Art
now-July 1

mon. 1 Focus on Tradition: Fifteen Years of Regional Folk Arts Documentation Exhibit marks the Castellani folk arts program's 15th anniversary. Works from the permanent collection by Charles Agel, Jim Bush, Marion Faller, Lauren Tent, Denise Woods and other gifted photographers celebrate the "homegrown" artistic expressions that give the Greater Niagara Region its unique character and vitality. The show continues through Sunday, Nov. 4 at the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Senior Drive, Lewiston. Call 286-8201 or visit www.niagara.edu/cam for more information.

The Island - Big Orbit Gallery, 30D Essex St., Buffalo. 883-3209, www.bigorbitgaller y.org now-July 7

Our City - Artsphere Studio & Gallery, 466 Amherst St., Buffalo. 510-4007, www.artspherestudio.com now-July 8

2:2 Exhibit - Burchfield-Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. 878-6011, www.burchfield-penney.org

A Life in Arts - Burchfield-Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. 878-6011, www.burc hfield-penne y.org now-July 13 National Collage Society Postcard Exhibition - Art Dialogue Gallery, 1 Linwood Ave., Buffalo. 885-2251 now-July 14 Buffalo Society of Artists Spring Show - Buffalo Arts Studio, Tri-Main Building - Suite 500, 2495 Main St., Buffalo. 833-4450, www.buffaloar tsstudio.org

Winter Silence - Studio Hart, 65 Allen St., Buffalo. 536-8337, www.studiohart.com now-July 15

framed and unframed - Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum's Porter Hall, 453 Porter Ave., Buffalo. 885-4139, www.karpeles.com

now-July 21

Works by African-Canadian artist

David Kibuuka - Gallery 51, 567-569 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. 332-6821, www.gallery51byek.com The Other Last Moment - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. 854-1694, www.hall walls.org

Samplers - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. 854-1694, www.hallwalls.org now-July 22 Selections from the Annette Cravens Modern Ceramics Collection - Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. 878-6011, www.burchfield-penney.org now-July 24

Spring Exhibition - Buffalo Arts Studio, Tri-Main Building, 2495 Main St., Buffalo. 833-4450, www.buffaloar tsstudio.org now-July 29

Small Work - Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Hotel Lenox, 140 North St., Buffalo. 882-5777 Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. 882-8700, www.albrightknox.org E.B. Greens Hidden Buffalo: A Study of Middle Class Architecture Designs by E.B. Green - Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum - North Hall, 220 North St., Buffalo. 886-3656, www.karpeles.com

Lifelines - Burchfield Nature & Art Center, 2001 Union Road, West Seneca. 677-4843, www.theBNAC.org now-July 30

Paintings of Greg Kuppinger - Buffalo Big Print, 78 Allen St., Buffalo. 884-1777, www.buffalobigprint.com

China: Future Primitive - Stuyvesant Gallery, 245 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. 883-2071

Equal Measure: Portraits of Love - Unity Gallery in Unity Church, 1243 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.

now-July 31 Sprung from the Muse of Spring - redFISH Art Studios, 21 Elm St., East Aurora. 655-3125, www.redfishartstudios.com now-Aug. 2

Beauty Within the Dark - Burchfield-Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. 878-6011, www.burc hfield-penne y.org

now-Aug. 5 Moving Mediums: Expressionist Painting on a Grand Scale - Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston Road, Niagara University. 286-8200, www.niagara.edu/c am Selections for the Permanent Collection - UB Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo. 829-3754, www.ubar tgalleries.buffalo.edu

Scrapbook- Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources, 712 Main St., Buffalo. 884-7172, www.squeaky.org

now-Aug. 24 Another Glance at Salvador Dali - Museum of European Art, 10545 Main St., Clarence. 759-6078, www. meaus. com

now-Aug. 26

Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits - CEPA Gallery, 617 Main St., Buffalo. 856-2717, www.cepagallery.com Robert Lynch: Drink Orange Juice and Hang Out with the Horses - Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Senior Drive, Lewiston. 286-8201, www.niagara.edu/c am

now-Sept. 1

Springville Center for the Arts - Springville Center for the Arts, 35 E. Main St., Springville. 592-9038, www.springvillear ts.org

now-January 2008 Say Cheese: Picturing Our Past - Amherst Museum, 3755 Tonawanda Creek Road, Amherst. 689-1440, www. amherstmuseum. org