BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER WILL REOPEN ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Museum hours of operation have been adjusted to allow ample time to sanitize after hours. The Center will be open to the general public Thursday - Saturday from 10AM - 4PM, with early entry hours of 10 AM - 11 AM reserved for those at increased risk, including seniors, as well as members and first responders. The Center will also be open Sundays from 12PM - 4 PM. A full list of protocols in place to protect visitors and staff can be found on the Safety First information page.
At this time, the museum will not host group gatherings or in-person programming, but will continue to offer digital programming through Burchfield Connects, which includes digital home-education projects, conversations about our exhibitions and collections, artist interviews, and more. Look for new posts each Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday with activities for the whole family.
BURCHFIELD CONNECTS: LIVE JANUARY
Join us for Burchfield Connects: LIVE on Friday January 22nd!
Friday, January 22, 2021, 7:00pm–7:45pm
Interdisciplinary Media Artists Carrier Band will be streaming their performance starting at 7:00pm.
Friday, January 22, 2021, 7:45–8:30 pm
Renowned poet Ed Sanders will be performing with guitarist and composer Don Metz beginning at 7:45pm.
Carrier Band: Slipstream
Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch and Rebekkah Palov - A livestream performance
Carrier Band: Bode, Deutsch and Palov, with historical recordings by Harald Bode,1949-1986, and Pauline Oliveros,1970-2002. The video "Uber Organ" was made at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY and at Peer Bode's home studio on his hand-built, custom Dave Jones Design, digital frame buffer, experimental video instrument. Much as life moves forward and back, so do the frames of the video frame buffer with its 48 frame digital-memory-chamber used for looking and considering nearly fifty years of Harald Bode's notebooks, spanning the years 1937 to 1986. The notebooks of pioneering electronic instrument designer Harald Bode are spaces and worlds where new thinkings about sound and future electronic instruments evolved and percolated. A number of new videos as well as "Uber Organ" will be accompanied by the live electroacoustic music of Carrier Band with Peer Bode performing vocoder/language, Rebekkah Palov live audio +real-time processed samples from the Harald Bode Archive and Andrew Deutsch with live mix featuring the unpublished recordings of Pauline Oliveros.
In the early 1970s, he wrote The Family, the harrowing story tracing the “family” of cult leader Charles Manson. Also in the 1970s he wrote "Investigative Poetry," a well-received manifesto encouraging poets to take on the ancient task of writing histories once again. In 1975 appeared Tales of Beatnik Glory, Volume 1, the first installment of a four-volume set of interconnected stories tracing life in the Beat Generation and Counterculture eras of the late 1950s through the 1960s. Other volumes of Tales of Beatnik Glory were published in 1980, 1987, and 2004.
Additional books by Sanders include 1968, a History in Verse; The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg; and Chekhov, a biography in verse of Anton Chekhov. From 1998 till completing it in 2011, he wrote the 9-volume America, a History in Verse. His selected poems, 1986-2008, Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War, has been published by Coffee House Press.
Da Capo Press published his memoir of the 1960s, Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs and Counterculture in the Lower East Side, which won the 2012 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles award.
In 2008, Sanders published Poems for New Orleans, a book and CD on the history of the city and its tribulations during and after Hurricane Katrina. He has been granted a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in verse, an American Book Award for his collected poems, and other awards for his writing.
Sanders lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife, the essayist and painter Miriam Sanders, and both are active in environmental and other social issues. He has a lengthy history as a visitor to Western New York to read his poetry and/or perform with the Fugs.
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Don Metz is a musician, composer, and arts administrator. He has worked at the Burchfield Penney Art Center since 1995, serving as Acting Director from 1996-1998 and as Director of Administration from 1995-2003, today serving as Associate Director and Head of Public Programs. Throughout his career he has curated a variety of media arts exhibitions and interdisciplinary performances, and from 1982-95 he served as the Music Director at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. He has held a variety of administrative positions with the Buffalo Philharmonic Choir, June In Buffalo, and the North American New Music Festival.
