Today’s digitally networked culture and industry demand increasing levels of visual literacy. Communication in the 21st century is an ecology of information, knowledge production, and visual rhetoric that shapes the way people understand our world.
The Department of Art at the University at Buffalo is dedicated to developing creative and academic skills in studio art, post-studio art, graphic design, aesthetics, critical theory, and art history. Since its founding, our department has been committed to shepherding innovative approaches and new practices. We empower our students to represent their unique visions within a contemporary cultural environment.
In Solidarity We Stand Against Racism and Offer Words of Support
We are all still reeling from the shock and anger of Saturday’s racially motivated hate crime against members of our Black community. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and loved ones, and everyone in our community who is experiencing grief in this moment. It is difficult to put these feelings into words.
We strongly stand in solidarity with our friends and neighbors working on the front-lines of racial justice. As members of a university community -- educators, scholars, artists -- we are committed to building cross-cultural understanding and empathy across our communities. We value research and critical inquiry alongside listening, engaging and respect for all people as part of our learning process.
In this difficult time, we encourage you to reach out to your professors and staff for support if you are feeling stress, anxiety or just need to talk. In addition, UB’s Counseling Services are available for help and guidance and UB’s Intercultural and Diversity Center offers a safe space for all students.
Furthermore Theresa McCarthy and Luis Colón, Associate Deans for Inclusive Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences, will host a student centered community discussion from 12-1:30pm today (05/17/22) via Zoom, see links below. This session will hold space for College of Arts and Sciences community members grappling with the impact of last weekend’s harrowing tragedy in our community. It is open to all students, faculty and staff in the College of Arts and Sciences and facilitated by UB Counseling Services experts, Frankie Kraft and Alison Smith. The Zoom information is below.
This senseless tragedy impacts us all, and in order to move forward and stay strong please take care of yourselves and each other.
In solidarity,
Stephanie Rothenberg
Chair
Department of Art
Reinhard Reitzenstein
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Matt Kenyon,
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Art
Mary Gordon
Art Department Administrator
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College of Arts and Sciences Community Discussion:
Meeting ID: 932 9404 1433
Passcode: 985189
2022 MFA Graduate Edreys Wajed describes working on his bronze casting that is a major component in his graduating thesis exhibition. The work is currently on display at the Burchfield Penney Arts Center in Buffalo, NY.
Print Media students work in an atmosphere of intellectual exploration and investigation, with comprehensive print facilities for developing and refining their personal vision.
The sculpture and installation program encourages students to investigate a multitude of methods, materials, and conceptual approaches. Students in this area employ a range of fabrication techniques and technologies to engage with the material, technical, aesthetic, and theoretical dimensions of contemporary sculpture practice.
Photography is concerned with producing creative artists and professional photographers who are fluent in a wide variety of photographic productions, techniques, and critical concerns.
The currency of performance-based art lies in its capacity to be utilized in the most extreme, urgent, and quotidian of situations, incorporating live and mediated means.
In today’s broad and immersive visual world, the Art History program is committed to studying the visual arts as tools for exploring and decoding culture.
Painting is continually evolving, producing an enormous variety of responses to philosophies and technological developments. These changes have always been part of the discipline, whether it meant moving from the frescoed surface to wood panels or from hand-mixed paints to digital techniques.
Explore and shape the future of art. Emerging Practices, Art and Technology
is a multidisciplinary studio practice that builds on knowledge of emerging technologies such as interactive multi-media, electronic installation, networked telematic communication, robotic art, three-dimensional simulation, biotechnology, and algorithmic image synthesis.
is a multidisciplinary studio practice that builds on knowledge of emerging technologies such as interactive multi-media, electronic installation, networked telematic communication, robotic art, three-dimensional simulation, biotechnology, and algorithmic image synthesis.
Explore line, shape and form in a variety of mediums on a diversity of scale. Work in large rooms with skylights and spotlights at dimensions that are only limited by your imagination. Here, we explore everything from still-life and life drawing to anatomical and architectural drawing. Our award-winning instructors are here to help you refine and expand your skills.
Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts is a hybrid studio laboratory facility dedicated to enabling hands-on creative engagement with tools and technologies from the life sciences.
