Featured Events
Featured Events
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 varied visual and performing arts events available to the entire Western New York State population and to become a creative force and an educational resource for all of Western New York and the entire lake shore geographical area, and to harness the economic vitality of the arts to grow the local economy.
Executive Director, Rick Mascaro
Events
About the LSCFTA
LSCFTA is an exciting fine arts center that brings live theater, vocal and instrumental music, visual arts, writers' groups, free classic movie series, festivals, community events, instruction, participation, and all things arts-oriented to the western New York and Erie Lake Shore area. We offer ongoing opportunities for the public to attend, learn, teach, volunteer, engage in, direct, plan, and/or present high-quality fine arts events in our arts center or service region.
Marilyn Hemmer
Tina Rausa
Libby Cardy-Sciarrino
Rick Mascaro
Kelly Mathews
Jacqueline Phillips
Joan Caruso
Sue Poster
Karin Cockram
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. Raising money through a grant, a GoFundMe page, and other channels, we plan to sponsor the painting of murals on some walls in our community that need refurbishment, yet another draw to Westfield, NY.
