Intuitive Development – intermediate will be held on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month for a 7 class series.
9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/23, 11/13, 11/27, 12/11,
Join us if you are ready to take the “Next Step” in your Intuitive Development.

You will learn how to connect to your intuition on a deeper level. You will learn to connect to loved ones who have crossed over. You will be able to get evidence to identify them & receive accurate messages. We will work with symbols & better understand the ways spirit guides communicate with us. It’s so important to see all the details in a message for accuracy. I’m really excited to teach this class. So many people have been asking for it.

If you pay for all 7 classes up front you will, receive one free.
Cost – $140 if paid in full OR $20 per class

Register at grangie26@yahoo.com OR call or text: 716-930-5011

TRANSFORMING YOUR ORGANIZATION ONE KEY PERSON AT A TIME

Every organization has expectations of its “key people.” Dynamic leaders candirectly impact a number of measurable metrics such as quality, revenue, profitability, bench strength and market share. The University at Buffalo School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) is pleased to offer the Key Persons Leadership Development program to better equip the key people on your team.

Participants in this seven week course are coached as individuals striving to reach enterprise goals while enhancing their unique strengths, growth opportunities, learning and communication styles. They will learn how to translate the entrepreneurial framework to daily business needs and challenges, ensuring that the next generations of your organization’s management team are change agents equipped to lead with innovation, pragmatism and creativity.

Who Should Enroll
Your organization’s future leaders – your “key people”
Where and When
University at Buffalo Downtown GatewayOctober 3 – November 14, 2018 Wednesdays, 8:30a.m.-11:30a.m.
Cost
$1,895 per participant
$1,500 each additional participant from same company

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Jewelry & Remembrance
Oct 24th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Join us to customize traditional glass beads with markedly untraditional methods. Use fancy pearlescent and fluorescent individually pressed glass, shaped as traditional sugar skulls by fine Czech Glass Artists. Incorporate these Day of the Dead beads with a variety of other charms to physicalize your own wearable statement celebrating the power of remembrance. You will leave with both a finished set of simple earrings as a practice piece and your own unique Dia de los Muertos pendant.

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SKILLS SUPPORTED:
Wrapping wire, bails and headpins
Attaching findings
Using jump rings and other closure techniques
Basic tension for constructing wire wrapping

Class Cost: $50 (all materials included)
Class Size: Min 4/ Max 10
Ages: 18

Please review The Foundry’s cancellation policy:
http://www.thefoundrybuffalo.org/cancellation_policy

If you would like to learn more about The Foundry check out our website:
http://www.thefoundrybuffalo.org/about

And you can also find information about other classes:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-foundry-buffalo-15616046458

*Add a Membership
Basic membership allows makers to access the Textile Lab to work on projects during open shop hours with our Lab Supervisors. More on Membership: http://www.thefoundrybuffalo.org/makerspaces

Metaphor is the language of the body/mind/spirit, similar to dream interpretation. In this introductory class you will learn:
• Metaphor diagnosis– how to read energy– a powerful life skill (5-page handout)

• Use metaphor language to diagnose hidden roots of panic, phobias, emotional patterns, illness etc.

• Visit Santosha and enter to win a free reading with Sue value $150, no purchase necessary

• Sue’s book Spiritual Compass (5-star Amazon reviews) $14.99, available for purchase at Santosha

• Pre-pad registration $25 at www.SueHannibal.com (“Services” tab) or register at Santosha.

Register at www.santoshaholisticcenter.com
Or call or text: 716-930-5011

Sue Hannibal grew up in the Town of Tonawanda. She is an Intuitive Behaviorist. And author specializing in trauma, childhood abuse, military & first responders PTSD, panic phobias & disassociation. In private practice for over 20 years she is the author of the Amazon best seller, Spiritual Compass: Practical Strategies For When You Feel Lost & Alone and God Seems Far Away. She can be reached at Sue@SueHannibal.com

Jewelry & Remembrance
Oct 24th, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Join us to customize traditional glass beads with markedly untraditional methods. Use fancy pearlescent and fluorescent individually pressed glass, shaped as traditional sugar skulls by fine Czech Glass Artists. Incorporate these Day of the Dead beads with a variety of other charms to physicalize your own wearable statement celebrating the power of remembrance. You will leave with both a finished set of simple earrings as a practice piece and your own unique Dia de los Muertos pendant.

.

SKILLS SUPPORTED:
Wrapping wire, bails and headpins
Attaching findings
Using jump rings and other closure techniques
Basic tension for constructing wire wrapping

Class Cost: $50 (all materials included)
Class Size: Min 4/ Max 10
Ages: 18

Please review The Foundry’s cancellation policy:
http://www.thefoundrybuffalo.org/cancellation_policy

If you would like to learn more about The Foundry check out our website:
http://www.thefoundrybuffalo.org/about

And you can also find information about other classes:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-foundry-buffalo-15616046458

*Add a Membership
Basic membership allows makers to access the TextileLab to work on projects during open shop hours with our Lab Supervisors. More on Membership: http://www.thefoundrybuffalo.org/makerspaces

Wednesday, October 24th – Remember Jones – “Back to Back to Black” – A revival and re-creation of the Amy Winehouse album with a 12-piece band

-Doors: 7:00pm, Show: 8:00pm
-Tickets: $15 ADV/$20 DOS
-Ages: 18
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About Back to BACK TO BLACK:

A tribute to Amy Winehouse and revival of the entire 2006 Grammy-award winning album, BACK TO BLACK, featuring Remember Jones with a 12-piece orchestra band guests, plus an opening set of super-soul originals from Remember Jones!

