Cornelia Magazine is a visual arts review for Western New York and Southern Ontario published by the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art.
Published by The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art
Editor-in-Chief Nando Alvarez-Perez
Producer Emily Ebba Reynolds
Production Assistant Wavy
Copy Editor Emily E. Mangione
Design Mark Yappueying
In June of 2019 the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art invited artist, writer, and burgeoning art media mogul Lindsay Preston Zappas (the founder of Carla) to Buffalo for an exhibition and writing workshop. After watching most of Buffalo’s art writing apparatus disappear, our aim was to spark a new generation of arts writers to get together and make an outlet to record and review the visual arts in our region. And thus, Cornelia was born.
Named in honor of Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton–a painter, as well as the first woman to serve as the director of an art museum in the US at the Albright Knox Art Galleries, and the only Buffalonian to serve as the director of the museum–we hope to honor and record the history and future of the arts in this region.
Ultimately, we hope this project serves three purposes:
To bring visibility and validation to the artists, art workers, art writers, and art lovers of the Western New York and Southern Ontario region
To produce critical but approachable writing which inspires experts and non-experts alike
To archive the diverse creative output of this region and to situate those efforts in relation to national and international discourses around the visual arts
The spirit of Cornelia is to bust through glass ceilings and gallery doors, to kindle conversations, and to help audiences old and new engage with the visual art being made in the Western New York and Southern Ontario region.
This project won’t continue without the generous support of donors and sponsors. If you like what you read, or support what we’re doing please make a donation through the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art.