This innovative program brings together high school students from throughout Western New York. Through an application process students from various schools, backgrounds and interests will be selected to participate in a series of workshops that focus on a number of art forms, specifically the visual, literary and performing arts.

Visual Arts
Participants will be introduced to a number of different genres of art including painting, photography and sculpture. Students will tour the Albright Knox Art Gallery, and participate in a workshop led by Albright education staff.

Literary Arts
Participants will be exposed to a number of images from magazines, photographs, paintings and sculptures. They will select an image and create a written work inspired by that image.

Performing Arts
Participants will take part in acting exercises that emphasize character creation focusing on voice and movement as preparation for their final performance of their own original work.

The 2011 Exploring the Arts program will be presented October – December and will culminate with a final performance in Shea’s Smith Theatre for an invited audience.

Workshops are presented once a week and attendance at all workshops is mandatory.

For additional information please contact Jennifer Fitzery, Senior Education Associate, at
(716) 829-1152 or at jfitzery@sheas.org.

Exploring the Arts 2011 asked participants to write and perform a poem or monologue inspired by a work of art from the Albright Knox Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Please click HERE to see a performance by Kristen McDermott whose monologue Lazy Saves Lives was inspired by the painting Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Balla.

Please click the link below to download a copy of the 2011 application.
Exploring the Arts Application