Wednesday, December 13, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Holiday Hues
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic with mixed media paintings reflecting nature
Geoff Navias: sacred vessels made from trees felled by climate change storms
Susan Machamer: floral collection sculptural jewelry made with precious metal and unique gemstones
Marna Bell: local nature photography

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Festival of Trees & Light
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $14 non-member, $10 member, $5 kids under 12, free for children under 3
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

11:00 am: Durgee Junior High School Orchestra
11:45 am: Eric Ziegler, guitarist
11:45 am: Lincoln Middle School Chorus
3:30 pm: Strathmore Brass Quintet

Experience the magic of the season at the Everson!

The Everson is proud to present the 2023 Festival of Trees & Light, a beloved Central New York holiday tradition.

Now in its 38th year, the Festival will offer more performances and activities than ever!

A wide variety of trees, wreaths, and other seasonal items will be on display and available for purchase, and the Museum Gift Shop will have plenty of selections for your holiday gift-giving. Plan on making the Festival of Trees & Light part of your holiday season.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Lindsey Stirling: Snow Waltz Tour
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

For over a decade, Lindsey Stirling has enchanted audiences across the globe by performing a certain spellbinding magic with her electronic violin, dreaming up an exquisitely composed yet boldly inventive sound entirely her own. On her new album Snow Waltz, the classically trained musician/songwriter/dancer/author finds herself fully in her element, sharing a selection of holiday classics and original songs that evoke intense emotion through her immersive arrangements and mesmerizing melodies.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

Thursday, December 14, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Holiday Hues
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic with mixed media paintings reflecting nature
Geoff Navias: sacred vessels made from trees felled by climate change storms
Susan Machamer: floral collection sculptural jewelry made with precious metal and unique gemstones
Marna Bell: local nature photography

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Festival of Trees & Light
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $14 non-member, $10 member, $5 kids under 12, free for children under 3
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

11:00 am: Frazer PK-8 School Band and Orchestra
11:30 am: Chestnut Hill Middle School Orchestras
3:00 pm: The Bright Forever (Megan Hook Guitar and Vocals)
4:00 pm: Sova Violin and Viola Studio
5:00 pm: SCSD Modern Orchestra
5:30–8:00 pm: Holiday-Themed Open Figure Drawing
7:00 pm: The Bright Forever (Megan Hook Guitar and Vocals)

Experience the magic of the season at the Everson!

The Everson is proud to present the 2023 Festival of Trees & Light, a beloved Central New York holiday tradition.

Now in its 38th year, the Festival will offer more performances and activities than ever!

A wide variety of trees, wreaths, and other seasonal items will be on display and available for purchase, and the Museum Gift Shop will have plenty of selections for your holiday gift-giving. Plan on making the Festival of Trees & Light part of your holiday season.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Candlelight Series: A Tribute To Taylor Swift

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations in Syracuse. Discover the music of Taylor Swift under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Candlelight Series: A Tribute To Taylor Swift

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations in Syracuse. Discover the music of Taylor Swift under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go south fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Redhouse

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

Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life's great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes, and celebrate the joy of friendship. A perfect addition to holiday activities for families, this classic musical will bring happiness to audiences of all ages.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

Friday, December 15, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Holiday Hues
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic with mixed media paintings reflecting nature
Geoff Navias: sacred vessels made from trees felled by climate change storms
Susan Machamer: floral collection sculptural jewelry made with precious metal and unique gemstones
Marna Bell: local nature photography

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.

Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."

Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.

Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Festival of Trees & Light
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $14 non-member, $10 member, $5 kids under 12, free for children under 3
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

11:00 am: Festival Orchestras Celebration featuring Liverpool High School Symphonic Orchestra, Baker (Baldwinsville) High School Orchestra, Skaneateles High School Orchestra
11:00 am: Solvay Middle School Jazz Band
12:30 pm: Porter Elementary School Chorus

Experience the magic of the season at the Everson!

