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Paris, the artistic melting pot of the 1900s
By KADEN ZHONG | Mar. 3The CFAs’ “Martha Jackson in Paris” exhibit opened on Sept. 4, 2025, and runs through May 17, 2026.
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The stories they tell
By KADEN ZHONG | Feb. 24UB’s Center for the Arts hosted its annual first-year MFA exhibition, which remained on display from Feb. 10 to Feb. 21, offering the world a peek at what its cohort of eight talented Master’s candidates had been rigorously working on over the past year.
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Converging sports, art and pop culture
By DELANEY MCCOURT | Mar. 11, 2025Graphic design artist Akasya Crosier shares her story of discovering her art, and how she combines it with her love of the city of Buffalo.
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Buffalo Fashion Week presents ‘Fashion on the Field’
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO and NADIA BANGAROO | Oct. 30, 2024Offering a unique twist on traditional one-center-lane fashion show venues, Buffalo Fashion Week’s (BFW) three-laned “Fashion on the Field,” was hosted on Oct. 19 at an indoor turf field on 97 Rosalia St.
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Buffalo AKG Art Museum opens its doors to the public
By EMMA STANTON | June 17, 2023The AKG Museum opened its doors to the public on Thursday in a long-awaited reopening.
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Meaning behind the mural: ADHD
By ALEX NOVAK | Apr. 19, 2023Lucy Person reflects on sleepless nights where a random CFA wall became her lasting legacy at UB.
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‘Duplex’: A trip through Buffalo and its inequities
By ALEX NOVAK | Apr. 12, 2023With a long list of pre-event preparations to complete, Vic Janis ran around all afternoon, gearing up for the closing reception of “Duplex,” her Buffalo-themed art exhibit that occupied the CFA’s Project Space until April 6.
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A ‘recycling center’ for the departed and discarded
By MERET KELSEY and ALEX NOVAK | Mar. 15, 2023A gigantic gray staircase split the space down the middle. Sculptures of garbage stood guard in the corners. Old family photos were plastered on the theater’s walls and UFO-like rings hung from the ceiling.
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‘A device for revolution’: students protest Michael Knowles appearance through visual art
By MERET KELSEY and ALEX NOVAK | Mar. 10, 2023One fine arts student opened their gallery to protesters who needed to warm up or take a break from the demonstration.
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Dark academia bewitches Fashionista Club
By JULES EVANS and ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 17, 2022UB's Fashionista Club is an on-campus group that promotes self-expression, finding meaning through one’s style and committing to an aesthetic vision.
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‘Public art is my sport of choice’: The story behind UB’s Title IX mural
By ALEX NOVAK | Oct. 26, 2022Behind every “contemplative site” is the artist that brought it to life.
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‘It’s somewhat of my duty sometimes to portray Black imagery’
By DOMINICK MATARESE | Apr. 27, 2022Edreys Wajed is serious about his art. So serious that he put his life on hold — and everything on the line — to collaborate on his first professional mural, “Freedom Wall.”
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‘The City Talks to Itself’ packs a world of detail into its pieces
By ALEX FALTER | Apr. 6, 2022“The City Talks to Itself Pt. 2” — an exhibit which launched in September, and will run until May 27 — greets attendees to pictures that are meant to evoke the excitement of street art.
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UB Arts Collaboratory closes ‘The Space Between’
By ALEX FALTER | Oct. 12, 2021The UB Arts Collaboratory’s downtown art space, “The Space Between,” closed Sept. 4 after a six-month stint on Ellicott Street. The AC plans to move to a new, permanent location during the spring 2022 semester.
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CFA welcomes back students with aptly-titled ‘Fall Into Art’
By ALEX FALTER | Sep. 21, 2021Not since the beginning of COVID-19, has creativity echoed so loudly through the halls of UB’s Center for the Arts. On Thursday, the CFA opened its doors to four new exhibits collectively referred to as “Fall into Art.”
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UB Arts Collaboratory opens downtown art space
By ANASTASIA WILDS | May 4, 2021“The Space Between” is a one-room studio the College of Arts and Sciences has rented downtown for $500 a month to showcase the artistic process.
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Immigrants share their stories at UB Arts Collaboratory’s new space
By ANASTASIA WILDS | Mar. 5, 2021Victoria-Idongesit Udonian launched the collaborative project “Adápé” on Feb. 27. The project will be open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays from 12-4 p.m., with free admission.
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‘It’s giving us a new audience:’ UB Art Galleries reopen online and in person
By ANASTASIA WILDS | Feb. 15, 2021Over the past few months, the staff at the UB Art Galleries have learned an unexpected lesson: the technologies UB used to keep the galleries running online are likely here to stay, even after the pandemic ends.
