The Gallery Regional Showcase
Located inside security across from the Anchor Bar, The Gallery showcases the Buffalo Niagara region.
Featured Exhibition:
Western New York Book Arts Center
The Western New York Book Arts Center is the home of The Book Arts Collaborative and Just Buffalo Literary Center. The Book Arts Collaborative is a not-for-profit cultural organization dedicated to the art of the book in all its manifestations. Just Buffalo Literary Center is a not-for-profit cultural organization dedicated to the literary arts.
The WNYBAC gallery and printshop and 2nd floor multi-use performance and meeting space are the primary resources where collaborative members and the local community come together to create and display their work. This public space is one of only a few similar book arts centers found around the country and has quickly become well regarded as a site for visiting artists and innovative programming.
WNYBAC is a 501 (c) 3 non profit educational organization offering School Field Trips and Adult Workshops along with ongoing art exhibits in its main gallery, a printing museum and working community printshop, a members reference library and book and supply shop.
On display at the Buffalo International Airport - BNIA - The Gallery Regional Showcase is a selection of hand-printed posters using vintage wood and metal type and blocks in the WNYBAC collection along with a few printing artifacts that date back to the mid 1800s. Materials in the WNYBAC collection are primarily rescued from area print shops that have closed down but seeing new life as teaching tools and unique objects that have their own qualities often imitated in digital form but rarely duplicated.
The Western New York Book Arts Center is located in Downtown Buffalo just steps from both the Central Library and the Downtown Hyatt Hotel.
WNY Book Arts Center
468 Washington St. Buffalo NY 14203
www.wnybookarts.org
Open Wed-Sat 12-6pm
The members library features over 500 books on printing, calligraphy, paper marbling, and book arts of all sorts.
All visiting field trip groups engage with instructors to learn and make their own books.
Art Openings bring visitors form the nearby downtown Hyatt Hotel.
Traditional hand bookbinding techniques are taught along with quick and fun projects for all ages.
Regional and international artists are featured in shows that change regularly in the WNYBAC main gallery (Hero Studio screen prints shown).
“@” symbols in hand set metal type – invented long before the internet.
Display cases with small books on exhibit and antique printing presses on display in front windows.
For exhibit information, call Bev Halligan at 716-630-6072.