An active musician, Metz has been composing and performing since completing his studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1977. His music has been performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble, Percusso Argaro from Brazil, the Composers Alliance of Buffalo, the U.B. Percussion Ensemble, the New Jazz Orchestra of Buffalo, Los Caribes, various solo artists, and Buffluxus, among others. In 1978, Metz formed the East Buffalo Media Association, creating Inter-Media presentations with writers and artists from the Western New York area. Over the past 30 years he has worked with artists including Andrew Topolski, John Toth, Fred Ciminelli, Andrew Deutsch, Peer Bode, writers Jeff Filipski and Michael Basinski, and actor Paul Schmidt. As a guitarist, Metz has performed the music of John Cage, Earl Brown, Petr Kotik, Lucas Foss, Jon Gibson, John Bacon Jr., Jackson MacLow, Phil Niblock, LaMonte Young, Michael Colquhoun, and others.
Featured Artwork
Martha Visser't Hooft (1906-1994), Tumblers and Pigeons, 1950; oil on canvas, 33 3/4 x 47 7/8 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Mrs. Joshua B. Cahn, in memory of Robert B. Meech, 1986
Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Tree and Pool and Passing Train, a.k.a. Flooded Field or Flooded Landscape, 1920; watercolor and gouache over pencil on paper, 11 x 19 1/8 inches (Sight: 10 3/8 x 18 5/8 inches); Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Dr. Edna M. Lindemann in honor of John and Winifred Clancy, 1986
Wilhelmina Godfrey (1914-1994), City Playground, 1949-50; wax emulsion and oil on board, 44 x 38 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Carol Wing, 1994
Wendell Castle (1932-2018), Spooning Chairs, 2002; Maple, Jelutong, 20 x 43 x 40 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of HSBC Bank and the artist, by exchange, 2008
Virginia Cuthbert (1908-2001), Mental Hospital, 1942; oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (frame: 43 1/4 x 33 inches); Gift of Robert D. Eldred, 2015
Mark Dellas (b. 1959), Milton Rogovin, c. 2000; digital print; Courtesy of the artist
Florence Julia Bach (1887-1979), Still Life with Magnolias, Undated; oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches; Collection of Jeffrey Their and Grant Paulsen
Howard D. Beach (1867-1954), Holly Hocks, 1920; oil on canvas, 34 3/4 x 45 inches; Private Collection
Raphael Beck (1858-1947), Horseshoe Falls and Niagara Gorge, undated; oil on canvas, 47 ½ x 72 inches; Collection of The Buffalo History Museum
Claire Shuttleworth (1867-1930), The Center of the Horse Falls, ca. 1915; oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches; Private Collection
Valentino Dixon, Hirono Golf Club, 2016, Japan's most distinguished golf club, located near the port city of Kobe; Colored pencil on board; Courtesy of the artist
Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Song of the Telegraph, 1917-1952; watercolor on paper, 34 x 53 inches; Collection of William and Rose-Marie Shanahan
Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Moonlight in June, 1961; watercolor on paper, 45 x 33 inches; Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Bequest of Mary Louise Whittemore in memory of Eugene B. Whittermore (Class of 1924)
Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Wild Sweet Peas in a Summer Rain, 1961-65; Watercolor on paper, 48 x 31 inches; Collection of Rose-Marie and William S. Shanahan
Virtual Tours
A Magical Rebirth Tour with Nancy Weekly, Part 1 Part2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7
For more informatioin aobut the exhibition visit: http://bpac.co/ex:954
Remembering the opening of In the Fullness of Time, Painting in Buffalo, 1832-1972
In the Fullness of Time, Painting in Buffalo, 1832-1972 Self Guided Virtual Tour
For more informaiton about the exhibition visit: http://bpac.co/ex:999
Remembering A Resounding Roar from 2015
For more informaion about the exhibition visit: http://bpac.co/ex:830
Remembering the opening of The Stitched Narratives of Jennifer Regan
To learn more about the exhibition visit: http://bpac.co/ex:959
Remembering Blistering Vision, Charles E. Burchfield's Sublime American Landscapes
To learn more about the exhibition visit: http://bpac.co/ex:854
Music, Performance & More
Check out the video links listed below, and stay in touch on Facebook and Instagram for the latest releases.
