BATAVIA — Genesee County artist Karen Crittenden, who frequently leads demonstrations for the Batavia Society of Artists, will open the organization’s new season with a program to create a collage fodder and how to use it. The hands-on program is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council at…

Gates Seidelmann, a visual artist from Riverside who attends King School, was named a recipient of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. As the nation’s most prestigious and longest-running recognition for young creatives, the alliance boasts a rich history of honoring exceptional talent, including icons like Zaha…

Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales, still from Channel 1, Waste Scenes, 2024. Two-channel video installation, edition of 3, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artists. Lately, I’ve been lightheartedly teasing myself that my interest in art history is really just a front for hoarding tendencies. At the end of the day, art history gives me an…

QUINCY — The Quincy Art Center has named the winners of the 2025 High School Art Show competition. The 51st annual art show exhibit is open now at the Quincy Art Center, featuring the art of area students and art teachers.

With a focus on tapping into the wonderment of how children see the world around them — and things that just make a person happy — these are feelings artist Randell McKenney hopes his paintings will evoke while they’re on exhibit this month at LACA (Ludington Area Center for the Arts.) “I think that’s good…

It’s not often one finds an artist painting out in the wild — except when that artist is Carlene Dingman Atwater. Much of Atwater’s work is done en plein air. That is, instead of painting in a studio using a photograph as inspiration, she works in the great outdoors, painting what she can see around…

A slender stem of goldenrod, topped by dense bright yellow flowers and with a tangle of roots at its base, stands nearly 5-feet-tall in one of Hawley Hussey’s botanical watercolors. “Sizzle Dizzle” rocks blue opera gloves, “Nasty Canasta NYC” dazzles in a bikini of green and purple plastic grapes, “Fire Eater Heather” consumes — or…

Fareed Armaly, 2024 © Fareed Armaly Fareed Armaly, an artist of Lebanese-Palestinian heritage born in the US, has declined the 2025 Käthe Kollwitz Prize, a German art award. Armaly, who has worked both in the US and Germany, rejected the honor in protest against the German government’s suppression of opposition to Israel’s Gaza genocide and…

Come join us Saturday, February 8th for the opening reception of “Love Letters” by Divergence Art Collective. This show features an international group of artists working across mediums, contemplating the theme of love. Romantic, platonic or simply reveling in the love of a genre or form – the pieces on show expand on Divergence’s history…