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Guests were encouraged to explore a variety of art in action and on display.
“Seeing all of the creative activity in the open highlights UB’s vast offering of programs and the artistry of our students and faculty,” says Jamie Enser, executive director of the Center for the Arts.
Guests had the opportunity to meet artists and enjoy refreshments in the CFA atrium.
A percussion group performs in the atrium.
Samuel Allison, a second-year MFA student, works on a graphite drawing while Lee Cannarozzo, a teaching adjunct and 2020 MFA graduate, looks on.
Samuel Allison's work in progress.
Marguerite Kellam (left), a second-year MFA student who works in metal and fiber sculpture, talks with Becky Brown, assistant professor.
Marguerite Kellam links metal rings together.
A circuit feedback system that resembles bird calls by second-year MFA student Martin Freeman, who works in analog electronics and sound.
These sketches were among the work by students, faculty and staff from the departments of Art, Media Study, Music, Theatre and Dance, the Arts Management Program, UB Art Galleries and the Arts Collaboratory.
Second-year MFA student Edreys Wajed (center, yellow hat) discusses their work with guests.
A display in the media studio area.
Theatre and Dance students work in the Drama Theatre.
Guests visit "F: Reconstituting Tolstoy College," an exhibition in the UB Art Gallery that examines the genesis, lifespan and eventual dissolution of College F. — an anarchist educational community known colloquially as Tolstoy College that operated at UB from 1969-85.
The Center for the Arts welcomed audiences back in person for Art in the Open, an event held Oct. 28 showcasing the music, dance, theater, film and visual art that is made at UB. Photos: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
Published November 1, 2021