Friday, July 18, 2025 — Friday, August 22, 2025 at 7:00 pm
FREE
Opening Reception:
Friday, July 18, 2025
7 to 10 pm
Exhibition continues through August 22.
For every year Hallwalls has existed, we have mounted an annual Members Exhibition. This is an opportunity any current Member of Hallwalls to share their work with the community. As expected, these exhibition can vary wildly from year to year but the volume of participants has increased steadily over the past decade. In 2024, our Members Exhibition exhibited a record 277 artworks.
This number is relevant because the core purpose of the Members Exhibition is to showcase the volume and variety of artistic activity in our city and region. As Visual Arts Curator John Massier has said, "The 277 artworks in the 2024 Members Exhibition represent 277 distinct, individual and iconoclastic paths along an 'art life.' Every artist is defining their own journey with their work, so that many artworks demonstrates just a portion of the wide array of art lives out there, happening right now."
So yes, the Members Exhibition says something about Hallwalls but what it is really talking about is the deeply resonant activity surrounding Hallwalls. We are nothing without the creative forms of expression that endless numbers of artists produce.
Accordingly, ALL HALLWALLS MEMBERS are invited to participate in this annual, non-juried exhibition by submitting one work for display. Members are defined as those with updated, paid dues as of the relevant drop-off date.
This year, we’re also including a special note from Erin Long, artist, Hallwalls member, and Chair of our Board’s Membership & Marketing Committee, who shares why this community is so important:
Become a member or renew your membership here!
You may join/renew membership when you drop off your work OR you may download these PDFs in advance to speed up drop-off.
ARTWORK SPECIFICATIONS
ARTWORK DROP-OFF DATES:
As begun in 2022, Hallwalls will again be awarding two cash prizes for participating artists, made possible with funds given and raised by family and friends of Bruce Adams (August 19, 1952–March 5, 2021).
At John Massier's suggestion, it is called the Bruce Adams Extemporal Prize, to honor Bruce (who probably exhibited in more Annual Members Shows than any other artist, starting in 1984, 40 years ago) and in reference to his long-running series of paintings entitled Extemporal Suite. "The title comes from the Latin extemporalis, meaning on the spur of the moment, or less literally, unrehearsed. These are quick paintings, mostly on paper, that I do quickly as a sort of exercise" (Bruce Adams).
Two Bruce Adams Extemporal Prizes will be awarded. A prize of $500 will be awarded as "best of show," (as determined by staff jurors in a blind tiered ranking) for which all entrants are eligible. A second prize of $300 will be awarded to an artist under 30, to honor Bruce's decades of dedication to teaching art to high school students and training teachers of art at Buffalo State College.
Donors to Date: Cynthia S. Adams, Irving & Charleen Borman, Renée M. Adams, Marcia Davis, Diane & James Till, Michael & Lisa Parks, Raft Of Sanity, Lynn A. Wild.