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The chairs are waiting for you. 👀🪑🕰️Reception: Thursday, September 3, 2026, 5-8PM“One and Many Chairs”, a cradle to grav...
09/01/2026

The chairs are waiting for you. 👀🪑🕰️
Reception: Thursday, September 3, 2026, 5-8PM

“One and Many Chairs”, a cradle to grave exhibition, showcases remakes of retired UB Libraries study chairs, created by members of the University at Buffalo and greater Buffalo community.

In the Department of Art Lower Gallery
Center For the Arts, Room B45
On View: September 1 - October 17, 2026

The Artists:
Abigail Keller
Bella Rosenthal
Brian Millspaw & Sarah Brown
Brian Tulowiecki & Mary Kay Omara
Bryce Baker
Caitlin Andrejova
Catherine Linder Spencer
Chantal Calato
Cole Pawlowski
Deirdre Harder
elton kinkelaar
Emma Brittain
Evelyn Bellreng
Gabriela Zappi
Gerald Mead
H Boone
Jeff Sherven
Office of Enrollment Management: Clayton Cobb, Michael Conroy, Holly Evert, Katie Fox, Jessica Kane, Kristin Lowe, Brent Zimmerman
Joel Brenden
Karyn St George
Kelly Myers-Chunco
Laura Valkwitch
Lucas Cook
Maddie Bartley
Makena St. George
Matthew Owczarczak
Nicholas Wheeler
Nirmiti (Nini) Pandit
Quincy Koczka
Reinhard Reitzenstein
Roscoe Duquette
Rosemary Lombardo
Sarah Campbell
UB Sustainability Community
Will Quintana

Fantastic presentation and discussion with artist Althea Murphy-Price, tonight to kickoff our Fall 2026 Visiting Artist ...
09/01/2026

Fantastic presentation and discussion with artist Althea Murphy-Price, tonight to kickoff our Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Speaker Series! In Center for the Arts | UBuffalo Screening Room 112

From screenprinting the word “lie” on synthetic hair pieces, to lasercutting collage component ribbons specifically the colors of not top ranked “places”, sculptures, prints, craft and technology, and more, it was great to hear about the techniques that Murphy-Price employs to investigate beauty, womanhood, and representation.

Thank you to our Professors Becky Brown for organizing this great line-up, and Noah Breuer for tonight’s introduction of Murphy-Brown.

The recording of this and future ART200 Visiting Artist Speaker Series presentations will be available on our Department YouTube soon. See art.buffalo.edu for more info.

We welcome everyone to our 2026 Visiting Artist Speaker Series!Mondays at 6:30pm in 112 Center for the Arts (Fall Semest...
09/01/2026

We welcome everyone to our 2026 Visiting Artist Speaker Series!

Mondays at 6:30pm in 112 Center for the Arts (Fall Semester Only)
The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. The Series is attended by students enrolled in ART200, and seating is first-come-first-serve, once these enrolled students are seated.

Aug. 31 - Althea Murphy-Price
Sept. 14 - Theo. Triandos
Sept. 21 - Lyndon Barrois Jr.
* In partnership with Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art
Sept. 28 - Teresa Baker
Oct. 5 - Mirae kh Rhee
* In partnership with Asia Research Institute at UB
Oct. 19 - Tiffany E. Barber 
Oct. 26 - Claudia Bitrán 
Nov. 2 - Jacob Todd Broussard
Nov. 9 - Emily Hamilton
Nov. 16 - Alex Center
Nov. 23 - Mara Baldwin
* In partnership with UB Art Galleries
Nov. 30 - Catherine Telford Keogh
* In partnership with the UB Coalesce Center for Biological Art 
Dec. 7 - Joanna Zylinska
* In partnership with UB Humanities Institute, UB Critical AI Studies Research Group, UB New Polish Studies Initiative and UB Department of Comparative Literature

For more info on the visiting artist speakers, and other Department of Art events, visit art.buffalo.edu

, Gareth Lichty, MFA 2016, has new public art open in Toronto!“Warp (St Anne’s)”Flagging tape, wood and steelAugust 202...
08/27/2026

, Gareth Lichty, MFA 2016, has new public art open in Toronto!
“Warp (St Anne’s)”
Flagging tape, wood and steel
August 2026

Part of WHERE WALLS MEET SKY
3rd slide and below info reposted from • Where Walls Meet Sky

Curated by Rui Pimenta

Presented by St. Anne’s Anglican Church

“Following the devastating 2024 fire that left all but its exterior walls, St. Anne’s Church exists in a state of becoming, marked by loss, yet filled with possibility. Where Walls Meet Sky is the first public art exhibition to reopen the church, inviting visitors into a space of renewal, reflection, and reconnection.

With its roof open to the sky, light, weather, and the elements become part of the exhibition, dissolving the boundary between inside and outside. Through sculpture, installation, photography, and multidisciplinary works, twelve artists explore renewal, resilience, memory, and transformation.

Join us as we reflect on how places carry memory, how communities endure, and how hope can emerge from loss.

