University at Buffalo UB Arts Collaboratory to welcome renowned painter for an extended community project Artist Cecily Brown will work with the UB Arts Collaboratory and community members to create a mural on this two-story wall on the side of the building at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. Cecily Brown artist BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo Arts Collaboratory will welcome visiting artist Cecily Brown, one of the foremost painters of her generation, for its Spring 2021 Working Artists Lab. Brown’s program, presented in partnership with Artist/City, Bortolami, NYC, is a collaboration with a diverse team of local artists and storytellers that will represent the first public art project of her distinguished career.