Buffalo, NY – Beginning Sunday, March 12, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will introduce a new program, Five Dollar Family Funday. Museum admission for the entire family will cost just $5 and will include an array of programming for children and their families. It will continue on the second Sunday of every month.

Jennifer Foley, Director of Education and Community Engagement, said, “The Albright-Knox strives to provide an inspiring social space for all families to enjoy, and this new program will share our great museum with the many families in the Western New York area and beyond. Learning and experiencing new things with loved ones can create lifelong memories, and in this case, an enduring love of art.”

On March 12 the museum will offer a Family Fun Tour from 11 to 11:45 am, a Drop-In Family Art Activity from 1 to 3 pm, and a free public tour from 1:30 to 2:30 pm. Guests are also welcome to explore a mobile ArtCart with interactive art activities for kids and families in the exhibition Shantell Martin: Someday We Can. A monthly Storytime Family Workshop for children aged 3 to 6 is also available from 10:30 am to 12 pm for a small fee. For a full listing of Five Dollar Family Funday offerings, visit www.albrightknox.org/familyday.

The museum will have a number of exhibitions on display, including Menagerie: Animals on View, featuring creatures—furred or feathered—as agents of storytelling, humorous personifications, and echoes of the human spirit.

Four solo exhibitions will be on view featuring new work by artists Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj (Brazilian, born 1967, and Danish, born 1976), Jacob Kassay (American, born 1984), Eric Mack (American, born 1987), and Willa Nasatir (American, born 1990). These shows constitute either the artists’ first solo museum exhibition or first solo American museum exhibition.

The museum will also have artist Camille Henrot’s (French, born 1978) installation October 2015 Horoscope, which investigates myth and memory, knowledge and fiction, in a diverse body of work that includes films, drawings, installations, and sculptures. Her inspirations range from literary sources and film history to anthropology and religion. This installation is part of an ongoing series of kinetic sculptures that look at the tendency of humans to become dependent; the complete “year” will debut as part of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris this fall.

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