Event Calendar
Lumpy Buttons Craft Exchange
Lumpy Buttons is doing it again, this time at The Temp! Welcome to the Fall edition of the free supply exchange! Clean out your space and leave supplies you have given up on and/or take some new ones to get inspired to create. Bring your own bag. Everything is FREE.
Variety Report 0.1
A variety night of music performances with sets by chango; Steve Baczkowski; and Michael Rosenstein & Martin Freeman.
Five & Feral Gala
Celebrating Five Years of BICA
Celebrate five feral years of creativity, community, and contemporary art with BICA at the Five & Feral Gala! This one-of-a-kind evening will feature immaculate vibes and volume by Group Work, activities organized by BICA Schoolers, and even live tattooing for those who never want to forget. Whether you’re coming to dance, enjoy weird art, or simply support our mission, there’s something for everyone at Five & Feral.
Why Attend?
Not only will you have a wildly good time, but your presence helps sustain BICA’s essential programs, including BICA School, Cornelia, our exhibitions, and the general operations that allow us to keep our space thriving and our creative work going strong in the community.
What You’ll Experience:
Music, atmosphere, and DJ sets by Group Work
Activities organized by BICA Schoolers that’ll keep you engaged and inspired
Live tattooing by Mandhi, featuring flash designs inspired by BICA’s iconic language
A feral menu of surprising delicacies devised by BICA’s own Nando Alvarez-Perez
A chance to support and celebrate local artists and creatives
Immersive art experiences throughout the night
Your admission ticket gets you into the party, and with BICA Bucks in hand, you can enjoy food, drinks, art, raffle entries, and more!
Get ready for a night that’s raw, unexpected, and unforgettable—come celebrate Five Years Feral with us!
Ticket Options
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Don’t miss out on the wildest night of the year! Support BICA and have a blast while doing it. Click below to purchase your tickets and secure your spot at the Five & Feral Gala.
The Growth of Art Market at the Temp
The Growth of Art Market will be a monthly, warm and local space for the creative community to promote and sell their work for the Holiday Season.
Kuchi Kopi Puff & Paint Pour
Calling all Belcher and Blueberry Lovers! Join Bri Grace at BICA’s brand new Artist Lounge, The Temporary Contemporary, for a Kuchi Kopi themed Paint Pour art class on November 16th at 8pm! Immerse yourself in the world of Bob’s Burgers with themed music and coloring pages. Come dressed as your favorite character for a chance to win our costume contest! For $30 visitors will receive a 4-Inch Kuchi Kopi 3D printed statue, paint pour instruction with 15 paint colors to choose from, Pre Roll of the Day (to be enjoyed outside), a bag of chips, and one blueberry lemonade. Coloring and enjoying the vibe is free.
“On Our Backs” Opening
Keri Manne, aka Koala, is showing their series of oil paintings “On Our Backs” in our Project Space and debuting a new painting on opening night November 1st, 2024 from 7-10pm.
Artist-Led Exhibition Walkthrough with Shana Moulton
Exhibiting artist Shana Moulton will give an exhibition walk through and talk about her work and the series Whispering Pines. A part of every opening at BICA, these walkthroughs offer an intimate and informal experience to hear from the artist, know their practice, and ask your own questions.
Shana Moulton (b. 1976, Oakhurst, CA) is a media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Cynthia's interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. She holds a BA from the University of California Berkeley and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University; in 2004 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was awarded a Creative Capital grant in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Cement Fondu, Sydney; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. She has been featured on Art21 and is on the faculty of the University of California Santa Barbara.
Shana Moulton Opening Reception
Join us for the opening reception of Shana Moulton: Whispering Pines!
Shana Moulton is a contemporary media artist whose video and installation works have been exhibited internationally over the past two decades, including a recent solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Through her various series and mediums, Moulton deftly navigates both the promises and disappointments of self-care culture, capturing the complexity of our collective desire to feel better. While gently poking fun at the industry’s excesses, her work unveils a deeper cultural longing—highlighting the pressures of aging, isolation, and the overwhelming demand to feel good all the time. Her work critiques the wellness industry with its attendant woo-woo mysticism, neoliberal insistence on subjective self-care, and snake oil ethical offerings, all while exposing the deeper cultural forces that shape our search for well-being.
