Thick beige-and-brown colored fabrics pad the walls of Ukrainian Village storefront space Fernwey. They’re not decorative—these four six-foot-tall quilts, which look more like topographic maps than ...

Artist Joyce Martelli, of Rochester, never plans her pieces. “When I am in a creative zone, I just go to my studio and start painting,” she said. “How I feel that day is represented on the material.” ...