The Everson is proud to present the 2023 Festival of Trees & Light, a beloved Central New York holiday tradition.

Now in its 38th year, the Festival will offer more performances and activities than ever!

A wide variety of trees, wreaths, and other seasonal items will be on display and available for purchase, and the Museum Gift Shop will have plenty of selections for your holiday gift-giving. Plan on making the Festival of Trees & Light part of your holiday season.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

Expressive Inclusion
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"Expressive Inclusion" features artists from ARC Herkimer and ARISE. "Expressive Inclusion" draws select work from ARISE's "Unique" exhibit formerly displayed at the Everson and ARC Herkimer's "Art without Boundaries" which traveled around the region.

ARISE for 23 years has published UNIQUE Art and Literary Magazine to showcase the powerful work of people who identify as having a disability. Each artist or writer not only contributes their piece to the magazine but also writes a few sentences about how their experience with disability influences their work. A panel of community judges selects the items to be published each summer.

ARC Herkimer's "Art Without Boundaries" allows audiences to view artwork by individuals with disabilities as well as work created by ARC Herkimer staff.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Fayetteville Free Library Film Series: Cinema Paradiso

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Winter Lights
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Please join the Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus in celebrating some of the many wintertime and holiday traditions celebrated with candles, stars, twinkle lights, and the moon above. There will be joyous renditions of popular holiday favorites, a capella harmonies of traditional folk songs, and maybe even a sing along!

Individual members of SGLC will take to the stage with some cabaret numbers before intermission, and in-person attendees can participate in the famed holiday raffle. So come and celebrate a turn toward longer days with our celebration of lights!

The performance will also be live streamed.

In-person tickets
Streaming tickets

Almost Queen: A Tribute to Queen
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The most authentic Queen live show since the days of Queen themselves. A deliberate four piece band, Almost Queen delivers a live performance showcasing signature four-part harmonies and intricate musical interludes. Donning genuine costumes, Almost Queen recaptures the live energy and precision that is the ultimate Queen experience.

*CANCELLED* All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Syracuse Opera

Tucker Missionary Baptist Church
515 Oakwood Ave., Syracuse

All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 promises to move audiences with a remarkable true story of an extraordinary night during World War I, when Allied and German soldiers set down their weapons to enjoy food and drink, camaraderie, music, and peace. Written by Peter Rothstein, the opera will be performed in English.

Finals
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Finals, a play by Martikah Williams, offers a unique perspective on the challenges faced by a group of young Black women in higher education. Williams brings her vision to life in a production that seamlessly combines depth, humor, and the enchantment of Black Girl Magic. Drawing inspiration from her own university experiences, Finals provides a rare glimpse into Black women's resilience, intelligence, and humor as they navigate the complexities of higher education.

Fiddler on the Roof
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $30
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, Fiddler on the Roof's universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality, and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy, and sadness.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Redhouse

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

Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life's great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes, and celebrate the joy of friendship. A perfect addition to holiday activities for families, this classic musical will bring happiness to audiences of all ages.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

Saturday, December 16, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Holiday Hues
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic with mixed media paintings reflecting nature
Geoff Navias: sacred vessels made from trees felled by climate change storms
Susan Machamer: floral collection sculptural jewelry made with precious metal and unique gemstones
Marna Bell: local nature photography

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

Festival of Trees & Light
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $14 non-member, $10 member, $5 kids under 12, free for children under 3
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

10:30 am: Music School of CNY Guitar Ensemble
11:00 am: Brig Juice Holiday Brass
12:00 pm: The Bright Forever (Megan Hook Guitar and Vocals)
1:30 pm: Sentinel Vocal Ensemble
3:00 pm: Wellwood Chamber Group

Experience the magic of the season at the Everson!

The Everson is proud to present the 2023 Festival of Trees & Light, a beloved Central New York holiday tradition.

Now in its 38th year, the Festival will offer more performances and activities than ever!

