Canisius - Art Exhibition Opening and Film Festival

6:00 p.m.- SHIELDS AGAINST EVIL: Recent Paintings by ARTUR POPEK. 
Professor Popek chairs the Department of Art at the M. Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin. He designs prints and makes illustrations for books and magazines, including Nowy Dziennik in New York. Professor Popek will be present at the Opening Reception at 5:30 on Friday, the 15th. 

7:30 p.m. - POKŁOSIE (Aftermath,120’, 2012). Directed by Władysław Pasikowski. Franciszek Kalina returns to Poland after years of living abroad, alarmed that his younger brother is at odds with the residents of their village. The estranged brothers try to find out the truth. The secret, once revealed, will leave a tragic mark on the life of the two brothers and their neighbors. A film inspired by real events.

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Friday, November 15, 2013

5:30 p.m. - SHIELDS AGAINST EVIL: Recent Paintings by Artur Popek, Opening Reception (The Montante Cultural Center, Reception Room)

7:30 p.m. - PAN TADEUSZ (124', 1928). Directed by Ryszard Ordynski.
Silent movie based on an epic poem written by Adam Mickiewicz. The film has been reconstructed from its original 3-hour version. Live music by Marcin Pukaluk. The program is made in collaboration with the National Cinematheque in Warsaw.

****

Saturday, November 16, 2013

7:30 p.m. - UKŁAD ZAMKNIĘTY (Close Circuit, 100', 2013). Directed by Ryszard Bugajski. Q&A Session with the Director and Actress, Maria Mamona.
Polish with English subtitles. A thriller, loosely based on real-life experiences of three, much too successful businessmen who draw the ire of local officials and face a Kafkaesque nightmare of imprisonment.

****

Sunday, November 17, 2013

3:00 p.m. - RÓŻA (Rose, 98', 2011). Directed by Wojciech Smarzowski
Polish with English subtitles. A story of the tragic fates suffered by the inhabitants of the Mazurian region in the years following WWII, Variety terms it “almost unbearably brutal, yet hauntingly romantic.”

****

Cost $10, seniors/students $5 (Art Exhibit-Free). Tickets available at the door.

All the films, except for PAN TADEUSZ, have English subtitles.

Sponsored by The Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College:www.canisius.edu/polish-chair/

For more info contact the Office of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at 888 2835, or e-mail Margaret Stefanski at stefansm@canisius.edu, Mary Lou Wyrobek wyrobem@canisius.edu

AIA Lecture - Buffalo Museum of Science

UB - Dept. of Visual Studies - Artist in Residency

• Tuesday 10/22 at 7pm Performance: Written in Sand: Collected AIDS Writings
  Location: Baird Recital Hall, Baird 250, University at Buffalo North Campus

All events are free and open to the public.

Karen Finley is an artist, performer and author.  Born in Chicago, she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She works in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, music and literature.  She has performed and exhibited internationally. Finley was the named plaintiff in Finley vs. The NEA that was argued in the Supreme Court in 1998 about the application of decency in government funding.  Finley is active in freedom of expression concerns, visual culture, and art education and lectures, and gives workshops widely. The author of 8 books including her latest work of creative nonfiction; /Reality Shows /published by Feminist Press 2011. Most recently she had a performance and installation of her interactive work /Sext Me if You Can /at the New Museum, New York City, May 2013, where museum patrons commission Finley with a sext taken in a private booth in the museum, which she then transforms into art. She is the recipient of many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is an arts professor in the department of Art and Public Policy at New York University.

Sponsored by the American Studies Graduate Student Association; the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; the Department of English; the Department of Media Study; the Department of Theatre and Dance; the Department of Transnational Studies; the Department of Visual Studies; the Global Gender Studies Graduate Student Association; the Humanities Institute; the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage; Native Graduate Association; Races, Empires, and Diasporas Research Workshop; the School of Social Work; Technē Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies; and UB Society of Feminists.

UB - Filmmaker Talk

Canisius - Soup with Substance

November is national Native American Heritage Month. ALANA Student Center and Chartwells Dining Services on Wednesday, November 6, will present a Fireart Workshop as the Soup With Substance Series program.

The program is free and open to students, faculty and staff from 11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.. Visit any time for approximately 20 minutes to create fireart that you can keep! The location is the Steffan Faculty Dining Room on the first floor of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center, near the Economou Dining Hall.

Woodland Visions Native Arts conducts this interactive fireart demonstration. They invite and assist participants to use woodburning tools to create art on slabs of wood while listening and learning about aspects of Native American cultures. During your project time, enjoy a courtesy soup and a beverage by Chartwells. For more information, please contact ALANA Student Center, ext. 2787.

Daemen College: Lecture

The Sister Jeanne File Art History Lecture Series opens on Thursday, October 3^rd at 7:00 PM in room V20 of the Haberman Gacioch Center for Visual and Performing Arts at Daemen College.  This is the fourth year of the series, honoring the former Art Historian and one of the founders of the College, affectionately known as Sister Jeanne.

For the inaugural lecture, Dr. Claire L. Kovacs, Assistant Professor of Art History and Program Director of the Art History program at Canisius College will speak on the drawings of Edgar Degas with a talk entitled“Degas’ Vingt Dessins: A Retrospective-Reproduction.”

Dr. Kovacs received her PhD in art history from the University of Iowa, where her line of investigation was 19^th century French art and its Italian counterparts.  Before coming to Canisius in 2011, Dr. Kovacs was a postdoctoral fellow in modern and contemporary art and visiting professor at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
*Free and open to the public*

We hope you can join us!

WNYBAC - Exhibition Opening

An Opening Reception for The Ground, an exhibition by Tate Shaw

September 27 from 6-9:30pm at WNYBAC
On view September 27th – November 2nd, 2013

Tate Shaw is Director of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, a nonprofit organization supporting photography and books with an accredited MFA program in association with The College at Brockport, SUNY. Shaw has contributed writings to the Journal of Artists’ Books (JAB), and Aperture’s The Photobook Review, amongst other publications. He routinely organizes public events including VSW’s monthly Visual Book Club and bi-annual Photo-Bookworks Symposium as well as exhibitions at such institutions as The Center for Book Arts, New York. He is co-publisher of Preacher’s Biscuit Books and his own work is held in many private and public collections of artists’ books internationally. Shaw has publicly performed his books nationally at institutions and gatherings like the Minnesota Center for the Book, Minneapolis; The Hybrid Book in Philadelphia; Action/Interaction at The Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts; and he has a forthcoming multi-media reading at The Western New York Book Art Center, Buffalo, NY in the fall of 2013.

The Ground is an essay book including photographs made between 2010 and 2012 in a geothermal area of Iceland and at hydrofracking sites in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, as well as writing that documents failures both personal and historical to access the ground as a source of energy and to grasp its power. Images from The Ground are failures in their own right made to show something of the futility of trying to fix an image on a ground in any permanent way. The photographs were printed with an inkjet printer on a heavy printmaking paper then water was applied to wash out areas of the ink. The results are then digitally scanned to make a new image. Water is a medium to access the core subject, as in the energy mining processes depicted. A geothermal power plant has boreholes drilled deep into the ground that converts steam under enormous pressure into energy. For fracking over ten thousand gallons of chemicals is mixed with over a million gallons of water and a heavy amount of sand is injected underground to release natural gas deposits.

