About Brian Milbrand and Jeff Mace
Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Brian Milbrand is a multidisciplinary artist whose work incorporates video, film, live performance, audio, and painting, often in combination with each other. Milbrand helped execute and took part in Steina’s collaborative production VideoSoundDanceMagic at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Milbrand attended the University at Buffalo, where, he recalls, “I originally wanted to be a scientist and study genetics, but then I took a basic film class in the second semester of my sophomore year and it sort of ruined my life.” By the time he graduated in 2002, Milbrand was already a prolific contributor to the Western New York arts community, in part through his role as a founding member of Kamikaze Gallery & Media Center, a live/work space in downtown Buffalo. After the organization disbanded, Milbrand, continued to collaborate on visual art, media, digital, and performance projects with a number of Buffalo based performers, writers, and media artists.
Milbrand has also been a major figure in several arts collectives, including the Real Dream Cabaret (with featured roles both onstage and off in such plays as The Shell of Sense, WoyUbu, and The Outlaw Show), the Reactionary Ensemble, Nimbus Dance, and Termite TV, as well as a contributor to productions by Torn Space Theater, the Subversive Theatre, Theatre of Youth, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, among other Western New York cultural organizations. In 2013, he made the documentary This Doesn’t Happen Here, about the work of the Erie County Fair Housing Partnership, for Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources’ Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier initiative. In addition to his artistic career, Milbrand has been an adjunct professor of media technology and a multimedia technician at Medaille College, and was the technical director at Squeaky Wheel, later serving on the organization’s board of directors.
As of 2009, he has been the equipment manager/technical assistant at Buffalo State College, as well as teaching courses in the communications department. He is married to fellow artist Holly Johnson.
Jeff Maciejewski
Jeff “Mace” has been the Multimedia Producer at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum since 2021. A Buffalo native, Mace graduated from the Buffalo State University with a degree in Media Production. He has been participating in the local arts scene for the past fifteen years, both as an artist and as an audio and visual documentarian. In 2011, he took part in the multimedia production of Steina’s collaborative work, VideoSoundDanceMagic, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Before joining the museum, Mace worked in commercial advertising, skills he brings to the AKG’s video and photography needs.