The University at Buffalo’s Creative Arts Initiative (CAI) is excited to announce the outstanding slate of artists who will be undertaking residencies at UB in 2017-18. Proposals for 2018-19 are due 11/15/17. Please see the Request for Proposals for details.
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:
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”.
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:
The University at Buffalo has a tradition of nurturing pioneering spirits such as:
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:
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.
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:
The Creative Arts Initiative is dedicated to the creation and production of new work of the highest artistic standards of excellence while fostering creative investigation and engagement among students, faculty, visiting artists, and the community.
