Through a conversation with Hyperallergic’s Editor-in-Chief, Hrag Vartanian, Tiffany D. Gaines carries us through the rich currents of Black Arts in Buffalo. Tracing the founding of the Langston Hughes Center for the Visual and Performing Arts more than 50 years back and encompassing long-running institutions like the African American Cultural Center and the Ujima Theatre Company that continue to contribute to the city’s arts and culture. Gaines also highlights individuals who preserve and extend these legacies, such as Eat Off Art founders Edreys and Alexa Joan Wajed, artist Julia Bottoms, and Gaines herself, whose photographs allow Buffalo’s artists to, in her words, “see ourselves in each other.”
Buffalo’s Undersung History of Black Arts and Culture