With support from our co-presenting partners:

CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area) CAFKA and the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

📍 St. Anne’s Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone Ave, Toronto
📅 August 22 – September 13, 2026
🕛 Thursday–Sunday | 12–8 PM
🎟️ Free Admission

Slide 3 Photography by Priam Thomas
• • •

đź’« Tessa Bradley received a BFA with concentration in Graphic Design from UB in 2024. She currently works as a Graphic ...
08/25/2026

đź’« Tessa Bradley received a BFA with concentration in Graphic Design from UB in 2024. She currently works as a Graphic Designer for Kassin Sabbagh Realty (KSR)

“I recently had the opportunity to design a Times Square motion billboard ad for KSR. The project included concept development, storyboarding, motion design, and creative direction for the piece. Seeing something I designed run on one of the biggest screens in the world was a moment I’ll never forget, and it’s a project that still feels tied back to what I learned in the UB Art Department’s graphic design program.”

AHI395: Contemporary Art, still has some open seats!Taught by Professor Berin Golonu!Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:50PMThe most re...
08/25/2026

AHI395: Contemporary Art, still has some open seats!
Taught by Professor Berin Golonu!
Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:50PM

The most relevant contemporary art takes the pulse of society and moves in step with the latest social and cultural developments. Through lectures, readings, media sources, and gallery visits, this course will familiarize students with key concepts and critical topics that shape contemporary art production and reception, from the 1960s to today.

Credits: 3

Reach out to an academic advisor with an appointment on Navigate if you want to see if this class can fit in your schedule and program plan!

REVISED! Our “Incoming MFA Showcase” will include work by the NINE class of 2028 MFA Candidates, to highlight their pre-...
08/20/2026

REVISED! Our “Incoming MFA Showcase” will include work by the NINE class of 2028 MFA Candidates, to highlight their pre-program artistic practices.
In the Department of Art Project Space Center For the Arts, Room 155 Center for the Arts | UBuffalo On View: August 27 - September 12, 2026
Reception: Thursday, August 27, 5-7PM
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!
Including:
Twinkle Banerjee Twinkle Banerjee
Robert Aaron Burleson r.a.burleson
Ana SofĂ­a Camarga Lic. Ana SofĂ­a Camarga
Caroline Chou Caroline Chou
Nicholas Christakis Nicholas
Claire Connolly Orlaborla Spore
Heather Phelps-Lipton heather phelps-lipton
Virginia Samsel Virginia Samsel
Jana Willis Jana Willis

See their bios art art.buffalo.edu, under the “Graduate” section and “Our Graduate Students”

Our “Incoming MFA Showcase” will include work by the eight class of 2028 MFA Candidates, to highlight their pre-program ...
08/14/2026

Our “Incoming MFA Showcase” will include work by the eight class of 2028 MFA Candidates, to highlight their pre-program artistic practices.

In the Department of Art Project Space
Center For the Arts, Room 155 Center for the Arts | UBuffalo
On View: August 27 - September 12, 2026
Reception: Thursday, August 27, 5-7PM
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

Including:
Twinkle Banerjee, Robert Aaron Burleson, Ana SofĂ­a Camarga, Caroline Chou, Claire Connolly, Heather Phelps-Lipton, Virginia Samsel, Jana Willis

See their bios art art.buffalo.edu, under the “Graduate” section and “Our Graduate Students”

Opening Soon! “One and Many Chairs”One “original” retired UB Libraries study chair, 36 versions of new art objects creat...
08/13/2026

Opening Soon! “One and Many Chairs”
One “original” retired UB Libraries study chair, 36 versions of new art objects created out of it, by members of the University at Buffalo and greater Buffalo community.
In the Department of Art Lower Gallery
Center For the Arts, Room B45
Center for the Arts | UBuffalo
On View: September 1 - October 17, 2026
Reception: Thursday, September 3, 2026, 5-8PM

Students and instructors at the University at Buffalo have a long history of being “thrifty” when it comes to art-making and design. With a pervasive low-waste mindset, things like the “Cradle to Grave” exhibition series presented by the Department of Art in the 2000s and 2010s (with old computer monitors, keyboards, machines and slides, etc.), and “take an item, leave an item” shelves, have established a habit of recycling materials. Through an Open Call in the Spring, 36 artists from across UB and the surrounding area were each issued a library chair that would have been otherwise disposed of, to turn into a work of art. Come see the impressive results and celebrate the riveting energy infused into these objects!

Left to right chair artwork credits:Bryce Baker, “Strata”. Chair, leather, Walnut, Oak, Maple, Koto, and Ebony Veneers, paintMadeline Bartley, “Rooted in Existence”. Chair, hand printed textiles, woodblock print, appliqué, collage, machine embroidery, fabric, paintBrian Millspaw & Sarah Brown, “b #”. Chair, Ash wood, upholstery fabric

Bryce Baker Madeline Bartley Brian Millspaw Sarah G. Brown-Millspaw

See art.buffalo.edu for more details.

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