In the same building as CEPA, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center continues its 35-year legacy of innovation with films, video, and new media installations. CEPA also operates Big Orbit Gallery, a multidisciplinary contemporary space on Buffalo’s burgeoning West Side, which features innovative art installations. Located in the historic Market Arcade Complex, the center is known for expanding the limits of image making. Hallwalls is located in a Gothic Revival church, renovated by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco and renamed Babeville.ĬEPA is a 44-year-old internationally recognized arts center focusing on photography and photo-related arts. Founded in 1974, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center continues to present art, media, and music that challenges and extends traditional boundaries. The Burchfield is just one of many exciting opportunities in a city known for its vibrant art community. On the second Fridays of every month, the BPAC hosts happy hours, performances, concerts, screenings, and other events. Works from the collection are in continuous rotation, so no two visits are alike.

No art-enthusiast should miss the Burchfield Penney Art Center (BPAC), an 84,000 square-foot museum dedicated to the art of Western New York, including nationally notable artists, and the largest public collection by famed American watercolorist Charles Burchfield. While the jewel in Buffalo’s cultural crown – the Buffalo AKG Art Museum – is closed until the spring of 2023 for a $180 million renovation and expansion that will add 30,000 square feet for displaying special exhibitions and the museum’s world-renowned art collection, Buffalo’s deep bench of eclectic art organizations should keep any art lover happily engaged.

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