A wide variety of trees, wreaths, and other seasonal items will be on display and available for purchase, and the Museum Gift Shop will have plenty of selections for your holiday gift-giving. Plan on making the Festival of Trees & Light part of your holiday season.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

Expressive Inclusion
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"Expressive Inclusion" features artists from ARC Herkimer and ARISE. "Expressive Inclusion" draws select work from ARISE's "Unique" exhibit formerly displayed at the Everson and ARC Herkimer's "Art without Boundaries" which traveled around the region.

ARISE for 23 years has published UNIQUE Art and Literary Magazine to showcase the powerful work of people who identify as having a disability. Each artist or writer not only contributes their piece to the magazine but also writes a few sentences about how their experience with disability influences their work. A panel of community judges selects the items to be published each summer.

ARC Herkimer's "Art Without Boundaries" allows audiences to view artwork by individuals with disabilities as well as work created by ARC Herkimer staff.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

Contemporary Saxophone in Four Voices
Civic Morning Musicals
Daniel Sclafani, saxophone

Price: $10
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Keuris Canzone, 1991
Hurel Opcit, 1983
Dench 'e/meth, 1995
Eckardt Still, 2007

Pops Series: Home for the Holidays
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse Pops Chorus
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor
Featuring Kay Weber, vocalist

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

Bring family and friends together to experience Symphoria's annual Holiday Pops!

Winter Lights
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Please join the Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus in celebrating some of the many wintertime and holiday traditions celebrated with candles, stars, twinkle lights, and the moon above. There will be joyous renditions of popular holiday favorites, a capella harmonies of traditional folk songs, and maybe even a sing along!

Individual members of SGLC will take to the stage with some cabaret numbers before intermission, and in-person attendees can participate in the famed holiday raffle. So come and celebrate a turn toward longer days with our celebration of lights!

The performance will also be live streamed.

In-person tickets
Streaming tickets

Winter Solstice Concert: Joy as Resistance
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor

Price: $5-$30 sliding scale
University United Methodist Church
1085 E. Genesee St. (corner of University Ave.), Syracuse

The concert will also be live-streamed to SCC Facebook and YouTube

Ricardo Saeb
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

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

Mexican guitarist Ricardo Saeb has performed in venues across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. His performances have been described as "perfectly balanced," "of an exquisite subtlety," and "simply spectacular." His tours have taken him to cities as diverse as Querétaro, Beirut, New York, Ciudad Juárez, Boston, Dallas, and Córdoba. Ricardo Saeb has appeared as a guest artist at international festivals such as the Festival Internacional de Música de Morelia, Festival Internacional Chihuahua, Chicago's Latin American Guitar Festival, among others.

Ricardo has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras in Mexico and the USA, including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, La Orquesta Filarmónica del Estado de Chihuahua, University of Kentucky's Philharmonia, and the Camerata di Sant'Antonio, to name a few. Ricardo has also collaborated with various artists and ensembles including tenor Manuel Castillo, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, pianist Cliff Jackson, the Buffalo Chamber Players, flautist Nicole Murray, and is featured in jazz saxophonist, Rusty Crutcher's album, Romances Latinos.

Pops Series: Home for the Holidays
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse Pops Chorus
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor
Featuring Kay Weber, vocalist

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

Bring family and friends together to experience Symphoria's annual Holiday Pops!

Billy Strings
The Oncenter

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Michigan-born and now Nashville-based, Billy Strings is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician, who arrived on the scene as "one of string music's most dynamic young stars" (Rolling Stone). Billy Strings' 2023 tour further celebrates the release of Strings' widely acclaimed new album, Renewal, out now via Rounder Records. With the record's sixteen tracks, Strings shares a more personal and honest perspective through his songwriting, while incorporating his wide range of influences with elements of bluegrass, classic rock, metal, psychedelic music and more.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Redhouse

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

Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life's great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes, and celebrate the joy of friendship. A perfect addition to holiday activities for families, this classic musical will bring happiness to audiences of all ages.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

