Monday, August 1 Burchfield Penney Art Center (Auditorium) 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo Arts Services Initiative of WNY celebrates its five year anniversary with President and CEO of Americans for the Arts Bob Lynch. Key Note: Bob Lynch discussed Americans for the Arts' Transforming America’s Communities Through the Arts Initiative which examines the transformative powers of the [...]
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Burchfield Penney Art Center ASI co-hosted this session to introduce the new Chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel. "Barbaralee has dedicated her career to preserving and enriching cultural life across the state and across the nation," Governor Andrew Cuomo said. "She is a leader whose [...]
Thursday, May 5, 2016 4:00pm Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo Erie County will be hosting a 2017 Cultural Funding Applicant Briefing - If you are interested in working on the application during the briefing, please print a copy before arriving. The application has not yet been released, but will be before the [...]
Six arts organizations in Erie County will receive a total of more than $100,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announce. The funding will help support artist residencies, exhibitions, professional development and public outreach. Recipients include the Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, [...]
Tod Kniazuk, at the podium, along with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and representatives from various cultural institutions talked about the importance of this month's National Museum Day. More than a dozen area museums and cultural institutions are seizing an opportunity to expose the arts to more people. At least 15 such organizations across Western New [...]
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, UB Center for the Arts, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Just Buffalo Literary Center and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center are among the nonprofit Buffalo arts organizations that have received funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. But Rep. Brian Higgins warned Monday that a House appropriations bill would [...]
