November M&T Second Friday 2024
Nov 8, 2024 5:30pm — 8:00pm
ABOUT M&T SECOND FRIDAYS
Mark your calendars for the second Friday of each month when, thanks to the generous support of M&T Bank, we stay open late, and admission is free! Immerse yourself in artistic experiences, from captivating exhibition premieres to engaging all-ages art-making sessions, curated screenings, and special programs. Explore the galleries, shop The Museum Store, and enjoy live music. Our cash-only pop-up bar awaits, offering soft drinks, wine, and beer. Stop by Roux Soup Bar & Café, serving up a delicious array of soups, sandwiches, and salads.
Psst!Here's an exclusive offer just for you – enjoy a 10% discount on most Museum Memberships when you join or renew in person during M&T Second Friday. Stop by our membership table to learn more!
EXHIBITIONS OPENING
William C. Maggio, Self Portrait, 1992, carbon on paper, 22 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Tracing Threads Through Time: The Artwork of William C. Maggio
Nov 8, 2024 - Mar 30, 2025
William C. Maggio is a lifelong resident of Western New York. As an artist, educator and musician, his creative influence is a thread that can be traced through time, connecting generations of people. His artwork is a visual journey inward towards the core of the human soul. This is the first comprehensive exhibition to feature works in all stages of Maggio's career...
Learn more about Tracing Threads Through Time: The Artwork of William C. Maggio
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Details of Fox Listening by Mike Glier and Light Coming into a Woods by Charles E. Burchfield
A Grammar of Animacy: Charles E. Burchfield & Mike Glier
Nov 8, 2024 - Mar 2, 2025
This exhibition explores how both American artists infuse observational painting with abstraction to convey a multi-sensory experience of nature. Burchfield died 14 years after Glier was born, so they are generations apart, but both use an abstract visual language, derived from plein-air observation, to describe an intimate and reciprocal relationship between the artists and their subject, the living world... Learn more about A Grammar of Animacy: Charles E. Burchfield & Mike Glier
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Wilhelmina Godfrey (1914-1994), City Playground, 1949-50; Gift of Carol Wing, 1994
Wilhelmina Godfrey: I am what I am
Nov 8, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025
Born in 1914 in Philadelphia and raised in Buffalo, Wilhelmina Godfrey was an artist of exceptional skill and vision, working in media that included painting, printmaking, and textiles. Over the course of her more than fifty-year career, her work continuously evolved. Her lifelong contributions as an artist, writer, and educator earned the admiration and respect of many, cementing her legacy within the local arts and African American communities.
Wilhelmina Godfrey: I am what I am is a retrospective look at the artist’s massive portfolio, particularly her extraordinary use of color and theme, as well as the evolution of her work from representative figuration to abstraction...
Major support for Wilhelmina Godfrey: I am what I am is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Tales from the Porch IV: Art is a Language (Performance, Screening & Panel Discussion)
November 8th | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Auditorium
Panel Discussion will include artists who make artistic appearances within the documentary: Robert “CarolinahBlu” Herrod, MamaGey,Gaitrie Subryan, and Kaitlyn Lowe (Moderated by Aitina Fareed-Cooke)
Aitina Fareed-Cooke originally developed the Tales from the Porch project in 2019 as an opportunity to tell the stories and amplify the voices of members of the Buffalo, NY community. In 2024, the Tales from the Porch project will focus on five artists with ties to Buffalo Arts Studio.
Curated by Aitina Fareed-Cooke, Tales from the Porch IV: Art is a Language is an exploration of visual, performing and literary arts through a documentary film, multimedia arts exhibition, and live performance series. The film features artists Julia Bottoms, Bob Fleming, George Hughes, Phyllis Thompson, and Muhammad Zaman, all of whom share a deep connection with Buffalo Arts Studio. Tales from the Porch IV: Art is a Language exhibition includes work by each of the artists in conversation with Fareed-Cooke’s photography and poetry.
The Tales from the Porch IV: Art is a Language documentary was executively directed and produced by Aitina Fareed-Cooke, filmed and edited by Alex Rojè Felix with music produced by Robert “CarolinahBlu” Herrod.
Tales from the Porch IV: Art is a Language is funded in part by Creatives Rebuild New York, Get Fokus’d Productions and A.I. The Anomaly’s Patreon Members.
All-Ages Artmaking
Friday, November 8 | 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Useum Studio, First Floor
Join our Education team in the Useum Studio for All Ages Art-Making! This month's project is Cardboard Loom Weavings, inspired by the work of Wilhelmina Godfrey.
Stay tuned to find out more about what's on for November M&T Second Friday 2024!