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Make a lasting impact on the art and artists of Western New York.
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.
Valued Supporters and Collaborators
The Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State University is proud to count leading local, state, and federal grantmaking organizations, independent foundations, family foundations, and artist estates in Western New York among our supporters and collaborators.
The museum receives public support from Buffalo State University, Erie County, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Buffalo. KeyBank provides private support in partnership with the First Niagara Foundation, The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation, the Cullen Foundation, the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, M&T Bank, The John R. Oishei Foundation, The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, John and Paula Reinhold/Joy Family Foundation, The Western New York Foundation, the 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.
