Glass Landscapes and Polaroid Emulsion Lift Workshop
Glass Landscapes merges stained glass and photography to create a body of work investigating memory, landscapes, and their distortions. Accompanying the creation of the work is a series of free public workshops on Polaroid Emulsion Lifts.
Dreams Travel Wondrous Wires
Dreams Travel Wondrous Wires is a dream-like, short experimental film that explores altered states of consciousness through The Seth Material, a formative series of New Age texts published by Jane Roberts as the result of her channeling the non-physical entity, “Seth.”
Books Exhibition Duo
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.
Into Dust
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.
The Sense of Wonder
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.
Frontera de carácter (Frontier of Character)
Frontera de carácter (Frontier of Character) is an exhibition that utilizes photography and Adobe building materials to express my identity as a second-generation Mexican American and references the experiences of living within my Mexican and Northwest American cultures.
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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.
Buffalo ReFuse: Video Theater
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.
Bodega 333
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.
Useful Symbiont
We believe we shape the world of objects - but our objects shape us. We are symbionts. These things carry, collect and present. Their role is ambiguous, residing between art and science, data and display. Collect, grow, feed, perform: responsive in the world.
Tangled Gravities
Tangled Gravities is a public sculpture / interactive mixed reality worldbuilding exercise, where people with radically different gravities coexist innocently, traversing a playground of AI-generated nonsense.
Prairie
Prairie is a new center for artistic growth, experimentation, and connection, where artists from diverse backgrounds can come together to collaborate and inspire one another, while cultivating an inclusive artistic ecosystem that helps Buffalo thrive.
Gatheringspace
A new creative workspace for artists exploring the intersections of photo/video, performance, and printed matter. The Generator Fund will support initial costs establishing an adaptable space and subsidize materials for use in workshops and by guest artists.
Expanding the WNY Print Community
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.