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Our commitment to enhancing the quality of life is demonstrated every time a student succeeds, or an audience applauds. Yet, we cannot do it alone, we need your help.
We share and employ the arts as a major catalyst to strengthen education, build community cohesiveness, and advance economic growth.
Our Mission is to create an environment for the visual and performing arts to flourish through education, exploration, collaboration, and presentation while enriching cultural opportunities for the surrounding community.
Why support the Center for the Arts?
- Supporting ‘Friends’ events raises money that allows under-served schools to bring children to live performing arts events at the center through a special transportation stipend program
- ‘Friends’ help to develop new audiences for the Center for the Arts through community outreach programs
- Aid students by enhancing the quality of the facilities where they grow and learn
- By endorsing the Center, you enable us to continue to be one of the state-of-the-art performance centers in the country
Did you know…
The Center is the home of the Departments of Art, Media Study, and Theatre & Dance with the Department of Music steps away?
The Center serves both the university and the community by showcasing the best of fine and performing arts?
The Center is Western New York’s premiere presenter of professional dance?
The Center features a 1,748-seat Mainstage, 388-seat Drama Theatre, twin ‘black box’ theatres, a 6,000-square foot University Gallery, 210-seat Screening Room, Art Department Gallery and spacious studios and classrooms?
The Department of Media Study on the second floor houses 2 screening rooms, sound stage, recording studios, television production studio, and a new virtual reality lab that opened in 2001?
The Art Department includes printmaking, computer art, communication design, photography, and a foundry?
The Center for the Arts is one of the most environmentally-friendly buildings on campus?
The Center for the Arts also has a large costume shop, laundry, scene shop, paint shop, audio and electric shops, assembly shop and finishing shop? |
