October 23 | Home Is Where the Art Is
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $20/per General Member, Free/per Patron and Visionary Members
Join fellow CAM Members and CAM's leadership team at the lovely home of Karen and Mark Kwandrans in Sanborn, New York. Members can enjoy brief talks by fantastic artist and educator Claudia Carballada and Phyllis Thompson. Members will have access to additional works for purchase by each artist.
Sip on a signature seasonal cocktail or wines from Choose Love Wine, courtesy of Try-It Distributing Company. Enjoy appetizers provided by Niagara Falls Culinary Institute and delicious sweets from the Village Bake Shoppe. Browse the artworks and mingle with other interesting guests, faculty, and staff.
Active in supporting the regional arts community, Karen and Mark have amassed an intriguing collection of local works, many of which come from the Buffalo Arts Studio. Some artists represented in the collection are featured in CAM's collection and are currently on display, such as Thompson and Muhammad Z. Zaman. Attendees will receive the Kwandrans' exact address after ticket purchase in a follow up email.
Home Is Where the Art Is is a series of small house parties available to CAM Members. Meet interesting people and enjoy food and drink while gaining personal access to art collections and artists in a warm, personal atmosphere.
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Claudia Carballada is a visual artist with a studio practice rooted in drawing and painting, extending to installation and performance. The impetus of her work comes from the exploration of emotive and intuitive mark-making as it aligns with the vibrations of color, movement and emotion, all represented through gestural abstraction. Claudia is Creative Director for The Discovery Project, an ensemble based in Los Angeles which produces multimedia installations for performances based in music. Together with this team, she creates concepts, maintains the role of scenographer, and engages in performance with live painting and drawing. She has guest lectured in figure painting and taught drawing, painting, and figure drawing at many universities and community organizations. She has coordinated gesture drawing/dance workshops and gallery performances as well as exhibited her work in numerous exhibitions.
Phyllis Thompson is an esteemed printmaker, textile artist, lecturer and art educator. Her work has been featured at galleries and museums across the country including Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brandywine Workshop Print Collection, the Burchfield Penney Art Museum, and the Buffalo AKG. Working with textiles, collage, and multimedia prints, Phyllis explores memories of family, relationships and ancestors. Locally, Phyllis was a part of the Artist-In-Residence program at Artpark, in Lewiston, in 1975. Currently, she is a lecturer at Buffalo State and is a resident artist at Buffalo Arts Studio. With a passion for storytelling through visuals, she has become an important figure in Buffalo's art scene, inspiring others with her unique perspective and vibrant style.
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If you'd like to purchase a membership or upgrade your current membership, visit our Membership page. If you'd like to upgrade your current membership level, email ellenowens@niagara.edu or call 716-267-8293. We will count your current membership amount towards the upgrade.
The Castellani Art Museum (CAM) at the center of the Niagara University campus is dedicated to the enjoyment and educational potential of artistic creativity. As a major resource for the visual arts in Niagara County, the CAM's permanent collection includes over 5,000 pieces of mainly modern and contemporary art, and hosts a unique Folk Arts Program supporting traditional artists and community-based cultural traditions in the Buffalo-Niagara region.
In keeping with Niagara University's Vincentian mission, the museum recognizes and serves the diverse racial, ethnic, and religious communities of the Niagara region through the organization and presentation of exhibitions which honor and explore their artistic traditions and contemporary output. In addition to presenting diverse artistic expressions, the museum works in partnerships to explore and redefine the relationship between the museum and its constituencies.
As a university museum, the Castellani Art Museum serves the educational needs of the community, by working with Niagara University faculty on integrative learning projects for college students and providing art education programs for area schools and cultural organizations. The museum staff works with educators to develop art-based learning programs that help to promote critical thinking.
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