Mission Statement for Lake Shore Center for the Arts
The specific purpose of Lake Shore Center for the Arts, Inc. is to provide innovative, relevant, and diverse cultural arts experiences that both reflect and expand the community’s interests and needs via visual, digital and live performing arts events, to become a creative force and educational resource for Western New York and the entire lake shore region, and to harness the economic vitality of the arts to grow local economy.
Executive Director, Rick Mascaro
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Open Gallery
The Gallery is open Saturdays from 11-2 and by appointment, or during other events at LSCFTA. 2026 Gallery Dates and Featured Artists: February – photos from Westfield March – student art show, opening 3/6 Karin Cockram’s Spring Art Show April, June 5, & July – shoot n share chautauqua shows CARRIE SHANK – WITHIN THE… ...
Open Studio
Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced Level Innovation Studio offers open studio sessions each month to LSCFTA members. These are free drop-in opportunities to work within our community of artists and other innovative practitioners of the digital arts, enabling a safe space for networking and exchange of knowledge. Sharing our studio space helps to enhance creativity by… ...
Innovation Studio, LSCFTA
49 S Portage StIntermediate Photoshop: Layers & Blending
Photoshop: Layers & Blending (Intermediate & Advanced Level) From powerful shortcuts to precise masking, this course can help you see Photoshop adjustment layers and blend modes in a whole new light. In this course, we unlock some of the least-used options in Photoshop 2026. Learn how to use adjustment layers and blend modes to color… ...
Writers Group Rm 102, LSCFTA
Writers Group
The writers group began as a six week memoir writing class but has turned into a group of writers that learn and grow from each other. Works are shared and evaluated and supported in constructive ways. Join us and learn how to advance your writing skills and learn how to get your work published. The… ...
Giraffes, Grapes and Great Apes
Art lovers, Friday, Sept. 4, brings the next opening to our Brenda Eno Art Gallery. Since you’ll be out and about for First Friday, come up and see “Giraffes, Grapes and Great Apes,” the work of our gallery administrator Karin Cockram. In addition to showing pictures representative of our beautiful Westfield grapes, she’ll share photos… ...
Open Gallery
The Gallery is open Saturdays from 11-2 and by appointment, or during other events at LSCFTA. 2026 Gallery Dates and Featured Artists: February – photos from Westfield March – student art show, opening 3/6 Karin Cockram’s Spring Art Show April, June 5, & July – shoot n share chautauqua shows CARRIE SHANK – WITHIN THE… ...
Open Studio
Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced Level Innovation Studio offers open studio sessions each month to LSCFTA members. These are free drop-in opportunities to work within our community of artists and other innovative practitioners of the digital arts, enabling a safe space for networking and exchange of knowledge. Sharing our studio space helps to enhance creativity by… ...
Camera Lens Filters: How & Why to Use Them
This class provides an in-depth exploration of the types of camera lens filters and their functions including how to use them for various photographic effects and techniques. Types of Filters:Learn about the following filters-UV/Clear/Haze, Polarizing (Circular and Linear), Neutral Density (ND), Graduated Neutral Density (GND), and special effects filters. Filter Functions: Understand how each filter… ...
Writers Group Rm 102, LSCFTA
Writers Group
The writers group began as a six week memoir writing class but has turned into a group of writers that learn and grow from each other. Works are shared and evaluated and supported in constructive ways. Join us and learn how to advance your writing skills and learn how to get your work published. The… ...
Performing Arts
Dramas such as To Kill A Mockingbird, Eleemosynary and 100 Saints You Should Know, stimulate our thoughts and may break our hearts. You Ought To Be In Pictures, Spring Fling and Becky’s New Car lighten our souls and urge us to laughter. Performances engage the viewer, creating a connection between actors and patron and patron with the rest of the audience. Live theater: no other experience compares.
Innovation Studio
Communal digital arts studio space and learning environment cultivating creativity, artistic passion, and self-discovery. Learn, experiment, explore and develop your unique artistic voice–Free to LSCFTA members.
Brenda Eno Gallery
The Brenda Eno Memorial Gallery is dedicated to supporting the work of artists in the visual arts field.
Lorna Penny Suite
Miss Lorna B. Penny gave her moral and financial support to LSCFTA from our beginning. A retired English teacher and theater lover, she recognized the value of our mission.
Bill Ross Recital Hall
The recital hall, with cutting-edge sound engineering accoutrements and potential to seat 30 is dedicated to William "Bill" Ross, the late Westfield Academy and Central School music teacher and county-wide renowned music educator.
Off Premise Events
Believing community interaction an important component of our group’s mission, we sometimes leave our facility to benefit the village. The fall Cemetery Walk combines the efforts of LSCFTA, Patterson Library, Chautauqua County Historical Society and Westfield Cemetery Association.
Class Reunion Weekend will find us hosting a Spirit Gathering in Moore Park to recognize Westfield Academy and Central School graduates and staff who have passed. You never know where we might show up during Christmas in the Village or on First Fridays.
Long Term Projects
Mural Project: Hoping to transform some drab areas of the village into refreshed, colorful, and inviting spaces, we are spearheading a decorative mural project. We plan to sponsor the painting of murals on some walls in our community that need refurbishment, yet another draw to Westfield, NY.