Annual Report 2016-2017 - 14

15 Mellon Grant Funds Art

14 Buffalo State College 2016-2017 Annual Report

Conservation Fellowships.
Buffalo State received a $139,000 grant from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in July 2016 to
support the Garman Art Conservation Department's
Library and Archives Conservation Education
(LACE) program. The grant provides fellowships for
two graduate students who started the program the
following fall. The LACE specialization falls within
the department's paper conservation curriculum.
Graduates conserve rare books, manuscripts, maps,
historical documents, photographs, and archival
materials with archives, historical societies, and
libraries around the world. The New York-based
Mellon Foundation has awarded several grants to
the art conservation program over the past three
decades, including a $1.25 million challenge grant
in 2014.
Tower Foundation Supports
Precollegiate Program.
The Tower Foundation of Buffalo awarded
Buffalo State a three-year $54,142 grant to
fund "Access BSC: Bridge to Success in College,"
a weeklong program in summer 2017 that provided
25 precollegiate students with disabilities with the
crucial skills needed to successfully transition
to college.

Housed at Buffalo State in E. H. Butler Library's
Archives and Special Collections since 2009, the
collection includes more than 200 linear feet of
items such as news articles, manuscripts, diaries,
gay pride parade posters, books, music and video
artifacts, community organization records, and
many other pieces that date back to the 1920s.

The Mellon
Foundation
has awarded
grants to
the art
conservation
program over
the last three
decades.

The Davis LGBT Archives is the second-most
researched collection at the college, following
the archives of the former Buffalo Courier-Express.
Oishei Grant Supports Academic
Commons.
The John R. Oishei Foundation provided a
$75,000 grant to help establish Buffalo State's
new Academic Commons. Currently under design
as part of the $10.4 million planned renovation
of E. H. Butler Library, the Academic Commons
will consolidate critical academic support services
in a "one-stop shop" for students, including the
Writing Help Center, a mathematics lab, EOP's
Academic Center for Excellence, Student Accessibility Services, professional advising services, and
peer and professional tutoring in a variety of subject

Donor Endows Fund for Davis
LGBT Archives.
A $50,000 anonymous gift to the Community
Foundation for Greater Buffalo has established
an endowed fund to support the digitization of
materials in the Madeline Davis Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Archives of Western
New York, the region's largest LGBT collection.

areas. The grant supported the first-year salary for
Academic Commons director Aimee Woznick, who
was hired in August 2016. She holds a doctorate
in English from the University of California, Santa
Barbara, and a bachelor's degree in English and
Italian from the University at Buffalo. The Academic
Commons is expected to be fully operational by
spring 2020.

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