Recently named one of Paste Magazine/Daytrotter’s Top Ten Soul/R&B artists of 2017, soul sensation Remember Jones brings a 12-piece orchestra to recreate the entire 2006 Grammy-award winning AMY WINEHOUSE album BACK TO BLACK, including a horn section, backing vocals, auxiliary instruments, and other special guests. Fronted by “one of the most enthusiastic, fiercely passionate powerhouses in the game” (Live for Live Music), Remember Jones will lead the ensemble through 17 songs, including the hit singles “Rehab,” “Tears Dry On Their Own,” “You Know I’m No Good,” “Love is a Losing Game,” and the title track, “Back to Black.” This one-of-a-kind show has sold-out most previous engagements.

The band includes musicians from some of the most highly-acclaimed funk and soul bands in New York, Philadelphia, and Asbury Park’s music scenes. Remember Jones will play an opening set featuring material from his high energy, super-soul, original recordings!

About Remember Jones:

Remember Jones is a one-of-a-kind soul/pop singer, storyteller, and bandleader with a throwback vibe and authentic energy. Collaboratively supported by a large ensemble of musicians (featuring female backing vocalists, a horn section, and a six-piece rhythm section), the band has played to countless packed and sold-out ballrooms, clubs, and theaters throughout the country.

As an original super-soul band, they have provided special guest opening sets for George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Darlene Love, Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Nigel Hall, The Hip Abduction, and more. And as a theatrical entertainer, Remember has started in rock musicals, emceed large events, and orchestrated one of a kind experiences for all ages.

Remember Jones’ debut album, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, Remember Jones!’, was created after raising close to $19,000 through nearly 300 small donations via IndieGoGo, and created in front of a live studio audience with a 25-piece band. Their subsequent release, Tranquilizer!, was recorded at the Bomb Shelter in Nashville, TN, under the production of Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Langhorne Slim). Remember Jones was named one of Paste Magazine and
Daytrotter’s Top 10 R&B/Soul Artists of 2017.

In addition to touring and supporting two albums worth of original material, Remember Jones presents and fronts multiple productions which have also gained wide popularity back to BACK TO BLACK, a recreation of the entire Amy Winehouse album with an orchestra of 15, and Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen in a 20-piece arrangement, have helped Remember Jones develop a diverse audience as the band opens each performance with a set of original music.

They were the first to present R. Kelly’s Trapped In the Closet live with a 20-piece orchestra, and have performed Jeff Buckley’s Grace album in its entirety as a collaboration with Grammy-nominated guitarist and Grace co-writer Gary Lucas. In the spring of 2018, Remember Jones produced a successful run of shows celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak with a 25-piece orchestra band.

In the vein of reviving others’ material, a current Remember Jones studio project, ‘A Kick In the Head!’ celebrates the 100th birthday of Dean Martin, produced by Richard Barone and featuring a duet with Dean’s daughter, Deana Martin.

Whether you see him fronting a piano, a four-piece band, or with a soul orchestra of 25, Remember Jones evokes the energy of the great front men and women, with one-of-a-kind song styling and expert storytelling that keep audiences on their toes and emotions in the moment.

Do you find yourself in search of new tools for coping with everyday challenges as you explore a new way of living in the world? Join Shad Diamond as he shares his collection of 30 Quick Tricks for happier and more successful experiences!

The world energies seem to be getting weirder by the day. This class offers quick and easy remedies for real-life situations, with a focus on practical application and fast results to support greater emotional balance and spiritual growth in the new world energies.

As Spirit Energy having a human experience, the ultimate goal for this adventure in physicality is soul evolution. We are Beings in dramatic transition of awareness, and sometimes the process can become acutely challenging.

As the joyful highs increase and develop, the contrast we feel upon return to exploring our layers of resistance can be somewhat overwhelming at times.

The design of this presentation is for a variety of practical applications to everyday circumstances with positive solutions for a multitude of real-life situations. Shad’s focus is on fast results that can enhance personal growth at all levels.

Each technique will be explained and demonstrated for clear understanding, along with examples for application and why each is of value to your personal wellbeing. They are considered self-healing techniques because, as they give you tools for adaptation, they also assist you in your personal spiritual evolution.

Scientist, healer, and musician, Shad Diamond, PhD. has an extensive and diverse background in metaphysics, quantum mechanics, psychoenergetics, Body-Mind-Consciousness remote healing, and is the developer of Superquantum TonesTM technology, which uses vibrational medicine in the form of music.

It is recommended that you bring a notebook & pen for keeping record of the multitude of information that will be shared.

Shad’s Quantum Healing Music CD’s will be for sale. Learn more here: http://www.diamondcrystalmusic.com

Admission: $25
Angelic Link
2349 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY
To register, call (585)317-4374

After 117 years, the last dinnerware made in Buffalo at the former Buffalo Pottery/Buffalo China plant will be sold to the public for 3 days starting Thursday the 25th of October and ending Saturday the 27th of October. The sale will take place 9-3 each day at 101 Buffalo China Road off of Bailey Avenue near Seneca Street. Established in 190, generations of Buffalonians have work at or eaten off of Buffalo China. This will be your last chance ever to bring these pieces of Buffalo made history to your home. Cash and Credit will be accepted and if cold weather is anticipated, the sale will be moved inside.

INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM (IEP) PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR FAMILIES – 10/25
October 25 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This workshop teaches families all about the special education process, including what to expect at meetings of the Committee on Special Education (CSE) (Preschool CPSE). Designed to help families learn how to take an active role in the education process, this class provides useful resources for the future.
Location:
Delavan Grider Community Center
877 East Delavan Avenue
(Corner of E. Delavan and Moselle)
Buffalo, NY 14215
RSVP now! You can call (716) 332-4170 or email info@parentnetworkwny.org,
Follow the link for more info and to register:

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Glass Blowing For Beginners
Explore the fundamentals of glass. Students select from a range of different festive, icky, or wonderfully creepy crawling options (round glass eyeballs, flat shaped bats, or 3D spiders) and with the help of Glass Shop instructor, Jason Dederich, you’ll make your own original halloween ornament.

Glass blowing and forming flat shapes in glass is an art — the craft takes time to master. This session enables participants to join with a small group to get a sense of these processes. Learn more about shaping fine glass objects by working with Jason to create your own customized decoration that will last for many, many (and if you are very careful, perhaps eternal) Halloween eve festivities.

What you’ll learn:
Heating glass
Forming hot glass
Pipe turning
Proper glass blowing stances.
Pipe/Body/Hand positioning
Pulling and shaping hot glass

Other skills covered:
Point Turning
Marvering
Resetting point on center
Basic glass balancing

Class Cost: $55 (all materials included)
Class Size: Min 2/ Max 6
Ages: 16 with a signed waiver from a parent
Cancellation Policy

*Glass objects must be annealed overnight and can be picked up during the work week 12am-6pm Mon-Thurs*

PLEASE WEAR WORK CLOTHES MADE FROM NATURAL FIBERS FOR THIS SESSION.

Islamic bindings differ from Western style bindings in that their primary function is to protect the documents. Because of this the sewing is designed to fail to protect the precious pages inside, while the binding is often box like, to contain any loose pages. They are designed to lay flat,
not stand on their spine and are renowned for their decorative beauty.

Students will have a chance to learn the fundamentals of the Islamic style in this partial leather binding, while learning the historic precedents of the style and examining the range of possibilities for this technique. Students are encouraged to bring their own 6×6 images for the front and back covers – photographs printed on matte paper, hand drawn illustrations or paintings will all work wonderfully, or you can use a decorative paper supplied by the instructor.

FINDING THE BEST GRADUATION OPTION FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES – 10/25
October 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
YOU WILL LEARN
current NYS diploma options for students with disabilities
differences between the Skills & Achievement Credential and the Career Development & Occupational Studies (CDOS) Credential
how to determine the best pathway for your child
Williamsville Central District Office
105 Casey Road
East Amherst, NY 14051
RSVP now! You can call (716) 332-4170 or email info@parentnetworkwny.org,
Follow the link for more info and to register:

THE STRUDEL LADY, BY SHIRL SOLOMON

October 4 –28, 2018
Thursday @ 7:30pm: Oct. 4, Oct. 11, Oct. 18, Oct. 25
Saturday @ 4pm & 8pm:Oct. 6, Oct. 13, Oct. 20, Oct. 27
Sunday @ 2pm: Oct. 7, Oct. 14, Oct. 21, Oct. 28

Directed by: Saul Elkin.
Starring: Lisa Ludwig, Tom Makar, David Marciniak, and Mary Kate O’Connell.

World Premiere!

Chava, an American born, Orthodox wife and mother, is deserted by her husband and children. Embarrassed and confused about her identity and how to support herself financially, she seeks advice from a trusted older couple, who help her find independence, self-esteem and eventually love through her skill as a baker. The Strudel Lady is an entertaining and thought provoking musical story about marriage, Jewish traditions and the power of a well-made strudel.

Cost
$10.00/student tickets – $36.00/senior tickets – $38/adult tickets

Additional Information
Phone: 688-4114 Ext 335
Contact name: Patricia Quinn
Contact email: pquinn@jccbuffalo.org

“Nick Moeright is a criminal defense lawyer who has had an accident that has made him a wheelchair user. The night before his comeback case, he discovers that his sister, Ericka, for whom he has recently become responsible and who has high-functioning autism, has been bio-hacked. Willingly! Nick plans to confront the people who did it—just as soon as he can find them.

