Architecture is Art!  Fredrick Law Olmsted described Buffalo as “the best planned city in America”. Buffalo is a showcase for generations of the world’s best architects:
For 6 years, the Creative Arts Initiative (CAI) received many excellent proposals for artist residencies from a wide variety of disciplines, from across the country and around the world and were able to bring some amazing artists to Buffalo to create new art while engaging with our students and the Buffalo community. We are very sorry to see this important effort come to an end.
Buffalo has long inspired great artists like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mark Twain, both of whom called Buffalo home. Our literary legacy continues to thrive, through one of the nation’s top literary presenters, the Just Buffalo Literary Center:
Buffalo’s snowy winters provide a unique artistic medium. On the shore of Lake Erie, above Niagara Falls, it would be hard to find a more beautiful place to stoke your creative fires. Discover why Buffalo is called the “City of Good Neighbors”.
Arts One is a unique course offering UB students the chance to experience the wide range of art available in Buffalo by attending something new each week:
The University at Buffalo has a tradition of nurturing pioneering spirits such as:
Buffalo is blossoming and the energy is contagious. Once a hub for shipping across the Great Lakes, Buffalo is becoming a center for green energy, higher education, and culture. Historic spaces are being recycled, repurposed, and rennovated:
Buffalo’s arts community has deep roots, wide impact, and a unique regional sense of identity. The Creative Arts Initiative shares leadership and encourages partnership and collaboration with Buffalo’s leading artistic and cultural institutions.

For 6 years (2015-2021), the Creative Arts Initiative (CAI) solicited and received many excellent proposals for artist residencies from a wide variety of disciplines, from across the country and around the world. We were able to bring some amazing artists to Buffalo to create new art while engaging with our students and the Buffalo community. We are very sorry to see this important effort come to an end.

We invite you to peruse this site and hope that you will enjoy and be inspired by the art whose creation we have been privileged to support.

Farewell. Keep creating!

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

The CAI accepts proposals for residencies for sessions from as short as a few days up to four months. All fields of creative art are eligible to participate. Both emerging artists and established artists are invited to participate. Companies and collaborating artists may apply.

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Arts One

Arts One is a unique academic experience, designed to introduce students to a wide range of artistic performance and creative activity and to connect them to the artistic resources in the Buffalo community. Over the course of a semester, students will attend a variety of artistic exhibitions and performances both on campus in in Buffalo.

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Buffalo's Arts Community

Buffalo has a long and rich history of nurturing cutting edge artistic expression — from venerated institutions, like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, dating back to the city's early era as the richest in the country — to those from the mid-’70s, when Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo started the artist-run center Hallwalls to feature visual artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and performance artists.

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