Saturday, July 29, 2023

People Places and Things
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

David Gandino: photography collection from a lifetime of observing
Joyce Backus: artglass and mixed media sculpture and jewelry

Read a review!

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Pick & 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 an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

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.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

CNY Artist Initiative: Mara Baldwin
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mara Baldwin's work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley where she teaches drawing at Cornell University and Bard College, respectively. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall.

Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

This spectacular three-day showcase of the country's most talented artists, craftspeople, and entertainers features more than 160 artists representing 25 states and Canada. More than 50,000 visitors will shop and browse among the art and craft exhibits and enjoy a wide variety of music, multi-cultural performances, summer refreshments, and participatory activities.

For more information, visit downtownsyracuse.com/syracuse-arts-and-crafts-festival/

Northeast Jazz and Wine Festival
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
12:00 pm: CNY Jazz Youth Orchestra
1:00 pm: CNY Jazz Alumni Trio
2:00 pm: Luke Hart Quartet
3:00 pm: Brig Juice
4:00 pm: Easy Money Big Band
6:00 pm: Lindsey Holland
7:45 pm: Lucas Pino with Mack, Lamb, and Sorgen
9:45 pm: Jumaane Smith

Mardi Gras Pavilion
5:00 pm: Nick DiMaria's CNY Jazz Jam
7:00 pm: Nick DiMaria's CNY Jazz Jam
9:00 pm: Nick DiMaria's CNY Jazz Jam

World Beat Pavilion
5:00 pm: Trumptight315
7:00 pm: Trumptight315
9:00 pm: Trumptight315

matchbox twenty
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

matchbox twenty, originally scheduled for 7/19/20, 7/23/21, 7/30/22, has been rescheduled to July 29, 2023. Tickets will be honored for the new date.

Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Béla Fleck, banjo

Robinson Pavilion at Anyela's Vineyards
2433 W. Lake Rd., Skaneateles

Banjo king Béla Fleck is at the epicenter of American folk and bluegrass – but the 15-time Grammy winner has also "baffled the Grammy awards" (New York Times), winning for country, jazz, pop, world music, classical crossover, and folk. Returning to "the root of my musical soul," as he puts it, Fleck has assembled a large ensemble of fellow bluegrass all-stars, including the charismatic Grammy-nominated singer, Sierra Hull; ever a restless explorer, Fleck is sure to seek out new musical terrain.

Program to be announced from the stage.

Heathers: The Musical
Central New York Playhouse

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Based on the classic 1989 film. Westerberg High is ruled by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather, and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. But misfit Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a new boyfriend, the dark and sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their place — six feet under.

Chicago: The Musical
Covey Theatre Company

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Kander & Ebb's scandalously popular, Jazz-era musical will re-inaugurate CNY's award-winning Covey Theater Company. Featuring the hit songs "All That Jazz," "Cell Block Tango," and "Razzle Dazzle," audiences are in for a rollicking good time with Velma, Roxie, and the Merry Murderesses of Cook County Jail!

Sunday, July 30, 2023

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

CNY Artist Initiative: Mara Baldwin
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mara Baldwin's work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley where she teaches drawing at Cornell University and Bard College, respectively. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

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.

Pick & 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 an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

This spectacular three-day showcase of the country's most talented artists, craftspeople, and entertainers features more than 160 artists representing 25 states and Canada. More than 50,000 visitors will shop and browse among the art and craft exhibits and enjoy a wide variety of music, multi-cultural performances, summer refreshments, and participatory activities.

For more information, visit downtownsyracuse.com/syracuse-arts-and-crafts-festival/

Summer Surprises
Silverwood Clarinet Choir

Price: Free, but registration required
Private Residence

This widely diversified concert will include classical, jazz, popular, folk music, original premiere performances and much more. Frederick Willard is conducting Silverwood and arranged a special Bacharach medley for this concert. Brad Willard will conduct his new arrangement of "The Longest Day." You will enjoy "El Condor Pasa" (Paul Simon & Garfunkel) with a guest cellist joining members of Silverwood.

Bring your blanket or chair and feel free to bring refreshments/drinks to this outdoor concert in Manlius. Registration is free by email information@silverwoodclarinet.com.

Rain location: Christ Church, 407 East Seneca St., Manlius

Monday, July 31, 2023

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

Mark Stuart
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Americana/folk

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

People Places and Things
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

David Gandino: photography collection from a lifetime of observing
Joyce Backus: artglass and mixed media sculpture and jewelry

Read a review!

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

Mudvayne: The Psychotherapy Sessions
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Jazz at Timber Banks: Nancy Kelly
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

People Places and Things
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

David Gandino: photography collection from a lifetime of observing
Joyce Backus: artglass and mixed media sculpture and jewelry

Read a review!

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Pick & 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 an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

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.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

CNY Artist Initiative: Mara Baldwin
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mara Baldwin's work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley where she teaches drawing at Cornell University and Bard College, respectively. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall.

Party in the Square: Sophistafunk, Wagner3000

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Fr more information, visit syrpartyinthesquare.com.

