Sunday, September 27, 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.

   

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

The Westcott Street Cultural Fair is an annual celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of the Westcott neighborhood through its culture, arts, food, organizations and activities for families and students.

For more information, visit westcottstreetfair.org

   

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."

   

Monday, September 28, 2026

Monday Night Sessions with Actual Proof
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A night of jazz fusion and friendship.

   

Tuesday, September 29, 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.

   

Gary Shteyngart
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Gary Shteyngart is a New York Times bestselling author known for his blistering humor and satirical takedown of contemporary society, as well as his compassionate examination of modern love and loss. He is author of six novels, a memoir, and essays for The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Newest book is Vera, or Faith. Born in Russia, Shteyngart explores life as an immigrant and an American.

Tickets

   

Music for Silent Film: Surrealist American Silent Shorts, and the Great Buster Keaton
Society for New Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors, children 12 and under free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Original music by Ed Ruchalski accompanying three short silent films that reflect different surrealist styles and ideas.

* The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, 13 minutes
* The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928), 13 minutes
* One Week (1920), 25 minutes

Tickets available through the LeMoyne box office, password = NEWMUSIC

   

Wednesday, September 30, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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, October 1, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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, October 2, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Joe Crookston
Folkus Project

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

From touring with Gordon Lightfoot, headlining major U.S. festivals, receiving Folk Alliance International "Album of the Year," to being named Folk Alliance International Artist-in-Residence, Joe Crookston is on fire.

   

Paris
NYS Baroque

Price: $32 regular, $10 student/low income
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

A hub of musical activity in the 18th century, Paris inspired and welcomed composers such as Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Telemann, Blavet, and Marais. At court and in private salons, audiences mingled with musicians and heard the latest in musical styles.

Tickets

   

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."

   

Saturday, October 3, 2026

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Pops Series: American Songbook
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor
Featuring Jimmie Herrod, vocalist

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

America's Got Talent finalist Jimmie Herrod is featured in an American Songbook program curated by Sean O'Loughlin.

Tickets

   

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."

   

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."

   

Sunday, October 4, 2026

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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."