St. Bonaventure University

Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts


Our Mission: Revitalize the arts throughout our university, community and region, and establish the Quick Center for the Arts as a destination for renowned national and international artists.

The Quick Center offers a wide range of resources — spacious art galleries, the 321-seat Rigas Family Theater, instructional spaces for the visual and performing arts, vocal and instrumental labs and rehearsal rooms, study and storage spaces — making it an education and entertainment hub for not only the campus but the community at large.

The Quick Center includes the F. Donald Kenney Museum and Art Study Wing, named after the late F. Donald Kenney, a university trustee and arts patron. The Kenney wing added galleries, a prints and drawings room, study and support spaces, further enhancing the Quick Center's reputation as a center for regional collaboration and thought.

Quick Center galleries are open to the public year round at no charge.

Group tours are also available. To request a tour, please complete and submit our Gallery Tour Request Form.

 

Celebrating 30 years


Since 1995, the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts has been a vibrant hub for visual and performing arts, offering diverse cultural experiences for all ages.

Consider yourself invited! 

Please join us for a year of exceptional performances, exhibitions and community events honoring three decades of artistic excellence. View the list of anniversary events.

 

Exhibitions


The university’s encyclopedic art collection, which includes Asian, European and American, Modern and Contemporary art is on display in the Quick Center galleries. 

In addition, featured installations are in place on a rotating basis throughout the year. Our galleries are open to the public at no charge.

VISIT EXHIBITIONS

Art glass on display at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

Performing Arts Series


The Quick Center hosts a variety of performances each season, including jazz, dance, theater and comedy. 

VISIT PERFORMING ARTS

 

Arts Education Programs


We're all about encouraging the next generation of art lovers at the Quick Center.

Our programs include annual juried art exhibitions for schoolchildren and master classes for K-12. Tours at the Quick Center galleries are available for any age group free of charge.

VISIT ARTS EDUCATION


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    Quick Center for the Arts organizes April 29 virtual presentation featuring fiber artists

    Apr 20, 2020

    Although the galleries at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts are unable to be open for viewing, the St. Bonaventure University arts center has gathered a few artists from a popular exhibition for a virtual presentation.

    The Quick Center for the Arts had originally planned to exhibit “3D EXPRESSION,” a traveling exhibition from the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), through May 15. Opening in February, it quickly became a favorite of gallery visitors. 

    The exhibition is a three-dimensional fiber exhibition with more than 40 works from artists around the world. 

    Instead, all are welcome to join a virtual presentation on Wednesday, April 29, at 2 p.m.

    Evelyn Penman, assistant director at the Quick Center, will be joined by Martha Seilman, executive director of SAQA, to discuss the exhibition and interview four artists who have work in the show. Joining them for the presentation will be artists Judy E. Martin of Ontario, Canada; Patricia Kennedy-Zafred of Murrysville, Pennsylvania; Shannon M. Dion of Portage, Michigan; and Betty Busby of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    To obtain the Zoom link for the virtual presentation, please register in advance at www.sbu.edu/3DExpression.

    Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt through education, exhibitions, professional development, documentation, and publications. SAQA has more than 3,400 members around the world, including artists, collectors, and arts professionals.