Alex, Nick’s fiancé, argues that it’s Ericka who’s responsible, both for the bio-hack and for herself. It’s another strike for Nick when, while recovering from his accident, Alex began to radicalize and has now become, inarguably, an eco-terrorist. The increasing pitch of Alex’s activism threatens a rift between the two men even as he works to strengthen the relationship between Nick and Ericka and also help guide Nick through his final stage of healing – acceptance.

But when Nick finally confronts the bio-hackers, it’s Alex who needs to accept the unexpected and unsettling outcome.”

Written by: Baroness Von Smith
Directed by: Virginia Brannon

Starring:
Steve Brachmann
Jessica Levesque
John Profeta

Thursday Performances are Pay-What-You-Can!

Ticket Prices for Friday-Sunday performances are:

$25 -General Admission
$20 -Seniors/Students

NEW Tween & Teen Spooktacular…
A chillingly pleasant, nighttime experience especially for young adults with a healthy dose of “kiditude”. Friday, Oct. 26, 5-8 pm explore 12 candlelit village homes in search of sweet treats and curios. Gather around the campfire for toasted marshmallows and terrifyingly supernatural tales. Spice up your look with a custom henna tattoo or faux wound. Give your friends the surprise of their life in our flashlight game of “Manhunt”. And, be prepared to engage in battle with our special guests from a galaxy far, far away!

Not-so-scary pastimes!
Avoid the scary spirits and hazards that lurk in the dark while still savoring Halloween to the max! Bring your candy bucket for trick-or-treat door-to-door in our family-friendly historic village on Saturday, October 27, 12-4pm; there 12 stops in all, including Teal Pumpkin Project houses. Visit Glamour Girls on site and treat yourself to an unbelievable design FREE. Roast marshmallows over our campfire as our storyteller spins lighthearted, seasonal tales, or dive in with games like “Bat & Moth” or “Spider Web”. And, keep your eyes peeled for some intergalactic guests!

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Join us for our Lunch & Learn, “Telling Your Story,” coming up on Friday, October 26th. We’ll talk through how to identify your unique story and integrate storytelling into your marketing. Expect group activities and brainstorms, plus lunch provided by The Lunchbox.
Check out The Cause Collaborative website and watch our video from our clients to hear a bit more about what we do.
During the Lunch & Learn, The Cause Collab team will share insights and tips around…
What makes a powerful brand story (hint: It starts with your “why”)
Finding your story and customizing the experience
Crafting your story on the right platforms
Identifying and understanding your audience
Leveraging storytelling for more successful fundraising event experiences
Keeping your story fresh for years to come

We hope you can make it!

Please RSVP to Rachelle at events@thecausecollab.org

BECOME AN EXPERT AT READING YOUR FINANCIAL REPORTS

The University at Buffalo School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) is pleased to offer the MASTERING YOUR FINANCIAL REPORTS PROGRAM to better equip business owners with knowledge needed to lead their businesses to financial success and long-term stability.

Participants in this eight week course are coached as business owners to become more empowered with their financial reporting. Participants can expect to gain tools needed to:

Create a basic and easy to use financial report template

Set up effective monthly financial report meetings with your team

Increase confidence about understanding your financial reports to the point that you look forward to reviewing them

Make better informed decisions on capital purchases and the use of other company resources

Who Should Enroll
Business owners and strategic decision makers seeking a higher level of knowledge with financial reports

Where and When
University at Buffalo Downtown Gateway
October 19 – December 14, 2018 (No class on November 23)
Fridays, 1:00p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Cost
$2,495 per participant $2,245 each additional participant from same company

Come visit one of Buffalo’s must-see treasures: The Guaranty Building! Originally built in 1896, this Adler & Sullivan designed structure is a highlight of Buffalo’s downtown architecture. Come see the beautiful terra cotta tiles on the exterior, the incredible mosaic work on the interior, and learn the history of this building, including what makes it a great preservation story. Preservation Buffalo Niagara is the exclusive provider of tours of the Guaranty Building.

Pre-registration is required for this tour. Walks on are not permitted, due to the limited capacity on this tour. Online registrants will receive a confirmation email. If you prefer to register over the phone, please call (716) 852-3300. If you have any questions, please contact Olivia at (716) 852-3300.

Tours of the Guaranty Building are on Fridays at 2 pm and Saturdays at 11 am.

Buffalo Arts Studio is pleased to host a Community Space exhibition and reception for the Buffalo Niagara Art Association’s (BNAA) Fall 2018 Juried Exhibition. Please join us on M&T Fourth Friday, October 26, 2018, from 5-8pm for a reception to celebrate the work of this artistically diverse network of Western New York artists who promote community understanding and interest in the visual arts.

This community-driven exhibition is taking place concurrently with solo exhibitions by Jozef Bajus, “Gold Rush” as well as Kurt Treeby, “Re-Model” in the main Buffalo Arts Studio gallery spaces, both of which will also be on view for October Fourth Friday programming.

