March M&T Second Friday

Join us for March M&T Second Friday on Friday, March 11th! This month we'll be hosting an IN-PERSON Second Friday! We'll be featuring music by the Elliot Scozzaro Quintet as well as drop-in artmaking with our Education team!

On the Second Friday of every month, thanks to the support of M&T Bank, the Burchfield Penney hosts something great! From openings and happy hours, programs, concerts, screenings or other special events, visitors experience the best of the Burchfield Penney.

PERFORMANCE | ELLIOT SCOZZARO QUINTET
Friday, March 11th, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Live in the Auditorium

Saxophonist and composer Elliot Scozzaro will perform with his jazz quintet in the auditorium! The Elliot Scozzaro Quintet plays a variety of original compositions and arrangements of Bebop, Hard Bop, and Post Bop tunes by artists such as Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, James Moody, and Donald Byrd. The ensemble also performs the music of celebrated Western New York jazz musicians Don Menza and Sam Noto.

Elliot Scozzaro / alto saxophone
Brendan Lanighan / trombone
Bob Sneider / guitar
Joseph Goehle / bass
Mike Melito / drums

EXHIBITION OPENING | GRATITUDE
The Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment Purchase Awards
March 11, 2022 - October 2, 2022
Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media 

The legacy of our generous patron, Sylvia L. Rosen, is reflected in many ways at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. In addition to this gallery dedicated to art in craft, there is a collection of artworks purchased from biennial juried exhibitions over the past thirty-three years. Initially selected by nationally renowned judges to be included in the exhibitions, extraordinary works were then chosen for purchase awards by the museum’s director and curatorial staff and approved by our Art Collection Committee and Board of Trustees. The Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment, created by Sylvia and her husband Nathan in 1987, provided the funds.

In all, twenty-four works by twenty-three artists illustrate the epitome of excellence in clay, fiber, glass, metal, paper, and wood. They range from intimately scaled jewelry to large sculptures, from functional furniture to a wall-hung quilt, from whimsical to philosophical. This exhibition is the first time all the award-winning artworks are exhibited together.

Artists who received Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment Purchase Awards include, in chronological order: Marvin Bjurlin (1988), Bill Stewart (1990), Richard Kegler and Joseph Moran (1992), John K. Tracey (1994), Robert L. Wood (1996), Kathi Roussel (1998), Alex Gabriel Bernstein and Julie York (2000), Jeremy Hatch (2002), Richard Hirsh (2004), Tracy A. Fiegl (2006), Kate Doody, Temi Kucinski, Mahine Rattonsey and Davina Romansky (2009), Trevor Ritchie and Temi Kucinski  (2011), Scott Losi and Tina Vu (2013), Ellen Markel (2015), Emily Bellinger (2017), Kevin Kegler (2019), and Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez (2021). 

We celebrate their creativity and share our appreciation for Sylvia L. Rosen for providing the inspiration and means for developing our art collection in craft media.

DROP-IN ART-MAKING
Friday, March 11th, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Studio Classroom
Join our Education team for drop-in art-making activities in the Galleries! This month's art activity explores calligraphy, based on Muhammad Zaman's mural, Hope Setting in a Bank of Smoke.