Celebrating Women Exhibition & Events

Bring yourself up to date as your Officers and Board of Directors report on all areas of BSA involvement. This is a time to ask questions, voice comments and renew acquaintances. As a special treat, you will be given the very first viewing of an unedited portion of one of BSA’s interviews with a WNY artist. As you all know, this is the Video Archive Project that BSA created in collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center. It is now in full swing and we would like to give you a glimpse of the direction we are moving.

2010 Spring Show, Thumb Box Exhibit Juror: John Massier, Curator, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York Upload Entry Dates: Sat, Jan 2 – Wed, Jan 6, 2010 Show Dates: March 6 – March 26, 2010Opening Reception, Saturday, March 6, 2010 4:00 – 7:00 PM The show will be held at Partners in Art Gallery 74 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120 For more information: Members: Log on and select Show Prosepctus from the top menu bar. Non-Members: Contact member chair ar membership@buffalosocietyofartists.com

MERIDIAN WEST GALLERY “Community in a Gallery”1209 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, New York(716) 768-3805 / mwg1209@roadrunner.com The New Kid on the Block Hertel Avenue has an exciting new addition to its many stores, restaurants, antique shops, and galleries. Meridian West Gallery, 1209 Hertel Avenue, formerly occupied by Chateau Buffalo and Buffalo Hardwood, will be celebrating its Preview Opening Wednesday November 28, 6-9 and its Grand Opening/Open House on December 1 from 1-9. The opening will feature the work of some of Buffalo’s finest artists: Arthur Barnes, Gary Wolfe, Priscilla Bowen, Norine Spurling, Ann Gunderman, John O’Reilly, Beth Pedersen, Rita Argen Auerbach, Joe Delmonte, and gallery partners Nancy Mariani and George Grace; with sculptures by Patrick Delmonte, Rose Popper, David Vitrano, Marissa Lehner, and Ann Gunderman. It…

Opening Reception: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 2:00 — 5:00 pm at the Kenan Center. A solo exhibit of paintings by Lockport’s Joseph Whalen will take place at the Kenan Center House Gallery, January 10 through February 21. The show will open with a free public reception, Sunday, January 10 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, noon to 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays, 2:00-5:00 p.m. The gallery will be closed January 18. Admission is free. Joseph Whalen’s new book, WHALEN: A HUNDRED PAINTINGS, will be available for purchase during the exhibit. The cost of the book is $35. A former art teacher, Whalen is most noted for his paintings of Lockport scenes which are highly collected. Whalen studied at the Rochester…