Canisius - Art for Lunch (lecture)

CEPA Gallery - Exhibition Opening & Closing Receptions

Vortex Series:  Illuminated Energy Light Units  a new dual site exhibition by  BiLLLinda  Linda Gellman and Bill Myers opening reception: Sunday, September 8, 1-3 pm  Bunis Family Gallery Jewish Community Center 2640 North Forest Road Getzville, NY closing reception: Wednesday, October 30, 6-8 pm JCC Art Gallery 787 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY  exhibitions run September 6 - October 31, 2103    The work is created by BiLLLinda, an artist team that includes WNY photographers Linda Gale Gellman (CEPA Board Vice President) and Bill E. Myers who use their combined experience to work collaboratively on their artistic projects. "Life is filled with energy, most of which we cannot see. The Vortex series was developed while experimenting with spinning the camera. We found that the "sweet spot" (as it is known in photography) can be achieved even while the camera spins. A proper Vortex Spin captures the energy of the subject and each of the IEU's incorporates the spiral of life, the energy within the vortex," says Gellman. The installations are multidimensional wall sculptures with a remote controlled adapter to enable altered intensities with the intention of reflecting one's mood or environment. Visit the Illuminated Energy Units Facebook Page    Illuminated Energy Units Video  CEPA Gallery 617 Main Street Buffalo, New York 14203 716-856-2717 www.cepagallery.org

Burchfield Penney Lecture - Cathy Opie

Burchfield Penney: Exhibition Opening

OPENING CELEBRATION  |  ART IN CRAFT MEDIA 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013, 6–8 pm

Join Mrs. Sylvia L. Rosen and the Burchfield Penney Art Center for the opening of Art in Craft Media 2013.

Art in Craft Media 2013 features 75 works by 55 artists in wood, clay, fiber, glass and metal, all current or past residents of Western New York. The exhibition jurors for the 25th anniversary Art in Craft Media exhibition were Nancy Belfer, Sunhwa Kim, Stephen Saracino and Robert Wood.

Artists include:

Jozef Bajus
Diane Bond
Leeann Catanzaro
Linda Collignon
Norman Cramer
Missy Crowell
Josh Dewall
Laurie Dill-Kocher
Lynn Duggan
Hillary Fayle
Tom Ferrero
Marcelo Florencio
Nathaniel Hall
Allison Hoag
Kevin Kegler
Jeff Kell
Veronica Keymel
William Keyser
Christine Knoblauch
Bethany Krull
Temi Kucinski
Anthony Locane
Scott Losi
Ashley Lyon
Elizabeth Lyons
Gail McCarthy
Stephen Merritt
Mitchell Messina
Dan Mirer
Anne Mormile
Barbara Murak
Tara Nahabetian
Dennis Nahabetian
Lynn Northrop
Ginny O'Brien
Carol Ann Rice Rafferty
Shirley Rosenthal
Taeyoul Ryu
Fabiano Sarra
David Schnuckel
Leslie Schug
Betty Stephan
Colleen Toledano
Victor Trabucco
Lawrence T. Schopp
Myung Urso
Leonard Urso
Nancy Valle
Aric Verrastro
Tina Vu
Jesse Walp
Liaung Chung Yen
Gina Zetts
Chu Zhenwei
Craig Ziper

Burchfield Penney: Exhibition Opening

OPENING CELEBRATION  |  OPENING CELEBRATION FOR THREE EXHIBITIONS

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 5:30–7:30 pm

Join the Burchfield Penney for the opening of three exhibitions: Anne Frank: A History for Today presented byBuffalo State's The Anne Frank Project, Charles E. Burchfield: By Design and Snap Out of It: Photographs by Missy Kennedy Cleary.

Hallwalls: Exhibition Opening/Artist Lecture

Clifton Childree

Niaga-Rag Follies

A Hallwalls Artist In Residence Project

Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 8-11 p.m.
Artist's Talk at 8:00 p.m.

Miami artist Clifton Childree has described himself as an analog artist in a digital age and for his residency project at Hallwalls, Childree has drawn upon specific tangents of Buffalo's regional landscape and cultural history. Springboarding from a venue still located in Niagara Falls, NY, Childree will recreate in the Hallwalls Gallery what appears to be a wax museum historical display that removes the conventional subject matter of the Falls and replaces that with an evocative history of QRS Music Rolls, a historical player piano roll company still located in Buffalo, NY. Waterfalls will be replaced by projected piano rolls, set amid a didactic mise en scènethat will also include recreated historical photos and news reels, and will replace the suicidal allure of the Falls with an adictive obsession for karaoke.

