Adam Thibodeaux, @adamthib

Apertures/Apparitions

Canalside

Apertures/Apparitions seeks to reanimate the ghost of the Gillet & Sons Distillery at Canalside by infilling the voids that once served as thresholds with speculative apertures. It defamiliarizes physical traces of impermanence (ruins) made flat (through printed image) and ruptured by both the hand of the maker and the body of the occupant.

Bianca L. McGraw, @biancalperiod

Poetic Cafe

Broadway Market

Poetic Cafe is an interactive installation that engages participants with poetry, art, music, comedy, craft, and meditation. 

Brandon Williamson, @BWilliamsonpoet @Pureinkpoetry

Untitled

Matt Urban Hope Center

A curated performance piece created by Brandon Williamson especially for the Matt Urban stage.

Camilla Lee

Dorethea Edwards

Jay Hawkins, @revolutionarystrokes

Lisa Brown, @LeahLexus

Shantelle Patton, @brownbagladee

The Gathering Place 

Multiple Sites

The power of gathering gives the opportunity to inspire, to be more hopeful, more joyful. More alive. Organized by Buffalo’s Own, Inc. five artists will lead the community in painting five benches around the theme of gratitude. 

Christopher Squier, @studio_squier

insomnia, memory loss, lethargy, and insanity

Broadway Market

In a series of digital works printed on fabric, artist Christopher Squier creates collages that combine abstraction and distortion as well as images of glass Fresnel lenses found in internet searches. Together, the resulting images embody mathematical principles from quantum physics and take up photographic conversations about the bending of light and subsequent warping of reality.

Colleen Toledano, @colleen_toledano

In Flux

The Handley Room

In Flux is a multi-media installation made of paper, lumber, and light to submerges the viewer in an environment of the ever-changing flows of nature.  

Darryl Lauster

Rust Belt Requiem

The Handley Room

An assemblage of Buffalo's industrial history recomposed as a public monument.

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen & Sasha Stiles, @dianalynnvdm & @sashastiles

A Digital Garden Grows

Broadway Market

The collective nurturing of lifecycles and calm environments; in gardening and growth we trust. Curated by Miriam Arbus & Jess Conatser.

Julia Dzwonkoski, @juliadzwonkoski

Broadway Market Postcards

Broadway Market

Postcards celebrating the colorways and vibes of the Broadway Market.

Kyle Butler, @kyle___butler

Infrastrictures

Buffalo Central Terminal

A series of sculptures made primarily with grass, suspended on taught lengths of chain link.

Laural Hartman & Sarah Kinard, @laural.hartman @sarahkinard 

Parallel Intersection 

Matt Urban Hope Center

An intuitive play with the idea of straddling the line between abstraction and representation.

Legba Graphics (William Quintana + Christa Trautman), @legba.inc

Drop Ceiling

Broadway Market

Finding the joy and wonder in the Broadway Market parking garage waffle grid. 

Lindsey Griffith, @lindseyolo 

The Same Stream Twice

Matt Urban Hope Center

A short play about communication and miscommunication that displaces and reimagines imagery from virtual theatre back into real time and space.


Randy Fernando, @randyfdo94 @wildnomad.media @mov.energy

ECHO

Canalside

Make noise, make light. 

Rich Tomasello, @richtomaselloart

Current Affairs

The Handley Room

Current Affairs is an installation created in part by a diverse group of teenagers, working with artist Rich Tomasello, sharing their feelings, hopes, anxieties, and fears of our current times.  

Sara Zak, @sarazakart

Come and Find Me

Buffalo Central Terminal

Childhood comes and goes in a blink of an eye; come find yours again in a scavenger hunt for characters and creatures made of children's books.

Sarah Fonzi, @sarahfonzi

Core Sample

Buffalo Central Terminal

A series of monumental columns of fictional geological earth strata to illustrate a place’s distinct history as impacted by its changing inhabitants.

Senso di Voce: Esin Gunduz & Megan Kyle, @sensodivoce

Sounding Spaces

Matt Urban Hope Center

An immersive sound installation that embodies musical resonances across time, geography, and genre.

Valeria A. Cray & Hiram Cray 

Portal

Buffalo Central Terminal

It will energize and unify the area and bring in good spirits.

Zeitpunk (Matthew Graham), @city_of_fences

City of Fences

Matt Urban Hope Center

If Buffalo is the “City of Good Neighbors” and if “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” does that make Buffalo the “City of Fences?”

PLAY/GROUND 2021

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