Programs at the Center
Contemporary Environmental Art & Poetics
40 Years of Poetry: Ansie Baird
Buffalo Chamber Players: Stay a While, Stay Forever
LIVE poetry reading featuring Meghann Boltz and Rachel Robles Saeger
Connecting With Artists
Watch Ron Ehmke talk about being a performance artist. To learn more about him click here.
Let's Check-In With Bethany Krull
The Burchfield Penney is reaching out to local artists to explore how they're balancing life working at home. For more information on Bethany Krull visit: http://bpac.co/a:531
Artist Interview: Patricia Carter
Watch Patricia Carter talk about her painting First Prize #2. To learn more about the artist visit: http://bpac.co/a:171
Let's Check-In with A.J. Fries and Karen Eckert
Need a laugh? A.J. Fries and Karen Eckert chime in. For more information on A.J. Fries visit: http://bpac.co/a:320.
Watch Alberto Rey Talk About His Painting, Appropriated Memories: Viñales, Cuba, 1996-97. For more info on the artist visit: http://bpac.co/a:868
Watch John Pfahl talk about his work Shed with Blue Dotted Lines, Penland, North Carolina, 1975. For more information on the artist visit: http://bpac.co/a:827
Let's Check-In With Artists Pat Foran and Tricia Butski
Expect the unexpected when we check-in with artists Pat Foran and Tricia Butski.For more information on Pat Foran visit: http://bpac.co/a:3099. For more information on Tricia Butski visit: http://bpac.co/a:2795.
Watch Kyle Butler talk about his work, Poised on all edges, 2012. Butler is an artist who works in painting, video and audio and lives in Buffalo, New York. For more info on the artist visit: http://bpac.co/a:1293
Let's Check-In With The Wajeds: Artists Eman, Alexa, Edreys and Emeka
Creativity is a family affair within the Wajed household. The spirited foursome chime in for this HIGHLY viewed social media series that explores balancing life working from home. Learn about their passion and what it means to pay 'condolences to vanity'. For more information on Edreys Wajed visit: http://bpac.co/a:3097. Learn more about Eat Off Art here: https://www.eatoffart.com/
Watch Monica Angle Talk About Her Work, River Crossing V, 2012
Watch Monica Angle talk about her work, River Crossing V, 2012. Angle is a painter, printmaker, bookmaker, and collage artist living and working in Buffalo, New York. For more info on the artist visit: http://bpac.co/a:1200.
Let’s Check-In with Artist Dennis Maher
A quirky, fun expedition through his inspiring, wondrous environments. What happens when you just let the house talk? What does it say? For more information on Dennis, go to: http://bpac.co/a:1163.
Watch Jim Pappas Talk About Innerspace Continuum #7, 2003
Watch Jim Pappas talk about Innerspace Continuum #7, 2003. A Syracuse, NY native, Pappas is highly regarded for his legacy of employing the arts, education and community engagement as instruments of social change. for more info on the artist visit: http://bpac.co/n:4021
Activities
At-Home Activities
Art Projects for Kids and Families
- Burchfield Bugs or Burchfield Bugs How-To Printable Guide
- Collagraph Prints or Collagraph Prints How-To Printable Guide
- Leaf Design (Based on Lesson Plan The Constant Leaf)
- Moth Watercolor (Based on Lesson Plan Spider and Grasshoppers)
- Flower Field Painting (Based on Charles Burchfield, Wind-Blown Asters)
- Learning the Four Seasons
- Who Works in a Museum? (Card Game)
- Learning About Color
- Learning About Abstract Art
- Pictographic Portrait
- New Year's Resolutions and Reflections Worksheet
Intro to Watercolor Illustration Classes
In search of watercolor painting classes for beginners? Join Art Center Educator, Michaela Worosz, in her creative and relaxing beginner watercolor painting lesson. Share your painting with us by tagging @burchfieldpenneyartcenter or using the hashtag #burchfieldconnects
Intro to Watercolor Class Video
Winter Watercolor Class (new!)
