Buffalo AKG Art Museum

And then, of course, we've got in the middle of this, we've got your art gallery in the Brisbane building and and even public art as you go through.

We have so many incredible murals and I've had a chance to be having a few conversations with the team at the Albright Knox and thinking about, you know, how we continue to add more public art downtown.

All these things create unique experiences that can draw people downtown to experience those.

But then also you can riff off of that with dining and shopping and other services and overnight stays.

You can only imagine what it would be like to try any and all of those cakes but to be Paul Hollywood for a day to determine which is the best chocolate ganache.

Last Friday, under the mirrored lobby of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the rare chance to taste many creative cakes in one sitting rose.

Two long tables crowded with dozens of cakes.

There was a spiced sponge with chai muscarpone filling and brown butter cream cheese frosting bathed in a fragrant caramel drizzle.

Absolutely right.

Was sitting here with you while the mayor was introducing Terrell Owens on the steps of the Albright Knox Art Gallery.

And we went, let's go live on the scene.

Our Jeremy White is down there.

Now, I remember this because as a child, you were really a stay-at-home mom, but you spent a lot of time volunteering, and you were very entrenched in the community in Buffalo.

You were on the board of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

You volunteered for the Federation.

You ran the Federation as the youngest person who led it in Buffalo.

Monster Mash, 10 to 2 Saturday and Sunday at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Humboldt Parkway.

Art Alive, 2 to 5 Saturday at Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Art brought to life through living creations.

Just announced, the Goo Goo Dolls, 8:00 PM, November 21st to 22nd, the Town Ballroom.

Uh, also represented at the Sámiš Kunstmuseum.

And you've been exhibited in a lot of places, uh, amongst others, Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Buffalo AKG Art Gallery in New York State, and, uh, the latest solo exhibition that you had was at Liljevalchs, and it's called the Drick Drick.

And maybe we should start there with that exhibition because it holds a lot of what is you as an artist.

Uh, a lot of these kind of installations that are also very like a picture, a moving picture, but that you can walk into, and it's a lot of performativity in those kind of works.

We always look to make investments into the community that have impact and those that have a strong track record, who find new ways and opportunities for those who may find obstacles in their journey." With assets, assets of forty-- fourteen point two million, the Rich Family Foundation made gifts and grants totaling two point six million in twenty twenty-four, the latest year for which public data is available.

Among the largest grantees that year were Feed More Western New York, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and also Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Rich says, "We're really proud of our work, and it's eighty-one years in the making.

We realize at the end of the day, if you don't have the right people, if you don't have the right folks coming into the organization, your ability to, to executive against your growth plans is limited.

Um, but we've got the University of Buffalo.

[laughs] W- we've got the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

We have the Sabres.

We have the, uh, Buffalo Bills.

Monster Mash, 10 to 2 Saturday and Sunday at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Humboldt Parkway.

Art Alive, 2 to 5 Saturday at Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Art brought to life through living creations.

Just announced.

My best friends are from Buffalo, the education.

You talk about the AKG, which is the Albright, formerly known as the Albright Knox Art Gallery, and also just the community.

Like if you go to a bar in Buffalo, you go to the grocery store in Buffalo, you go to the nicest restaurant in Buffalo.

It doesn't matter.