This listing provides the WNY arts community with a quick reference guide to the rich variety of media arts resources available to artists and arts organizations within Western New York.

Media Arts Guidebook:
Some Notes on Curating & Organizing Media Arts Exhibitions
by Joanna Raczynska, with contributions from Ellen Ryan, Carolyn Tennant, Erica Eaton, and Julia Dzwonkoski & Kye Potter
A practical how-to guide for small and mid-sized arts organizations to develop and present temporary, original media arts exhibition programs. This Guidebook provides accounts of guest curators' experiences and tactics in developing media arts exhibitions and events and serves as a great starting point for other individuals and organizations interested in media curating. (Link to Guidebook)

Carnegie Art Center
The Carnegie Art Center presents a series of professional development workshops, sponsored by the Tonawandas' Council on the Arts / Carnegie Art Center and partnering organizations, designed to provide techniques and strategies for addressing current issues faced by individual artists. These workshops present topics which offer tools and skills to meet the challenges of succeeding in today's ever-changing arts and cultural environment. Each workshop has been designed to empower artists to strengthen and expand their resources as well as to provide professional networking opportunities. (More Details)

CEPA Gallery
Film and Digital Photography, Video, Web Design, Graphic Design, equipment and software (Web Link)

The Experimental Television Center
Since 1996, the ETC and the IEA have sponsored the International Summer Workshop (ISW). A primary goal of ETCISW is the exploration of video as a contemporary electronic arts medium and the promotion of collaborative art practices. Activities are balanced between the making and study of the electronic moving image. Lectures on technical aspects of equipment operation are supplemented with lab time for independent and collaborative art-making. The ETC studio is an immersive environment where artists interact with the Center’s hybrid toolset and collaboration is encouraged by the very nature of the open architecture of the system. (Web Link)

Squeaky Wheel
equipement, software - video, web, grantwriting (Web Link)

Visual Studies Workshop - VSW
Summer Institute - Photography, Artists' Books, Film, and Video, Digital Imaging, New Media, Web Design, Media Literacy. Courses are offered for all levels and interests. You
may choose to register for graduate or undergraduate college credit through SUNY Brockport. Also, Fall/Spring workshops in photography, sound design, digital video, alternative processes, 16mm film (Web Link)

CEPA Gallery
CEPA offers after school and summer youth education programs, which provides students with projects that use photography and the digital arts to enhance their overall academic and life experience. (Web Link)

Lockport Community Television - LCTV
Each Summer and for the past 23 years LCTV has offered to young adults ages 13 to 18 the opportunity to learn video production skills and create their own videos. LCTV offers two identical sessions young adults can choose from. (Web Link)

Niagara Arts and Cultural Center
Classes and workshops for computer skills such as cartoon creation with Flash, digital imaging, digital image transfer to clothing. (Web Link)

Squeaky Wheel
kids video camp and Buffalo Youth Media Institute Participant (Web Link)

CEPA Gallery
darkroom and digital lab (Web Link)

Squeaky Wheel
video cameras, sound equipment, computer lab (Web Link)

CEPA Gallery
4-week residency for emerging artists, stipends for fabrication support, exhibition and publication opps. and honoraria. Artists have unlimited access to CEPA's off-site studio and on-site darkroom, digital imaging facility. (Web Link)

Hallwalls
(HARP) is a multidisciplinary artists residency program to support invited artists through professional stipends, materials and fabrication budgets, workspace, access to equipment and technical support, public presentations of their work in solo exhibitions, site-specific installations, screenings, and concerts, and interaction with local artists and communities through collaboration, lectures, master classes, workshops, and in-school residencies.
(Web Link)

Squeaky Wheel
Local Artist Access Residency - The residency includes forty hours free access to our digital editing systems and 6-plate film editing suite, as well as two days free rental of a production kit: 1 camera, light kit, tripod and microphone. New this year: Selected access residents also receive 2 free workshops and a $100 stipend for supplies (Web Link)

Visual Studies Workshop - VSW
Visual Studies Workshop sponsors artists' residencies in photography, artists' books, digital video and multimedia, 16mm film and analog video. Residencies are project-based and are for a period of one month. VSW will provide access to facilities, and housing on the premises. Honorarium (Web Link)

Big Orbit Gallery
Big Orbit Gallery's Visual Arts Program fosters an environment of experimentation for established artists while providing emerging artists with opportunities to participate in comprehensive exhibitions and solo shows. Addressing the evolution of contemporary critical issues, the Visual Arts Program showcases local artistic production while pursuing current cultural discourse, rendering Big Orbit Gallery a locus for the diverse tendencies of visual expression in Western New York, and an invaluable resource to local audiences engaged in the global dialogue of contemporary culture. (Web Link)

