People

Founding Members

Founding Members

Chris Hawley

Co-Founder

Founding Members

Molly Jarboe

Co-Founder

Founding Members

Christina Laing

Co-Founder

Chris Hawley

Co-Founder

Chris is an urbanist, preservationist, and photographer. He is undertaking a project to rehabilitate 483 Peckham Street, a historic tavern on Buffalo's East Side that will soon reopen as Eugene V. Debs Hall.

Molly Jarboe

Co-Founder

Molly Jarboe is a founding member of Buffalo Obscura and co-organizer of the group’s one-night-only art events.  Originally from Omaha, NE she received a Bachelor of Fine Art from The Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Art from the University at Buffalo.  Through her photography and writing she explores the fault lines that emerge when memory and landscape collide.

Christina Laing

Co-Founder

Christina Laing is from Buffalo, New York and graduated from Buffalo State College in 2011 with a BFA in photography and art history.  She currently lives and Buffalo, NY a freelance artist and owner of The Buffalo Collective, a graphic design and branding company.

Team Members:

Jeff Carballada, Pat McNichol, Nate Neuman


Artists Who Have Participated in Buffalo Obscura Events:

Scott Balzer, Brendan Bannon, Lauren Braun, Joel Brenden, Daniel Britt, Claudia Carballada, Daniel Calleri, Markenzy Cesar, Julian Chinana, Matthew Christopher, Jim Cielencki, Dan Cogliano, Shannon Davis, Lindsay DeDario, Julia DiMartinis, Cassie Elsaesser, Sean Galbraith, Linda Gellman, Joe George, Dan Green, Amy Greenan, Ed Healy, Peter Heuer, Jonathan Hughes, Dinesh Joseph, Chris Kameck, Amy Meza Luraschi, Jeremy Maxwell, Lydia Maybee, Sarah Maybee, Matthew McCarthy, Adam McCullough, Greg Meadows, Matthew Measer, Lloyd Mitchell, Julian Montague, David Moog, Jan Nagle, Nancy J. Parisi, Kate Stapleton Parzych, Fritz Proctor, Mike Puma, Dennis Reed Jr., J-M Reed, Brianna Robinson, Laird Robertson, Tom Schmitt, Rachele Schneekloth, Daniel Seiders, Ginny Rose Stewart, CJ Szatkowski, Kurt Treeby, David Torke, Mark Von Kohler, Tom Warner, Fr. Jud Weiksnar, Cat Willett, Gene Witkowski and Miggie Wong.


We’d like to thank the people who have donated time, resources, space and so much more to this project:

Saddle Up Saloon, Buffalo Paint and Wall Paper, Schneider Development, Mark Kubiniec, Elmwood Festival of the Arts, Sarah Schneider, Matt Newton, Brendan McCafferty, Aksel Talvitie, Eve Jarboe, Luke Siderewicz, Carmen Fernandez, Heather Hilderbrandt, Chuck Banas, Loung Construction, Macky Moberly, Macky’s Shamrock Room, Joe and Robin Bacon of ‘meet the bacons’, Daniel Britt and Transfiguration Church, Bernice Radle, Dan Michael, Marc Moscato, Community Beer Works, LiveNF, Blue Cardinal Capital, Preservation Studios, I AM MAGICK, Inspiration Point, Intersection Cafe, Acme Cabinet Company, Moriarty Meats, Fawn and Fox Salon, Lindsay DeDario Photography, Essex Street Pub, Susan Cholewa, Eugene V. Debs Hall, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Brendan Bannon.

Buffalo Obscura
David Torke, Jim Cielencki, Christiana Laing, Molly Jarboe, Tom Warner, Lyndsay DeDario, Chris Hawley and Gene Witkowski.