Voted Rochester's Favorite City School... SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is a Rochester City School District secondary school. Nestled in the Neighborhood of the Arts, it is located in the heart of Rochester's Cultural District. School of the Arts (or SOTA) offers a rich diversity of arts disciplines including Creative Writing. Lambent is Rochester's School of the Arts literary magazine, featuring the original writing of our senior creative writing majors graduating class of 2018. Enjoy this new volume of original poetry and prose from these new and upcoming young writers.