friday june 6th 2008
Future Curators Show at the Knox
Elena Cala Buscarino
Our Generation - The Visual Voice is the name of the student exhibit opening tonight at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and continuing until June 15.
This exhibit of student works, curated by fellow students, is a prime example of the talent and energy of area youth on both sides of this progressive show. Through the gentle guidance of Anna Jablonski Program Coordinator of the Education Department, the 15 curators, from several area high schools, picked 26 works of art from student artists and planned every aspect of the show.
"They set up their own judgement system and picked from over 200 submissions," Jablonski said. "They wrote the wall cards and text, framed and matted the work, designed the invitations and learned everything it means to be an art handler. One of the future curators, Cliff Wadsworth, designed T-shirts, and printed them at his house."
In addition, the curators planned an evening of entertainmen…
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thursday june 5th 2008
Black Lips and London VS New York @ Mohawk
Joseph DiDomizio
Fresh off their powerful performance at this year’s Artists & Models, Stephen Goss (Vocals), Nick Gordon (Guitar/Vocals) Tim Staszak (Drums) and Dan Ratel (Bass), better known as Buffalo’s preeminent punk outfit London Vs New York, will be opening for the Black Lips on Friday night at Mohawk Place.
The Black Lips are Joe Bradley (vocals & drums), Jared Swilley (vocals & bass), Ian St. Pe (guitar) and Cole Alexander (vocals & guitar), out of Atlanta, Georgia. They’ll be bringing a number of albums and a lingering reputation for raucous and wild live shows onto Mohawk Place’s stage. Packing their energy from the stage and earlier records into dark corners of solid 1960s punk songs, the Black Lips' new album Good Bad Not Evil, explores a growth in sound that can't be considered a taming of their chaotic performances, but rather a growth from them. Given nati…
Carolyn Batt
Show the world why you love New York State in the inaugural “I LOVE NY” Short Film Competition. From now until July 15th, aspiring filmmakers are invited to produce a 60-second short film highlighting distinct places, unique characters and hidden gems that make New York State special.
“There is boundless creativity within New York State,” said Dan Gundersen, Upstate Chairman of Economic Development. “We’re proud to be hosting a contest that showcases the innovation and imagination that New York State inspires.”
This competition is open to any person 14 years and above. Submissions will be accepted between June 1 and July 15, 2008 via the competition website at www.metacafe.com/iloveny. All film must be shot in a “New York Minute” (:60 seconds) and filmed in New York State.
A panel of entertainment industr…
wednesday june 4th 2008
Essex Arts Center Ready to "AMP" it Up
Doug Sitler
The Essex Arts Center’s AMP Party, this coming Saturday, June 7 adds to the excitement to the blossoming Essex and Rhode Island Street neighborhood. Event organizers are hoping many people attend the festivities while simultaneously discovering the tremendous changes in the West Side neighborhood.
“We have been fighting the good fight over on Essex Street since 1969, and it is exciting to see the major transformation of the surrounding neighborhood” said Mark Griffis, Executive Director of the complex, “One of the reasons why we wanted to host this event was to get more people down to see our facility and become more familiar of the neighborhood.”
Essex will feature a slew of bands, dancers, drummers, artists, poets for an event titled The AMP Party. Cost is $10 and will benefit the center and its arts and education programming. Headlining the band stage will be Buf…
Joseph DiDomizio
City Voices City Visions (CVCV) is a University at Buffalo and Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) partnership (funded in part by the John R. Oishei Foundation), which “aims to bring digital video composing to students inside classrooms as a powerful tool for learning,” explains Director Suzanne Miller. The results of using this powerful tool in BPS classrooms over the last eight years will be on display this Thursday at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre at the City Voices City Visions Film Festival.
