Creative Mark Making
2024-06-19 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Creative Mark Making
Intuitive Drawing Workshop

June 2024 10:30am — 12:00pm

Artist/Instructor: Kathy Gaye Shiroki
Wednesdays, June 19 and 26
Fee: $37 members/$47 not-yet-members (includes both classes)
Develop innovative ideas by trusting your intuitive process. Artists need time to explore and play in new ways that generate unique perspectives. Participants will create using various materials and approaches to inspire and motivate their creativity. This hands-on workshop is about investigating and experimenting through artmaking. No experience is necessary.

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About the Aritst
Kathy’s innovative approach to looking at art opens new conversations. She has worked in Modern and Contemporary Art Museums for over thirty years. In conjunction with her museum work at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, she is the liaison between the Burchfield Penney and Buffalo State University. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Art and Design Department, teaching classes that range from Art Education courses to Themes and Issues in Contemporary Art. Kathy contributed to the publication Academic Museums: Exhibitions and Education, Museums, etc., on ‘Peer-to-Peer Tours,’ Buffalo State student-led tours at the Burchfield Penney. Her installation work has been exhibited nationally, reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, and locally exhibited at Hallwalls and King Fish Gallery. Kathy Gaye Shiroki holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego, a BFA from Tyler School of Art, and her Associate’s degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, School of American Craftsmen.

Suggested Supplies:
A brown paper bag, for example, from Trader Joe
Mark-making materials, colored pencils, markers, and anything around the house
Black sharpie maker
Sketchbook
Scissors

For further information, contact Kathy Gaye Shiroki

Saturdays in the Useum Studio
2024-06-01 10:30 - 16:00 | Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Open Studio
Saturdays in the Useum Studio

Jun 2024 10:30am — 4:00pm

Open Studio at the Burchfield Penney Art Center is a drop-in workshop on Saturdays from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm. Each month, explore and experiment with various art materials and techniques guided by Museum Educator Michaela Worosz.
Open Studio welcomes individuals of all ages and skill levels to join the fun and express their creativity. Each month, we will delve into a new theme and art material, allowing you to expand your artistic knowledge and skillset. Each creative theme project is designed to complement the current exhibitions within the museum and the colors, shapes, and textures of the Usuem Studio. Whether you are an experienced artist or a beginner, our Open Studio is the perfect place to learn, create, and connect with other like-minded individuals in a relaxed and supportive environment.
No registration is required. Drop-in anytime between 10:30 am and 4:00 pm.
Free with admission. Members are free.
All materials will be provided.

July M&T Second Friday 2024
2024-07-12 17:30 - 20:00 | Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
July M&T Second Friday 2024

Jul 12, 2024 5:30pm — 8:00pm

ABOUT M&T SECOND FRIDAYS
Mark your calendars for the second Friday of each month when, thanks to the generous support of M&T Bank, we stay open late, and admission is free! Immerse yourself in artistic experiences, from captivating exhibition premieres to engaging all-ages art-making sessions, curated screenings, and special programs. Explore the galleries, shop The Museum Store, and enjoy live music. Our cash-only pop-up bar awaits, offering soft drinks, wine, and beer. Stop by Roux Soup Bar & Café, serving up a delicious array of soups, sandwiches, and salads.
Psst! Here’s an exclusive offer just for you – enjoy a 10% discount on most Museum Memberships when you join or renew in person during M&T Second Friday. Stop by our membership table to learn more!

Stay tuned to find out what’s on for July M&T Second Friday 2024!

Live Music

Ten Cent Howl
Reception Space
5:30pm- 8pm
Ten Cent Howl has been making waves in the Buffalo Americana scene for almost two decades. Their music is built on a strong foundation of solid, story-telling songs, professional musicianship, and incredible vocal harmonies.

Creating Form with Boxes
2024-07-17 10:30 - 13:00 | Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Creating Form with Boxes
Cardboard Scuplture Workshop

Jul 17, 2024 10:30am — 1:30pm

Artist/Instructor: Jan Dylewski
Date: Wednesday, July 17
Time: 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Fee: $40 Members/$50 Not yet-members
Burchfield Penney Art Center. All Supplies are included. Limited participants.
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Create extraordinary sculptures using staples, cardboard, and your imagination. Inspired by the works of Ann Weber, learn how to manipulate strips of cardboard into sturdy dynamic structures. All materials will be provided. Bring your creativity!

