Opening Reception: Saturday, March 10, 8-11 p.m.
Artist's Talks in the Cinema at 8:00 p.m.

For her residency project, Buffalo ex-pat Sarah Baker is producing a multi-media "Soap Opera" project set in the Queen City. The artist, who graduated from Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts in 1995, is visiting from the United Kingdom. Based on her research into figures from local history and popular culture, Baker's vignettes will re-imagine these individuals and their relationship to Western New York. The region's many resources—from its talented acting community to its architectural landmarks—will be features of this highly-stylized, "revisionist" history. Though day-time soaps may be considered antiquated in today's media market, and are certainly disappearing from broadcast television, Baker will use the genre's nonlinear structure to experiment with repetition and interweaving story lines to reveal connections among characters regardless of time and space. Read more…