Friday, October 9, 2026

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

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.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

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.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

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.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
Art in the Atrium Gallery (formerly City Hall Commons)
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

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.

   

Beth Nielsen Chapman
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Beth Nielsen Chapman's diverse body of work spans 15 albums and seven #1 hits, including compositions that have been recorded by Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bette Midler, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, the Indigo Girls, and Keb Mo' and her music has been featured in film and TV.

Tickets

   

Babelfest 2026: Festival of New American Plays
Redhouse

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

6:00 pm: So What If You Love Me?, by Blondean Young (staged reading)
8:00 pm: Harry, Bess, and Alonzo, An Imagined History, by Fred Grandy (staged reading)

Returning after a high-energy inaugural year, Babelfest showcases new and developing plays as part of a 4-day festival that centers bold voices and fearless experimentation.

Because the future of theatre doesn't wait for a mainstage slot. It explodes onto the scene.

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 10, 2026

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

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.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

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.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
Art in the Atrium Gallery (formerly City Hall Commons)
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

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.

   

Dracula
Syracuse City Ballet

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Experience the haunting beauty of Dracula, a thrilling full-length ballet featuring dramatic choreography, captivating music, and a timeless story of love, mystery, and the supernatural.

Tickets

   

Dracula
Syracuse City Ballet

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Experience the haunting beauty of Dracula, a thrilling full-length ballet featuring dramatic choreography, captivating music, and a timeless story of love, mystery, and the supernatural.

Tickets

   

Miller & the Other Sinners
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Miller and The Other Sinners is: David Michael Miller ("Miller") on vocals & guitars, Steve Davis on keys, organ, key bass, and vocals, Isaiah Griffin on drums & percussion, Dalton Sharp on saxophone, and for the last 2 years, Paul Gaspar on trumpet.

Tickets

   

Mira Grimm and the Reapers
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15–$20 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

   

Babelfest 2026: Festival of New American Plays
Redhouse

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

2:00 pm: The United States of Us, book and lyrics by Alan Gordon, music by Joy Son (staged reading)
4:00 pm: So What If You Love Me?, by Blondean Young (staged reading)
6:00 pm: Harry, Bess, and Alonzo, An Imagined History, by Fred Grandy (staged reading)
8:00 pm: Mini-Babel Short Play Festival:
    Someone Enters, by Binaifer Dabu
    Spring Again, by Jacob Lutsky
    No Honor Among Squirrels, by Len Fonte
     Sing It Again, by Gemma Cooper-Novack
    To Raqqa with Love, by Zizi Majid

Returning after a high-energy inaugural year, Babelfest showcases new and developing plays as part of a 4-day festival that centers bold voices and fearless experimentation.

Because the future of theatre doesn't wait for a mainstage slot. It explodes onto the scene.

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 11, 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.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

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.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
Art in the Atrium Gallery (formerly City Hall Commons)
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

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.

   

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

Casual Series: Harmonious Winds
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Gounod Petite Symphonie (Little Symphony for Wind Instruments)
Dvorak Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44, B. 77

Tickets

   

Nachos & Blancos
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Join us for our once-a-month rockin' rhythm and roots par-tay! It's the best hang in town, and we can't think of a better way to spend Sunday afternoon than grooving to the tasty tunes of the mighty Los Blancos.

Tickets

   

Babelfest 2026: Festival of New American Plays
Redhouse

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

2:00 pm: Harry, Bess, and Alonzo, An Imagined History, by Fred Grandy (staged reading)
2:00 pm: Mini-Babel Short Play Festival:
    Someone Enters, by Binaifer Dabu
    Spring Again, by Jacob Lutsky
    No Honor Among Squirrels, by Len Fonte
     Sing It Again, by Gemma Cooper-Novack
    To Raqqa with Love, by Zizi Majid
6:00 pm: Mini-Babel Short Play Festival:
    Someone Enters, by Binaifer Dabu
    Spring Again, by Jacob Lutsky
    No Honor Among Squirrels, by Len Fonte
     Sing It Again, by Gemma Cooper-Novack
    To Raqqa with Love, by Zizi Majid

Returning after a high-energy inaugural year, Babelfest showcases new and developing plays as part of a 4-day festival that centers bold voices and fearless experimentation.

Because the future of theatre doesn't wait for a mainstage slot. It explodes onto the scene.

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."

   

Monday, October 12, 2026

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

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, October 14, 2026

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

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.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

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.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

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.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
Art in the Atrium Gallery (formerly City Hall Commons)
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

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.

   

La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
José Miguel Hernández Hurtado, director

Price: $10
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Spanish-language play by Federico García Lorca, adapted by Naomi Zulueta Zamora and Kimberly Seipio Santana; music and lighting by Brad Beckman; assistant director Lily Beckman. Join us in supporting these talented young artists.

   

Thursday, October 15, 2026

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

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.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

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.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
Art in the Atrium Gallery (formerly City Hall Commons)
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

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.

   

La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
José Miguel Hernández Hurtado, director

Price: $10
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Spanish-language play by Federico García Lorca, adapted by Naomi Zulueta Zamora and Kimberly Seipio Santana; music and lighting by Brad Beckman; assistant director Lily Beckman. Join us in supporting these talented young artists.

   

Friday, October 16, 2026

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

   

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.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

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.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

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.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
Art in the Atrium Gallery (formerly City Hall Commons)
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

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.

   

Jake Blount
Folkus Project

Price: $25 regular, $22 Folkus members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An award-winning scholar and performer of Black folk music, initially recognized for his skill as a string band musician, Jake Blount has charted an unprecedented, Afrofuturist course on his pilgrimage through sound archives and song collections.

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We Are the Tigers
CNY Playhouse
Emily Harrington, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Tigers' high school cheerleading squad is meeting for their annual sleepover at captain Riley's house, and they've brought plenty of their teenage troubles with them. Love triangles, a lustful boyfriend, and hurt feelings over a now-viral cheer stunt gone wrong complicate their team-bonding activities. So does the untimely death of one of their own in the front yard. Will that be the only murder? Who did it?

With a pop-driven, belting score and a seriously silly book, We Are the Tigers will have audiences cheering for The Tigers as these girls learn to cheer for themselves.

Book, music, and lyrics by Preston Max Allen.

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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
José Miguel Hernández Hurtado, director

Price: $10
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Spanish-language play by Federico García Lorca, adapted by Naomi Zulueta Zamora and Kimberly Seipio Santana; music and lighting by Brad Beckman; assistant director Lily Beckman. Join us in supporting these talented young artists.

   

The Utterly Predictable Rise and Fall of Congressman Cassidy Brown
Covey Theatre Company
Chelsea Colton, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Sick of politics? So are we! Written by Covey artistic director Garrett August Heater, this diabolically funny new comedy skewers the hypocrisy of American politics. Featuring an all-star cast, this full production will have you doubled over in laughter from lights up until bows.

Politicians only face accountability in comedies! The meteoric rise and spectacular flameout of America's youngest congressman enjoys a world premiere right before the mid-term elections! Does he have your vote?

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Preview: Rent
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lainie Sakakura, director

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

La Vie Boheme!

Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical showcases a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan's East Village: Aspiring filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, free-spirited Mimi and Angel, buttoned-up Joanne, and wild-child performance artist Maureen. Their dreams, losses, and loves weave through this bohemian portrait of 1980s New York City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS.