The 2022-2023 season of Arts Access is here and we went around the city to showcase some of our incredible partner organizations while chatting about all things Arts Access. Whether you're signing up for the first time or if you're renewing your pass, we're so excited to have you in our Arts Access family. [...]
4220 Bailey Avenue, Amherst NY Arts Services Inc. of Western New York (ASI), on behalf of Assemblymember Karen McMahon’s Office, invites artists in all appropriate mediums (2-dimensional and 3-dimensional) from throughout Western New York to submit proposals for an outdoor public art project located at Amherst Police Department Community Policing and Training Facility in [...]
ASI is excited to introduce our newest professional development series, "From the Ground Up," which will feature workshops and trainings for newcomers in a number of exciting topics. For our first two events, we're thrilled to have our board member, Attorney Mike de Freitas, at the helm to present two workshops about starting a [...]
ASI is excited to introduce our newest professional development series, "From the Ground Up," which will feature workshops and trainings for newcomers in a number of exciting topics. For our first two events, we're thrilled to have our board member, Attorney Mike de Freitas, at the helm to present two workshops about starting a [...]
The 2022-2023 season of Arts Access here and we're excited to announce some new partners as well as the Arts Access Plus program. You can now register or renew for your pass online, in-person at ASI or one of our signup locations, or we can mail you an application. If you have any questions [...]
Photo: "As You Like It" performed by Shakespeare in Delaware Park The deadline to apply for the Fendrick Theatre Fund is this Friday, August 19th at 11:59 PM. The $1,000 Fendrick Theatre Fund award is distributed by ASI every other year to a creative theater artist. It was made in the memory of the fund's establishers, [...]
Virtual Reality Theory and Praxis In this two-day intensive for intermediate media students, filmmaker Deniz Tortum will introduce participants to a critical history and practice of virtual reality, from the stereoscope from the 1850s to the Unity / Unreal based systems of today. Participants will leave the workshop with a sense of serious play of [...]
ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County are excited to co-present a series of free Art & Immersive Technology workshops for artists who are interested in utilizing virtual and augmented reality to create and/or enhance their work. This program is designed to introduce VR and AR platforms and programs to rural and urban artists [...]
Each election cycle, Arts Services Inc. poses a series of arts related questions to candidates running for elected office across the region, focusing on the legislative and executive branches. Arts and culture is an important contributor to the area’s economic development, tourism, quality of life, education, and national identity and ASI feels it is important to gauge [...]
At Arts Services Inc., we believe that the arts are for everyone. Recently, some of the staff spent a couple of days out of the office, taking time to check out a few arts and cultural attractions that are close by. Just a few hours spent exploring the neighborhood made us remember what we [...]
