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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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Choose LOVE Family Day
Presented by Golisano Children’s Hospital of Buffalo
With support from The Ciminelli Family Foundation 💖
Feb 14, 2026 | 10 AM – 3 PM
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with creativity, connection, and community! Join us for a FREE day of hands-on artmaking, gallery adventures, and dancing with DJ Milk & DJ Yes!
Paint like The Ghost and add your mark to the Choose LOVE: Community Mural, which will be permanently installed at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Buffalo Niagara Street Pediatrics.
Register for FREE today!
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Roux
Soup Bar & Café
**Please note: Roux Soup Bar & Cafe will be closed January 29th through February 3rd, but get your soup fix at Winter Soup Fest at The Terrace at Delaware Park Saturday, January 31, 2026, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm!
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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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.
Serenades for Settling (Tending Ostreidae)
“Listen like an oyster” through a new multi-media exhibition...The Burchfield Penney Art Center presents Serenades for Settling (Tending Ostreidae), a collaboration between artists Stephanie Rothenberg and Suzanne Thorpe. This immersive, multimedia exhibition explores the hidden world of oyster habitats. Through sound, visuals, robotics, and real-time maritime data, the installation highlights the ecological importance of the oyster and the threats posed by human-made noise.
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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