PDF Templates:
Coloring Pages
Download and print these Burchfield coloring book pages! Share your coloring pages by tagging @burchfieldpenneyartcenter or using the hashtag #burchfieldconnects
Look, Think, Find
How closely do you look at art? Here are five questions about artworks in our collection. LOOK at the painting carefully, THINK about the questions, FIND the answers in the painting. Share your answers with us by tagging @burchfieldpenneyartcenter or using the hashtag #burchfieldconnects
Sketch Together!
Get lost in your creativity with Sketch Together, thoughtful and inspiring art posts to help you carve out moments of self-expression. Burchfield Penney shows you that drawing does not have to be scary – it can be done with any materials, in any color, in any style, and can be done anywhere. Share your sketch with us by tagging @burchfieldpenneyartcenter or using the hashtag #burchfieldconnects
- What's in Your Fridge?
- What Did You Have for Breakfast?
- What is Under Your Bed?
- What is Outside Your Window?
- What is Your Favorite Animal Up To?
- Where is Your Favorite Place at Home?
- If You Could Live in a Tree House What Would it Look Like?
- What do You See in the Mirror?
- What's the Silliest Outfit You Wear at Home?
- What do Your Want to Discover in the Ocean?
- What Signs do You See in Your Neighborhood?
- What Flowers do You Find in Your Backyard?
- What Shadows Can You Draw?
- What Can You Find by the Water’s Edge?
- Where is Your Nook to Curl Up with a Book?
- What in Nature is Vast, Gigantic, and Goes On and On?
- What Mood Does Your Street Convey?
- What Do You Do When Waiting in the Woods
- What Happens When You Turn Your World Inside-Out and Upside Down?
- What Atmospheric Background Will You Create for a Tree?
- What Technology Do You Use to Communicate?
Virtual Community Programs
Emerging out of the museum’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Virtual Community Programs are a slate of virtual programming where artists, families, and community members come together to create their own home museums tours, collaborate with other artists, and interact with our community to share common interests and ideas. These videos are published across Burchfield Penney’s website and social media platforms.
Home Museum Tours
Join these families as they guide you through their special Home Museum Tour.
- Amelia and Olivia
- Tracey
- Britt and Merrick
- Amina
- Leela
- Russell Ram (Docent Edition!)
- Jack Edson (Docent Edition!)
Want to Create Your Own Home Museum Tour?
Our Education Team invites you to create your own Home Museum Virtual Tour! Can you make a sign and do a 3-minute video with your family walking up to an artwork in your home talking about it?
Video: Needs to be short, no longer than three minutes, but you can send several short videos. The presentation will be posted on Burchfield Penney's social media. Ask open-ended questions:
- What do you see?
- What surprises you in this painting?
- If you could step into this artwork what would you smell? Feel? Touch? Would you run or lay down? Jump or climb?
- What do you think the artist was looking at when they made this?
- If it’s your own daughter/son artwork, ask “tell me a story about your sculpture or painting, or drawing…”
One Art Many Voices
- One Art: Many Voices (William Copper, Naming Ceremony, Ghana)
- One Art: Many Voices (Donald R. Haug, Blue Spool)
Looking Out My Window: Poetry Reading
Educator Resources
Art Inquiry Guides
The Burchfield Penney Art Center now has free lesson plans for students and teachers. The following art inquiry guide is based on works from BPAC's permanent collection. BPAC is committed to offering educators resources that introduce students to art and support classroom benchmarks, particularly in the visual arts and English Language Arts. Use this resource in your online classroom or as standalone lessons.
