News Releases

Burchfield Penney Announces Reopening

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Museum to welcome back visitors with enhanced safety protocols, seven new exhibitions and free admission

Burchfield Penney in the Buffalo News: $1.2 million to help Burchfield Penney ramp up arts education

Thursday, March 12, 2020

WBFO Radio: $1.2M gifts to help Burchfield Penney better deliver arts education to diverse communities

Thursday, March 12, 2020

The center has received $1.22 million in gifts to support arts education

Burchfield Penney Art Center Receives $1.2 Million to Support Education and Community Engagement

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Gifts combine to be the largest in the Center’s history since completing the museum building.  

Charles Burchfield in The Washington Post

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Read what Washington Post art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott writes about Charles Burchfield.

Junior League of Buffalo Commemorates 100th Anniversary with Sculpture at Burchfield Penney Art Center

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Artist Shasti O’Leary-Soudant commissioned to create sculpture as an homage to women everywhere  

Charles E. Burchfield: Transitions’ Review: A Change of Seasons in the Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

An exhibition looks at the painter’s passion for creating single artworks that would show the passage of time, with its transformations in nature, sound and light effects.

Burchfield Penney Awarded John R. Oishei Foundation Grant To Support Living Artists

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

$30,000 grant from The John R. Oishei Foundation to fund the second year in a two-year pilot project

Burchfield Penney Awarded Grant by Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Funds for Educational Programs and Partnerships

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

$15,000 awarded from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Funds administered by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo