UB Art Galleries to hold Summer Extravaganza

Published July 6, 2017 This content is archived.

Celebrate summer with the UB Art Galleries at the galleries’ 2017 Summer Extravaganza from noon to 4 p.m. July 15 at the UB Anderson Gallery.

The gallery is located at 1 Martha Jackson Place, off Englewood Avenue near the South Campus.

The family-friendly event, which coincides with the Samuel P. Capen Garden Walk, will feature art workshops, live music, dance performances and tours of “The Language of Objects,” the three-artist exhibition on view through July 30 in the Anderson Gallery.

Also inside the gallery, UB theatre and dance students will perform, choreographed by Brendan Fernandes, whose work, along with that of artists Matthew Craven and Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz, is featured in “The Language of Objects.”

Outside in the gallery parking lot, Undergrounds Coffee and the Rolling Cannoli food truck will serve drinks and desserts, and local bands Technical Difficulties and The 12/8 Path Band will entertain.

Team Razor Wire, the local art collective that created the “Electric Avenue (In Blue) mural that graces the stairwell of the Anderson Gallery, will work on a new mobile mural, while art educator Marissa Lehner leads a workshop on making masks, jewelry and paper.

The Tool Library will be on hand to offer instruction on operating power tools, as well as information on volunteering in the University Heights neighborhood. Also in attendance will be Dave Harter from Your Fix-It Neighbor, a West Side group that teaches residents about home repair.

Visitors also can pick up a map for the garden walk.