Tag: art
thursday august 23rd 2007
Elmwood Ave Festival of the Arts: The Final Phone Calls
I visited Joe DiPasquale and Tanya Zabinski today at the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts (EAFA) headquarters, and home of their tshirt printing studios, Planet Love. Joe is the Director of the EAFA, and when I walked in, he was seated on the floor, surrounded by files, calling vendors from whom he still needed various fees and forms. He took a break to tell me about the other items he would be overseeing between now and Saturday morning at 10 am when the Festival starts.
With the assistance of the 20 (unpaid) staff, he will tick of the list the following: move 2 huge truckloads of stuff; the tent company will set up 10 big tents; set up 3 stages; set up the sound for the stages; tables and chairs for KidsFest; set up 4 outposts with water, fruit, tshirts, banners, maps, first aid kits and fire extinguishers; run electrical for the stages and food vendors; hook up the solar van…
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tuesday august 14th 2007
Beyond/In Western New York Preview
The Beyond/In Western New York exhibition is an event that brings twelve Buffalo/Niagara region art spaces together to show the work of fifty artists who live and work within the Great Lakes region. That region extends out to include Toronto, Syracuse and Cleveland. The momentous weekend of openings that dot the area is not until the weekend of September 14th and 15th, but this Friday, August 17, the Albright Knox Art Gallery opens their portion of the exhibit as a preview of the show.
Buffalo Rising is taking the opportunity of this biennial survey of artists to showcase the Buffalo artists who are included in the exhibition(s). We are visiting these artists studios to learn about their working process, their art, their studios, and how they live and work in Buffalo. Amanda Besl is the first artist we will fe…