The reception will include a brief awards ceremony, in which 15 awards and $1,000 in cash and certificates will be presented among various categories of show. Sponsors of the BNAA include Judson’s Outfitters, New York Frame, Hyatt’s, Dick Blick, and the Silvestro Family.

Participating artists include: Dennis Bertram, Paula Marie Borkowski, Karen Bradfield, Joseph Bucolo, Enid Edelman, Diane Goupil, Donna Hale, Joan Hambleton, Jean Jain, Paulette Arida Jurek, Joan Langley Shaw, Jean MacDonald, Michelle Marcotte, Maureen Matthews, Manning McCandlish, William McCullagh, Beverly McIntyre, Debra Meier, Sherryl Perez, Jeannette Pikturna, Sherrill Primo, Marie Prince, Judie Pufpaff, Kathy Schifano, Melinda K. Schneider, E. Jane Stoddard, Mimi Swados, Mark Tollner, Deanna Weinholtz.

Over four decades of paintings by Susan Copley will be on exhibit at 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts, from October 5th through October 30th.
The opening reception on Friday, October 5, 6:00-9:00pm, will feature Susan’s just-published limited edition book, Susan Copley, Then and Now: Four Decades of Painting.
The chapters of the book feature essays and photographs documenting the evolution of the artist’s work.
The book will be available for sale and signing by the artist.

A closing reception will be held at the gallery on Saturday, October 27 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Gallery Hours – Thursday 11-4, Friday 11-5, Saturday 11-4, by appointment, special event, or by chance.

Attend Sonic Shaman Concert for $30. See description below and see other workshops Hank is facilitating the entire weekend.

Stay Tuned! Private sessions may be available Friday Afternoon before the concert!**

Weekend Summary:

Friday Night: 6:00-7:30Sonic Shaman Concert:
Saturday:7:000-4:00 Shaman Secrets
Saturday 6:00-7:30 Power of Possibility

SONIC SHAMAN CONCERT:
Friday Night sets the tone for the weekend with a blend of ceremony and sound. Hank will open the space with a traditional Peruvian Ceremony calling out the the elements and nature spirits. As people settle into the energy Hank will create a sonic shower of vibration using tuning forks, crystal bowls, chimes, chanting and more. Investment: $30.00 per person

Shaman Secrets: A deep dive in to Peruvian Shamanism.
Join Paqo (nature mystic) Hank Setala as he discusses the traditions of the Q’ero indians of Peru and teaches practical skills that can be used right away after the class. Participants will be able to open sacred space before doing meditation or healing work with clients, Invoke the powers of the elements and there healing abilities, open your energy bubble to further empower and enhance your healing sessions as well as an energy clearing technique that translates in English to “Father’s Rain” which can be used to not just clear heavy energy but to transmute it. This workshop will take place on Saturday from 9:00am-4:00pm
Investment $150.00 per person.

A Taste of Access: The Power of Possibility ~ The Art of Actualizing through Allowance. Hank will discuss tools from Access Consciousness that can be used to keep you in a space of total allowance and to distinguish between manifestation which is “How” something shows up vs. actualization which is “that” it shows up.
Discover also tools for finding your own subsciously imposed glass ceilings that limit your full potential and how destroy and uncreate them to fully step into your power and potency as a infinite being.
Click below for the power of possibility registration.
Investment $30.00

Attend all 3 events for 185.00

How does it get better than this?
What else is possible?

Questions? Contact Hank directly at 440-720-4325

Orchard Park – one of Western New York’s loveliest villages – has the “usual suspect” haunts to be anticipated in any historic upstate village: lost graveyards, holiday-season apparitions, after-death visitations, settler-era spooks, Underground Railroad-trauma, and neighborhood ghosts. But some other connections in its supernatural track record are completely shocking, including Native American curses, ancient vision-sites, old-world paganism, and occult-conspiracy murder. We end with an astonishing tale about the Little People. It’s all here in the Haunted History tour of Orchard Park – back for 2018!

Fridays in October: October 5, 12, 19 & 26
MEETS: 7:00 PM SPoT Coffee, 6519 East Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY
TICKETS: $15 adults/$10 Ages 7-11, Under 7 Free

Tickets: https://www.peek.com/s/50859e75-b80a-434c-9c6a-7bb6d2ec16d2/o17J

Book the last Oktoberfest party of the year! Join Events at the Wurlitzer for Oktoberfest on Friday, October 26, 2018, from 7 pm – 11 pm. Music will be provided by Nik and the Nice Guys! Ticket includes food stations featuring: Bratwurst, Sauerbraten, Spaetzle Vinner Schnitzel, German Potato Salad, Sauerkraut, Carved Black Forest Ham, Apple-Bacon Cabbage, Pretzels and complimentary beer pairings at each station. Cash bar available.

Come to see the industrial chic renovations of the Historic Wurlitzer Building that has created Events at the Wurlitzer.

Tickets cost $24.95 per person.

