Buffalo Metropolitan Area

Buffalo’s diverse intellectual and cultural heritage continues to attract and sustain artists in the visual arts, performance, video/film, theater, poetry, literature, music and architecture.

Buffalo’s grass-roots and alternative spaces dedicated to new and experimental genres such as CEPA, Hallwalls, Big Orbit and Soundlab, complement world class institutions such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and provide opportunities and support for the production of new work in all genres. The Theater District in downtown Buffalo is home to numerous experimental theaters. Locally owned art theatres along with Hallwalls regularly show acclaimed films not privileged to widespread commercial distribution.

Toronto, a 90-minute drive, is the largest metropolitan center and art capitol of Canada, with hundreds of alternative spaces and commercial art galleries including the Power Plant and the Ontario Gallery of Art.