Join Foundlings Press for the official launch of Goodness Gracious, a poetry chapbook by Nicholas Molbert, winner of the 2018 Wallace Award. More information here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buffalo Arts Studio is pleased to announce our programming for M&T Fourth Friday in August with the Second Annual Panthfrica Celebration. This celebration includes both visual and performing arts and took take place on August 23, 2019 from 5:00-8:00 pm.

Panthfrica is a collective of black creatives that transform and empower communities through the arts and entrepreneurship by partnering with community arts organizations to present special events that reflects the Afro-futurist view of a powerful, heroic future for people of color while also sharing music and spoken word rooted in African traditions.

The Second Annual Panthfrica Celebration coincides with “Black Imaginings”, a solo exhibition by Stacey Robinson (Urbana-Champaign, Ill) whose work discusses ideas of “Black Utopias” and Afrofuturism as decolonized spaces of peace. Also on display is “Night Boy” by Black Kirby, a collaboration between Robinson and John Jennings (Riverside, CA) based on their most recent project “Night Boy”, a graphic novel that tells the story of a young victim of police brutality who becomes a pawn in a supernatural power struggle, and a guardian of the City of Light.

In the Community Space Gallery “A Leap of Faith into a Galactic Adventure Story” will showcase artwork by Buffalo students who participated in a week-long workshop with Stacey Robinson. Students developed graphic novel sequences based on Night Boy to create original artwork inspired by Black Kirby’s bold forms, combining themes centered around Afrofuturism, social justice, representation, and magical realism.

 

Buffalo, NY educator and poet, Karen Eckert, started The Poeta Project in response to a need she saw in high schools: students holding back creatively and giving up too easily. Combining poetry, art, and education, this exhibition is a “call and response” between Eckert’s’s poetry and work from local artists. To start, 16 poems were given to 16 different artists. They had to use the title of the poem as the title of their artwork and draw inspiration from the piece (either title, overall theme, one line, etc.) and create a work of art. In turn, they gave Eckert one original work and Eckert had to find inspiration from that (color, theme, one aspect, etc.), use their title as her title, and create a poem.

All 32 works were on display within the Buffalo Arts Studio Community Space from October 8-November 1, 2019 with a reception on M&T Fourth Friday, October 25, 2019 from 5-8pm.

The process of using each other’s medium to craft new work demonstrates the ways one can find inspiration in new sources t and the value in taking risks, persevering, and ultimately learning about yourself and your practice. Eckert is using the project as a model for unit plans that educators can use to replicate the process in their schools. Through the Pollination Project grant Eckert received in November of 2018, she was able to create a website that will house the units and serve as the basis for continuing this project in the future.

Participating artists include:
Monica Angle, Tricia Butski, Markenzy Cesar, Emily Churco, Charlie Clough, Matt Grote, Evan Hawkins, Sarah Liddell, Michael Mararian, Anne Muntges, Esther Neisen, Peter Sowiski, Kelly Vetter, Joe Vollan, Alexa Wajed, Muhammad Zaman

Friday May 10, 2019 from 4pm -7pm. Tribute and celebration of Richard Gubernick including an exhibit of his drawings and other artwork.

 

 

Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 2019, 5-8pm.

This senior thesis exhibition by ten senior BFA graphic design students of Villa Maria College represents the culmination of the visual communication and design skills acquired throughout their undergraduate studies. The body of work includes the branding and/or rebranding of both original or existing products, services and businesses with designs ranging from business systems to integrated marketing campaigns that include packaging, magazine ads, posters, billboards and web site design.

FEATURING:

Shelby Braidich

Francesca Bubb

Michael Csizmadia

Ana Echeverria

Kallie Fasciana

Chelsea Herriven

Jean Hund

Rebecca Kendall

Michael Morganti

Wendie Scherer

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Chartwells and Gateway Printing & Graphics

Featuring the artwork of Amy Greenan, Melanie Fisher, and Travis Keller, this exhibition will explore identity, collective memory, and the speculative-surreal tied to each of the artists’ engagements to the landscape genre.

This exhibition is one in a series of nomadic exhibitions curated by the Dreamland Board in an effort to reconstitute the organization’s visual arts branch. This comes in the wake and recovery of Dreamland being forced to leave its first home at 387 Franklin Street in the heart of Buffalo. Dreamland’s long-term goal is to raise enough money to purchase a property within the city of Buffalo and renew our commitment to Buffalo as a coalition of artists, activists, curators, and volunteers dedicated to Dreamland’s mission of providing a cultural alternative for artists and patrons of the Arts in the Greater Buffalo area.

 

BPS City Honors International Baccalaureate Senior Art Exhibit showcases artwork from 12 students in a variety of mediums. The IB Visual Arts course requires students in their senior year to curate and exhibit a collection of their art work from junior and senior years. Exhibiting artists as Lorin Brown, Sage Enderton, Cecelia Favorito, Naomi Hata, Juliu Mai, Sinead McDevitt, Theo Meadows, Jennifer Mitsuyama-Brandenberger, Julia Penchaszadeh-Robert, Mitchell Podgorny, and Mariana Silva.

 

Zsófi Barabás was Buffalo Arts Studio’s inaugural Artist-In-Residence, and part of the first generation of the BuBu Artist Exchange and Residency Program between Buffalo, New York and Budapest, Hungary. Her colorful, amorphous paintings and stark, black and white works on paper reflect her extensive travels, and draw inspiration from distinct architectural elements throughout the world. Prior to her residency in Buffalo, her artwork has been featured widely in exhibitions across Europe, as well as Russia and Japan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Buffalo Niagara Art Association (BNAA) is a stylistically diverse network of western New York artists bonded together to promote community understanding and interest in the visual arts. In 1957, the Society sponsored its first outdoor art festival on the lawn of the Amherst Central high school. Over time it developed a tradition of annual spring and fall exhibitions held in various galleries throughout the area. The exhibited works and awards were selected by a non-member juror who possessed reputable credentials in the art field. This tradition continues to this day.

The Annual Fall Members Exhibition features 53 works by 29 artists in a variety of media. Participating artists include:

Dennis Bertram
Paula Marie Borkowski
Karen Bradfield
Joseph Bucolo
Enid Edelman
Diane Goupil
Donna Hale
Joan Hambleton
Jean Jain
Paulette Arida Jurek
Joan Langley Shaw
Jean MacDonald
Michelle Marcotte
Maureen Matthews
Manning McCandlish
William McCullagh
Beverly McIntyre
Debra Meier
Sherryl Perez
Jeannette Pikturna
Sherrill Primo
Marie Prince
Judie Pufpaff
Kathy Schifano
Melinda K. Schneider
E. Jane Stoddard
Mimi Swados
Mark Tollner
Deanna Weinholtz

Sponsors of the BNAA include Judson’s Outfitters, New York Frame, Hyatt’s, Dick Blick, and the Silvestro Family. 

Image: McDonnell, A Winter Walk, 2018, oil on canvas

This senior thesis exhibition by ten senior BFA graphic design students of Villa Maria College represents the culmination of the visual communication and design skills acquired throughout their undergraduate studies. The body of work includes the branding and/or rebranding of both original or existing products, services and businesses with designs ranging from business systems to integrated marketing campaigns that include packaging, magazine ads, posters, billboards and web site design.

 

 FEATURING

• Brandi Aurelio
• Gina Griffo
• Alexander Mayers
• Tiarra McGinnis
• Adam Schuh
• Travis Springer
• Erika Tozzo
• Dawan Turner
• John Willis
• Kayla Zelasko

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
Chartwells
Gateway Printing & Graphics