By Tiffany Kellogg

Since 1994, Buffalo State College in conjunction with Albright-Knox Art Gallery www.albrightknox.org/ have been offering students the opportunity to view art exhibits at a low cost.                                                                                                             Tickets are $6 and can be purchased now and until the last day of the semester at Rockwell Hall box office www.buffalostate.edu/pac/boxoffice/. The box office is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.                       

The passes entitle students to view the permanent collection and the guest collection, Extreme Abstraction, running through Oct. 2. Passes are not valid for other special exhibits, such as The Wall, opening Oct. 21 and running through Jan. 29, 2006.

“The program was started by Patricia Cummins, former dean of arts and humanities at Buffalo State College and Anne Hayes, development director at Albright-Knox,” stated Dawn Pustelnik, audience service manager at Rockwell Hall.

For $25, a year-long pass can be purchased and it entitles the student to:

• free admission to special exhibits
• members only benefits
• 10 percent discount at the gift shop
• access to classes and workshops

“The passes became available in fall 1994 for $3 and were only offered to art students; then in the spring of 1995, they became accessible to all students for $6,” said Teresa Perillo, a student at Buffalo State College.

For more information contact the Rockwell Hall box office at (716) 878-3005.

Tiffany Kellogg can be contacted at daisygrl2327@yahoo.com

Photo caption: “Extreme Abstraction at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.”

 Photo courtesy of Albright-Knox.  Liz Larner, “Corridor Orange/Blue”, 1991