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When you support the Burchfield Penney Art Center, you’re helping provide a creative home for Western New York art and artists—a place that reflects our region’s incredible past, investigates our present, and celebrates our promising future. Thank you for your generous support.
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Equity in Arts Fund
The Burchfield Penney Art Center recognizes that every visitor, artist, volunteer and staff member has unique lived experiences. We celebrate and participate in the diversity of our constantly evolving community, and we believe that experiencing the art and artists of our region empowers us to think and grow.
We strive to create equitable access to exhibitions, collections, programs, and education. However, barriers exist for many artists who have been historically marginalized or under-recognized due to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, abilities, or a host of other reasons. We know there is more work to do to advance and elevate these artists.
The Equity in Arts Fund ensures a greater focus on artists that have not yet been collected or exhibited by the Center- particularly, the inclusion of Black, indigenous, people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This fund seeds projects, provides career resources to artists, funds exhibitions and commissions, and supports art acquisition at the Center. Through the Equity in Arts Fund, the Burchfield Penney aims to create a collection and engage in a manner that recognizes diversity an creates a greater, more inclusive experience for all.
Contribute to the Equity in Arts Fund online here.
Valued Supporters and Collaborators
The Burchfield Penney Art Center’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The Burchfield Penney receives generous public support from SUNY Buffalo State University, Erie County, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Buffalo. Private support is provided by The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation, the Cullen Foundation, the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, M&T Bank, The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, the Joy Family Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Designated Inclusive Arts and Culture Organizations Endowment Fund, a component fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Inc., Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Trust, the Mary A. H. Rumsey Foundation, the James Carey Evans Endowment, and many additional individuals, corporations, foundations, and Burchfield Penney members.
Development of this website and digitization of the Burchfield Penney's collection would not have been possible without the support of the Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.
The Burchfield Penney Art Center is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
