This Niagara University Day of Giving, we’re raising $3,000 to introduce soft, flexible seating—bean bag chairs—into the gallery. Not as furniture, but as an invitation to stay with us a little longer.
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This Niagara University Day of Giving, we’re raising $3,000 to introduce soft, flexible seating—bean bag chairs—into the gallery. Not as furniture, but as an invitation to stay with us a little longer.
The museum’s inaugural Holiday Art Market transforms CAM’s central gallery into a vibrant, festive marketplace celebrating the creativity, talent, and entrepreneurial spirit of Western New York’s artists and makers.
What does it mean to see — and be seen — with dignity? In this new exhibition, four faculty members from across Niagara University ask this question through works pulled from the Castellani Art Museum’s collection.
Monsters, for artist Sudi Wang, are not the creatures we should fear. They are the figures that help us understand ourselves. In her upcoming exhibition, Beyond Relief: The Monsters of Sudi Wang, visitors will encounter towering prints, intimate hand-pulled impressions, and immersive installations that invite them into a world where monsters become mirrors of human identity.
Ed Wong-Ligda does not paint landscapes — at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead, his canvases are metaphors, layered with memory, imagination, and the inevitability of change. “Nature, for me, is a metaphor of the persistence of life and the inevitability of death,” he reflects. In Landscapes of Memory and Mortality, Wong-Ligda invites viewers to step into imagined terrains that are at once familiar and disorienting, grounding and ethereal.