Cycle 2 Grantees
Kinetic Grantee
Glass Landscapes and Polaroid Emulsion Lift Workshop
Alexa Kanarowski
Kinetic Grantee
Into Dust
Tallulah Gordon
Into Dust is a short film love story about two young Buffalo Natives who, along with the rest of their class, learn that the world is ending in less than 24 hours. Feeling powerless, they decide to throw one last big party where things take a dark turn.
Kinetic Grantee
Dreams Travel Wondrous Wires
Christopher Michael + Saelyx Finna
Kinetic Grantee
Useful Symbiont
Claudia Mancuso D'Auria
Kinetic Grantee
Contaminated Culture
aidelen montoya
Through historical Eurocentric and misogynistic views, there has been a separation of craft and art. This show will consist entirely of craft materials focusing on Filipino culture being highlighted by technological aid; the same inventions used to suppress many indigenous cultures and diminish traditional knowledge transfer.
Potential Grantee
Expanding the WNY Print Community
MIRABO PRESS (Partners Rachel Shelton, Mizin Shin, and Bob Fleming)
Mirabo will establish the Growing the Western New York Print Community Program Program. It will offer free residencies to 3 to 4 artists for one week. A Mirabo printer will guide each resident through their residency. Each artist will participate in a group show in the Mirabo gallery.
Kinetic Grantee
Buffalo ReFuse: Video Theater
Michael Chernoff
ReFuse is a multi-channel screening of films that document the urban landscape of Buffalo NY, made by local filmmakers, and constructed from salvaged building materials and old CRT video monitors. The work will be publicly exhibited at ReUse Action on Buffalo’s East Side neighborhood, and includes artist talks and workshops.
Kinetic Grantee
Tangled Gravities
Shawn Chiki
Kinetic Grantee
Hyper(in)Visible
Soda Haley
"To be hyper(in)visible means receiving both excessive attention and being overlooked, sometimes simultaneously." - Jeannine A. Gailey. Hyper(in)visible will be an exhibition, featuring oil paintings and sculpture that explores fatness through a personal fat queer lens, aiming to provoke dialogue and challenge societal prejudice against the fat body.
Kinetic Grantee
Frontera de carácter (Frontier of Character)
Misael Hernandez
Potential Grantee
Gatheringspace
Joel Brenden & Avye Alexandres
Kinetic Grantee
Bodega 333
Alison Cortes
A magic market focused on childlike imagination, community, and creating safe spaces. A local gallery is transformed into a playful storefront, creating an immersive exhibition space for unique and free public programming. Bodega 333 is a dreamlike space where all are invited to wander and wonder.
Kinetic Grantee
Kinetic Grantee
Vision Of Vocation: Finding Rest
Joel Mulindwa
In Vision of Vocation: Finding Rest, Joel explores themes of labor, purpose, value and overlooked moments of stillness within the lives of workers. I plan to create frames for the drawings I will show as an intentional finishing touch that will supplement the subjects.
Gold Leaf Workshop 2025
James “Yames” Moffitt
The goal of this project is to break down financial barriers associated with gold leaf and make it accessible through subsidized workshops. I will also be funding my own education into brilliant cut glass with a course at the Corning Museum of Glass. Check out www.theyames.com for updates and more!
Kinetic Grantee
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Jason Beaudreau
An immersive interdisciplinary installation exploring themes of connection and dis-connection through cymatic (sound made visible) projections juxtaposed over patterns and networks found in nature in the greater Niagara Falls region.
Kinetic Grantee
Excursion to View the Moon
Julia Dzwonkoski
I’ll produce an artist book in conversation with the work of Helen Adam (1909-1993), made while visiting her archives at the SUNY Buffalo Poetry and Rare Book Collection.
Kinetic Grantee
Books Exhibition Duo
Nick Mass
Funding will support two group exhibitions showcasing artists' books, focused on personal sketchbooks and photo books made of Polaroid photos. The exhibitions will allow visitors to touch and flip through books, providing inspiration and enabling comparisons between artists techniques.