 

The creation of this new work and its exhibition in the gallery in fall 2013 are supported by a major grant for HARP from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

cliftonchildree.com

 

Albright-Knox: Lecture/Movie Screening

AK CONTEMPORARY: GREGORY CREWDSON

Friday, October 4, 2013, 7:30 pm

Gregory Crewdson’s Untitled (Ophelia) from the “Twilight” series, as featured in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, a film by Ben Shapiro. A Zeitgeist Films release. Photo © Gregory Crewdson

FREE for Members
$5 for non-members
Auditorium 

7:30 pmLecture: “Gregory Crewdson: Constructed Realities”With Assistant Curator of Education Jessica DiPalma 

8 pmFilm: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, 2012Acclaimed photographer and artist Gregory Crewdson doesn’t just “take” his images, he creates them, through weeks and months of elaborate invention, design, and setup. The creation of these movie-like images is both intensely personal and highly public, beginning in Crewdson’s deepest desires and childhood memories, and brought to life in public streets and on elaborate soundstages. 

Filmed with unprecedented access over a decade, beginning in 2000, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters provides an unparalleled view of the creation of the works in the artist’s “Beneath the Roses” series. The film provides an intimate look at one of the most elaborate photo projects ever attempted: a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life—perfect renderings of a disturbing, imperfect world by one of the most renowned and influential artists of our time.

Big Orbit - Exhibition Opening

BENEATH / SUSPICION  Excerpts from the notebook of T.D.H. Castle-Tunnel Master 2nd Class an immersive installation by GARY SCZERBANIEWICZ winner of big orbit's 2012 members' exhibition      opening reception SATURDAY, APRIL 27 from 8-11p.m.  BIG ORBIT GALLERY 30d essex street buffalo, new york 14213 712-4355    Sczerbaniewicz's practice involves an insatiable fascination with interior and often, uncanny architectural spaces such as tunnels, mineshafts, catacombs, sewers, fallout shelters, basements, crawlspaces, confessional booths, and myriad other forms of Subterranea. This passion articulates itself in the form of immersive installations and various other two and three-dimensional strategies (drawings, models, videos, etc.). The work asserts and demonstrates the connections between these spaces and their historical, psychological, sociological, or political stratas. Sczerbaniewicz states, "I seek to disorient the viewer in an attempt to break the staid and often detached, passive, and familiar approach to consuming artworks. I believe that it is only in this hermetic space where authentic communication between artist and viewer occurs. To this end I employ tactics of individual viewer experience, physical engagement (such as compelling the spectator to crawl, crouch, lay, or adopt an atypical posture within a viewing space), and use of scale shifts."    Vignette, 2010, mixed media installation/performance   Gary Sczerbaniewicz received his BFA in mixed media aculpture from Alfred University in 1995.  He will complete his MFA from the University of Buffalo's Visual Studies Department this May.  Beneath/Suspicion is Gary's MFA Thesis Exhibition, and continues a long history of technically masterful and psychologically impactful installations and performances. The exhibition runs through June 9, 2013

Squeaky Wheel - Regional Artist Access Residency

REGIONAL ARTIST ACCESS RESIDENCY PREMIERE
FRI., APR. 26TH @ 7:00 PM       LOCATION: SQUEAKY WHEEL

Squeaky Wheel’s Regional Artist Access Residency (RAAR!) program annually provides equipment and facility access to emerging media artists in the Western New York region. Join this year's residency participants as they premiere brand new projects. This event is free and open to the public.
 
 
THE ARTISTS + THEIR PROJECTS:
 
Kyle Butler is a visual artist from Michigan who currently lives in Buffalo, New York. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus in painting from Central Michigan University in 2008 and received his Master's degree in Visual Studies from the University at Buffalo in the spring of 2010.
 
Shasti O'Leary Soudant has been a professional graphic designer and photographer for the last twenty-one years. She has one child, one spouse, one business and no pets. In her art practice, she employs a wide range of media, including photography, performance, sculpture, video, film, music, graphic design and mechanical engineering to explore and interrogate vanity, aging, sexuality and the ways in which we edit the self in reaction to culture, politics and emotion.
 