Generator Fund Info Session: Buffalo
INFO SESSION
Join us at BICA for more information on Round Two of the Generator Fund
Transfeminist Provocations Against Feminism 3
Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism: Transnational Abortion Struggles
Rachel Fallon & Jennifer Page
Baby's First: Solo Exhibition
baby’s first: solo exhibition ! september’s first friday !
september 6th, 2024 7-10pm in BICA project space
most of the physical works created for baby’s first will be on display.
Transfeminist Provocations Against Feminism 2
Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism: Militant Humanities. The Fight Against Transnational Fascism
Jennifer Ponce de León
Transfeminist Provocations Against Feminism 1
Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism: Rebellious Trans Identities from the Global South
Cole Rizki & Daniella Maldonano Salamanca
Generator Fund Info Session: niagara falls
INFO SESSION
Join us at The Castellani Art Museum for more information on Round Two of the Generator Fund
Parallel Play August
Parallel Play is a time for artists and creatives to come together and make things with a group! Bring a project, or start one here – we’ll have some basic supplies.
Opening Reception for Folding Suns & The BICA School Biennial
Join us to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions!
Folding Suns
In the main gallery Folding Suns connects artists from the Western New York Region with those from Puerto Rico and the American South; it poses sun and water as real and metaphorical binding agents across geography, time, and identity. The exhibition is curated by Pablo Guardiola.
Featured Artists:
Génesis Báez
Chango4
Claudia Claremi
Adler Guerrier
Gregory Halpern
Ahndraya Parlato
Silas Rubeck
Paul Thulin-Jimenez
BICA School Biennial
All current and past BICA School participants were invited to hang work in a show celebrating BICA School’s 2-year anniversary.
Parallel Play July
Parallel Play is a time for artists and creatives to come together and make things with a group! Bring a project, or start one here – we’ll have some basic supplies.
Figure Drawing July
Figure Drawing with BICA School is back! Presented in collaboration with WNY Man-made Men.
Some basic drawing supplies and snacks provided 🧑🎨 feel free to bring your own as well!
RSVP Required!
Figure Drawing June
Figure Drawing with BICA School is back! Presented in collaboration with WNY Man-made Men.
Some basic drawing supplies and snacks provided 🧑🎨 feel free to bring your own as well!
RSVP Required!
Movie Night
Join BICA School for a movie night hosted by Silas Rubeck! 🍿🎥
June 25th at 7pm
$5-$10 suggested donation.
SHOWING:
The Brothers Quay Shorts
Mom / Debbies Last Day at Work
Open Essex 2024
The third annual Open Essex is happening on June 22 from 3-8 PM at 30 Essex Street.
This all-ages outdoor event invites the community to explore BICA and the historic Essex Street Arts Center, offering a day filled with art, music, food, and activities.
In the Galleries:
Alex Boeschenstein: Silent Terminalia
In the early Roman world, Terminalia festivals were held annually to celebrate the thresholds between adjoining properties. The boundary stones—frequently a centaur-like combination of a found rock for a base and the carved bust of the god Terminus for a top—around which these festivals took place, demarcated the meeting point of two zones of human dominion and control. In “Silent Terminalia” Alex Boeschenstein’s uncanny works mark the speculative threshold between the human and the non-human, the known and the unknown, the everyday and the cosmically horrifying.
Hannah Lin
The BICA School Project Space will feature new ceramic works by BICA School artist Hannah Lin.
In the Parking Lot:
Open Essex will transform the Essex Street Arts Center parking lot into a vibrant hub of creativity. Visitors can enjoy installations and an open-air art fair featuring works by local artists, with some pieces available for purchase. Featured Artists include wavy, H Boone, Koala, Quincy Miracle, Emily Constantin, Nick Mass, Angela Guest, JP4Hire, Alison Cortes, and Natalie Hayes & Lucas Cook.
Music:
Through the beginning of the event DJ Chango4 will spin hits for the heat. Later enjoy a set by T.T.T.T. (Jacob King).
Activities:
• Crafts with Stitch Buffalo
• Leave your mark with chalk anywhere in the parking lot
Food and Drink:
• Enjoy minimal intervention wines Fingerlakes Wine from Usonia Wine. Usonia Wine explores diverse winemaking possibilities in New York State, using fruit from their vineyard on Cayuga Lake and from likeminded growers to create vibrant and honest wines true to their origins.
Join us on June 22 to celebrate art, music, and community at Open Essex. For more information, visit our website at thebica.org.
Parallel Play June
Parallel Play is a time for artists and creatives to come together and make things with a group! Bring a project, or start one here – we’ll have some basic supplies.