CVCV gives teachers the professional skills to integrate and develop digital video composition projects into their lesson plans, who then use these composition projects to engage students in exploring difficult concepts and ideas in the standard curriculum. “By creating focused visual/narrative/audio DV productions, students learn to interpret and analyze texts that they read…
tuesday june 3rd 2008
CEPA, Just Buffalo, and Big Orbit Continue Their Collaboration
Eli George
In Phase I of their Administrative Collaboration, CEPA Gallery, the Just Buffalo Literary Center, and Big Orbit Gallery, created an infrastructure, underwent significant Board and staff training, reduced their overhead, and increased support in concrete and measurable terms. When they say measurable, they mean it. They had a 300% increase in individual contributions, a 200% increase in corporate support, and they are saving over $20,000 per year.
With all of the leaps and bounds thus far, it will be a wonder to see how Phase II will play out. Now, their Administrative Collaboration has the ability to begin that part of their growth. They received a grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation that will give them full project funding for…
saturday may 31st 2008
AIR Program Begins With A Trace
Eli George
Like many museums, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has just begun an Artist-in-Resident (AIR) Program. Their first artist to ever partake is Ingrid Calame. Calame is a an artist who traces the evidence of human presence in the form of stains, graffiti, tire tracks, and other odd markings on surfaces.
Calame will arrive in Buffalo June 6th and stay for three weeks, working with her team and volunteers from the gallery. Nancy Spector, Associate Curator of Education at the gallery says, “This is the first year that we’ve done it. We invite a contemporary artist to come and create a community-based work.”
The gallery will hold a gathering on the 6th, which depending on Calame’s schedule she may or may not be available to attend. Spector says, “If it rains, it’s harder for her to do her work. So things like thi…
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By Connor Lesniak
“Hoooold and off is right there!” Linda Appleby screams. Appleby trains 28 student voices through nine months of choral perfectionism to cut off the sound coming from their vocal chords on the spot.
I mean, this is Buffalo Select Chorus we’re talking about—not some sissy chorus with easy harmonies and three voice parts--and definitely not one with a laid-back director. The Buffalo Public High Schools Select Chorus, with Appleby behind the piano, hands-a-flying and orders-a-streaming, is preparing for its third annual end of year concert, and there's no time to fool around. “Stop!” she shouts, hoping at least half of the chorus will cease its singing. “Let’s try to have a little bit of energy in this piece!”
I’m listening to Jay Althouse’s “Oye La Musica,” and as I sit in the balcony of Asbury Hall, the ma…
friday may 30th 2008
Closing Reception for Jonathan Rogers Tonight at Gateway
buffalorising
Gateway Galleries is holding a closing reception tonight for Jonathan Rogers - "Multiple Spirit 2" - Drawings and Paintings by the many and only Jonathan Rogers, complete with live DJ and a special guest.
According to Steven J. Myers, owner of Gateway, Rogers is an artist with a full and interesting past, having worked in advertising, murals, portraits, teaching and animation. "At 71 years old, he's been painting all these years," Myers said. "His work is surrealistic in that his painting look like photos but with elements that make them not real."
If you haven't had the pleasure, tonight would be a great way to see this show out. "This is a big gallery," Myers said, "and it's absolutely filled with his stuff--abstracts and portraits in oils, Conte crayo--and you can see his whole evolution as an artist, all the way back to his abusive childhood."
For more information on Rog…
Eli George
The Irish Classical Theatre Company’s 2007-08 theatre season is coming to a close. The last plays of the season are two hilarious one-act plays from Alan Bennett’s popular Talking Heads series, Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet and Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Associate Director Derek Campbell will direct the plays and both star Artist-in-Residence Josephine Hogan.
Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet features a humorous story about a spinster, her ailing brother, and her unusual relationship with her chiropodist. A chiropodist is a foot doctor, and the doctor, along with the spinster and her brother, are a set of quirky characters that paint an intriguing look into everyday activities of provincial life.
By relating to the familiar and recognizable, the sensitive storytelling of the play will give a bittersweet portrait of English family lif…
