[ART] Every second Friday of the month, the Burchfield Penney Art Center opens the doors and pulls out all the stops, transforming the act of gallery-browsing into one of active participation with multiple sensorial sign posts. February’s installment offers a panoply of music, storytelling, and provoking visual art. Beginning at 5:30pm, renowned storyteller steeped in the African American oral tradition, Sharon Jordan Holley, will be presenting her work. Also starting at 5:30pm, the Pappy Martin Legacy Jazz Society Presents the Herbie Small Quartet, who will be playing two sets of jazz standards. Running alongside the storytelling and music, there will also be a drop-in art-making workshop lead by docents and volunteers and three new shows will be on exhibit, including the work of Icelandic video artist Steina Vasulka as well as the late Buffalo fixtureJack Drummer’s stretched and dyed rubber pieces. Finishing the evening at 8pm will be classical works performed by A Musical Feast, with pieces across the centuries including J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Martin Bresnick, and Amy Williams, who will be performing with the ensemble.
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