Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center promotes innovation and creativity in media arts through access, education, and exhibition. It celebrates media as a means of artistic, personal, and socially committed expression. Squeaky Wheel is guided by core values including: Creativity & Experimentation: It embraces experimentation as essential to the creative process; Media & Digital Literacy: It engages individuals with technical and critical approaches to film and digital media technologies at every level of need and knowledge; Community Engagement & Collaboration: It connects communities, local and international, as both a leader and a partner with artists, educators, schools, and community groups; Equal Access: It actively removes barriers that can prevent access to its programs by offering programs with free and affordable tuition, free and low-cost admission to events, and work trade/volunteer/internships opportunities. It is the only nonprofit in Western NY with an inclusive roster of education, equipment access, and exhibition programming dedicated to film and digital media arts.
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center
Carolina Ebeid reading at “Carolina Ebeid & Joe Hall”, April 5, 2025. Presented as part of the exhibition The Image in its Absence: Azza El-Hassan, Carolina Ebeid.
Documentation, hiba ali | oceans we carry: rough as silk, March 24–May 20, 2023. Video installation with multiple projectors, sound, cloth, chairs.
Jason Livingston, with Phoebe A. Cohen: In the Sun’s Absence. March 22–May 24, 2024.
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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”