Author: Kelly.Lovering

Holly Hue is emblematic of renegade fashion. Combing through the aisles of every thrift store imaginable, masses of hand-me-downs and even modern apparel are dissected, seam to seam, and resurrected into affordable one-of-a-kind pieces. Founded in 2005, the DIY punk-inspired line of custom made clothing and handbags has branched out to retailers in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and shops in Washington and Kentucky. Saturday, October 9, Holly Hue Clothing is bringing it home to Buffalo with the “Sound & Style” Fashion Event 2010 at Club W. Live bands will be perform for each designer’s runway presentation. Performers were hand picked by fashion…

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Discover the Botanical Gardens at the 1st Annual Indie Market at the Gardens, tomorrow May 8th from 10am to 3pm for FREE, while shopping with or for your Mom just in time for Mother’s Day. BIM is showcasing 25 local artists to shop from plus a free kidspace to make a Mother’s Day card from recycled materials and a raffle to benefit the Botanical Gardens. The perfect Mother’s Day outing to shop and enjoy the sweet aroma of beautiful flowers and plants in Buffalo’s own Botanical Gardens for FREE! This show is free and open to the public. Please visit…

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Originally conceived as an after party to IN WNY, Hallwalls’ Artists & Models is now in its 24th year and still delivering some of the best, most scandalous exhibits Western New York has seen. In years past, this single night benefit event has been attended by more than three thousand people (eighteen and older), and is currently calling to creative types as far as Toronto and Milwaukee. Since its inception in 1984, this megaparty has focused on culturally relevant themes set in a carnival like atmosphere. The intelligently titled 2010 theme, Stimulus, is related of course, to the government stimulus package,…

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Local Director and entrepreneur Bill Cowell has puts an infinite amount of time and energy into the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival each year. The cost of admission is $10 per movie, other packages available, and if you think of the time spent hand selecting the films you are about to see, it’s a very minimal price to pay. The slow process begins with receipt of hundreds, maybe thousands, of submissions by filmmakers from Buffalo to Tibet. Bill and his staff watch them all. They bring their favorites to the table and then carefully narrow the list down to only…

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Kyle Butler is a part of the UB Fine Arts Grad Program and currently hides out in a great studio space at the Center for the Arts; high walls, constant peer critique and all the baking tin grown grass one could ask for.He seems to recreate the Buffalo landscape and notion of urban decay with ease and excitement. His bleak color palette is both endearing and realistic, and on a technical level, his skill surpasses some of our cities long time treasured talent. Kyle is positioned well to exhibit next weekend at the Buffalo Arts Studio with a seasoned professional…

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By: Laura DuquetteA rare and incredible opportunity is upon us. The Albright-Knox is seeking apprentices to install the last major commissioned work by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt during the summer of 2010. LeWitt was an American artist whose work started in response to a pivotal time of revolution, feminism and racial equality–the 1960’s. The post-war era led many artists like LeWitt to embrace the idea of reductivism; work doesn’t need to be as complicated as life, or overly rendered, it just needs to be interesting. He would often begin with a geometric shape, then tediously formulate the work into a…

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