Jan Dylewski
Jan Dylewski has been active in the local arts community for many years and is currently a visual arts teacher at City Honors School. She graduated from SUNY Fredonia as well as graduate studies at SUNY Buffalo State University. While her personal work pairs whimsy and design, her passion is art education. Jan’s recent workshops have been the WNY Land Conservancy and demonstrations at the Borderlands Music Festival.

For further information, please contact Kathy Shiroki at shirokkg@buffalostate.edu.

Burchfield's Garden
2024-07-31 10:30 - 13:00 | Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Burchfield’s Garden
Watercolor Workshop

2024 10:30am — 1:00pm

Artist/Instructor: Jennifer Koury
Wednesday, July 31, and August 7
Time: 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Fee: $62 members/$82 not-yet-members (for both workshops)
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Enjoy painting Summer’s bounty of flora and insects. Celebrate the season’s growth and life around you with vibrant colors and unique shapes while designing your personal composition. Find creativity and blossoming expression within Burchfield’s unique perspective on flowers, plants, birds, insects, and weather. You might even paint the feeling of trilling insects vibrating the air, blowing wind, or splashing warm summer rain.
Jennifer Koury
Jennifer Koury is a Buffalo-based artist, freelance illustrator, and arts educator. She instructs for The Roycroft Campus, Springville Center for the Arts, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s International Center for Watercolor. Jennifer has taught a weekly series of watercolor workshops inspired by Suddenly I Awoke: The Dream Journals of Charles E. Burchfield. Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY represent her. In 2022, her works were featured in Luminance, a four-person watercolor exhibit at Meibohm Fine Arts. In 2023, at Springville Center for the Arts, Koury’s plein air paintings inspired by Emery Park’s old-growth forest were highlighted in a two-person exhibition, Whose Woods These Are. She has exhibited her paintings in solo and group shows and won awards, including being a finalist in the Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Her art is featured in the NFWS Mary Whyte Gallery Walk video, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Visitor Center, and Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona. Her illustrations appear in many children’s books and volumes for adults. She is a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists and a signature member of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society. She holds degrees in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, and Art Center College of Design, California.

Supplies for participants to bring:

Please bring a sample of your garden’s bounty to share and inspire the class.
Bring a photo reference if you require it.
Drawing paper, graphite pencils, erasers, and transfer/tracing paper
Palette, your favorite brushes and water container
Watermedia paints of your choice
100% Rag Paper or water board, and backing board or table easel

For further information, please contact Kathy Shiroki

Figure Drawing Workshops (Ages 21+)
2024-09-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Figure Drawing Workshops (Ages 21+)
6 pm – 8 pm EDT
Photo by Jeff Mace.
$40 per class (Buffalo AKG Members save 15%)
Studio A, Knox Building
Thursdays, September 12, 19, 26
Studio opens at 5:30 pm
Informal life drawing sessions with a live nude model. Different gestures and poses offer a focused environment for studying the human form. Suitable for people with some prior experience. All supplies included. Sign up for an individual class or sign up for all three!
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Zoomagination: The Festival of Lanterns and Lights
2024-09-12 18:30 - 22:30 | Buffalo Zoo, 300 Parkside Ave, Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States
Zoomagination: The Festival of Lanterns and Lights
Zoomagination: The Festival of Lanterns and Lights presented by Five Star Bank! Packed with an ALL-NEW lineup of lanterns, it’s time to immerse yourself in the larger-than-life displays of Asian and African animals and culture. Watch nightly cultural performances, indulge in Asian-inspired food, relax in our Beer Garden with a specialty drink, and shop for artisan made goods all night long! Zoo attractions you know and love like the train and carousel will also be open. The possibilities are endless at this fan-favorite event!
When the sun goes down (and our animals are in bed for the night) the Zoo lights up with Zoomagination: The Festival of Lanterns and Lights. Visit evenings June 21-September 21, Thursday–Sunday from 6:30 pm–10:30 pm (ticket holders may enter any time between 6:30–9:45 pm).

