The Art Dome

The following conversation took place on January 21st at Dôme Art Gallery at The Birge Mansion.  We welcomed Buffalo AKG curator of Public Art, Aaron Ott to sit down and talk with Ani Hoover, our current exhibiting artist.  Long time friends, they had an insightful and in-depth conversation about Ani’s exhibition Blooming Onion, her art making practice over the years and  what it means to be creat...

In todays episode, Brooke talks to Buffalo, NY artist William C. Maggio. He is a visual artist, classically trained pianist and art educator whose work is known for its heavily textured, layered, scarred & sculptural surfaces which incur metaphoric associations and meditative-state. Maggio's work has been shown extensively in domestic and international exhibitions over a 50 year period & i...

Host Brooke Leboeuf talks with artist Melora Griffis. Griffis created a new body of work that relates to her perceptions of the city of Buffalo, both from the perspective of her childhood and now as an adult.  There is a strong focus on architecture as it relates so much to both her memories and the persona of the city itself. The body of work is currently on view at The Birge Mansion, until May 1...

In this Episode, Brooke talks with internationally renowned artist Pam Glick.  Glick's abstractions, with their signature, repeating loops were recently described by Artforum's Andrew Hunt as "no-holds-barred acts of endurance, a performance that lends the works a life-affirming dynamism and verve." The conversation delves into the development of abstraction throughout Pam's career, as well as her...

Join us for a conversation with legendary curator, John Masssier. John, an integral part of Buffalo's visual arts scene for over twenty years, talks with The Art Dome about how our city's art scene has evolved, the new AKG expansion and the state of arts writing. We even delve into the culinary world as John comprares art appreciation to food appreciation, in an attempt to demystify the art viewin...

Artist Joan Linder is known of late for highly detailed pen and ink drawings of interior space, mundane objects, wild flowers and more. Yet her latest show at Rivalry Projects (on view through February 23) showws some of Joan's earlier paintings; highly realistic oil paintings of male bellies. Join host Brooke Leboeuf as she talks with Joan, Owner and Founder of Rivalry Projects, Ryan Arthurs and...

The Art Dome is thrilled to kick off its second season with the renowned Amy Cappallazzo. We will be talking about her recent trip to Buffalo, involvement and impressions of the AKG expansion and recent art market news and trends.

Join us for a conversation with artist Julia Bottoms and curator Tiffany Gaines about Julia’s new solo exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Arts Center. A Light Under the Bushel: Paintings by Julia Bottoms, on view through October 29th. A Light Under the Bushel features portraiture from a new series, building upon the artist’s interest in expanding narratives around representations of Blackness. Th...

Join us in conversation with Dr. Gerald Mead, curator, educator and renowned collector of over 1,700 works by artists that have lived in the Western New York region and Michael J. Beam, Curator of Exhibitions & Special Projects for the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University. We discuss, among other things, Jerry’s extraordinary collection and extensive knowledge of the region’s art scene,...

Patti Thomas began her career as an artist just over two years ago under the pseudonym “The Ghost.” She decided to use “The Ghost” so as not to let her renown as wife of Buffalo Bills hall of famer Thurman Thomas influence people’s view of her work. Patti describes her work as a “fantastical commentary on real-life situations and characters, rooted in random, whimsical, social, and often comical e...

Join us in conversation with Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan, curator at the AKG Art Museum and expert in the field of media art, including video, digital and internet art. She leads us through the world of NFT’s, crypto currency and the history of media art that puts the recent NFT hype into context.

Join us for Episode 6: a full recording of the panel discussion “Making Space: Creative Strategies for Promoting Ecological and Economic Justice in Urban Planning,” that took place at Buffalo Art Studio (BAS) on Friday, October 28, 2022, with a brief introduction by your host Brooke Leboeuf and BAS Visual Arts Curator, Shirley Verico. The panel included BAS exhibiting artist Matt Kenyon, Architect...

Play/Ground is a three day event in Buffalo, New York (Oct. 7-9, 2022) showing site-specific installations by over twenty Contemporary Artists. The Art Dome’s host Brooke Leboeuf talks with two of the organizers, Emily Tucker and Emily Reynolds as well as two of the exhibiting artists, Jacob Broussard and Adam Thibodeaux, about past iterations of the event, how the locations inspired the installat...

The Daring Trust is a newly created art salon in Buffalo, New York. Founded by Daniel Shafer and Marie Dorsey, it is located in a turn of the century house on Summer Street and hosts artist’s residencies, salons, exhibition and is headquarters for Daniel’s custom made bicycle brand Maiorossè Cycle. Join as Daniel and Marie talk more about their vision for this new art endeavor. 

Bob Fleming and Rachel Shelton of Mirabo Press talk about how their printing studio was founded, the importance of the space to the community, latest collaborations and their own artistic practices. 

Artist and curator Margaret Jacobs (Akwesane Mowhawk) and artist Jay Carrier (Onondaga/Tuscarora Wolf Clan) talk about the exhibition at UB Galleries O’nigöë:yo:h Thinking in Indian, which shows works of over 50 artists from the Hodinöhsö:ni’ Confederacy.

Our guests discuss artistic practice, expression and community in the aftermath of Buffalo’s May 14th tragedy