Kinetic Grantee
The Sense of Wonder
Christine Marie
Analog versus digital. Nature versus destruction. The battle unfolds on a giant cube, where analog devices casting natural landscapes compete with intermittent AI-powered digital projections of disaster. The convergence and clash of these visuals invite reflection on the fragility of our environment and the profound consequences of unchecked technological advancement.
Kinetic Grantee
716 & Art
Khalim Evans & Robert Rivera
716 & Art is an event showcasing the vibrant film-art scene in Buffalo. Hosted in the Ujima Theatre, this event will gather seven talented Buffalo-based directors to showcase their short films, followed by a brief Q&A session.
Potential Grantee
Prairie
Jillian Solotes
Kinetic Grantee
Sunshine Recorder
Nicholas Christakis
Sunshine Recorder is an arts and culture zine showcasing Buffalo's unique creatives through studio visits, gonzo journalism at events, and any exciting happenings in 2025. Featuring musicians, illustrators, painters, poets, photographers, and vigilantes, it captures the endless artistic expressions that define the city's dynamic cultural landscape.
Kinetic Grantee
Pick-A-Print Art Vending Machine
Chris Fritton
Pick-A-Print vending machines will host small-scale pieces of art (handmade prints, limited editions, zines, found objects, and more) from local Buffalo artists, in a fun, accessible, low-cost format. It intends to host work from over 40 different artists in its first year, and expand from there.
Cycle 3 Jury
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Devin T. Mays
Devin T. Mays (b. Detroit, MI) is an artist interested in the here and there of things. He uses sculpture, installation, performance and pictures for pleasure. He often refers to his practice as a place for things to become Things.
Mays has exhibited and performed at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna; The Power Station, Dallas; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; gta exhibitions, Zürich; Sweetwater, Berlin; F Gallery, Houston; SculptureCenter, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Regards, Chicago among others.
Mays is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Rice University.
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John Ripenhoff
John Riepenhoff was born and resides in Milwaukee, where he founded The Green Gallery. Riepenhoff engineers art to serve as connective tissue between cultural entities. He established the Beer Endowment in 2014 to support and advocate for artist-run organizations. Riepenhoff pays homage to other artists, creating renditions of their work. As an artist, he uses his own platform to uplift others and acknowledges the influences of community and collaboration in the process of making. Riepenhoff also ideated Double Cream Colby Cheese, started the Milwaukee International Art Fair, administers The Open Fund, and paints the night sky in the dark.
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Rachel Shelton
Rachel Shelton centers an experimental and process-based practice around printmaking, expanding into book arts, enamel, public art, and sculpture. She received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Her work has been most recently exhibited in the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and at Hunt Art Gallery.
Rachel is also a Co-Founder and collaborative printer at Mirabo Press, a fine art printmaking studio in Buffalo, NY. While she spends a good deal of time making solo work in her studio, collaboration and facilitation are also at the heart of Rachel’s practice. From making collaborative work with fellow artists to facilitating and printing the work of many artists through her print shop, the collective energy of community drives her practice forward and outward.
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Dana Murray Tyrrell
Dana Murray Tyrrell is an artist, curator, and writer from Niagara Falls, New York. Tyrrell was a 2024 Kinetic Grantee with the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art's Generator Fund. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Castellani Art Museum, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, University at Buffalo Department of Art, and the Pride Center of Western New York.
Recent solo exhibitions include Love Canal at the Earl W. Brydges Library (2024-25), Floater at Kingfish Gallery (2021), and Blue at the Castellani Art Museum (2017). He has contributed to group exhibits across Western New York including at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (2014), the Burchfield Penney Art Center (2021, 2023), and ECHO Art Fair (2016). He currently works at the Burchfield Penney with past roles at Rivalry Projects, the Niagara Arts & Cultural Center, Castellani Art Museum, and former Albright-Knox Art Gallery.