In line with the University's outreach mission, UB Anderson Gallery serves the community by providing programs with learning opportunities for children, families, and adults through our exhibitions, lectures, and performances listed on our calendar of events. We work with cultural organizations, community centers, and healthcare agencies to accommodate identified learning requirements. 

We are proud to offer opportunities for organizations to partner with the UB Anderson Gallery as a cultural resource to enrich curriculum or to augment a thematically focused program. Past on-site gallery collaborations include afterschool and summer camp Art Day sessions with Parkside Community Association, school day exhibition tours and writing exercises with Just Buffalo Literary Center's teaching poets and writers, and the development and implementation of a credit-bearing summer school arts and health pilot course for selected Health Sciences Charter High School students.

UB Anderson Gallery maintains a long-standing partnership with Aspire of Western New York, Inc., a healthcare agency that provides care for adults and children with developmental and other medical challenges. On-site gallery programming is implemented regularly for adults participating in Aspire's iXpress arts program, as well as program community participants—including the YMCA summer camp program campers and seniors residing in independent living centers— who are engaged in gallery tours, discussions, and art activity sessions.

 

UB Anderson Gallery's exhibitions and collections provide stimulating environments from which to learn and study. Experimental and conceptual learning activities include tours, special projects, professional development seminars, art activity workshops, accessibility to exhibiting artists, educational materials, individual consultation, and scheduled classroom visits arranged by the curator of education. These opportunities are for teachers who are interested in enhancing curriculum by integrating exhibition content, concepts, and themes into planned lessons.