Welcome to the Center for the Arts (UBCFA), where art is made and experienced at the University at Buffalo. Each Fall, we open our doors for guests to explore and see a variety of art in action and on display in the UBCFA, the hub of a bustling arts community where dancers, actors, filmmakers, musicians and artists come to create and perform. The event offers the opportunity for visitors to meet students and faculty to learn about UB’s rich offering of art programs and the creativity its departments bring to the campus and community.
Areas of the UBCFA will be alive where guests will have the opportunity to listen to live music; view films; tour studio and lab spaces; view art gallery exhibitions; see works in progress and drop in theatre and dance rehearsals. The event will conclude with two performances at 7:30 p.m. – “Bridget Moser: When I am Through With You There Won’t be Anything Left” and “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” . The event offers the opportunity for visitors to meet students and faculty to learn about UB’s rich offering of art programs and the creativity its departments bring to the campus and community.
Art in the Open will include performances and activities curated and produced by UB students, faculty and staff from the departments of Art, Arts Management, UB Art Galleries, Media Study, Music, Theatre and Dance, Arts Collaboratory and the Center for the Arts.
Art in the Open is presented by the Center for the Arts and Arts Collaboratory.
Evening Schedule
5 p.m. - Doors and Studios Open
5:30 p.m. - Screenings Begin
7 p.m. - Studios close and musical performances continue in Atrium
7:30 p.m. - Performances
Refreshments will be served in the atrium
Live Turntable DJ performance by DJ Optimus Prime, recent collaborator associated with the Arts Collaboratory Working Artists Lab with Grandmaster Flash last Fall. While attending the event, be sure to pick up information and an application for the Spring 2023 Arts Collaboratory Working Artists Lab!
Visit Taylor Rober’s studio in room 216, the University at Buffalo Arts Collaboratory’s 2022/2023 artist-in-residence and UB MFA candidate. The Arts Collaboratory’s artist-in-residence is an annual opportunity for a UB student in the arts to receive a space at 500 Seneca, generously donated by Savarino Companies.
Bridget Moser: When I Am Through With You There Won’t Be Anything Left
UB CFA Gallery, First Floor
7:30 p.m.
Join us Bridget Moser’s live performance When I Am Through With You There Won’t Be Anything Left, presented in anticipation of the exhibition I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality, which will open at UB Art Galleries on November 10, 2022. Borrowing from prop comedy, experimental theater, contemporary dance, and performance art, Moser’s 50-minute performance unfolds as a sequence of brief scenes that shift abruptly and unexpectedly between self-deprecation, humor, and deeper emotions … with a healthy dose of awkward and cringeworthy moments. References and materials from consumer culture, trending online content, popular music, and film play supporting roles in her exploration of isolation as the consequence of linking the body with individuality, the tenuousness of self-identity, and the intensity of being alive.
