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

When their retirement time comes, many people pack up and move south. When he considered his options, Anthony Bannon decided to move west rather than south. His starting point was Rochester and he traveled some 68 miles west to Buffalo.

Five intensive workshops in entrepreneurship will provide essential knowledge for creating and operating your own arts enterprise.

Marion Evelyn Faller, of Clarence, a renowned documentary photo artist and professor of photography at the University at Buffalo, died Wednesday in Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga, after a short illness. She was 72.

All of us at the Burchfield Penney are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Marion Faller. The artist passed away January 15, 2014.

An exhibit by artist Tim Noble at the Burchfield Penney Art Center features an automaton drawing board programmed to produce outline facsimiles of some preliminary sketches artist Charles Burchfield made for a huge oil painting of Buffalo grain elevators.

An art project of biblical proportions will begin to take shape this summer in the Burchfield Penney as a group of artists and curators prepare to float a barge loaded with art and music along the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Brooklyn and back.

Against the Grain Festival is holding auditions for actors and interviews for other creative positions for its inaugural production of Faust. Auditions and interviews will be held January 22 & 23rd 2014, 3 - 10 pm, in the auditorium at the Burchfield Penney

Nowhere are the region’s dreamers more active or inspired than on its cultural scene, which in recent months has seen the announcement of two projects with the potential to radically transform the region’s artistic identity.

Filmmakers dedicate new work to embattled artist Lawrence Bros.