Events at the Wurlitzer is located at:
908 Niagara Falls Blvd.
North Tonawanda, NY 14120

Get your tickets today! https://www.wurlitzerevents.com/event/oktoberfest-at-the-wurlitzer/

Friends and family are invited to join Westminster Presbyterian Church for a Halloween treat. Wear your favorite costume and experience the original classic silent horror film, “Phantom of the Opera,” accompanied by live, improvised organ music, on Friday, October 26, 7:30 PM, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY.

The 1925 black and white film is one of the most elaborate productions of the silent movie era. Organist and Choirmaster, Garrett Martin, will accompany the film on Westminster’s historic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ with an improvised score.

“This is a unique cinema experience, pairing one of the greatest silent films with an impromptu organ accompaniment,” says Martin. “The cinematography of the film together with Westminster’s colorful, rich, pipe organ will capture the moods of the film.”

This program is supported by the Westminster Friends of Music. Admission is free, with donations gratefully received to benefit the Westminster Friends of Music. For more information, call 716-884-9437 or visit www.wpcbuffalo.org.

Bobby Gould is the newly minted Head of Production at a major Hollywood studio and needs a surefire success right out of the gate if he wants to keep his job. Two proposals land quickly in his lap. The first is a low-brow and racially insensitive action flick backed up by high-powered movie star wattage… in other words, it can’t miss. The second is an intellectually challenging, philosophically progressive, deeply important literary adaptation… obviously, a guaranteed box office bomb. Will Bobby’s alluring new secretary manage to convince him to do what might be the right thing, or will his longtime frenemy Charlie Fox return Bobby to the brimstone path? Mamet’s rapid-fire comedy/drama pits Money vs. Art, Comfort vs. Courage, and Lady vs. Tiger.

Buffalo State’s Performing Arts Center is proud to present renowned jazz guitar legend Lee Ritenour on Friday, October 26, at 8:00 p.m.
Since his early recordings in the 1970s, Ritenour has earned a GRAMMY Award and 19 GRAMMY nominations and numerous other awards. He has recorded more than 40 albums that have yielded 35 chart songs. He also was a founding member of Fourplay, which many consider the most successful group in contemporary jazz.
From rock to blues to jazz, Ritenour’s diverse music became the foundation of sessions with many legendary artists including Pink Floyd, Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, Sonny Rollins, B.B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel, and Barbara Streisand. In addition, many great talents have collaborated with him, including Phil Collins, Chaka Kahn, and Herbie Hancock.
Ritenour celebrated five decades as a guitarist in 2010 with the release of 6 String Theory, which features Steve Lukather, Neal Schon, John Scofield, Slash, Mike Stern, George Benson, and B.B. King. And in 2016, Concord Records released The Vinyl LP Collection: a limited-edition, individually numbered box set celebrating a key period in Ritenour’s prolific solo career.
Tickets to the performance are $40 for lower tier and $35 for upper tier, with discounts for seniors and Buffalo State faculty and staff. Students can purchase tickets for $15 one hour before show time, based on availability.
Tickets are on sale now, and can be purchased at Performing Arts Center Box Office in Rockwell Hall, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. as well as online at buffalostatepac.org or by calling (716)878-3005.

“Nick Moeright is a criminal defense lawyer who has had an accident that has made him a wheelchair user. The night before his comeback case, he discovers that his sister, Ericka, for whom he has recently become responsible and who has high-functioning autism, has been bio-hacked. Willingly! Nick plans to confront the people who did it—just as soon as he can find them.

Alex, Nick’s fiancé, argues that it’s Ericka who’s responsible, both for the bio-hack and for herself. It’s another strike for Nick when, while recovering from his accident, Alex began to radicalize and has now become, inarguably, an eco-terrorist. The increasing pitch of Alex’s activism threatens a rift between the two men even as he works to strengthen the relationship between Nick and Ericka and also help guide Nick through his final stage of healing – acceptance.

But when Nick finally confronts the bio-hackers, it’s Alex who needs to accept the unexpected and unsettling outcome.”

Written by: Baroness Von Smith
Directed by: Virginia Brannon

Starring:
Steve Brachmann
Jessica Levesque
John Profeta

Thursday Performances are Pay-What-You-Can!

Ticket Prices for Friday-Sunday performances are:

$25 -General Admission
$20 -Seniors/Students

Glass Blowing For Beginners
Explore the fundamentals of glass. Students select from a range of different festive, icky, or wonderfully creepy crawling options (round glass eyeballs, flat shaped bats, or 3D spiders) and with the help of Glass Shop instructor, Jason Dederich, you’ll make your own original halloween ornament.

Glass blowing and forming flat shapes in glass is an art — the craft takes time to master. This session enables participants to join with a small group to get a sense of these processes. Learn more about shaping fine glass objects by working with Jason to create your own customized decoration that will last for many, many (and if you are very careful, perhaps eternal) Halloween eve festivities.

