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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Free Classic Movie
May SECRET AGENT 1936 starring Peter Lorre and Madeline Carroll directed by Alfred Hitchcock JUNE 2026 – JUNE 2027 LSCFTA FREE MOVIES JUNE-ALL ABOUT EVE-DRAMA 1949-Betty Davis JULY-IMPACT-1949-MYSTERY Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn AUGUST-BORN YESTERDAY-1950-political satire Judy Holiday and William Holden SEPTEMBER-ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS-1939 Cary Grant, Jean Arthur OCTOBER-WITHOUT LOVE-1945… ...
Barcelona Harbor Beach Creative Photo Walk
Barcelona Harbor Creative Photo Walk In this outdoor hands-on photo walk, you’ll be mentored by a renowned photographic artist, Carrie Shank, and take creative photographs while reviewing photography fundamentals. Carrie will discuss Exposure (how light works with a camera) and how the Big Three Settings (Aperture, Shutter Speed, & ISO) affect your photographs. She’ll talk… ...
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… ...
Jacqueline Phillips Theater, LSCFTA
Songwriters In Concert – Myq Farrow, Holly Kluge and Scott Reynolds
Join us Thursday, June 18th at Lake Shore Center for the Arts for the Songwriters In Concert Series featuring MYQ Farrow (Buffalo, NY), Holly Kluge (Rochester, NY). and Scott Reynolds (Fredonia,NY) The Songwriters Circle Series is sponsored by Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation, To be considered for Songwriters In Concert, singer/songwriters can apply here. MYQ… ...
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… ...
Focus Stacking in Photography
Everyone appreciates a tack-sharp flower, still life or landscape photo in focus from foreground to background. Creating these images requires a little more effort than you might think! Join us for a workshop in Focus Stacking–the process of combining multiple images, each with a different focal point, to create an image with a greater depth… ...
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… ...
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.