Paul Jeffrey Sharits was a visual artist,best known for his work in experimental,or avant-garde filmmaking,particularly what became known as the structural film movement,along with other artists such as Tony Conrad,Hollis Frampton,and Michael Snow.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield was an American painter and visionary artist,known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings,archives and journals are in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo. His paintings are in the collections of more than 109 museums in the USA and have been the subject of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,the Whitney Museum of American Art,the Hammer Museum,and the Museum of Modern Art,as well as other prominent institutions.
John Pfahl was an American photographer.
The Burchfield Penney Art Center,or just the Burchfield Penney,is an arts and educational institution part of Buffalo State University,located adjacent to the main campus in Buffalo,New York,United States. Dedicated to the art and vision of American painter Charles E. Burchfield,it was founded in 1966 as the Charles E. Burchfield Center. The center features a museum,library,and activity space for the arts. It maintains the world's largest collection of Burchfield's work,as well as many other distinguished artists of Buffalo,Niagara and Western New York. It is engaged with every aspect of Buffalo and the region's rich cultural activity.
Wendell Castle was an American sculptor and furniture maker and an important figure in late 20th century American craft. He has been referred to as the "father of the art furniture movement" and included in the "Big 4" of modern woodworking with Wharton Esherick,George Nakashima,and Sam Maloof.
William Bentley Rowe (1910–1955) was an American artist and art educator who worked primarily in New York and New Mexico. He was a versatile artist who used a wide range of mediums. He also executed several large murals. Rowe was a leading member of the Art Institute of Buffalo. Other well-known members of the Institute included Charles E. Burchfield,Edwin Dickinson,David Foster Pratt,and Isaac Soyer. Rowe was instrumental in the Art Institute’s development and growth during the nineteen thirties and forties.
Nathan Lyons was an American photographer,curator,and educator. He exhibited his photographs from 1956 onwards,produced books of his own and edited those of others.
David Foster Pratt was an American artist,art instructor and designer. He was best known for his watercolor and oil landscapes. Pratt served as the director of the Art Institute of Buffalo in the late 1940s and early 1950s. During his tenure at the institute,he worked closely with Charles Burchfield. He lived and worked most of his life in western New York. His works have been exhibited in many northeastern and mid-west states.
Anthony J. Sisti (1901–1983) was an American artist,art instructor and patron of the arts. In his youth,Sisti was also a Bantam Weight boxer. As an artist,Sisti was best known for his oil paintings,drawings,and murals.
Robert Noel Blair was an American painter and sculptor from the Western New York-Buffalo area.
James K.Y. Kuo was a Chinese-born painter who came to the United States in 1947. Kuo was known as a "lyrical abstract painter...who exhibited his work at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery," the China Institute and the Elliott Museum and taught for many years at Daemen College in Amherst,New York.
Thomas John Shillea,is an American artist,who specializes in painting and photography. He is known for using 19th century printing techniques. He began drawing at the age of two and throughout his childhood made thousands of photorealistic drawings. Shillea earned a BS in Art Education from Kutztown University. He then taught high school art and later earned an MFA degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Janelle Lynch is an American artist renowned for her use of a large-format camera and alternative processes in the discovery of ecological,spiritual,and human connection. Combining portraits and nature imagery,Lynch’s work explores and imagines a world that centers beauty,connection,and empathy as foundational values and healing forces.
Marion Faller was an American photographer. Faller's work has been shown in a range of exhibitions,is held in various public collections and she has received fellowships from a number of institutions.
Jan Williams is a percussionist,arts administrator,teacher,conductor,and composer who has championed avant-garde and progressive music in the United States. He is recognized as an important proponent of percussion performance and its literature.
Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey was an American painter,printmaker and textile artist,art educator and community activist in Buffalo,New York.
Betty Hahn is an American photographer known for working in alternative and early photographic processes. She completed both her BFA (1963) and MFA (1966) at Indiana University Bloomington. Initially,Hahn worked in other two-dimensional art mediums before focusing on photography in graduate school. She is well-recognized due to her experimentation with experimental photographic methods which incorporate different forms of media. By transcending traditional concepts of photography,Hahn challenges the viewer not only to assess the content of the image,but also to contemplate the photographic object itself.
William Ernst Ehrich was an American sculptor,ceramicist,public monument artist,educator,and Work Progress Administration (WPA) supervisor.
Richard A. Hirsch is an American abstract ceramic sculptor. He received a BS in art education from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1956,an MFA in ceramics from the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1971 and an honorary Ph.D. from National Taiwan University of Arts in 2008. He taught at Nazareth College,Sault College,Boston University and at the Rochester Institute of Technology,where he currently holds the title of professor emeritus,College of Art and Design.
Anne Turyn is an American photographer. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art,New York. She is also an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,New York.
