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Events & Openings

Arts Council of Wyoming County (ACWC)
http://www.artswyco.org
Rte. 39 , 31 S Main St, Perry (585-237-3517)
Sat Oct 4, 10am-noon: “Gorgeous Gladiolas, the Secrets of Photographing Flowers.” Workshop with Adrienne “Bud” Prince. $20/general (free to ACWC members). Call 585-237-3517 to reserve a space

Castellani Art Museum
http://www.niagara.edu
Niagara University, University Dr., Niagara Falls (286-8200)
Fri Oct 3, 5:30pm-8pm: Opening reception for Max Streicher: Metamorphosis. Exhibit based on Kafka’s Metamorphosis (through Jan. 25)

Center for Inquiry
http://centerforinquiry.net
1310 Sweet Home Rd, Amherst (636-4869)
Thu Oct 9, 7-10pm: Opening reception for Rational Impulse. Work by Bruce Adams (through Dec. 24)

Chow Chocolat
731 Main St (843-4388)
Fri Oct 3, 5-9pm: Opening reception for Milk Weed. Paintings by Kyra Avery Kegler (through Oct. 23)

Goldman/Greenfield Gallery at Daemen College
4380 Main St, Amherst (839-3600)
Thu Oct 2, 4:30pm: Gallery talk by artist Tom Holt, whose exhibition Permanent Waves opens Friday, Oct. 3
Fri Oct 3, 7-9pm: Opening reception for Permanent Waves. Work by Tom Holt (through Oct. 31)

Jewish Center Greater Buffalo 
2640 N Forest Rd, Amherst (688-3572)
Sun Oct 5, 2-4pm: Opening reception for Samplings: The Artists of Bryant Street Studios. Group exhibition featuring work by Adele Becker, Susan Budash, Susan Copley, Jason Klinger, and Ginny Lohr (through Nov. 30)

Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop 
37 S Grove St, East Aurora (652-3270)
Thu Oct 2, 6pm: Artist’s “Play Night.” Norberg’s owner Nancy Grammis will discuss improving the presentation of artwork by using colormatte and frames. Space is limited, call 627-2708 for reservations

Partners in Art Gallery
83 Webster St, Tonawanda (692-2141)
Sat Oct 4, 4-7pm: Opening reception for Inspired Muse. Work by Paulette Jurek, Eileen McNamara, and Joan Swatty (through Oct. 24)

redFISH Art Studios
http://www.redfishartstudios.com
21 Elm St, East Aurora (655-3125)
Fri Oct 3, 7-10pm: Opening reception for Across the Pond. Paintings inspired by travels through England, Ireland, Scotland, and France by Jennifer Seth-Cimini, Ann Margaret Munley, and Barbara Tanke (through Nov. 15)

Exhibits

Albright Knox Art Gallery
http://www.albrightknox.org
1285 Elmwood Ave (882-8700)
W Sa Su 10am-5pm, Th F 10am-10pm: Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection (through Oct. 19); Remix Inner Space: Photography from the Collection (through Jan. 4); New installation of works from the Permanent Collection (through Dec 31); Op Art Revisited: Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (through Jan. 25); From Tusk to Tail: Animals and Art (through Jan. 25)

Art Dialogue
Gallery/WNY Artists Group
1 Linwood Ave (885-2251)
Tu-F 11am-5pm, Sa 11am-3pm: Fine Arts League of Buffalo 55th Annual Juried Open Exhibition (through Oct. 10)

Arts Council of Wyoming County (ACWC)
http://www.artswyco.org
Rte. 39 , 31 S Main St, Perry (585-237-3517)
M-F 9am-5pm: Council Fires. Mixed media work by Native American artists Tom Huff, Nancy Smith, Earl Dionne, Mike Martel, and Jay Carrier (through Oct. 17)

Artspace Gallery
1219 Main St (803-6205)
F 5-8pm, Sa noon-3pm: I Shot Lucy. Photographs of one subject—Lucy Yau—by Kenn Morgan, Robert Schultz, Robert Minick, Gene Witkowski, Jerry Greenburg, and Lukia Costello (through Nov. 1)

