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