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Temple of The Cave
Kia Miakka Natisse
The Temple of the Cave is an immersive performance and journey into the shadow realm to enact a ritual transmutation into light.
Turtles All The Way Up
Chantal Calato
Turtles All The Way Up is an 18’ megalithic tower that transforms dozens of turtle sandboxes and saves them from our local landfills.
Major Glitch
H Boone and Quincey Miracle
Major Glitch is an experimental exhibition series at the Niagara Frontier Food Terminal featuring immersive installation, video art, and game design.
Glass Landscapes and Polaroid Emulsion Lift Workshop
Alexa Kanarowski
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
Christopher Michael + Saelyx Finna
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.”
Lake Rats Dispatch
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.
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.
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.
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.comfor updates and more!
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.
Frontera de carácter (Frontier of Character)
Misael Hernandez
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.
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.
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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.
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.”
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.