Artsphere Studio
http://artspherestudio.com
466 Amherst St (876-7188)
Th F noon-5pm, Sa 11am-9:30pm: Making Faces. Abstract paintings by Pat Jacoby Harris (through Oct. 4)

Beltz Family Gallery at Villa Maria College
240 Pine Ridge Rd, Cheektowaga (961-1833)
M-F 8am-8pm, Sa 10am-5pm: Art Department Faculty Exhibit (through Oct. 24)

Big Orbit Gallery
30 Essex St (883-3209)
Th-Su noon-5pm: Red Heart/Black Tongues. Installation by David Mitchell (through Nov. 22)

Buffalo Arts Studio
http://buffaloartsstudio.org
Tri-Main Building, Suite 500, 2495 Main St (833-4450)
Tu-F 11am-5pm, Sa 11am-3pm: Solo shows by painter David Schirm and sculptor Justin Thompson (through Nov. 1)

Burchfield Nature & Art Center
http://buffalo.com/burchfieldnatureandart
2001 Union Rd, West Seneca (677-4843)
M-F 9am-4pm, Su noon-4pm: Visions of Tifft. Photographs by Biff Hendrich (through Nov. 30)

Carnegie Art Center
240 Goundry St, Tonawanda (694-4400)
Tu-F 11am-4pm, Sa 1-4pm: 2008 Members Exhibition. Curated by John Massier (through Oct. 17)

Castellani Art Museum
http://www.niagara.edu
Niagara University, University Dr., Niagara Falls (286-8200)
Tu-Sa 11am-5pm, Su 1-5pm: Thus I Passe By. Paintings by Richard Huntington (through Jan. 18); Max Streicher: Metamorphosis. Exhibit based on Kafka’s Metamorphosis (through Jan. 25); Homage to Picasso (through Feb. 15)

Castellani Art Museum at the Falls
Niagara Falls Conference Center, 101 Old Falls St, Niagara Falls (286-8200)
M-Th 10am-4pm: Selections from the Charles Rand Penney Collection of historical Niagara Falls prints (through Oct. 19)

CEPA Gallery
http://cepagallery.com
617 Main St (856-2712)
M-Su 10am-5pm: Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art. Work by Paul Vanouse, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, and Elizabeth Demaray (through Dec. 29)

College St. Gallery
244 Allen St (882-9727)
W-F 5-9pm, Sa 2-8pm, Su 2-5pm: What The... Mixed media by Stephen Reynolds (through Oct. 5)

Cosmopolitan Gallery
928 Main St (650-4022)
Th F 5:30-7:30pm, Sa 5-7pm: The One Piece Wonder Show #3. Annual group show featuring “original art of the abnormal, bizarre, freaky, and downright strange.” (through Oct. 18)

El Museo Francisco Y Oller Diego Rivera
http://elmuseobuffalo.org
97 Allen St (884-9693)
Th-Sa noon-5pm: UGANDA: Children and War. Photographs by Errol Daniels (through Oct. 18)

Elmwood Framing & Interiors/Stuyvesant Gallery
245 Elmwood Ave (883-2071)
M-F 10am-6pm, Sa 10am-9pm: People, Places, and Things. 3-Dimensional photo perspective by Paul Pasquarelli (through Oct. 24)

Goldman/Greenfield Gallery at Daemen College
4380 Main St, Amherst (839-3600)
M-W F 9am-4pm, Th 7-9pm, Sa 1-4pm: Permanent Waves. Work by Tom Holt (through Oct. 31)

Hallwalls
http://hallwalls.org
341 Delaware Ave (854-1694)
Tu-F 11am-6pm, Sa 1-4pm: Work by Andrew Reyes and Rodney Taylor: The Next Hundred Years (through Oct. 25)

Kenan Center
http://www.kenancenter.org
433 Locust St, Lockport (433-2617)
M-F noon-5pm, Sa Su 2-5pm: Feasting Eyes, Artists Take On Food. Group exhibition curated by Gerald Mead (through Oct. 5). In conjunction with this exhibit, the Kenan Center will be accepting donations of non-perishable food items to benefit the YWCA of Niagara’s Domestic Violence Safe Dwelling

Meibohm Fine Arts
http://meibohmfinearts.com
478 Main St, East Aurora (652-0940)
Tu-Sa 9:30am-5:30pm: Wonderland. Recent paintings by Charles Houseman; Western New York Land Conservancy Benefit Exhibition featuring work by Jeanette Blair, Susan Maxfied, Joe Orffeo, and Catherine Parker (both through Oct. 11).

