Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University

05/27/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us today for CAM Meets: Picturing America 🇺🇸🎨

On one of those rare beautiful sunny Western New York afternoons that briefly convinces us we survived winter for a reason, guests gathered at CAM to explore how images shape national identity through film, conversation, and art.

We’re grateful to everyone who attended the screening of Norman Rockwell: Painting America and participated in the curator-led tour of USA250: Celebrating the American Vision.

Special thanks to our curators and CAM team for the time, thoughtfulness, and care that made today’s program possible. These conversations—and the opportunity to experience art together—are what make the museum such a meaningful community space.

We look forward to welcoming you back to CAM again soon.

05/25/2026

This Memorial Day 🇺🇸, we pause to honor and remember the men and women who have served our nation.

As we reflect on the stories, sacrifices, and ideals that have shaped the American experience, we invite you to explore USA250: Celebrating the American Vision, now on view at the Castellani Art Museum. Drawn from CAM’s permanent collection, the exhibition brings together artworks that examine the many ways artists have interpreted America—its landscapes, people, aspirations, and complexities.

Art offers a unique lens through which to consider our shared history. This Memorial Day, spend time with works that encourage reflection on the evolving story of our nation and the individuals who have helped shape it.

🖼️ USA250: Celebrating the American Vision
📍 Castellani Art Museum

05/22/2026

Looking for weekend plans? Start with art. 🎨

The CAM Gift Shop has a fresh new look and a growing selection of artwork, notecards, prints, and artful gifts inspired by the creativity of our region. We’re excited to welcome works by local artists including Kath Schifano, Doug Mess, and more, with new items arriving throughout the season.

Whether you’re searching for a thoughtful gift, a piece of original art, or simply an excuse to spend time surrounded by creativity, there’s never been a better time to stop by.

Explore the galleries. Discover something unexpected. Take a little art home with you.

🛍️ Open during regular museum hours
📍 Castellani Art Museum
✨ New artists, new finds, new reasons to visit

05/21/2026

05/19/2026

How do images shape the way we see America? 🇺🇸🎨

Join us for CAM Meets: Picturing America on Wednesday, May 27 from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. for an afternoon of film, conversation, and gallery exploration centered around the evolving American identity.

The program begins with a screening of American Dreams: Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post, a documentary examining how Rockwell’s illustrations helped define a powerful visual narrative of American life.

Following the film, guests are invited on a curator-led tour of USA250: Celebrating the American Vision, featuring works from the CAM permanent collection that reflect the many ways artists have interpreted, celebrated, and questioned America across generations.

📍 Castellani Art Museum
🗓 Wednesday, May 27
⏰ 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
🎟 Registration encouraged: https://www.simpletix.com/e/cam-meets-picturing-america-tickets-269033

As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, this program offers an opportunity to reflect on the images that shaped the past—and the perspectives continuing to shape the future.

05/15/2026

Now open at the Castellani Art Museum: King of Power, Queen of Beauty — a new exhibition guest curated in collaboration with , exploring identity, symbolism, celebrity, beauty, and power through compelling contemporary works and visual culture.

Take in the spring florals around the campus, then step inside to experience one of CAM’s newest exhibitions before joining us for the official Opening Reception on Thursday, June 4 from 5–7 p.m. (Members Preview at 4:30 p.m.).

All are welcome.

📍 Castellani Art Museum at Niagara University
🗓 Opening Reception: June 4, 2026
⏰ 5–7 p.m.

05/15/2026

We’re honored to share that our Summer Yoga @ CAM with Full Circle Mind & Body Lewiston (Full Circle Mind & Body) series, was recently featured in the article “Millennial Mom: Around-the-town activities for moms” by Christine Giarrizzo for Niagara Frontier Publications. 🧘‍♀️✨

Hosted inside the galleries of the Castellani Art Museum, Yoga @ CAM invites guests to slow down, reset, and reconnect through movement surrounded by art.

Join us this summer for gentle, all-levels sessions designed to nourish both mind and body in a uniquely creative setting.

Motherhood can feel isolating, especially when most local event roundups revolve around entertaining your kids. But across Western New York this May and June, there are actually plenty of opportunities for moms to step away from the mental load for a few hours, meet other women, tap back into creati...

05/14/2026

Newly installed in CAM’s Sculpture Court: Border, Peach (1991) by celebrated glass artist Ginny Ruffner 🍑✨

A visionary in contemporary glass and mixed media, Ruffner transformed the medium into something playful, surreal, and deeply imaginative. Known for her richly colored sculptures and inventive visual language, she helped redefine what glass art could be—balancing beauty, wit, science, storytelling, and resilience all at once.

Created the same year as the life-altering accident that nearly ended her career, Border, Peach now feels even more powerful: a work suspended between fragility and strength, delicacy and invention. Ruffner would go on to become an internationally recognized advocate for creativity’s ability to heal, adapt, and endure.

Stop by the Sculpture Court to experience this remarkable work in person.

🖼️ Ginny Ruffner
Border, Peach, 1991
Glass and mixed media
Gift of the Robert Castellani Family, 2011

05/12/2026

Thank you to for sharing the Castellani Art Museum’s new Digital Art Resource Library initiative.

As part of Hardwired: Foundational Works in Digital Art and the museum’s expanding Nanula Digital Art Gallery program, we are inviting artists, writers, curators, professors, historians, and technologists to recommend the books and publications that shaped their understanding of digital art.

Selected titles will become part of an evolving on-site library for students, faculty, museum visitors, and the broader community.

⚡ Hardwired: Foundational Works in Digital Art is now on view at the Castellani Art Museum. Join us for the opening reception on June 4, 2026.

Learn more: https://castellaniartmuseum.org/open-call-help-build-cams-digital-art-resource-library/

05/10/2026

From the CAM Collection Archive 🌷

This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating the care, beauty, and quiet gestures that shape our lives—like fresh flowers arranged in morning light or a moment shared around the kitchen table.

Polly King’s Vintage Floral captures that sense of warmth and tenderness through loose watercolor blooms and soft domestic stillness, reminding us how art can preserve the feeling of everyday love.

Wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to all who nurture, support, create, and care for others in ways both big and small.

🖼️ Polly King
Vintage Floral, n.d.
Watercolor
Gift of the Don King and Mark Bruno families in honor of Father Louis Trotta, 2004
From the CAM Collection | CAM2004.024