Visiting Artists Lectures, Workshops, and Speaker Series: The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Department of Art Speaker Series, classroom lectures, and critiques.
Exhibition Opportunities: The Center for the Arts and area galleries gives BFA students frequent opportunities to exhibit work throughout their undergraduate careers, culminating in their Senior Thesis Exhibition, the result of a year-long course on the preparation, research, proposal development, installation, and curation of a cohesive body of their work.
Buffalo Metro Area: Buffalo’s diverse grass-roots and alternative spaces dedicated to new and experimental genres complement institutions such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Toronto, a ninety-minute drive from Buffalo, has hundreds of alternative spaces and commercial art galleries including the Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Ontario.