830 or email EVENTS

Current Exhibits

REBUILDING LIFE in El Sauce
Opening Reception
Tuesday, Feb 21, 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Photography of Kris Dreessen:
Images taken in El Sauce, Nicaragua as they help rebuild schools and lives. A special exhibition of photographs taken by El Sauce teens, who are documenting their own lives, will also be displayed. El Sauce volunteers, the Lupisella family, will share their experiences.

Acoustic Live Music from 8pm - 8:30pm
by El Sauce guitarist/singer Enrique Corrales

Last fall, local community members united to raise money to help residents in El Sauce, Nicaragua, build the first school ever to open in Las Minitas, a remote mountain community there. Las Minitas residents lobbied for four years to obtain a permanent teacher.

Volunteers raised $11,500 in just four months with barbecues, concerts, school coin drives and other initiatives. They included students in the Avon and Lima elementary schools, SUNY Geneseo students who have volunteered or studied in the El Sauce area, and other supporters such as Rotary.

Three Honeoye Falls volunteers — elementary school principals Rob and Jeanine Lupisella and journalist/photographer Kris Dreessen — helped construct the one-room brick school last month. When it opens Feb. 11, the school will serve 40 to 45 elementary-aged students, who used to walk up to an hour and a half each way to attend classes in another community.

The school is another advancement in a partnership between Enlace Project, a group of volunteers who assist El Sauce development, El Sauce residents and volunteers to rebuild sustainable and eco-responsible business.

The event opens “Rebuilding: Life in El Sauce,” a selection of images by Kris Dreessen, who has spent three years documenting economic development initiatives and life in El Sauce.

For the first time, selected works by El Sauce amateur photographers will be on display from Dreessen’s Friends Photo Project. Using digital cameras, teens in El Sauce and Las Minitas are sharing their lives and what is important to them from their own perspective.