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On April 9 and 10, Burchfield Penney Art Center will be hosting a two days of events featuring members of London-based POP-UP Adventure Play. These events will allow children of all ages to explore, transform, create, and share ideas about the value of free play.

These projects have ranged from Anselm Kiefer’s “Milky Way” at the Albright-Knox, to a piece of Millard Fillmore’s wedding cake at the Buffalo History Museum to watercolors by Charles Burchfield at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Conservation is thriving in Buffalo.

The next A Musical Feast concert on Friday, March 14 at 8pm, in the Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower auditorium of the Burchfield Penney Art Center on the Buffalo State Campus, will feature the Buffalo debut of pianist Dmitri Novgorodsky.

The two cultures come together in an exhibit at the Burchfield Penney  focusing on Scajaquada Creek. It’s by scientist and artist Alberto Rey...

For Alberto Rey, a Cuban-born artist and professor at Fredonia State College, painting is a way to reveal aspects of the natural world that are hidden in plain sight.

An unusual art project scheduled to tour New York State by way of the Erie Canal will get its start right here at SUNY Buffalo State by way of the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

The State Department had bought about 150 paintings and, in the 1940s, planned to send them on propaganda world tours. The shows were meant to “exemplify the freedom of expression enjoyed by diverse artists in a democratic country,”

Perry Nicholas will join poet and nonfiction writer E.R. Baxter III in a reading at 7 p.m. Friday in the auditorium of the Burchfield Penney Art Center sponsored by the M&T Second Friday Series

Peter Tower, customs broker, philanthropist May 29, 1921 – Feb. 5, 2014