Arts Education

The University at Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative is revitalizing UB's pioneering tradition creative disciplines and to foster opportunities for students to engage great art and interact with artists at the top of their fields.

Arts One

“This course is deliberately designed to put students in direct contact with artists and arts organizations in a very topical way. Each semester will be very different based on what’s happening in Western New York.”  — David Felder

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The purpose of Arts One is to introduce students to a wide range of artistic performance and creative activity. In the Fall the course is offered through the English department; in the Spring it is offered through the Music department.

Artist-in-Residence Program

CAI brings artists and performers of the highest caliber to UB for residencies, during which they conceptualize and create and/or perform new work while creatively interacting with faculty, students and Buffalo arts organizations.

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Buffalo Arts Community

Buffalo’s arts community has deep roots, wide impact, and a unique regional sense of identity. Here are a few of our cultural institutions:

  • El Museo
    1/20/16
    Each year El Museo presents professionally curated exhibitions of contemporary fine art of emerging, mid-career, and established regional, national, and international artists of color who make a unique contribution to the visual arts through their sculptures, photographs, paintings, and installations.
  • Theatre Alliance of Buffalo
    3/31/16
    The Theatre Alliance of Buffalo, TAB, is made up of a diverse collection of 21 professional theatres that strongly believes in the power, relevance, and importance of live theatre in our fast paced world. The WNY region features some of finest talent that we're sure will entertain, surprise, educate and engage theatre goers of all ages.  
  • Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
    1/20/16
    Hallwalls' twofold mission is to serve artists by supporting the creation and presentation of new work in the visual, media, performing, and literary arts, and to serve the public by making these works available to audiences. We are dedicated in particular to work by artists which challenges and extends the traditional boundaries of the various art forms, and which is critically engaged with current issues in the arts and--through the arts--in society.
  • Squeaky Wheel
    1/20/16
    Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center remains as the only organization in Western NY with a roster of education, equipment access, and exhibition programming dedicated to explore film & digital media arts. Entering its 30th year of existence, Squeaky Wheel’s reputation in the media arts field continues to grow nationally and internationally.
  • Just Buffalo Literary Center
    1/20/16
    For more than 40 years, Just Buffalo Literary Center has brought the world’s greatest writers to Buffalo, hosted poetry events and readings, and supported the development of young writers.