Published November 19, 2025
Advanced Photo Students assist with "Buffalo Remembrance Project" with UB Art Galleries
Advanced undergraduate Photography students Eric, Tom, Sydney, Lily, and Simone, visited the Richardson Olmsted Complex on Nov. 6, to document interior scenes of the facility and learn about the history of care strategies and conditions in the facilities. This documentation is in preparation for the community engagement project with the UB Art Galleries and artist Kimberly Chapman, that these students will be assisting with.
UB Photography students tour the Richardson Olmsted Complex, led by Patrick Ryan, Cultural Curator of the site.
About the project
The five Photo students will also be taking photographs of objects brought in for a “Buffalo Remembrance Project: Community Documentation Day”, Friday, 11/21, 12-6PM, at the Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214
The Public is invited to “bring a personal object that belonged to a female family member who was once a patient at the asylum— a letter, comb, wallet, photograph, piece of clothing, or other meaningful memento”, to be photographed onsite.
Resulting images will be displayed in early 2026 in an exhibition at the Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo, at the Richardson Olmsted Campus.
This exhibition is related to Kimberly Chapman’s Eighty-six Reasons for Asylum Admission, on view at the Anderson Gallery 9/12/25-2/28/26
This collaboration is led by Anna Wager, Curator of Exhibitions at UB Art Galleries, with Photo Technician Cassandra Cook from the Department of Art.
Special thanks to the facilities access and tour, by Patrick Ryan, Cultural Curator of the Richardson Olmsted Campus.