CEPA Gallery
CEPA is a not-for-profit arts center founded in 1974 as a resource for photographic creation, education, and presentation. CEPA provides a context for understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and political intersections of photo-related art as it is produced in our diverse society. The gallery supports, encourages, and funds the projects of both established and emergent visual artists, and is committed to supporting artists from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in cultural spaces. CEPA also functions as a research and education center for the exploration of new technologies in the photographic arts. CEPA's scope is international, providing a forum for artists and curators throughout the world. Programs include exhibitions; a guest lecture series which invites artists, critics, and curators to discuss their work; an artist project program which presents installations and publishes artist books; a darkroom and computer imaging facility; a public art program which features exhibitions in public transit vehicles and stations; an independent film forum; artist residencies; and grant support for artists. (Web Link)

Hallwalls
Recognizes and serves a vital community artistic presence which is global in its outlook, challenging in its ideas, pluralistic in its concerns, and diverse in its expression. Hallwalls' twofold mission is to serve artists by supporting the creation and presentation of new work in the visual, media, performing, and literary arts, and to serve the public by making these works available to audiences. We are dedicated in particular to work by artists which challenges and extends the traditional boundaries of the various art forms, and which is critically engaged with current issues in the arts and--through the arts--in society. Finally, we believe that the right of freedom of expression for artists, and for free access to their works by interested individuals, must be protected as a fundamental and necessary condition of our mission. Hallwalls' twofold mission is to serve artists by supporting the creation and presentation of new work in the visual, media, performing, and literary arts, and to serve the public by making these works available to audiences. Events include media arts, music, performace and literature.
(Web Link)

Rochester Contemporary
The Rochester Contemporary fosters and promotes diverse ideas through contemporary art in all forms. RoCo uses its programs and its facility to encourage artists, audiences, and community partners in the process of multi-disciplinary discovery. (Web Link)

Soundlab
Big Orbit's Soundlab is an off-site venue dedicated to the music, media and performance of Big Orbit Gallery. Located near Buffalo's Waterfront in the historic Dunn BUilding, Soundlab references club culture in order to collaps traditional presentation methods, but challenges the contemporary entertainment status quo through its dedication to unconventional, experiemental, genre-elusive and avant-garde work. (Web Link)

Squeaky Wheel
grassroots, artist-run, non-profit media arts center founded in 1985 to promote and support film, video, computer, digital, and audio art by media artists and community members. We provide low-cost access to video and film equipment rental, editing suites, workshops, and screenings of independent and avant-garde film and video. A sample of events include: Outdoor Animation Festival, Buffalo Youth Media Institute Premiere Screening, Infringement Festival, Summer Open Screening, 48 Hour Film Project (Web Link)

Alfred University
The internationally known School of Art and Design offers a four-year, professional Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree program accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Concentrations include Ceramic Art; Expanded Media (Design, Print Media and Video & Sonic Art); Painting, Drawing and Photography; and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies (Metal, Glass, Wood, Paper, Mixed Media) The School of Art and Design’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program, ranked number one in the nation by US News & World Report, is offered in Ceramic Art, Sculpture/Dimensional Studies and Electronic Integrated Arts. B.F.A., M.F.A. (Web Link)

Buffalo State College
With top-notch facilities and galleries, opportunities for internships and overseas study, and degree programs in art, art history, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, fine arts graduates are prepared to push the boundaries of their discipline and follow in the footsteps Buffalo State alumnae like Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman. B.A., B.F.A. (Web Link)

Canisius College
As new and more powerful communication technologies in the digital age transform ways in which we communicate and interact, students have an array of new career options. Students can position themselves to take advantage of these new opportunities by gaining cutting-edge practical and theoretical skills to create and design content using digital tools. B.S.
(Web Link)

Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Imaging Arts and Sciences - unique programs provide one of the world's best centers for advnaced study in the imaging arts and sciences. Here students have the opportunity to work in a professional environment with unparalleled facilities that stimulate and encourage work of the highest quality. B.S., B.F.A., M.F.A. (Web Link)

University at Buffalo / Department of Media Studies
Department of Media Studies is an experimental media arts program committed to providing both graduate and undergraduate students a community in which they can develop their own voice as artists. We have research groups in Independent Film and Video (including Documentary), Robotics, Digital Art (including Net-based Art and Digital Poetics ), and Virtual Reality/Interactive Fiction and we give students the flexibility both to work in these areas and to combine them in unexpected ways. B.A., B.F.A., M.F.A. (Web Link)

University at Buffalo / Department of Visual Studies
Department of Visual Studies and University at Buffalo support creative research/scholarship and teaching excellence. The Department is committed to diversity, scholarly innovation in the field of art history and visual studies as well as progressive art practice. B.A., B.F.A., M.F.A. (Web Link)

Visual Studies Workshop - VSW
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts (BAFA) degree program designed for students who want to major in the fine arts within the broad-based context of a liberal arts education. (Web Link)