LBB + Silas Rubeck
LBB + Silas Rubeck
Saturday, June 8th
BICA GARAGE
30 Essex St.
Doors at 7pm
$15 or PWYC!
LBB (Cort Lippe - computer, @t.j.borden - cello, and @_david__bailey_ - samplers, pedal steel) will be joined by @sils_the_schmuck for this special performance. TJ’s cello wranglings will be processed, confronted, and soothed by not only Cort & Dave’s audio elixirs, but also by Silas’ tapestry of stacked TV sets. A continuation of the magic that has happened in said building for the past 50 years.
Many thanks to @chew___toy for the sculpture & script.
"Fringe Scenarios" Opening
Opening Reception for
Hannah Lin: “Fringe Scenarios”
06.07.24 – 07.12.24
Works that blur the line between sculpture and utility, talking the objects and materials we encounter in our daily domestic lives and recasting them into new characters.
Hannah Lin is a designer and ceramicist currently living in Buffalo, NY. Her work merges designed objects and furniture with clay handbuilding techniques to form objects that straddle the line between utility and sculpture. She likes to explore the mundane challenges and experiences of being human through the lens of deadpan humor. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016.
4square May
4SQUARE is BACK!
4 Performances, 4 Visual Artists, 4 Vendors, 4 Games, 4 Activities, Djs, Food, and MORE all 4 U! At BICA on May 10th.
Figure Drawing May
Figure Drawing with BICA School is back!
Some basic drawing supplies and snacks provided 🧑🎨 feel free to bring your own as well!
RSVP Required!
Figure Drawing April
Figure Drawing with BICA School is back!
Some basic drawing supplies and snacks provided 🧑🎨 feel free to bring your own as well!
RSVP Required!
Idoine & Stephanie Davidson Launch Event
Launch Event with Idoine & Stephanie Davidson
10 Minutes: Architects & Designers in Conversation
8 pm » Q&A moderated by Georg Rafailidis
Artist Led Walkthrough of Silent Terminalia
Alex Boeschenstein will lead a walkthrough and talk about his new exhibition, Silent Terminalia.
Alex Boeschenstein (b. 1988, Cleveland, OH), is an interdisciplinary artist based out of Austin, TX. He received a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Art at the University of Washington in 2015 and an MFA in Transmedia and Print at the University of Texas in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include Visionary Rumor at the Roswell Museum in Roswell, NM, and Too Many Cunning Passages at Glass Box Gallery in Seattle, WA. He has exhibited work nationally at the Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas, and Gallery 4Culture in Seattle, WA, amongst others. Alex has received numerous accolades, including the Milnor Roberts Merit Scholarship through the University of Washington, the Centrum Emerging Artist Residency in Fort Worden, WA, and the M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts through the University of Texas, Austin. Public collections featuring his work include the University of Washington Print Collection and the University of Washington Life Sciences Building.
Alex Boeschenstein Opening Reception
Join us in celebration of our new exhibition, Alex Boeschenstein: Silent Terminalia.
Alex Boeschenstein (b. 1988, Cleveland, OH), is an interdisciplinary artist based out of Austin, TX. He received a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Art at the University of Washington in 2015 and an MFA in Transmedia and Print at the University of Texas in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include Visionary Rumor at the Roswell Museum in Roswell, NM, and Too Many Cunning Passages at Glass Box Gallery in Seattle, WA. He has exhibited work nationally at the Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas, and Gallery 4Culture in Seattle, WA, amongst others. Alex has received numerous accolades, including the Milnor Roberts Merit Scholarship through the University of Washington, the Centrum Emerging Artist Residency in Fort Worden, WA, and the M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts through the University of Texas, Austin. Public collections featuring his work include the University of Washington Print Collection and the University of Washington Life Sciences Building.
Eclipse
Looking for a safe, fun, place to watch the total solar eclipse? Look no further! In the front courtyard and parking lot at BICA we’ll be watching the eclipse together. We’ll have a very limited number of eclipse glasses, some supplies to make an eclipse viewing box, or you can bring your own to experience this momentous occasion together.
BYO Chair, food, drinks, art supplies, etc. Traffic is supposed to be really bad, so we encourage walking or biking to this event if you can!
Community Crit
Join BICA School for a casual open community critique!
We’ll speed crit through as many artworks as we can get to – all will be welcome to share feedback as well as work.
Ground rules will be set at the beginning of the crit, but respect for all, mindfulness to sharing space (both on the walls, and in speech), and within the time limits you may ask for the kind of feedback that will best suit you.