Poet Marquis Burton, aka Ten Thousand, has had a long association with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, extending back to his youth. From site-specific performances for Swoon: Seven Contemplations to the workshop series Explore Your Truths he led in association with the special exhibition In These Truths, Burton's poetry may only exist in the moment of his freestyle improvisations, but it is making an indelible impression on our memories. We spoke to Burton about his work and life.

In 2020, Mickey Harmon and Ari Moore completed Stonewall Nation: WNY LGBT History Mural at Q Bar on Allen Street, the historic home of LGBTQIA+ cultural life in Buffalo. We spotlight Moore's long partnership with the museum and her life as a leader in Buffalo's LGBTQIA+ community.

Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold is an educator, historian, and community and political activist who founded the Uncrowned Queens Institute in 1999 to promote the collection, preservation, and dissemination of the individual histories of women, women's organizations, and women's collective history; and to teach and educate women on the use of technology to preserve and disseminate their histories. We asked her what role art can play to combat racism. This was her response.

BLACKMAU is an artistic collaboration with deep ties to Buffalo. In Part 1 of this interview we spoke to Kamau Grantham and Stacey Robinson about the goals of their collaboration; in Part II, we ask them about art and Black mental health and the role that institutions like the Albright-Knox can play in promoting a future in which Black art and Black people live and thrive.

We spoke with Kamau Grantham and Stacey Robinson about their collaboration BLACKMAU—whose work was featured in the recent exhibition In These Truths—about their work together, their goals as art- and music-makers, and the role that institutions like the Albright-Knox can play in promoting a future in which Black art and Black people live and thrive. 

In celebration of In These Truths, our friends at Zawadi Books have prepared a series of reading lists inspired by the exhibition. In June, the focus of the reading list is memory.

Since 2019, anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States have risen to an unprecedented level. In 2021, Mizin Shin, an artist, educator, and cofounder of Buffalo’s fine art print studio Mirabo Press, began Use Your Voice #StopAsianHate, a campaign to encourage everyone to speak out against racially motivated prejudice and violence. We spoke to Shin about the campaign.

In celebration of In These Truths, our friends at Zawadi Books have prepared a series of reading lists inspired by the exhibition. In June, the focus of the reading list is books for kids and youth.

National Volunteer Month celebrates the impact that volunteers have on our lives, so we want to celebrate the docent volunteers that will be helping to make us the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.