- Focus On: Spider and Grasshoppers, Charles Burchfield
- Focus On: Dandelion Seed Heads and the Moon, Charles Burchfield
- Focus On: The Constant Leaf, Charles Burchfield
- Focus On: Birmingham, Elizabeth Tower (Grade 9)
- Focus On: Interior with Portraits, Thomas Le Clear
- Focus On: Taking a Stand Exhibition
- Young Minds | Big Sky with Artist, George Campos (Mentes Jovenes | Cielo Grande)
- Focus On: What's Going On Exhibition
More art inquiry guides coming soon!
Take a Look (Talks)
Take A LooK (TALK) are short videos created for Art Teachers that promotes looking at an artwork in The Center’s collection. Students will observe an artwork, create a sketch, and use critical thinking skills throughout the video.
- Focus On: Change the Meaning of an Object (Artist, Robert Booth)
- Focus On: Dissecting Space (Artist: Dennis Maher)
- Focus On: The Cycle of Nature (Artist: Diane Bertolo)
- Focus On: Listening to a Painting (Artist: James Pappas)
- Focus On: The Identity of an Article of Clothing (Artist: Katharine Gaudy)
- Focus On: Humor, Words, and Questioning the Truth (Artist: Nancy Dwyer)
- Focus On: Powerful Messages (Artist: Nancy Dwyer)
- Focus On: Powerful Statements (Artist: Robert Longo)
- Focus On: Concealing (Artist: Patrick Robideau)
- Focus On: Creating Order (Artist: Tina Vu)
- Focus On: Hidden Compartments (Artist: Jane Stevenson)
- Focus On: Powerful Messages, (Artist: Paul Sharits)
- Focus On: When a Painting is Finished (Artist: Amy Greenan)
- Focus On: Healing (Artist: Kathi Roussel)
- Focus On: Environmental Messages (Artist: Christy Rupp)
- Focus On: Reading a Photograph (Artist: McCallum Terry)
- Focus On: Playfulness (Artist, Bill Stewart)
- Focus On: Egg Shells (Artist, Catherine Koenig)
- Focus On: Transforming a Common Object (Artist, Diane Baker)
- Focus On: Doodling (Artist, Charles Burchfield)
- Focus On: Composition and Distance (Artist, Virginia Cuthbert)
- Focus On: Mirror and Reflection (Artist, Virginia E. Tillou)
- Focus On: Deceiving the Eye (Artist, Wendell Castle)
- Focus On: Several Meanings (Artist, Mahine Rattonsey)
A Conversation with Art
- Focus On: Empty Bowls
- Focus On: Listening to Art
- Focus On: Lines are Not Perfect
- Focus On: Unusual Materials
- Focus On: Home
- Focus On: Black Edges
Artists for Educators
The Burchfield Penney Art Center is supporting high school art teachers with a new video project. Artists are asked to create a short 4-5-minute video of themselves talking about who they are, the process of being an artist, and their own work.
- Focus On: Markenzy Julius Ceasar
- Focus On: Shanel Kerekes (coming soon)
News
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Burchfield Penney Art Center Temporarily Closes
Monday, December 7, 2020
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Burchfield Penney Releases Self-Guided 3-D Virtual Tour of Women’s Work: Suffrage Movements 1848-1965 Exhibition
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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Burchfield Penney Announces New Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
Monday, November 2, 2020
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Burchfield Penney Partners with Assembly House 150 to Create Innovative Education Gallery
Monday, October 19, 2020
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Burchfield Penney Announces Free Memberships to Healthcare Workers
Monday, October 5, 2020
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Burchfield Penney Announces Reopening
Sunday, August 2, 2020
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Burchfield Penney in the Buffalo News: $1.2 million to help Burchfield Penney ramp up arts education
Thursday, March 12, 2020
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WBFO Radio: $1.2M gifts to help Burchfield Penney better deliver arts education to diverse communities
Thursday, March 12, 2020
