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Burchfield Penney to offer complimentary 6-month membership ti healthcare workiers for service, time and sacrifice amid pandemic

Museum to welcome back visitors with enhanced safety protocols, seven new exhibitions and free admission

Burchfield Penney Associate Director retires after a 25-year renowned journey of supporting the museum’s mission and the artists of Western New York.

We're getting ready to welcome you back to the Burchfield Penney. 

Susan Rothenberg earned international acclaim as a courageous artist strong enough to pursue her vision when it defiantly rejected the status quo. Extensive numbers of exhibition essays, articles, and other texts explore her life and accomplishments, from her roots in Buffalo, New York to her later life in New Mexico. We have a special place in our hearts for Rothenberg because of those roots. 

Sheldon Berlyn was a dynamic abstract expressionist artist and influential educator.His works created with brilliant colors, confident squeegee strokes, and flamboyant gesture truly reflect his passionate personality. 

Finding inspiration at home doesn’t have to be difficult, there are so many wonderful things around to explore!

We are all witnessing this historical moment, and it is crucial for each of us to reflect on the role we are meant to play in the ongoing fight for change.

I love thinking of Kenn waxing intellectual and profane about art, while in the background kids THUMP-THUMP-THUMP the air out of their clay, squeal in the halls, and run into the room to show him what they made.

Finding inspiration at home doesn’t have to be difficult, there are so many wonderful things around to explore!

Today’s sketching prompt is: If you could live in a tree house, what would it look like?