Vampires?!
The House of Decay is a collaboration of local artists coming together to platform the underground community with a focus on queer and political messaging.
The Open Casket is a freeform art exhibit to showcase local artists! You will find tangible art, both on display and for sale, along with multiple acts of onstage performances at certain points during the night.
The Open Casket Exhibition
Join Us!
This event is volunteer-run.
Please ask how you can get involved!
2025
Sixth Exhibition:
Vices & Virtues
This exhibition focused on “Sin and Salvation.”
OC6V&V 11.15.2025
SECOND Anniversary Show!
OCE6 Flyers
Fifth Exhibition:
Five Nights of Fear
The exhibition focused on horror and fear, both personal and popular-culture.
This was our first summer show!
OCE5NOF 7.12.2025
OCE5 Flyers
Fourth Exhibition:
Future for Freaks
This exhibition focused on imagining what future the alternative, queer, and political advocates might envision for themselves and the community.
OCEF4F 3.22.2025
OCE4 Graphics
This year we tried our hand at organizing
THREE events.
2025
2024
Third Exhibition:
Three Corpse Meal
The exhibition focused on “Hunger” in all forms.
We had a lot of fun pushing the theme, design, and structure of the event.
OC3CM 11.16.24
First Anniversary Show!
OCE3 Flyers
One Night in The Woods Photoshoot
Second Exhibition:
Mother’s Decay
Our first official theme focused on the underside of “Mother’s Day.”
OCE:MD 5.11.2024
OCE 2 Graphics
Valentines Photoshoot
2024
2023
The first exhibition was held on
November 11th, 2023!
We were very lucky to have found such a fun venue like Boulder Coffee Co to host our show and experiment with us.
OCE 11.11.23
HOD Graphics
OCE Flyers
KOTHFEST 2023
Graveyard Photoshoot
Exhumed from Mt. Hope Cemetery in the summer of 2023,
the House of Decay and their army of corpses haunt the
Greater Rochester Community.
The tenets of the House of Decay are as follows:
DIY,
Dissent,
& Decay
First Photoshoot
9.7.23