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
Events
Lorna Penny Suite, LSCFTA
49 S Portage St.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… ...
Lorna Penny Suite, LSCFTA
49 S Portage St.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… ...
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… ...
Open Gallery
Brenda Eno Gallery Presents Works by: Brenda Eno and Cristie Herbst With…. “The Power of Women and the Sacred Feminine” exhibit featuring works by other local artists The Gallery is open Saturdays from 12-3 and by appointment, or during other events at LSCFTA. ...
Open Mic Night
Come share your poetry, prose or musical selection in a warm and welcoming environment for all First Sunday of each month 3:00 pm ~ 4:00 pm Bring your books or cd’s to sell! ...
Lorna Penny Suite, LSCFTA
49 S Portage St.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… ...
Lorna Penny Suite, LSCFTA
49 S Portage St.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… ...
Introduction to Animation
Adobe Character Animator will produce expressive, high-quality performance-based animations. It’s so fast that it can even be used live. This software has both a Starter Mode and a Professional Mode. In this workshop, you will create a 2-dimensional puppet, learn how to rig your character so that your own voice and facial gestures will animate… ...
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… ...
Open Gallery
Brenda Eno Gallery Presents Works by: Brenda Eno and Cristie Herbst With…. “The Power of Women and the Sacred Feminine” exhibit featuring works by other local artists The Gallery is open Saturdays from 12-3 and by appointment, or during other events at LSCFTA. ...
It’s a wonderful life radio play
It’s a Wonderful Life, a radio show performed live in our theater. Saturday, December 9 at 2:00 and at 7:00. This is our gift to the community, free will donations are gladly accepted. ...
It’s a wonderful life radio play
It’s a Wonderful Life, a radio show performed live in our theater. Saturday, December 9 at 2:00 and at 7:00. This is our gift to the community, free will donations are gladly accepted. ...
About the LSCFTA
LSCFTA is an exciting fine arts center that brings live theater, vocal and instrumental music, digital arts, writers' groups, free classic movies, festivals, community events, free classes, drop-in studio sessions, art gallery, 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.
Karin Cockram
Sue Poster
Jacqueline Phillips
Joan Caruso
Rick Mascaro
Libby Cardy-Sciarrino
Damian Dodd
Tina Rausa
Kelly Mathews
Marilyn Hemmer
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.