︎EVENTS & NEWS
For three nights each summer, the Silo City Reading Series brings together poetry, music, and art for an immersive, multidisciplinary and transcendent experience at Silo City-a complex of historic grain silos along the Buffalo River. You can get tickets at justbuffalo.org See new artworks by Nicole Chochrek on display inside and outside the silos on August 30th.
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PAST EVENTS & NEWS
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INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION AT FITZ
Find Nicole Chochrek’s Interactive Installation, Letters As Pattern, at FITZ Books & Waffles in Downtown Buffalo, New York until February 12, 2025.
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Join Nicole Chochrek for the National Women’s Sailing Association Clean Sweep Series in conversation with Rozalia Projects and Broken Plastics.
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CREATIVE REBUILD NEW YORK WEBSITE LAUNCH
Explore Nicole’s work in collaboration with CEPA Gallery through the Creatives Rebuild New York Grant. Navigate through the website to see all the artist and organizations supported by the artist employment program.
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VIDEO PREMIERE WITH CREATIVE CONNECT
Nicole Chochrek joins Creative Connect to document and discuss work from the exhibition BLINDSPOT at the Center for Exploritory & Perceptual Arts in the Flux Gallery.
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The Microplastic Recycling Bins were a meeting point where volunteers gathered twice weekly for community clean-ups. Through additional events, workshops, and activities, this project cultivated conversations and provided resources for participants to learn about the impact of plastic pollution. Socially engaged art can empower communities to be critical of their existing systems while providing agency in collective solutions.
Reading Landscapes is a study of how we can be better stewards of our environment.
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[Nicole Chochrek] to work in partnership with [CEPA Gallery]as recipients of [The New York State Council on the Arts] Support for Artist Grant. Nicole will debute her project Reading Landscapes in Summer 2023. Follow [Broken Plastics] for updates.
[Nicole Chochrek] to work in partnership with [CEPA Gallery]as recipients of [The New York State Council on the Arts] Support for Artist Grant. Nicole will debute her project Reading Landscapes in Summer 2023. Follow [Broken Plastics] for updates.
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BUFFALO SPREE
The Magazine of Western New York
TALK ABOUT THE ARTS:
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[Nicole Chochrek] to Work in Partnership with [CEPA Gallery] as Recipients of Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program
[Buffalo, New York]—[Nicole Chochrek] and [CEPA Gallery] announced that they received an Artist Employment Program (AEP) grant from Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY). Designed to support employment opportunities for artists, the program is funding 98 collaborations involving a dynamic group of 300 artists employed by community-based organizations, municipalities, and tribal governments across New York State. CRNY has awarded a total of $49.9M in funding to support artists’ salaries and benefits, with an additional $11.7M in funding provided to the organizations holding employment.
“If we are to truly rebuild our amazing state, we must celebrate artists’ contributions not only to the economy but to what makes us human,” says Creatives Rebuild New York's Executive Director Sarah Calderon. “The incredible work being funded through CRNY’s Artist Employment Program underscores the importance of direct support for both individual artists and the organizations that hold their employment.”
Artist Employment Program recipients were selected through a two-stage process by a group of twenty external peer reviewers alongside CRNY staff. From an initial pool of over 2,700 written applications, 167 were shortlisted for interviews with reviewers. To view the list of 98 Artist Employment Program participants, visit: https://www.creativesrebuildny.org/participants/.
For more information about Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program, please visit creativesrebuildny.org.