Fiddler on the Roof
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $30
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, Fiddler on the Roof's universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality, and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy, and sadness.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Redhouse

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

Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life's great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes, and celebrate the joy of friendship. A perfect addition to holiday activities for families, this classic musical will bring happiness to audiences of all ages.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

Sunday, December 17, 2023

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Expressive Inclusion
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"Expressive Inclusion" features artists from ARC Herkimer and ARISE. "Expressive Inclusion" draws select work from ARISE's "Unique" exhibit formerly displayed at the Everson and ARC Herkimer's "Art without Boundaries" which traveled around the region.

ARISE for 23 years has published UNIQUE Art and Literary Magazine to showcase the powerful work of people who identify as having a disability. Each artist or writer not only contributes their piece to the magazine but also writes a few sentences about how their experience with disability influences their work. A panel of community judges selects the items to be published each summer.

ARC Herkimer's "Art Without Boundaries" allows audiences to view artwork by individuals with disabilities as well as work created by ARC Herkimer staff.

Resounding Reeds
Silverwood Clarinet Choir
Frederick Willard, conductor

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Music of the season ranging from classical to popular will entertain all ages. Debussy's "Ballet from Petite Suite," Dupre's "Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant" and Prokofiev's "Overture on Hebrew Themes" will be performed along with many popular seasonal pieces such as "Christmas Festival," "Reindeer Rag," "Parade of the Tin Soldiers," "A Christmas Jazz Medley" and much more.

Songs of a Shining Holiday
MasterWorks Chorale
Michael Kringer, conductor

Price: Suggested donation $10 adults
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Choral treasures of a magical season, aglow with the harmony of a string quartet. Your heart will be singing in the key of joy!

Behold, the Handmaid of the Lord
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 under age 30, $5 students, children free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Marian music for the season:
Du Fay Missa Ecce ancilla Domini
Settings of Alma redemptoris mater by Ockeghem, Victoria, Byrd, Phillips

Horns and Harmonies
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Holiday Short Play Reading
Armory Square Playwrights

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Script-in-hand readings of new holiday short plays.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Redhouse

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

Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life's great questions as they play baseball, struggle with homework, sing songs, swoon over their crushes, and celebrate the joy of friendship. A perfect addition to holiday activities for families, this classic musical will bring happiness to audiences of all ages.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

Monday, December 18, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Holiday Hues
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic with mixed media paintings reflecting nature
Geoff Navias: sacred vessels made from trees felled by climate change storms
Susan Machamer: floral collection sculptural jewelry made with precious metal and unique gemstones
Marna Bell: local nature photography

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

Jazz at Timber Banks: Joanna Jewett
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

2023 Drawing on Talent: Members' Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Holiday Hues
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic with mixed media paintings reflecting nature
Geoff Navias: sacred vessels made from trees felled by climate change storms
Susan Machamer: floral collection sculptural jewelry made with precious metal and unique gemstones
Marna Bell: local nature photography

38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $4 children 3–17, free ages 2 and under (museum members free)
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s canal town street scene with gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows.

A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.

Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.

Pick and Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art—but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you "Pick & Mix," a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.

Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

476 S. Salina St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created everything from jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

William Mazza: Forest for Trees
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

William Mazza, a collective member of Syracuse's Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City, uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging projects are drawings, paintings, animations, and video created by translating subjects such as lived environments, spatial relocations, television programs, or text into constructions of landscape.

While Mazza responds to his surroundings in many exploratory ways, in this, his Literary Landscape series exhibited with us, he mines the words from texts written by such authors as Angela Davis, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and Susan Sontag. He then separates them into the letters that fill one written page ... and one painting.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Melissa Rain Anderson, director

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

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, audiences will warm their hearts along with the memorable cast, the lush and joyous Candlelight Carol, and the awe-inspiring 2 Ring Circus. Share the season with the people you love!

Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David DeBerry with music orchestration by Gregg Coffin. Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama.