Step back into the roaring '20s at this elegant affair. Enjoy an authentic feast of period food and drink prepared by Hotel @ Lafayette chef in honor of this special occasion which celebrates the 125 year history of the Buffalo Society of Artists. Costumes should be specific to this period (late 1920s to the mid-1930s) with the addition of elegant  masks, if desired.

After your red carpet walk down “Peacock Alley” to the hors d’oeuvres and open bar, you will be entertained by the period appropriate music of a live band, The Hot Club of Buffalo, and invited to dance as our fellow members did almost a century ago on the dance floor following a classic meal, much the same as they would have enjoyed themselves. Partygoers will have their revelry recorded for posterity by Documentarian, Jon Hand (the Filmmaker involved in our legacy Video Archive Project.) As part of our ongoing mission to help foster art education within Western New York, we are working closely with the Villa Maria Fashion Design and Merchandising Department as they theme Deco based projects around the Ball and provide student volunteers for the same. An exhibition dedicated to Art Deco fashion and art as related to the Beaux Arts tradition, and our place within that tradition, will be co-curated by the BSA and the FDM department at Villa Maria, to be presented in their gallery in advance of and concurrent with the Ball.