Letters for Literacy at the Buffalo Home & Garden Show

Letters for Literacy, a Read to Succeed Buffalo partnership with local artist Brian Nesline and his Buffalo Alphabet Project, will participate in the upcoming Buffalo Home & Garden Show held at the Buffalo Convention Center, March 5-7 and March 12-14.

Nesline has created a series of black and white photographs of Buffalo's architecture that represent each letter of the alphabet. Framed arrangements, notecards and T-shirts will be available at the booth. A portion of the purchase price will be donated to Read to Succeed Buffalo.

Letters can be purchased at booth #320 on the lower level of the Show or on-line at facesofbuffalo.org/buffalophotoalphabet.htm.

Nesline is well known for his "Faces of Buffalo" series, images created by mosiacs of self-portraits from community members. The partnership came together when Nesline expressed interest in supporting Read to Succeed because of the obvious tie between the letters and literacy, as well as his own interest in literacy. 

According to Mike Benzin, Director of Development at RTSB who coordinated the project, "We were very pleased with the success of our holiday promotion with Letters for Literacy at the Walden Galleria and are looking forward to the Home Show as a great way to showcase the obvious connection between these beautiful photographic letters and the literacy movement in Buffalo."

The Home & Garden Show runs from 10 am - 9 pm on Fridays and Saturdays and from 10 am - 6 pm on Sundays.  The event is open to the public and tickets are $10 at the door or $7 on line.