Zoomagination: The Festival of Lanterns and Lights Presented by Five Star Bank does not feature the Buffalo Zoo’s animal collection.

Purchase tickets here: https://visit.buffalozoo.org/#/SpecialEvents/Zoomagination

Mutation Invasion: Flesh-eating Flora
2024-09-13 10:00 - 2024-10-31 16:00 | Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14218-1526, United States
Mutation Invasion: Flesh-eating Flora

Get trapped by the haunting allure of carnivorous plants!

September 13, 10:00 am – October 31, 4:00 pm
Cost: Included with admission

Oh no!! The Botanical Gardens is under siege by an abundance of mutated, flesh-eating plants! Carnivorous plants from the permanent collection such as venus flytraps, sundews, and pitcher plants as well as some other creepy plants will be on display along with a marvelous collection of bug-snatching sculptures created by local artist, Melanie Fisher. Visitors will not only learn more about these shocking and interesting plants, but they will be taken on an exciting, and action-packed adventure with the help of a plot-twisting comic strip created by local Buffalo artist, Nate Phillips. Through the exhibit, follow the exciting vintage-inspired comic-book story of Mutation Invasion: Flesh-eating Flora featuring a series of large storyboard posters and get an up-close look at a variety of carnivorous plants. It shares the story of how our carnivorous plants have mutated into even bigger and scarier flesh-eating flora that put the Botanical Gardens’ horticulturists and pollinators at risk of being eaten alive!
Larger-than-life sculptures, hungry plants, and an adventure of a lifetime all wrapped into one exhibition! Visitors will also learn more about carnivorous plants and how convergent evolution is the reason behind the existence of these “natural-born killers.”
Meet the artists!
Melanie Fisher, Sculpture artist

Melanie Fisher grew up with three sisters in Rochester, New York. She received her
Bachelors of Science in Ceramics from the State University of New York at Buffalo State
College, a Post Baccalaureate certificate at Indiana University Southeast and a Masters
in Fine Arts degree in ceramics at Ohio University- also earning a certificate in Visual
Arts Management. She has shown in galleries in New York, Indiana and Ohio as well as
non-traditional spaces including the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens in 2019.
Melanie attended residencies in the US as well as Beijing, China and Ottawa, Canada.
She currently resides in Illinois where she teaches foundational and ceramic courses at
the university level as well as community classes in ceramics. When she is not teaching,
she works on her art practice in her glamorous basement studio!
Melanie Fisher
www.melaniefisherclay.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaniefisher__/
Nate Phillips, Comic artist

Nate Phillips is a rochester transPlant living in Buffalo! He couldn’t decide on a single medium so he is a freelance artist with his wet, webbed little flippers in all sorts of pockets of art, including (but not limited to) sculpting, painting, illustration, printmaking, animation, woodcarving, graphic novels, and fiber arts when he’s feeling saucy. No matter what medium though, they all share the commonality of his deep love and fascination with the natural world.
“I am chronically unserious and clinically compelled to try and manifest the funny little ideas that bubble up to the surface from within the murk inside my skull.”
Nate Phillips
https://www.phillipsart.net/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_nattousan_

Drop-In Artmaking
2024-09-13 16:00 - 19:30 | Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Drop-In Artmaking: Crepe Paper Flowers with Janna Willoughby-Lohr of Papercraft Miracles

Friday, September 13, 2024
4 pm – 7:30 pm EDT

Photo: Jeff Mace

FREE
Studio A, Knox Building
Guests of all ages are invited to join our weekly Drop-in Artmaking from 4 to 7:30 pm, led by a Learning & Creativity Department member.
A different exhibition, theme, or artwork inspires each activity. Art supplies are provided. No registration is required; just stop by Studio A!
Come learn to make your own crepe paper flowers with artist, Janna Willoughby-Lohr of Papercraft Miracles. Learn basic techniques of working with crepe papers to make gorgeous, realistic paper flowers. No experience needed.
This drop-in opportunity is first come, first served, but you are welcome to reserve a spot ahead of time. Please email sserrano@buffaloakg.org to reserve a spot.