What you’ll learn:
Heating glass
Forming hot glass
Pipe turning
Proper glass blowing stances.
Pipe/Body/Hand positioning
Pulling and shaping hot glass

Other skills covered:
Point Turning
Marvering
Resetting point on center
Basic glass balancing

Class Cost: $50 (all materials included)
Class Size: Min 2/ Max 6
Ages: 16 with a signed waiver from a parent
Cancellation Policy

*Glass objects must be annealed overnight and can be picked up during the work week 12am-6pm Mon-Thurs*

PLEASE WEAR WORK CLOTHES MADE FROM NATURAL FIBERS FOR THIS SESSION.

Shaman Secrets : A Deep Dive into Peruvian Shamanism – 9-4pm. $150
See below for complete description.
And take a look at everything Hank is facilitating this entire weekend at Santosha.

Register at www.santoshaholisticcenter.com
Or
Call or text: 716-930-5011

Stay Tuned! Private sessions may be available Friday Afternoon before the concert!**

Weekend Summary:

Friday Night: 6:00-7:30Sonic Shaman Concert:
Saturday:7:000-4:00 Shaman Secrets
Saturday 6:00-7:30 Power of Possibility

Sonic Shaman Concert:
Friday Night sets the tone for the weekend with a blend of ceremony and sound. Hank will open the space with a traditional Peruvian Ceremony calling out the the elements and nature spirits. As people settle into the energy Hank will create a sonic shower of vibration using tuning forks, crystal bowls, chimes, chanting and more. Investment: $30.00 per person

SHAMAN SECRETS: A deep dive in to Peruvian Shamanism.
Join Paqo (nature mystic) Hank Setala as he discusses the traditions of the Q’ero indians of Peru and teaches practical skills that can be used right away after the class. Participants will be able to open sacred space before doing meditation or healing work with clients, Invoke the powers of the elements and there healing abilities, open your energy bubble to further empower and enhance your healing sessions as well as an energy clearing technique that translates in English to “Father’s Rain” which can be used to not just clear heavy energy but to transmute it. This workshop will take place on Saturday from 9:00am-4:00pm
Investment $150.00 per person.

A Taste of Access: The Power of Possibility ~ The Art of Actualizing through Allowance. Hank will discuss tools from Access Consciousness that can be used to keep you in a space of total allowance and to distinguish between manifestation which is “How” something shows up vs. actualization which is “that” it shows up.
Discover also tools for finding your own subsciously imposed glass ceilings that limit your full potential and how destroy and uncreate them to fully step into your power and potency as a infinite being.
Click below for the power of possibility registration.
Investment $30.00

Attend all 3 events for 185.00

How does it get better than this?
What else is possible?

Questions? Contact Hank directly at 440-720-4325

Anne Currier is a sculptor whose medium is ceramic, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Langley H. Kenzie Award which entitles her to a solo exhibition. In Display, Currier will present sculpture from her Anamorphosis series, plus a new collection of wall-mounted sculptures created specifically for the exhibition, and an installation of tile panels designed this year in collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Orchard Park, New York. Opening October 12, 2018 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State as part of the museum’s M&T Bank Second Friday event, the exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, March 31, 2019.

Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Display, the title of the exhibition, echoes the context or intent of an object and how it can shift when placed in varying spaces; but it’s really all one display,” says Anne Currier. “Showing my work as the Langley H. Kenzie Award recipient is part of a series of year-long positive coincidences. The Burchfield
Penney’s support of craft-based media, exhibiting in its Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery and earning a collaborative grant to design tile walls with Boston Valley Terra Cotta is a confluence that transformed 2017 into a miracle for me.”

“Currier’s sculpture is both a study in balance and an invitation to discovery,” said Nancy Weekly, exhibition curator. As she has stated, her Anamorphosis series reflects, “the interplay of masses and voids. Absence and presence, light and shadow, stasis and motion are subject matter. The dimensional tension and dynamics of human figures found in Greek and Buddhist temple pediments, and most recently, the structural flatness and synthesis of planar shapes in Cubist still-life paintings intrigue me.”

“Much of my work is derived from human interaction. Imagine making an impression in the sand from sitting on the beach, getting up and seeing the residual shape formed,” describes Currier. “I also remember being inspired watching a couple do Tai Chi, intrigued by the physical call and response of their hand gestures.”

Drawing some inspiration from nature’s palette observed from her Allegany County home and studio, Currier creates surfaces reminiscent of mottled boulders, slate and rust, as well as intangible fog.

Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Currier’s latest tiles, designed in eight variations, will be displayed in public for the first time on two free-standing walls in the Burchfield Penney exhibition. She utilized both wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to create undulating waves, articulated in both positive and negative profiles, and coated with uniquely formulated glazes that accentuate the rise and fall in the tiles’ surfaces. One is a semi-opaque iridescent satin white; the other is an opaque charcoal satin that breaks with a bronze sheen.

The Burchfield Penney Langley H. Kenzie Award was created to honor Mrs. Kenzie’s dedication as an artist and to support others like her. It recognizes an outstanding artist from the biennial, juried exhibition, Art in Craft Media, by granting the recipient a solo exhibition in the following year. The award is supported by the Langley H. Kenzie Award Endowment, established by her daughters, Rachel King and Mary Mahley.

The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

Display has been curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor of Museum Studies at SUNY Buffalo State.

About Anne Currier
Anne Currier received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Ms. Currier has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. She was honored with the American Crafts Council College of Fellows career achievement award.

Admission
Adults: $10
Seniors (62 & over): $8
Students (with ID): $5
Children (age 10 & under): FREE when accompanied by a paid adult/senior admission
SUNY Buffalo State Students, Faculty & Staff: FREE
United States and Canada Active Military and their families: FREE
Erie County Veterans: FREE
Burchfield Penney members: FREE (click here for all the benefits of membership)

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday* & Saturday: 10 am — 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am — 8 pm
Sunday: 11 am — 4 pm
Closed Mondays

The Burchfield Penney is closed in celebration of New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

11am-1pm, Members $108/series, $18/class, General Public $138/series, $23/class
Join us for an entertaining garden education with David Clark, Horticulturist & CNLP. David is fast becoming one of the country’s noted garden speakers! These classes are great for beginners or gardeners and landscapers wishing to brush up on their skills. Those who complete each series will be presented with a certificate of completion. Go to www.buffalogardens.com for more information.
Horticulture II
201 – October 27 – Soil Science for Gardeners
202 – November 3 – Advanced Propagation Techniques
203 – November 17 – Getting Started with Hydroponics
204 – December 1 – Water Gardening and Aquascaping
205 – December 8 – How to Prune Plants
206 – January 5 – Introduction to Landscape Design

QED Vocal Ensemble, an innovative choir comprised of some of Buffalo’s finest solo and choral singers will present In Memoriam on Saturday, October 27, 2 PM at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY.

The program, In Memoriam, has been designed as a modern day requiem to honor family and friends who have passed away. The audience will have the opportunity to find solace in a combination of classic and modern masterpieces by Tavener, Lassus, Mallonée, Bach, Parry, Ginastera, and more.

Michael Manganiello, founder and baritone, says that they chose the name QED “because we feel well-informed performances are demonstrative of the power of word and music, the beauty of artistic communication, and the necessity of combining scholarship and art to create meaningful and memorable experiences for our audiences.” QED is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum meaning “that which was to be demonstrated.”

“We are honored to have QED Vocal Ensemble in residence at Westminster and invite all to enjoy the musical innovations from this inspiring choral group,” says Garrett Martin, Organist and Choirmaster at Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Members of the group have been singing together for nearly a decade, beginning as students at the Fredonia School of Music. Throughout that time, the singers have continued to evolve their talents – both as solo and ensemble singers – performing throughout the country and around the world.

This concert is free and open to the public with donations gratefully accepted to benefit the Westminster Friends of Music. For more information, call 716-884-9437 or visit www.wpcbuffalo.org.

THE STRUDEL LADY, BY SHIRL SOLOMON

October 4 –28, 2018
Thursday @ 7:30pm: Oct. 4, Oct. 11, Oct. 18, Oct. 25
Saturday @ 4pm & 8pm:Oct. 6, Oct. 13, Oct. 20, Oct. 27
Sunday @ 2pm: Oct. 7, Oct. 14, Oct. 21, Oct. 28

Directed by: Saul Elkin.
Starring: Lisa Ludwig, Tom Makar, David Marciniak, and Mary Kate O’Connell.

World Premiere!

Chava, an American born, Orthodox wife and mother, is deserted by her husband and children. Embarrassed and confused about her identity and how to support herself financially, she seeks advice from a trusted older couple, who help her find independence, self-esteem and eventually love through her skill as a baker. The Strudel Lady is an entertaining and thought provoking musical story about marriage, Jewish traditions and the power of a well-made strudel.

Cost
$10.00/student tickets – $36.00/senior tickets – $38/adult tickets

Additional Information
Phone: 688-4114 Ext 335
Contact name: Patricia Quinn
Contact email: pquinn@jccbuffalo.org

For Our Daughters, Inc. was founded in 2012 after the founder, Mercedes Wilson, was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer at the young age of 28. It was at this time that Mercedes learned just how much she didn’t know about her own family history. It was through this ordeal that For Our Daughters, Inc. was birthed!

As a 501(c)3 organization, our aim is to assist young women between the ages of 11-19 with living longer, healthier lives by taking the reigns on their health. We believe that every young woman should know her family history and be proactive in speaking up when something isn’t quite right with her body. This is accomplished by going into both middle and high schools all over western New York, spending time with young women in an effort to show them how to open up dialogue with the loved ones in their lives. We talk about not only the importance of learning ones own family history, but also to become comfortable talking about their own health.

Lack of knowledge kills too many young women today, and For Our Daughters, Inc. is on a mission to help change this. For Our Daughters, Inc. is aiming to play a large part in seeing young women all over WNY live long, healthy lives. Our efforts have allowed us to be featured in several news pieces over the years and in 2014, For Our Daughters received the “Community Angel Award” from Women’s Health radio.