How fitting that the final exhibition in the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Rockwell Hall location will be a Members Exhibition—a celebration and show of appreciation to the artists of Western New York for their support and contributions to the arts community. Artist Charles E. Burchfield was honored with the creation of the Charles Burchfield Center at Buffalo State College in 1966. He died just over a year later, but his legacy and purpose have lived on at the Center. The building was renamed the Burchfield Penney in the early 1990s following a generous gift from Charles Rand Penney, which included, among 1,300 works by Western New York artists, over 180 works by Burchfield himself. Now plans are underway for a freestanding home for the Center—made possible by an extremely generous gift from Buffalo attorney William Magavern II and his wife Louise—to be located on five acres of land on the corner of Elmwood and Rockwell Road. The Artists Among Us will run through March 2nd at the old Burchfield Penney Art Center, before it shuts down for the summer and preparations begin for the move. The opening reception for The Artists Among Us will be followed by an after party with the artists at the Ukranian-American Social Club, located at 205 Military Road.

Friday, December 14 from 6-9pm. Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College, Rockwell Hall, Third Floor, 1300 Elmwood Avenue

(878-6011/burchfield-penney.org)