Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center

08/31/2026

Applications are now open for our next Workspace Residency session: June 11-26, 2027!
The residency is open to applicants from Buffalo and across the United States who are seeking resources, time, and support for ongoing projects or the creation of new work.
The deadline to apply is Friday, October 2.

Support provided: $1000 stipend, up to $300 in artist fees, housing, up to $400 in travel support for non-local residents, up to $1000 optional financial assistance for childcare and/or disability support.

Notification date: December 18, 2026

Learn more and apply: https://squeaky.org/workspace-residency/

08/30/2026

Join us at Silo City for a site-specific audiovisual performance by Workspace Resident Senem Pirler, titled Withholding. The performance positions inflatable sonic sculptures in the Silo, utilizing the structure’s concrete visual and acoustic elements, along with live modular synthesis and visuals that draw from histories of labor and extraction. This multi-sensory structure asks audiences to experience the silo not as a ruin but as an entity with ongoing memory and political charge, interrogating the architecture of capitalism through the bodies it has used and abandoned. This work continues Pirler’s explorations into how haptically engaged sonic sculptures can turn abstract concepts into embodied experiences.

reserve your spot! https://squeaky.org/event/withholding-silo-city/

Withholding is produced through Squeaky Wheel's Workspace Residency program, with support from Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Thank you to our amazing partners at Silo City, a unique post-industrial landscape comprised of the world’s largest collection of historical grain elevators. Reclaimed by wildlife and now engaged as a cultural space, Silo City has taken on a key identity as a part of Buffalo’s work towards a more sustainable and dynamic city.

Photos thanks to Senem Pirler and Sara Heidiger.

08/30/2026

Monday is the last day to get early bird tickets (only $10!) for Squeaky's 40th! on October 3! This fabulous party photo from our archives dates from Squeaky's Elmwood Avenue days. We can't wait to celebrate all of the people who've made Squeaky Wheel roll over the past four decades!
Get your tickets at: https://squeaky.org/event/squeakys-40th/

08/26/2026

Want to be our across-the-hall neighbor??

At Tri-Main Center we celebrate the uniqueness of our tenants. From independent art studios to software developers – everyone can find a place at Tri-Main. Call today to find yours.

https://trimaincenter.com/available-space/

08/19/2026

Join Workspace Resident Liat Berdugo for a free workshop introducing the concept and practice of web scraping, and its artistic possibilities as a critical practice.
Saturday August 29 at 1pm. Free to participate, but advance registration is required!
https://squeaky.org/event/web-scraping-as-critical-and-artistic-intervention-with-liat-berdugo/

08/15/2026

Join us August 26 at Squeaky Wheel or via livestream for artist talks with our Summer Workspace Residents Liat Berdugo and Senem Pirler. We're so excited to learn more about the process of these amazing artists!

Catering from Ali Baba Kebab will be provided for in-person attendees. Please RSVP so we know how much food to order, or can send you the livestream link if you're attending virtually!
ttps://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-berdugo-pirler/

The 2026 Summer Workspace Residency is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

08/14/2026

Save the date! Saturday October 3 we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Squeaky Wheel's very first space and all of the people who've made Squeaky's work possible since! We'll be showcasing four decades of media art, sharing stories, and living it up, and it won't be the same without you!
Early bird tickets are available though Aug. 31: https://secure.givelively.org/event/buffalo-media-resources-inc/squeaky-s-40th

08/14/2026

Our Summer Youth Showcase was a blast! We shared and celebrated dozens of films, animations, games, comics, illustrations, digital collage, and more created by youth artists in the past six weeks. Thanks to all who came out, and everyone who leads and supports our youth education programs!

Photos by Robin Lazarra

08/05/2026

Join us Wednesday August 12 for a celebration of the amazing work created in our youth programs! All are welcome to stop by Squeaky Wheel to enjoy a pop-up exhibition of animation, short films, games, digital collage, electronic music, and more created by participants in Youth Film Lab, Digital Art and Technology Access, and Tech Arts for Youth.

A short screening and recognition of the artists will start at 6pm, but you can drop in anytime between 5:30-7:30pm to check out new work by the next generation of media artists!

Thank you to the Children’s Guild Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo, Erie County Youth Primetime, the Children’s Foundation of Erie County, the Tower Foundation, the Jane and Cameron Baird Foundation, and the JM McDonald Foundation for making our youth programs possible with their generous support!

07/26/2026

Join us in person or online for a screening as part of our summer exhibition!

Wednesday, August 5 at 7pm at Squeaky Wheel
or grab an online ticket it and have 24 hours to view the program (72 hours for members)
https://squeaky.org/event/chris-markers-the-case-of-the-grinning-cat/

Chris Marker’s iconic film, Chat Perchés (The Case of the Grinning Cat) reflects on politics, art and culture at the start of the new millennium through the sudden appearance of alluring portraits of grinning yellow cats through Paris.

Serge Avedikian’s haunting animated film, Chienne D’histoire (Howling Island), which won the 2010 Palme d'Or for short film, tells the story of the 1910 dog exile and massacre in Ottoman Istanbul, where thousands of dogs were rounded up and sent to a nearby Island to die, with clear resonances between the event and the Armenian Genocide.

Wiame Haddad's brief and subtle Sang Titre is rooted in both urgency and mourning, it echoes a long history of Palestinian oppression while seeking a visual language to confront it.