Some things you might like to know

On January 14, 2006, Hallwalls reopened its exhibition galleries, media arts screening/performance facilities, and offices at Babeville (the former Asbury Delaware Methodist Church) on the corner of Delaware Avenue and Tupper Street, in spaces we are leasing from Righteous Babe Records, the building's savior, owner, developer, and only other co-occupant.

Contact information

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14202
Phone: (716) 854-1694; Fax: (716) 854-1696
www.hallwalls.org

Contact individual staff members here.

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Our mission

Ann Magnuson, March '83

A. To provide a center for contemporary art.

B. To recognize and serve a vital community artistic presence which is global in its outlook, challenging in its ideas, pluralistic in its concerns, and diverse in its expression. Hallwalls' twofold mission is to serve artists by supporting the creation and presentation of new work in the visual, media, performing, and literary arts, and to serve the public by making these works available to audiences. We are dedicated in particular to work by artists which challenges and extends the traditional boundaries of the various art forms, and which is critically engaged with current issues in the arts and--through the arts--in society. Finally, we believe that the right of freedom of expression for artists, and for free access to their works by interested individuals, must be protected as a fundamental and necessary condition of our mission.
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Our website

Bill Sack, Hallwalls' Technical Director, designed this version of the website. If you have any problems or questions regarding the website please contact via email.

Directions, Parking, and Accessibility

Free parking for Hallwalls events is usually available in our adjacent lot. Note that we share this lot with Babeville, and there may be occasions on which another event in the building would cause the lot to be full or otherwise unavailable. In this case, it is often possible to find street parking on Delaware Avenue south of Tupper, or on South Elmwood Avenue.

Entrance to Hallwalls is through the glass stair tower addition on the south façade of the rear Parish House. This entrance is fully wheelchair accessible, with a new passenger elevator located just inside the lobby. All Hallwalls facilities and adjacent restrooms are accessible, and assistive listening devices are available by request.
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Funding acknowledgements

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center's legal name is Hallwalls, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation (founded December 1974, incorporated May 1977), and a registered charity in New York State. Hallwalls is supported by a combination of public and private grants from government arts agencies, national and local foundations, and corporations; gifts from individuals; earned revenue; special fundraising events held throughout the year; and the annual membership dues of more than 1,000 individuals.

Major grant and underwriting support for Hallwalls' 2010-2011 programming season has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal agency, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (for Beyond/In Western New York 2010), M & T Bank, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's Artists & Communities program, made possible with a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The Western New York Foundation, Experimental Television Center (ETC), The Marks Family Foundation, Hodgson Russ LLP, Robert D. Bielecki, Greatbatch, Gross Shuman Brizdle & Gilfillan P.C., Righteous Babe Records, the Members of Hallwalls, and generous donations from many individuals and local businesses. Jazz presenting is supported in part with a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through Chamber Music America. Hallwalls is a proud member of the Warhol Initiative, since 2000 (the Initiative's inaugural year).