Chamber Music
Andante et Allegro by Guy-Ropartz
Teressa Izzo, trumpet
Michael Serio, piano
___-cide (2018) by Ka Shu "Kenneth" Tam
Teressa Izzo, trumpet
Wren Martinson, clarinet
Elizabeth Hirksekorn, piano
Excerpt from Fantasia in d-minor by W.A. Mozart
Elizabeth Hirksekorn, piano
UB Choir
Claudia Brown, conductor
Michael Serio, piano
'J'entends le Moulin' by Donald Patriquin
'Super Flumina Babylonis' by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
'I thank you God for most this amazing day' by Eric Whitacre
'Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho' arr. Moses Hogan
'And I saw a new heaven' by Edgar Bainton
'Sing a Mighty Song' by Daniel Gawthrop
Chamber Music
Trio Op. 114 by Johannes Brahms
Amanda Newbury, clarinet
Reggie Guo, cello
Aria McKee, piano
Barcarolle, Op. 42 No. 3 by Gabriel Fauré
Aria McKee, piano
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Mvmts II and III by Ludwig van Beethoven
William Fryburger, piano
UB Guitar Ensembles
Spanish Dance No. 3 by Enrique Granados
Will Brobston and Matthew Nastro with Prof. Sungmin Shin, guitars
“Consolação” Afro-Brazilian samba by Baden Powell (arr. Stephen Guerra)
Prof. Stephen Guerra, guitar
“Já valeu” Brazilian choro by Stephen Guerra
Profs. Stephen Guerra and Sungmin Shin, guitars
Cissy Strut by The Meters
Eric Aquilina, Matthew Nastro, John Toftegaard, and Jacob Van Middelem, guitars
Andras Blazsek – 270
DMS 534 Interactive Media – Single Channel Display of a Realtime Video Camera Feed, processed through MAX/MSP/Jitter – 2nd Floor Bridge
DMS 551: Networked Media – Media Study Hallway
Famous Clark - 242
Hanyu Liao – 258C
Olurotimi Akanbi – 290
Jason Livingston – 258D
Joan Nobile – 258B
Michael Chernoff – 271
Timothy Georger – 271 / 286
Jesse Rodkin – 286
Ruonan Zhang - 270
Vav Vavrek - Outpost 6, uncanny embrace, Cyborg_lovestory, VIDEO CALIBRATION
Michael Chernoff - Vidiots
Olu Akanbi - "a film"
Jesse Rodkin - Beep Boop Bring Bring Awuga
Joan Nobile - Howling at the Moon: A Follow-up
Blake Barit - Circle, Artifact
Jamie Hager - Continuous Take, Really
DMS 103: A Night at the Movies
Jenna Kuhlmey
Max Teicher
Cameron Sauer
Caroline O'Grady
Jiayi Ye
Yurui Zeng
Molly Miller
Anthony Butler
Elias Kabalan
Matthew Persampieri
DMS 518: Innovative Approaches to Film & Video
Alex Cassetti – 212A
Ali Lazik – 214A
Anja Honisett – 207A
Bello Bello – 217
Chloe Koegel – B36
Cristiano Pereira – 215
Dalton Carlson – 212B
Diana Polanco – 214B
Joey Goergen – 219
Jonathan Bolt – 133
Josie Freeman – 211
Lydia Kegler – 219A
Quincey Miracle – B21
Robert George – B35
Salem Browning – 130
Soda – 207B
Taylor Roberts – 216
Tiffany Gaines – 138
Walker Tufts – 209
Department of Art Gallery - Là-Bas (Down There) - A collection of works from current Department of Art Faculty and Staff. Works displayed range through a multitude of diverse practices, art and activism, and emerging fields.
Room 155 - Color and Form Explorations - A selection of samples of undergraduate students’ works representative of the Art Department’s Foundations program from the Spring semester of 2022.
Room 142 – Digital Embroidery with Kelly Myers-Chunco - Stop in to the Department of Art's Graphic Design Lab (142 CFA) where we’ll be running fall-themed patches on the digital embroidery machine. You’ll be able to customize your own patch with a monogram in your choice of colors.
Room B38 – Printmaking - Print Media’s Relief & Letterpress class will be relief printing Masks of the Mind linocut blocks on 3' x 5' panels of muslin.
B88, B91, Drama Theatre – Noises Off - The design team for "Noises Off" is comprising entirely of undergraduate students, mentored by faculty. Student technician work alongside technical staff to realize all the design elements for the production. This production integrates stage automation. Set design is by Jonathan Dodds.
Room B84 – Entropy - A live movement piece telling the story of a woman who must make a choice. This is exploring the potential paths making a choice will take you. "For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon," -Joan D. Vinge. Choreographed by Sidney.
Rehearsal Workshop (B83) – Works in Progress - From 5-5:30 p.m. - Join us for 30 minutes of dance! MFA Dance students will show works-in-progress.
Black Box Theatre -
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
7:30 p.m.
Ticketed Performance
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is directed and choreographed by award-winning Guest Artist Terry Berliner. Her work has been seen on-and-off-Broadway, in regional theatres and universities across the country. The cast and designers are students from the Department of Theatre and Dance.