Tipsy Crafts (Ages 21+)
2024-09-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Tipsy Crafts (Ages 21+)

6 pm – 7:30 pm EDT

A class taking place in Studio B. Photo by Jeff Mace.

$55 per class (Buffalo AKG members save 15%!)
Wilson Town Square, Knox Building
Treat yourself! Join us for fun make-and-take projects. Meet new crafters or sign up with a friend. Registration price includes one alcoholic beverage from Cornelia to enjoy during the class; nonalcoholic options are available.
Fridays, September 13, 27; October 11, 25; November 8, 22; December 13
September 13 and 27: Cyanotypes—Make a unique print using light and found objects!
October 11 and 25: Window Painting—Create an ornamental sun catcher with glass paint and Plexi.
November 8 and 22: Mini-Hoop Embroidery—Explore the art of needlepoint and stitch while you sip.
December 13: Holiday Ornaments—Decorate in style with your own homemade holiday bling.
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Art Truck at Curtain Up! 2024
2024-09-13 21:00 - 23:00 | Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14222, United States
Art Truck at Curtain Up! 2024

FREE
1001 East Delavan Avenue
Visit the Art Truck for FREE artmaking activities at None Like You/We Care Outreach’s Christmas in July event!

Photography Night
2024-09-24 16:00 - 19:00 | Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14218-1526, United States
Photography Night
4-7pm
FREE for Members and children under 2
Guest Passes not valid for Photography Nights

Make your reservation today! Bring along your favorite photographer and join us for Photography Nights to get the most out of your photo experience at the Botanical Gardens! We are opening up the Botanical Gardens for the public to take family photos, engagement shoots, senior portraits, maternity photos, baby photos or photos of any special occasion at a reduced rate.

Our Photography Policy (below) will apply during your reservation. Please keep in mind that Photography Nights provide a shared space and you must be respectful of other guests.

KEEP IN MIND! As the sun begins to set in the fall and winter, the Botanical Gardens conservatory will also lose daylight as we are an open glass greenhouse. We will be providing our house lights to create a lovely experience during sunset, but please keep this in mind as both a photographer or model.
If you would like to take posed photography outside of these days and times, a Photography rental reservation is required. To inquire, please contact events@buffalogardens.com.

Photography Policy:

Pets are not permitted.
Furniture and large props are not permitted.
We do not allow drone photography inside.
The Botanical Gardens’ plants, arrangements, exhibits, benches, chairs, tables, signage etc. are not to be moved, walked on, or disturbed in any way. Any destruction will be at the cost of the guest.
If your party is late for your reservation, you will be held to the remaining time of your reservation or you can reschedule for a full session.
No alcoholic beverages are allowed in the facility. We reserve the right to ask anyone who appears to be intoxicated to leave without a refund.
Some exhibits or special events may be taking place on the day of your reservation; therefore, some rooms may be unavailable or altered.

Upcoming Events

September 24, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
October 15, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
November 21, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
November 26, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
December 5, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
December 10, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
December 17, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Evil Buffalo Experience
2024-09-26 18:00 - 22:00 | Bufffalo Riverworks, 359 Ganson St., Buffalo, 14203, United States
The Evil Buffalo Experience
Buffalo’s Horrific History

We’ve collected Buffalo’s 7 most notorious examples of murder, mystery and mayhem for you to enjoy this Halloween season. These eight amazing stories are brought to life on a lantern-lit tour inside an abandoned grain silo. Each story is graphically depicted in a huge chalk mural inside the silo.
The Evil Stories

Costumed guides will bring to life the deadly and amazing stories spanning more than 350 years of local history during this 50 minute indoor walking tour. The stories are graphically depicted by giant chalk hand drawn murals created by a local artist exclusively for this event.
Stories include:
-A local Jack the Ripper Suspect
-When Buffalo was burned to the ground
-A Ouija Board love-triangle topless model murder
Plus many others!
Tours

Tours are offered at the massive abandoned grain silo located at RiverWorks on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in late September and throughout October at various times. Tours are $25 per person and must be purchased in advance on line as capacity is limited!
Get Tickets!
