Hunt Residencies
In April 2022, the C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery launched Hunt Residencies, a Non profit Artist-in-Residence program on its lower level dedicated to supporting emerging artists.
This six-month program runs in two sessions from May—October & October—May, providing artists with mentorship,exhibition opportunities, and free studio space, all aimed at fostering career development and representation within Buffalo's art community.
Through collaborative projects and access to Hunt Art Gallery platforms, residents can create, connect, and showcase their work in a supportive and resource-rich environment.
Opening Reception * Cohort X *
Opening Reception * Cohort X *
Opening Reception: Friday, October 30, 5-9PM
Artist Talks: Saturday, December 5, 12-2PM
On View: October 30 — December 5, 2026
403 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203
We invite you to join us for the Opening Reception of Assembly Required on October 30, 5-9PM, at 403 Main Street, Buffalo, NY.
Witness the artistic journeys of the most recent Hunt Residents, Cohort X, as their 6 month residency culminates. These eight artists <David Blackburn, Mariah Bush, Liz Cuminale, Christy Francis, Shanti Morrisey, Jill Thomas & Sarah Townsend> joined us back in June and have been creating new bodies of work their studios, located at Hunt Art Gallery.
The exhibition is assembled in fragments of rusty oil paint, encaustic and paper shreds of mass culture and memory, bowed cowgirls cross-hatched in wood grains, ghosts covered in acrylic abyss, conversational faces preserved in styrofoam, and felted creatures of that meld with your emotions.
Come celebrate their consistency and dedication. Costumes encouraged.
New Resident Artists
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Zachary Nosbisch
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Beki Tomasello
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Robert Naheem
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Greg Kuppinger
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Keri "Koala" Manne
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Nick Bonvissuto
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Sarah Bellinger
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Carol Smith-Chinchon
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“I’ve discovered that being an artist and writer is less about achievement and more about endurance. And endurance can feel impossible without community. None of us survives in a vacuum. Community arts centers, mentorship programs, residencies, nonprofits are all indispensable for their commitment to the idea that art isn’t a luxury, but a necessity. Art increases the quality of ALL of our lives.
Arts organizations are the scaffolding for this. They create safe space for people to admit, “I want to make something,” and meet them where they are, offering encouragement instead of skepticism. They make it possible for burgeoning talent to find adequate nourishment, for vulnerability to disarm, and for imagination to transform into power and agency.”
