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The Burchfield Penney Art Center is the museum dedicated to the art and vision of Charles E. Burchfield and the art and artists of Buffalo, NY, and our region.
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Jon Lehrer Dance Company
A Two-Day Dance Event
Don’t miss your chance to see JLDC back in Buffalo, and see why Dance Enthusiast proclaimed, "The warmth and generosity of Lehrer’s leadership radiates through his dancers. Lehrer proves that the full spectrum of the human experience—joy, love, comedy, pain, and mourning—does in fact belong in dance.”
Friday, April 17th at 8:00 p.m.
An evening showcasing JLDC’s signature dynamic, powerful, athletic, and elegant style.
Saturday, April 18th at 2:00 p.m.
An afternoon full of laugh-out-loud comedic works suitable for the whole family.
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Roux
Soup Bar & Café
The café for the soup-obsessed located in the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
CAFÉ HOURS:
Wednesday – Saturday: 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Sunday – Tuesday:closed
View ROUX Soup Bar & Café menu online.
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Valeria Cray: Surface Tension
BUFFALO, NY, April 6, 2026 — At the heart of Valeria Cray’s practice as a sculptor, public artist, educator, and activist lies her profound belief in art’s power to uplift and connect to the soul. A deeply spiritual woman, she creates organic, free-form sculptures that embody duality and embrace the inherent frictions that define human experience. Valeria Cray: Surface Tension presents sculptures, drawings, and models of public projects spanning the artist’s career of over 50 years...
Burchfield Penney Art Center Announces New Chief Curator
Following a national search, the Burchfield Penney Art Center names John Massier, a pillar of the Western New York arts community, as Chief Curator...
Burchfield Penney Art Center and Seneca-Iroquois National Museum Present Kindred
Inaugural Burchfield Penney Off Center Exhibition at K Art with support from the City of Buffalo, M&T Bank, and David Kimelberg
Opening Celebration December 13, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Buffalo, NY — December 3, 2025— The Burchfield Penney Art Center proudly announces the opening of Kindred: Works from the Burchfield Penney Art Center and Seneca-Iroquois National Museum Collections. This collaborative exhibition marks the debut of Burchfield Penney Off Center at K Art, the first site of the museum’s new Off Center initiative.
The public is invited to a free Opening Celebration on December 13, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. in the reimagined space at 808 Main Street in Buffalo.
Burchfield Penney Off Center is a new initiative designed to build cultural partnerships and bring collaboratively designed exhibitions directly into Western New York communities. Following the opening celebration, the first Off Center exhibition at K Art will be open Thursdays through Saturdays from 1 PM to 5 PM, with free admission for all. Kindred will remain on view through July 26, 2026.
Discover Burchfield.
Visit the Center and explore the work of an American master.
The Burchfield Penney Art Center holds the largest public collection of works by Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), as well as an archive of more than 10,000 pages of handwritten journals, 25,000 drawings, and other ephemera, including a scale re-creation of the artist’s studio.
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