Member Achievements

Gerald Mead is one of 8 national artists in ReUse/ReOrder at the Indianapolis Art Center until Apr. 19. He also showed in Dec. in “Spirituality” at El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, and in Jan. in “Visual AIDS: Postcards from the Edge” at Metro Pictures Gallery, NYC. In Nov. he was a panelist for a Visual Art Career Panel Discussion at UB and judged the Niagara Art & Cultural Center Annual Exhibition in Niagara Falls. Gerald also was one of 7 regional invited artists in “PRISM: One Community, Many Perspectives” at CEPA Gallery last month. He was a reviewer for the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Special Opportunity Stipend grants in March and served on the Cedar Arts Center’s Exhibitions Submissions Review Panel in Corning NY…

June 21 – Performances of poetry by regional writers inspired by Gallery works by the Buffalo Society of Artists. Inspired by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performance of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” on Saturday, August 1. Featured will be Michael Basinski, Poet and Director of the UB Poetry Collection on work of Sarah Prochownick and Joan Turrell; poet and author E. R. Baxter on all the pictures at the exhibition including work by Linda Parlato; Bob Borgatti, poet and Slipstream editor on work of Irene Haupt; Bob Giannetti, co–sponsor of the program and owner of Bob’s Olde Books, on work of Helen Rogers Russell and Fran Noonan; Norah Perez, novelist and prose poet, on work of Pat Fortunato and James Sedwick; Dan Sicoli, poet and…

Congratulations to the BSA members who were accepted into the 2009 Area Artists Show, Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery. Rita Argen Auerbach, Priscilla Bowen, Joan Hambleton. Irene Haupt, Stephen Houseknect, Pat Fortunato, Gerald Mead and Paula Sciuk.