Friday, September 11, 2026

Becoming
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings
Katherine Korba: abstracted ceramic forms
Karen Convertino: enamel jewelry

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Zelikha Zohra Shoja: In Search of Bluer Tongues
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2021, artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja planned to shoot a new film at the site of her maternal home in Kabul, Afghanistan, but due to the return of the Taliban and ensuing violence, the project could not be realized. In Search of Bluer Tongues reimagines the domestic scenes Shoja hoped to play out in Kabul, working instead with members of resettled communities in the city of Syracuse and in Queens, NY. The resulting piece is an act of collaborative memory-making and a meditation on the diasporic experience of longing to be in a place that can only be watched from afar.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage:
5:00 pm: Kevin Flannigan
6:05 pm: The Causeway Giants
7:15 pm: McDonald School of Irish Dance
7:45 pm: Hadrian's Wall
9:00 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance
9:30 pm: Haggis X-1

Pub Stage:
6:00 pm: Sean & Hannah Johnson
7:00 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance
7:45 pm: Shawn Halloran
8:30 pm: McDonald School of Irish Dance

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com.

   

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The original Broadway sensation returns to the road! Celebrating 20 years, Jersey style!

They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard ... and the radio just couldn't get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story — a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. The show features all their hits including "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Oh What a Night," "Walk Like a Man," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Beggin'" and "Working My Way Back to You."

Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Award-winning, original Broadway sensation, Jersey Boys. From the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the musical that's too good to be true.

Tickets

   

Saturday, September 12, 2026

Becoming
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings
Katherine Korba: abstracted ceramic forms
Karen Convertino: enamel jewelry

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Zelikha Zohra Shoja: In Search of Bluer Tongues
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2021, artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja planned to shoot a new film at the site of her maternal home in Kabul, Afghanistan, but due to the return of the Taliban and ensuing violence, the project could not be realized. In Search of Bluer Tongues reimagines the domestic scenes Shoja hoped to play out in Kabul, working instead with members of resettled communities in the city of Syracuse and in Queens, NY. The resulting piece is an act of collaborative memory-making and a meditation on the diasporic experience of longing to be in a place that can only be watched from afar.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Art on the Porches

Price: Free
Ruskin Avenue
Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse

Head to Ruskin Avenue in the historic Strathmore neighborhood for a festival celebrating the rich talent of Syracuse area artists and musicians. Browse and shop art by CNY artists, groove to local bands, and enjoy treats from your favorite food trucks.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/artontheporches/.

   

Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
12:00 pm: Syracuse Irish Session
1:30 pm: Joe Davoli & Roscommon Ramblers
2:00 pm: Joe Davoli
3:20 pm: Hadrian's Wall
4:40 pm: West End Session
5:50 pm: Neil Anderson
6:35 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance
6:55 pm: Attractive Nuisance
7:55 pm: Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance
8:15 pm: Glengharry Bhoys
9:15 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance
9:35 pm: Haggis X-1

Pub Stage
4:00 pm: Aspiring Buskers
5:30 pm: Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance
6:00 pm: Kevin Flannigan
7:00 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance
7:30 pm: Michael Centore

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com.

   

The Hurt Monster: An Original Puppet Theater Experience
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When the stars vanish from the sky, young Kiya encounters a legendary creature ... who may hold the key to restoring them.? The journey becomes a gentle metaphor for resilience, empathy, and emotional growth. The Hurt Monster is a puppet theatre experience about big feelings: how we carry them, make sense of them, and begin to care for others. In a time when many are navigating anxiety, loneliness, and disconnection, this story creates space for those feelings to be seen, named, and shared.

Produced by Dusty & Dott Company and Malafronte's Monster Shop with support from the Jim Henson Foundation for its world premiere at Redhouse Arts Center.

Tickets

   

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The original Broadway sensation returns to the road! Celebrating 20 years, Jersey style!

They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard ... and the radio just couldn't get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story — a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. The show features all their hits including "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Oh What a Night," "Walk Like a Man," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Beggin'" and "Working My Way Back to You."

Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Award-winning, original Broadway sensation, Jersey Boys. From the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the musical that's too good to be true.

Tickets

   

Matt Mathews: Not What I Ordered World Tour
The Oncenter

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Life rarely turns out the way we planned - and nobody knows that better than Matt Mathews. In his brand new tour, Not What I Ordered , Matt brings his unfiltered stories, wild family chaos, farm life disasters, relationships, fame, and everyday struggles to the stage with the brutally honest humor fans love him for.

Tickets

   

The Hurt Monster: An Original Puppet Theater Experience
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When the stars vanish from the sky, young Kiya encounters a legendary creature ... who may hold the key to restoring them.? The journey becomes a gentle metaphor for resilience, empathy, and emotional growth. The Hurt Monster is a puppet theatre experience about big feelings: how we carry them, make sense of them, and begin to care for others. In a time when many are navigating anxiety, loneliness, and disconnection, this story creates space for those feelings to be seen, named, and shared.

Produced by Dusty & Dott Company and Malafronte's Monster Shop with support from the Jim Henson Foundation for its world premiere at Redhouse Arts Center.

Tickets

   

Jersey Boys
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The original Broadway sensation returns to the road! Celebrating 20 years, Jersey style!

They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard ... and the radio just couldn't get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story — a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. The show features all their hits including "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Oh What a Night," "Walk Like a Man," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Beggin'" and "Working My Way Back to You."

Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Award-winning, original Broadway sensation, Jersey Boys. From the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the musical that's too good to be true.

Tickets

   

Matt Mathews: Not What I Ordered World Tour
The Oncenter

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Life rarely turns out the way we planned - and nobody knows that better than Matt Mathews. In his brand new tour, Not What I Ordered , Matt brings his unfiltered stories, wild family chaos, farm life disasters, relationships, fame, and everyday struggles to the stage with the brutally honest humor fans love him for.

Tickets

   

Sunday, September 13, 2026

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Hurt Monster: An Original Puppet Theater Experience
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

When the stars vanish from the sky, young Kiya encounters a legendary creature ... who may hold the key to restoring them.? The journey becomes a gentle metaphor for resilience, empathy, and emotional growth. The Hurt Monster is a puppet theatre experience about big feelings: how we carry them, make sense of them, and begin to care for others. In a time when many are navigating anxiety, loneliness, and disconnection, this story creates space for those feelings to be seen, named, and shared.

Produced by Dusty & Dott Company and Malafronte's Monster Shop with support from the Jim Henson Foundation for its world premiere at Redhouse Arts Center.

Tickets

   

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Becoming
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings
Katherine Korba: abstracted ceramic forms
Karen Convertino: enamel jewelry

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Becoming
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings
Katherine Korba: abstracted ceramic forms
Karen Convertino: enamel jewelry

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

Preview: Come From Away
Syracuse Stage
James Vásquez, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An uplifting musical about open doors and open hearts.

On September 11, 2001, 38 planes were diverted to Gander Airport after U.S. airspace was indefinitely closed, stranding 7,000 international travelers in Newfoundland and immediately doubling the population of a tiny, isolated island town. The townspeople quickly respond with heroic hospitality, inviting the beleaguered travelers into their bars, their homes, and their hearts. Set to rousing, rowdy, and rough-hewn folk songs, Come From Away is the Tony Award-winning true story of human decency, a triumphant and inspiring tribute to an unforgettable moment in history, and a one-of-a-kind musical that proves "no man is an island, but an island makes a man."

   

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Becoming
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings
Katherine Korba: abstracted ceramic forms
Karen Convertino: enamel jewelry

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

315 Thursdays: Los Blancos, with special guest UAD

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

5:00 pm: DJ Joey D
6:00 pm: UAD
7:30 pm: Los Blancos

   

Preview: Come From Away
Syracuse Stage
James Vásquez, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An uplifting musical about open doors and open hearts.

On September 11, 2001, 38 planes were diverted to Gander Airport after U.S. airspace was indefinitely closed, stranding 7,000 international travelers in Newfoundland and immediately doubling the population of a tiny, isolated island town. The townspeople quickly respond with heroic hospitality, inviting the beleaguered travelers into their bars, their homes, and their hearts. Set to rousing, rowdy, and rough-hewn folk songs, Come From Away is the Tony Award-winning true story of human decency, a triumphant and inspiring tribute to an unforgettable moment in history, and a one-of-a-kind musical that proves "no man is an island, but an island makes a man."

   

Friday, September 18, 2026

Becoming
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Jacqueline Adamo: abstract oil paintings
Katherine Korba: abstracted ceramic forms
Karen Convertino: enamel jewelry

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

A celebration of Italian food, music, and culture.

For more information, visit festaitalianasyracuse.org.

MAIN STAGE
4:30 pm: Brass Inc.
6:30 pm: The Ripcords
9:00 pm: Prime Time Horns

Strolling 6:00–8:00 pm: Paolo & Felice

SMALL STAGE
11:30 am: Just Joe
1:30 pm: Italian Music
4:00 pm: The Strangers
6:30 pm: Billionaires
9:00 pm: Soul Injection

   

Emma's Revolution
Folkus Project

Price: $20 regular, $17 Folkus members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries & Sandy O is known for fearless, truth-telling lyrics and melodies you can't resist singing. Performances feature soaring harmonies and lush acoustic instruments.

   

Jason Aldean: Songs About Us Tour 2026, with Chase Matthew, Mackenzie Carpenter, Dee Jay Silver
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Tickets

   

Guitar Concert: Anthony LaLena
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

Price: Free
Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Anthony LaLena is a guitarist and musicologist based in Rochester, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Musicology at SUNY Geneseo, teaching courses on Western classical, jazz, and American popular music. He performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, with current projects including the LaLena-Marcondes guitar duo, a duo with soprano Robin Steitz, and the New York Guitar Quartet. Committed to historically informed performance, he plays Baroque, 19th-century, and early-20th-century gut-strung guitars, and has studied early music in Spain and with figures like Kenneth Cooper and Paul O'Dette.

   

Opening: Come From Away
Syracuse Stage
James Vásquez, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An uplifting musical about open doors and open hearts.

On September 11, 2001, 38 planes were diverted to Gander Airport after U.S. airspace was indefinitely closed, stranding 7,000 international travelers in Newfoundland and immediately doubling the population of a tiny, isolated island town. The townspeople quickly respond with heroic hospitality, inviting the beleaguered travelers into their bars, their homes, and their hearts. Set to rousing, rowdy, and rough-hewn folk songs, Come From Away is the Tony Award-winning true story of human decency, a triumphant and inspiring tribute to an unforgettable moment in history, and a one-of-a-kind musical that proves "no man is an island, but an island makes a man."