We can’t seem to stop staring at our screens, but maybe it’s that the screens won’t stop staring back, lovingly, menacingly, endlessly bleeding their sick messages all over the place.
Through an amalgam of recent work, including posters, branding, comics, and other graphic matter created while in Buffalo, Stacey Robinson asks, “What is Black? What is the future of Black people? What does that future with Black people in it look like?” The answers seem to lie just out of reach.
Community members and artists are invited to create ofrendas, altars commemorating the dead, deceased, or dearly departed, to occupy our gallery as part of a group exhibition.
Emerging photographer Nick Butler intends to “encourage everyone to love themselves no matter their gender, size, shape or color” and hopes that his photographs “challenge the current cultural views of what constitutes a beautiful body.”
This year, El Museo celebrates 35 years of service to Buffalo and Western New York, and the continued support from our friends, funders, and artists from all walks of life. Thank you for making our work possible!
Tommy Nguyen wants to take us back, away from our terminally broken present, from the madness of the 2000s, past the excesses and culture wars of the 90s, back to the beginning of the end of history….
- April 25, 2016
In 2013, photographer Marten Czamanske and educator/video artist Courtney Grim were invited to accompany and document a humanitarian mission to Haiti.
