Carol Case Siracuse

A Buffalo-based artist, Carol Siracuse studied printmaking with Leonard Baskin at Smith College before undertaking her architectural training at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Princeton University. She practiced architecture in Boston, and Ithaca, opening her own firm in Chautauqua County in 1980. In 2001 she moved to Buffalo, and became a vice president at Cannon Design, retiring in 2010 after 38 years of practice. At Cannon she managed the Strategic Plan for the Reconstruction of the Buffalo Public Schools, a project which fueled her passion for the rich architectural heritage of Buffalo.

A signature member of Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, she retired as its president in 2016 taking on the duties of Communications Chair.  She is an Exhibiting Member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, the Fine Arts League of Buffalo, and Western New York Artists Group. Her images of Buffalo, its architecture and gardens, and her travels have been shown in many group shows including Buffalo – a work in progress at Studio Hart, The Travellers Muse, Journaling Around the World at Dana Tillou Fine Arts, and Luminance Group Watercolor Exhibit at Meibohm Fine Arts, 2022. Her solo show Captured Travels was held in 2016 at Betty’s in Buffalo. Her paintings have been accepted into juried shows for the Adirondack National Exhibition of American Watercolors; her painting Tom winning an award in the 2018 Exhibition, the BSA, WNYAG and NFWS. Sunset on Hertel Avenue, won the Gold Medal in the 119^th Catalogue Show of the Buffalo Society of Artists, 2015. Concrete Elevators won the Bronze Medal at the BSA’s 126^th Catalogue Exhibition, 2022. Her work is in the collection of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the Castellani Art Center at Niagara University. She is included in the regional artists archives of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and is represented by Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY, Portage Hill Art Gallery, Mayville, NY, and Tesori, Williamsville, NY.