This year’s Generator Fund projects reflect a vibrant cross-section of Buffalo’s independent creative landscape: artists building platforms, exploring place, and reimagining how we experience art.

Potential Grantees include…

LIBBY Projects + Editions: Buiilding the Multiples Future (Robert A. Rusch)
Expanding Buffalo’s creative fabric through mentorship, residencies, and sustainable studio growth.

Backyard Shenanigans (Desiree Kee (DJ IYKYK) and Aly Smutek)
An annual summer series of interactive art experiences hosted in a backyard setting that cultivates community & creative connections.

The Video Archaeology Lab Hosts: The Dead Media Residency (Michael Chernoff)
An open invitation for artists to use studio equipment and space to make multimedia images or video art with analog media and technology.

Kinetic Grantees include…

The Museum of Cold (D. Sloan)
The Museum of Cold is an archive of winter as muse.

Major Glitch (H Boone & Quincey Miracle)
Major Glitch is an experimental exhibition series at the Niagara Frontier Food Terminal featuring immersive installation, video art, and game design.

Waves (John Opera)
A site-responsive photographic investigation into how architecture shapes the visibility of light and space at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff estate in Derby, NY.

Float (Caroline Doherty)
Float is a multimedia outdoor performance about geology and time; it’s a love letter to a dry sea bed and a participatory playground game.

Temple of the Cave (Kia Miakka Natisse)
The Temple of the Cave is an immersive performance and journey into the shadow realm to enact a ritual transmutation into light.

Turtles All The Way Up (Chantal Calato)
Turtles All The Way Up is an 18’ megalithic tower that transforms dozens of turtle sandboxes and saves them from our local landfills.

Ad Black (Lucas Cook)
Ad Block is a transmutable series of large-scale sculptures employing the common shopping basket as a principle form; culminating as a public art inquiry.