Power of Two
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Folk rock

Yarn
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

You might expect a band that calls itself Yarn to, naturally, tend to spin a yarn or two. "that's what we do, we tell stories, live and in the studio, truth, and fiction" singer/songwriter Blake Christiana insists. "We don't always opt for consistency. There's a different vibe onstage from what comes through in our recordings. There's a difference in every show as well, you never know what you're going to get."

Thursday, August 3, 2023

People Places and Things
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

David Gandino: photography collection from a lifetime of observing
Joyce Backus: artglass and mixed media sculpture and jewelry

Read a review!

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

CNY Artist Initiative: Mara Baldwin
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mara Baldwin's work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley where she teaches drawing at Cornell University and Bard College, respectively. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

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.

Pick & 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 an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Jazz in the City: The Blacklites
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Dunk & Bright lawn
2648 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Live music, plus food vendors, arts and crafts, and free health screenings.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Godsmack and Staind
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

David Wax Museum
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

David Wax Museum blends the ancient and ever-relevant rhythms of traditional Mexican music with amber pop hues, their unabashed rock riffs emanating an air of AM radio circa 1975, all tethered together by seductive harmonies. It's a seamless tapestry of boundless curiosity, an artful display of what Wax frames as "the lines blurring and dissolving between musical cultures and eras." As it humbly beckons listeners to fulfill its title, You Must Change Your Life sounds out a thousand minor- and major-key ways one can do just that.

Inventing Mozart
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Kearstin Piper Brown, soprano

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Mozart Exultate Jubilate for soprano and strings, K. 165
Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
Vijay Iyer Mozart Effects
Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60

Following Harriet
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Kearstin Piper Brown, soprano

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The Festival celebrates the 200th anniversary of Harriet Tubman's birth with a program of American music on themes of struggle and hope.

Barber Cello Sonata
William Grant Still Violin Suite
Nailah Nombeko Fortitude (World Premiere, commissioned by the Skaneateles Festival)
American Songbook Selections by Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and George Gershwin

Montana Smith and the Curse of the Golden Crocodile
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Montana Smith has snatched the Golden Crocodile of the Amazon from its South American home. Now it's about to be unveiled at the Municipal Museum of Natural History, but everyone's been acting rather strangely. Could it be the dreaded Curse of the Golden Crocodile? Hmm? Join us for the gala event of the season to find out (but don't turn your back on the museum staff).

Chicago: The Musical
Covey Theatre Company

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Kander & Ebb's scandalously popular, Jazz-era musical will re-inaugurate CNY's award-winning Covey Theater Company. Featuring the hit songs "All That Jazz," "Cell Block Tango," and "Razzle Dazzle," audiences are in for a rollicking good time with Velma, Roxie, and the Merry Murderesses of Cook County Jail!

Friday, August 4, 2023

People Places and Things
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

David Gandino: photography collection from a lifetime of observing
Joyce Backus: artglass and mixed media sculpture and jewelry

Read a review!

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Pick & 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 an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

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.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

CNY Artist Initiative: Mara Baldwin
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mara Baldwin's work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley where she teaches drawing at Cornell University and Bard College, respectively. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall.

Macedonian Festival

Price: Free
St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd., Onondaga

Macedonian music, folk dances, and ethnic food.

For more information, visit stgeorgemoc.com

*SOLD OUT* Dead to the Core on the Patio
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, that celebrates the music of the Grateful Dead—not through note-for-note re-creations but by playing the songs their own way, letting them grow and evolve collaboratively in the true spirit of the Dead.

West Side Story
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Chicago: The Musical
Covey Theatre Company

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Kander & Ebb's scandalously popular, Jazz-era musical will re-inaugurate CNY's award-winning Covey Theater Company. Featuring the hit songs "All That Jazz," "Cell Block Tango," and "Razzle Dazzle," audiences are in for a rollicking good time with Velma, Roxie, and the Merry Murderesses of Cook County Jail!

Saturday, August 5, 2023

People Places and Things
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

David Gandino: photography collection from a lifetime of observing
Joyce Backus: artglass and mixed media sculpture and jewelry

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Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

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CNY Artist Initiative: Mara Baldwin
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mara Baldwin's work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley where she teaches drawing at Cornell University and Bard College, respectively. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

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.

Pick & 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 an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Macedonian Festival

Price: Free
St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd., Onondaga

Macedonian music, folk dances, and ethnic food.

For more information, visit stgeorgemoc.com

Kelli O’Hara: Songs From My Heart
Skaneateles Festival

Robinson Pavilion at Anyela's Vineyards
2433 W. Lake Rd., Skaneateles

Kelli O'Hara, star of stage and screen, has established herself as one of Broadway's greatest leading ladies. Her portrayal of Anna in The King and I garnered her the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical; she recently starred in HBO's The Gilded Age and at the Metropolitan Opera in The Hours, and has numerous Grammy, Emmy, and Olivier nominations. She shares a selection of her favorite Broadway songs.

West Side Story
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Chicago: The Musical
Covey Theatre Company

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Kander & Ebb's scandalously popular, Jazz-era musical will re-inaugurate CNY's award-winning Covey Theater Company. Featuring the hit songs "All That Jazz," "Cell Block Tango," and "Razzle Dazzle," audiences are in for a rollicking good time with Velma, Roxie, and the Merry Murderesses of Cook County Jail!