Through collaborative dual-channel video and performative sculpture, Kyleand Shasti will stage a large scale, involuntary snail migration to illustrate the slow tensions between historical and existential dichotomies that often result in frustrating truncations of, diversions from, and compromises in, a given life's trajectory.  The viewer is invited to impose their will onto the snails' disposition by initiating their trip from one end of the gallery (beginnings) to the other (conclusions). The viewers "help" at their own discretion, assuming the interjectionary role of life's unresolved dichotomies and provoking their consequence.
 
 
 
Lauren Rebecca Gay was born in beloved Buffalo. She went to the city’s public Montessori and City Honors School. Since graduating from Buffalo State college and receiving her certification to teach Secondary English she has been practicing the written word and art in the world at large. As a substitute teacher she has turned science classrooms into open mics. She invented POPPress in early 2012 as a self-publishing and creative endeavor specializing in hand-drawn, hand-bound goods; she strung together 81 books.
 
Isaac Johnson went to UB for too long and learned too little. Residing in lovely Buffalo, he reads and writes and films and watches. He has performed and screened work all over Buffalo and gets lost very easily. Very interested in everything, fearing nothing really ever gets done, Isaac will continue trying.
 
Lauren and Isaac's multimedia docu-fiction will provide an intimate look into a couple's 9 months of pregnancy and the resulting child's first month of life. Blending diary like video, poetry and performance, the border between documentation and artistic representation will be blurred in the protagonists' all encompassing yet subtly elliptical journey.
 
 
 
Emerging from the small but eclectic film scenes of Austin and Houston, Matthew Hardesty is a sometimes-resident of Buffalo, NY. A recent graduate of the Austin School of Film, he has been involved in dozens of short films and infamous features. Through working with budding artists like himself, he continues to shell out phenomenal expression in leagues of his own creativity while modestly waiting for the next big shot. 
 
Using the "Vow of Chastity" rules outlined by filmmaking group Dogme 95, Matthew is creating a short narrative video about sex and suicide.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

UB: IEMA Lecture

WNYBAC - Exhibition Opening/Event

Chris Fritton – The Baltimore Catechism

Opening Reception and Artist’s Talk on Friday, March 15th / 6-9pm

The Baltimore Catechism is an unintentional, fanciful, imaginary revision of A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1885) wherein the authors posit the most fundamental and absurd physical and metaphysical questions, and postulate ever more fundamental and absurd answers. Originally intended as just an artist’s book, the project quickly took on a much wider scope, begetting large-scale woodcuts and accompanying prints, a performance component, and hand-set letterpress posters and broadsides. Capricious and inadvertently satirical, this eccentric exhibit features 12 large-scale prints and corresponding woodblocks, the artist’s book, and elements from the construction of the Catechism.

The opening reception for The Baltimore Catechism is free and open to the public. On view March 8th-April 12

A complete reading of The Baltimore Catechism will take place at a special "Midnight Mass" on April 5th at 11:30pm at WNYBAC. This event is also free & open to the public. 

University at Buffalo

Renowned Scholar of French Art and Culture
to Speak at Buffalo History Museum

Talk investigates impact of electrification of Paris on turn of the century art  

Buffalo, NY – The University at Buffalo Department of Visual Studies is pleased to host Dr. S. Hollis Clayson, professor of art history and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. Clayson’s talk, titled John Singer Sargent's Paris Moon Light: Twilight Disenchanted?, will explore her work analyzing the electrification of Paris and its impact on the art of the time. Clayson will speak at 7pm on Thursday March 28, 2013, at the Buffalo History Museum. The talk is free and open to the public.

Specializing in the social history of nineteenth-century Parisian art, Clayson has organized 3 exhibitions and has written: 2 books; more than 30 articles, book chapters and exhibition catalogs; and given more than 100 conference talks. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships for her scholarly work, her excellence in teaching has also been recognized by several awards. Her long career has culminated in appointment as next year's Samuel H. Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art, one of the most prestigious academic appointments in the world.

Jonathan D. Katz, Director of the Visual Studies PhD program will introduce Clayson and said of her work: “Long celebrated as one of the premier voices in the study of 19th century French art, Holly Clayson has worked on everything from the image of the courtesan in Impressionism to the conditions of life and art in Paris under the siege of 1870-71. After earning recognition for redefining Impressionism through including the perspective of the unheard, Clayson now sets out to chart the impact of the unseen; the electrification that literally redefined visibility in the last quarter of the 19th century."

  

Of late, Clayson has begun turning her attention to the effects of electricity in the development of modern painting, and it is out of that research that this project emerges. Entitled  John Singer Sargent's Paris Moon Light: Twilight Disenchanted?, Clayson argues that Sargent's supposedly most "impressionist" canvases, the two Luxembourg Garden paintings of 1879, are nothing of the kind.  They are read instead as extraordinary redefinitions of the Whistlerian nocturne that respond explicitly and imaginatively to the electric street lights that newly impinged upon the Jardin du Luxembourg, the largest green space on the Left Bank. From within the matrix of illumination discourse, Sargent's canvases displace the brutality of electric into the poetry of reflected moon light.

Hosted by the University at Buffalo’s Department of Visual Studies, Clayson’s talk is co-sponsored by: the Buffalo History Museum; the New York Power Authority; M. Pascal Soarès, Honorary Consul, Consulat Général de France; and the Alliance Française de Buffalo.

Buffalo State College - Department of Fine Arts

Dr. Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the Gennadius Library in Athens, Greece will present
"The Venetian Cities of Crete (The Cities of Crete during the Venetian Occupation, from 1204-1669 AD)"

Tuesday, March 19 at 5 pm
Burchfield Penney Art Center Auditorium

Canisius - Amy Greenan exhibition

This show is up in the library until 8 April. To earn extra credit for this, visit the gallery between now and 8 April (you will need to get the key from the Reference Desk), and write the 2-page critical reaction to the exhibit.

Hallwalls Artist Talk: Kent Monkman

Hallwalls to Host Internationally Acclaimed Artist Kent Monkman

Artist’s work explores alternate cultural narratives

Buffalo – The University at Buffalo’s Department of Visual Studies, in partnership with New York City’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center presents internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Kent Monkman, who will speak at Hallwalls (341 Delaware Ave at Tupper) on February 28th at 6:00pm. The talk is part of the Leslie- Lohman Queer Art Lecture Series.

Monkman, who is of both Native American and European descent, works in a variety of media: film/video, painting, installations and performance. Operating at the intersection of colonial history and post-colonial culture, Monkman’s work not only calls into question our received histories but demonstrates that we are all necessarily hybrids, As Monkman once said, in a performance, “Alas, the face of the white man is changing. All traces of his former self are being altered through contact with the red man.”

Jonathan D. Katz, Director of the University at Buffalo’s Visual Studies PhD program, President of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and curator of the series, commented on Monkman’s work: “To note that Kent Monkman is one of the most celebrated artists working in Canada today, or that he’s part Cree, part European, or that he’s queer and often performs in drag is unfortunately to fix what remains in his work always fluid. With a foot in each of our defining binaries, be they male/female, past/present, Aboriginal/European, Canadian/American - Monkman’s work underscores that contact always leaves both parties changed. And contact, even in the historical sense of that very fraught contact between the new world and the old, implies an erotics we have been too quick to deny.

”Monkman’s career spans more than two decades and his work has been extensively exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe in both solo and group exhibitions including the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, The American West, at Compton Verney, in Warwickshire, England, the 2010 Sydney Biennale, My Winnipeg at Maison Rouge, Paris, and Oh Canada!, at MASS MOCA. His work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, Museum London, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Monkman’s appearance is co-sponsored by UB’s Department of Transnational Studies, which includes programs in Canadian Studies, Global Gender Studies, and Native American Studies; the UB Canadian-American Studies Committee; the UB Humanities Institute; the UB Haudenosaunee- Native American Studies Research Group; the UB Graduate Group in Queer Studies; UB Law School’s OUTLaw; and Gay and Lesbian Youth Services (GLYS) of Western New York.

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the world’s first museum dedicated solely to providing a venue for multi-disciplinary work that engages gay and lesbian historical, social, or political issues still excluded from mainstream venues. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Queer Art Lecture Series is dedicated to queer art and artists, showcasing the most significant contemporary queer artists with an emphasis on exploring the relationship between their sexuality and their art. Each of the lectures in the series will also be presented at the Leslie-Lohman Museum located at 26 Wooster Street, NY, NY.

For more information on Kent Monkman please visit www.kentmonkman.com

www.visualstudies.buffalo.edu               www.leslielohman.org           www.hallwalls.org

Canisius College - Faculty Show XI

This show is up in the library until 22 Feb. To earn extra credit for this, visit the gallery between now and 22 Feb. (you will need to get the key from the Reference Desk), and write the 2-page critical reaction to the exhibit.

Niagara University Theatre: Picasso at the Lapin Agile

PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE

• by  STEVE MARTIN
 
• directed by  ADRIANO GATTO

DESCRIPTION

Reader's Theatre production.  In collaboration with the Castellani Art Museum.

Einstein and Picasso walk into a bar... each on the verge of the greatest accomplishments, and a comically magical night ensues!

From the mind of Steve Martin (yes- that Steve Martin!), comes this absurdly amusing play about the relationship between art and science, talent and genius.

14-17 February

Tickets/information: http://theatre.niagara.edu/boxoffice/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile/

Subversive Theatre - Manny Fried Playhouse

Many thanks to Rebecca for bringing this to my attention:

Tony Kushner's Angels in America is particularly resonant for students in FAH 480, as it deals with the same topic discussed in class 2/5 (the AIDS epidemic). 

If you see both parts of the play, you can write two critical responses for up to 10 points of extra credit.

For more information, see: http://www.subversivetheatre.org/productions/angels_in_america/menu_index.htm

January 10th - February 16th, 2013
at the Manny Fried Playhouse

We're honored to present both parts of the Tony Award-winning masterpiece

ANGELS IN AMERICAby Tony Kushner
 

Part One: "Millennium Approaches" 
directed by Christopher Standart*starring Brian Riggs, Jonathan Shuey, Tim Joyce,
Timothy Patrick Finnegan, Kristin Bentley, Michael Votta,
Greg Howze, and Becky Globus*

Part Two: "Perestroika" 
directed by Christian Brandjes
starring Megan Callahan*, Susan Drozd, Geoff Pictor,
Brian Zybala*, Jerrold Brown*, Adam Yellen,
Darleen Pickering Hummert, and Xavier Harris

Two separate plays on alternating nights.
One extraordinary experience.

January 10th - February 16th, 2013
Thursdays & Fridays @ 8pm, Saturdays @ 3pm & 8pm Tickets $20.00 General Admissionor $15.00 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre members
Claim a $5.00 discount when you come back to see the second production!
All shows at the Manny Fried Playhouse at 255 Great Arrow Avenue 

"Angels in America is the finest drama of our time, speaking to us of an entire era of life and death as no other play within memory"
-John Heilpern  NEW YORK OBSERVER

"Something rare, dangerous and harrowing ...a roman candle hurled into a drawing room ... "
-Nicholas de Jongh  LONDON EVENING STANDARD

     For the fourth show in our ten-year anniversary season, Subversive Theatre is honored to present the Tony Award-winning masterpiece ANGELS IN AMERICA by Tony Kushner.  This stunning latter day epic comprises two full length plays -- Part One: "Millennium Approaches" and Part Two: "Perestroika." -- to make up one incredible tale of loss, re-imagination, and rebirth.  

     In what just may be our most ambitious undertaking yet, Subversive Theatre is presenting BOTH parts of this magnum opus with two separate casts performing on alternating nights!  Don't miss this rare opportunity to see two completely different groups of actors portraying the same group of characters all as a part of the same story.

     Twenty years after its 1993 Broadway debut, ANGELS IN AMERICA still delivers a cathartically beautiful journey to 1980s America with a soul-searching look back on the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the nauseating bravado of the Reagan Revolution, the environmental crisis, the horrifying legacy of McCarthyism, and the haunting question of the true meaning of "America" in today's world.  With its unique approach to "magical realism," ANGELS IN AMERICAswirls inventively from the historical to the fantastical, the inspirational to the appalling, the comic to the tragic, the ponderous to the guttural -- boldly daring the 'land of the free' to take a long-over-due look in the mirror at its painful past, its unfulfilled ideals, and its hypocritical identity.

Part One: "Millennium Approaches" is directed byChristopher Standart* and starsBrian Riggs (Prior), Timothy Patrick Finnegan (multiple roles),Michael Votta (Louis), Jonathan Shuey (Joe), Kristin Bentley(Harper), Tim Joyce (Roy Cohn),Becky Globus* (Angel), Joy Scime* (Ethel Rosenberg & others),Gail Golden (Hannah), and Greg Howze (Belize & others).  It plays:Thurs 1/10 @ 8pm, Fri 1/11 @ 8pm, Sat 1/12 @ 8pm, Fri 1/18 @ 8pm, Sat 1/19 @ 3pm, Thurs 1/24 @ 8pm, Sat 1/26 @ 8pm, Sun 1/27 @ 7pm, Fri 2/1 @ 8pm,  Sat 2/2 @ 3pm, Thurs 2/7 @ 8pm, Sat 2/9 @ 8pm, Fri 2/15 @ 8pm, and Sat 2/16 @ 3pm      Part Two: "Perestroika" is directed by Christian Brandjes and stars Susan Drozd (Angel and others), Geoff Pictor(Prior), Megan Callahan* (Harper), Brian Zybala* (Joe), Jerrold Brown* (Roy Cohn), Adam Yellen (Louis), Xavier Harris(Belize & others), Jennifer Fitzery (multiple roles), Darleen Pickering Hummert (Ethel Rosenberg), and Virginia Brannon*(Hannah).  It plays: Thurs 1/17 @ 8pm, Sat 1/19 @ 8pm, Fri 1/25 @ 8pm, Sat 1/26 @ 3pm, Thurs 1/31 @ 8pm, Sat 2/2 @ 8pm, Fri 2/8 @ 8pm, Sat 2/9 @ 3pm, Sun 2/10 @ 7pm, Thurs 2/14 @ 8pm, and Sat 2/16 @ 8pm      For both productions, Set Design is by David Butler with Lighting Design by Subversive Theatre's Founder & Artistic DirectorKurt Schneiderman*, Video by Seth Tyler Black, Sound Design by John Shotwell*, and Costume Design by Todd Warfield. "A vast, miraculous play . . . provocative, witty and deeply upsetting . . . a searching and radical rethinking of Ameri-can political drama." -Frank Rich  NEW YORK TIMES "A towering example of what theatre stretched to its full potential can achieve." -Clifford A. Ridley  PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER      Performances of ANGELS IN AMERICA run January 10th through February 16th, Thursdays & Fridays at 8pm and Saturdays at 3pm & 8pm.  There are two actors' benefit performances on Sunday, January 27th and Sunday, February 8th both at 7pm.  Tickets are $20 general admission or $15 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre members.  Show your playbill to claim a $5.00 discount when you come back to see the second play.  There are two pay-what-you-can performances on Thursday, January 24th and Thursday, January 31st.      All performances are in Subversive Theatre's regular performance venue The Manny Fried Playhouse at 255 Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor of North Buffalo's historic Great Arrow Building.  Yes, we're on the third floor, but we've got a big-ass elevator so don't let those stairs scare you away!      To find out more, give us a call at 716-408-0499.

* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre Collective