Museum of European Art
http://www.meaus.com
10545 Main St., Clarence
Clarence (759-6078)
M-F 10am-5pm: Art Metropolis 2008 (through Dec. 31)

Native American Museum of Art
http://www.NativeAmericanMuseumArt.com
Smokin’ Joe’s Rt. 31, Sanborn (297-0251)
M-Su 7am-10pm: Sculptures by Joseph Jacobs, Frank Mount Pleasant Olympic Medal Exhibit, paintings, and other mediums (through Dec. 30)

Niagara Arts & Cultural Center (NACC)
http://www.thenacc.org
1201 Pine Ave, Niagara Falls (998-6772)
M-F 9am-5pm, Sa Su noon-5pm: Buffalo/Niagara Art Association Annual Fall Exhibition (through Oct. 31)

Nina Freudenheim Gallery
http://ninafreudenheimgallery.com
Lenox Hotel, 140 North St (882-5777)
Tu-F 6pm-10am: Alice O’Malley: Community of Elsewheres (through Oct. 8)

Partners in Art Gallery
83 Webster St, Tonawanda (692-2141)
Tu-Sa 10am-10pm: Inspired Muse. Work by Paulette Jurek, Eileen McNamara, and Joan Swatty (through Oct. 24)

Passageway Gallery
Market Arcade, 617 Main St (856-7520)
M-F 9:30am-5:30pm: Various Views. Work by Richard Christian and Lukia Costello (through Oct. 31)

redFISH Art Studios
http://www.redfishartstudios.com
21 Elm St, East Aurora (655-3125)
Th-Sa noon-10pm: Across the Pond. Paintings inspired by travels through England, Ireland, Scotland, and France by Jennifer Seth-Cimini, Ann Margaret Munley, and Barbara Tanke (through Nov. 15)

Sp@ce 224
224 Allen St
Th-Sa 7-10pm: Paintings by Lavinia Kirdani (through Oct. 4)

Springville Center for the Arts
http://wwww.springvillearts.org
37 N Buffalo St, Springville (592-9038)
Tu-F noon-5pm, Sa 10am-1pm: Continuum: The Mackrell Collage Archive Project by Gerald Mead. Based on work by Marie MacKrell (through Oct. 18).

Squeaky Wheel
http://squeaky.org
Ansonia Center, 712 Main St (884-7172)
Tu-Th 1-7pm, F Sa 1-5pm: Just South of Here: A Photographic Journey by Connie Coleman and Alan Powell (through Oct. 31)

Studio Hart
65 Allen St (536-8337)
Tu-Sa 10am-2pm: Gerald Mead: New Assemblages (through Oct. 11)

UB Anderson Gallery
Martha Jackson Pl, Amherst (829-3754)
W-Sa 11am-5pm, Su 1-5pm: Ode to Michael Goldberg (1924-2007): Selective Thievery and the Practice of Looking. Memorial exhibition (through Jan. 18)

UB Art Gallery
North Campus, 2nd Floor Center for the Arts, Amherst (645-6912)
Tu W F Sa 11am-5pm, Th 11am-7pm: Lyle Ashton Harris Blow Up. Celebrated photographer’s first major museum survey traveling exhibit (through Oct. 18)

Special Exhibits

Amherst Museum
http://www.amherstmuseum.org
3755 Tonawanda Creek Rd, Amherst (689-1440)
Tu-Sa 9:30am-4:30pm: Smithsonian traveling exhibition: Exploring America’s Labor History

Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
http://bechs.org
25 Nottingham Ct (873-9644)
Tu-Sa 10am-5pm, Su noon-5pm: Cathedrals of Industry Part II: Photographs by Michael L. Horowitz (through Jan. 25)

Buffalo Museum of Science
http://sciencebuff.org
1020 Humboldt Pkwy (896-5200)
W-Sa 10am-5pm, Su noon-5pm: Tao of Water. Photography exhibition by Zen Master John Daido Loori (through Oct. 26); Culture Quest. New themed exhibit about collectors and collecting; Vanitas. Photographs by Patty Wallace in the Museum’s Atrium (through Jan. 4)

Castellani Art Museum
http://www.niagara.edu
Niagara University, University Dr., Niagara Falls (286-8200)
Tu-Sa 11am-5pm, Su 1-5pm: Devotional Displays: Personal and Community Traditions. Folk religious displays from the Collection (through Dec. 14); Freedom Crossing: The Underground Railroad in Greater Niagara

Chateau Buffalo
http://www.chateaubuffalo.com
1209 Hertel Ave (873-0074)
Tu-Sa noon-8pm, Su noon-6pm: Work by artists Paul Alico and Elizabeth Kumrow Capuano (through Oct. 10).

History Center of Niagara County
215 Niagara St, Lockport
M-Sa 9am-5pm: Time in a Bottle. Collections of glass bottles, clocks and watches

Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall)
453 Porter Ave
Tu-Su 11am-4pm: The Spirit of Compassion: Herbert Hoover and America’s Help to Poland in It’s Hour of Need. Photos, documents, poster, banners from Poland’s National Archives at Stanford University (through Oct. 15)

Squeaky Wheel
http://squeaky.org
Ansonia Center, 712 Main St (884-7172)
Tu-F 1-7pm, Sa Su 1-9:30pm: Just South of Here: A Photographic Journey by Connie Coleman & Alan Powell (through Oct. 31)

Starlight Studio & Gallery
http://ldaofwny.org/Starlight%20Studio.htm
340 Delaware Ave (842-1525)
M-F 9-4am: Clay, Paper, Spindle. Exhibit based on recent workshops and presentations at the studio featuring work by adults with developmental disabilities and neurological impairments (through Oct. 19)

Etc.

Alleyway Theater
http://www.alleyway.com
627 Main St (852-2600)
Th F 7:30pm, Sa 8pm, Sa 4pm: Beauty and the Beast—Realist Paintings. Work by Marc Duquette (through Nov. 30)

Betty’s
370 Virginia St (362-0633)
Tu-Th 8am-9pm, F Sa 8am-10pm, Su 10am-3pm: New prints by Buffalo printmaker Joel Lewitsky (through Nov. 9)

Center for Inquiry
http://centerforinquiry.net
1310 Sweet Home Rd, Amherst (636-4869)
M-F 9am-10pm: Rational Impulse. Work by Bruce Adams (through Dec. 24)

Chow Chocolat
731 Main St (843-4388)
M-Th 8am-6pm, F 8am-10pm, Sa 4-10pm: Milk Weed. Paintings by Kyra Avery Kegler (through Oct. 23)

Jewish Center Greater Buffalo 
2640 N Forest Rd, Amherst (688-3572)
M-Th 6am-9pm, F 6am-6pm, Sa noon-4pm, Su 8:30am-5pm: Samplings: The Artists of Bryant Street Studios. Group exhibition featuring work by Adele Becker, Susan Budash, Susan Copley, Jason Klinger, and Ginny Lohr (in the Bunis Family Gallery through Nov. 30)

Olean Public Library
134 N 2nd St, St. Bonaventure (372-0200)
M-Th 9am-9pm, F 9am-6pm, Sa 10am-5pm, Su 1-4pm,: Sticks & Stones. Mixed media drawings by Priscilla Bowen (through Oct. 25)

Youngstown Free Library
240 Lockport St, Youngstown (745-3555)
M-Th 1:30-8:30pm, F 10am-2pm: Landscapes by Lockport artist Douglas Michalski (through Oct. 31)