Friday, June 5, 2026

Under the Waves
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charles Cowell: paintings inspired by the artist's diving experiences
R. Jason Howard: glass sculpture
Susan Machamer: metalsmith jewelry

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

CNY Artist Initiative: Ann Clark: Interior Landscapes
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ann Clarke is a celebrated fiber artist originally from Rochester, NY. Clarke's newest series, Interior Landscapes, includes large-scale rugs installed on walls for museum visitors to contemplate. Dreamlike images of trees challenge us to consider the vulnerability of our wooded landscapes. Oversized, empty chairs remind us of the consequences of loss — of both people and the environment in which we make our homes.

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Smörgåsbord
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring works by Peter Allen, Dennis Kinsey, CJ Hodge, Tyrel De Bique, Steve Pearlman, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Robert Poormon, and Steve Nyland.

Hues of 'Cuse: Reflecting Lives Lived in Syracuse and CNY
Art in the Atrium

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

Exciting artwork of various styles by local artists, and interactive elements inviting you to contribute to an exhibit exploring experiences of life in the CNY Region.

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Food and music festival.

For more information, visit www.tasteofsyracuse.com.

Main Stage
12:00-1:00 pm: Tim Herron
4:00-5:00 pm: Flatline
5:30-6:30 pm: Razbari Sumthing
7:00-8:30 pm: When We Were Thirty
9:00-10:30 pm: Name Brand Covers

Clinton St. Stage
12:00-1:10 pm: Colin Aberdeen
5:00-6:00 pm: Jam Theory
6:20-7:50 pm: Dangerous Type
8:20-10:00 pm: Prime Time 30th Anniversary Show

Erie Blvd. Stage
12:00-1:30 pm: McArdell & Westers
5:00-5:45 pm: Dylan Michael
6:05-7:25 pm: Joe Driscoll
7:35-8:50 pm: Skunk City
9:00-10:30 pm: Sophistafunk

Historic Ghostwalk: Voices from the Valley
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $20 regular, $15 OHA members. Advance purchase required.
Heath Park
5559 S. Salina St., Syracuse

From its early days as The Hollow to present-day Nedrow, The Valley is rich with stories waiting to be rediscovered. Walk, listen, and experience the voices that shaped this place.

Advance purchase is required; tickets not sold at tour location. Walking tours leave every 15 minutes. Check in at the Heath Park entrance at the intersection of Richfield Avenue and Coldbrook Drive.

Hot Mulligan with guests Joyce Manor, Saturdays At Your Place, and Koyo
Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard

Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd., Lafayette

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Redhouse
Temar Underwood, director

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

Inspired by the Grammy-award winning album of the same name and 15-time Tony nominated musical. Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys' lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane's drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.

Lyrics by Alanis Morissette; music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballary, book by Diablo Cody.

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

Under the Waves
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charles Cowell: paintings inspired by the artist's diving experiences
R. Jason Howard: glass sculpture
Susan Machamer: metalsmith jewelry

CNY Artist Initiative: Ann Clark: Interior Landscapes
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ann Clarke is a celebrated fiber artist originally from Rochester, NY. Clarke's newest series, Interior Landscapes, includes large-scale rugs installed on walls for museum visitors to contemplate. Dreamlike images of trees challenge us to consider the vulnerability of our wooded landscapes. Oversized, empty chairs remind us of the consequences of loss — of both people and the environment in which we make our homes.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Smörgåsbord
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring works by Peter Allen, Dennis Kinsey, CJ Hodge, Tyrel De Bique, Steve Pearlman, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Robert Poormon, and Steve Nyland.

Hues of 'Cuse: Reflecting Lives Lived in Syracuse and CNY
Art in the Atrium

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

Exciting artwork of various styles by local artists, and interactive elements inviting you to contribute to an exhibit exploring experiences of life in the CNY Region.

25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

25 Million Stitches, a global community art and activism project, was initiated by California artist Jennifer Kim Sohn in 2019 to visually document the enormity of the number of refugees in the world and to sustain a concern for the refugees in the minds of global citizens. Over 2,300 stitchers participated — from all 50 states and 37 countries. ArtRage will be exhibiting a selection of the nearly 400 panels that make up the project.

More than just a visual exhibit, the installation offers an immersive experience that prompts us to confront the realities of displacement on a profoundly personal level. On view during the USA's 250th anniversary, this exhibition will honor Syracuse's identity as a refugee resettlement community while also addressing the USA's current anti-immigration policies.

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Food and music festival.

For more information, visit www.tasteofsyracuse.com.

Main Stage
1:30-2:30 pm: Baldwinsville Pep Band
2:50-3:50 pm: The Blacklites
4:20-5:20 pm: Letizia with Todd Hobin
5:45-6:45 pm: ColdFront
7:15-8:30 pm: FUEL
9:00-10:30 pm: The Arcade

Clinton St. Stage
12:00-1:15 pm: Just Joe
1:30-2:45 pm: Transient Kicks
3:15-4:30 pm: Jess Novak Band
5:00-6:30 pm: Shawn Smith Band
7:00-8:30 pm: CNY Songbirds
9:00-10:30 pm: The Barndogs

Erie Blvd. Stage
11:00 am -1:00 pm: Youth Showcase
1:20-2:50 pm: Brownskin
3:10-4:30 pm: Sydney Irving & the Creatures
4:50-6:20 pm: Ruha
6:40-8:10 pm: Steven Cali Band
8:30-10:00 pm: Mike Powell & the Echosound

Historic Ghostwalk: Voices from the Valley
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $20 regular, $15 OHA members. Advance purchase required.
Heath Park
5559 S. Salina St., Syracuse

From its early days as The Hollow to present-day Nedrow, The Valley is rich with stories waiting to be rediscovered. Walk, listen, and experience the voices that shaped this place.

Advance purchase is required; tickets not sold at tour location. Walking tours leave every 15 minutes. Check in at the Heath Park entrance at the intersection of Richfield Avenue and Coldbrook Drive.

Spring Concert
Liverpool Community Chorus

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, children 5 and under free
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Redhouse
Temar Underwood, director

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

Inspired by the Grammy-award winning album of the same name and 15-time Tony nominated musical. Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys' lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane's drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.

Lyrics by Alanis Morissette; music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballary, book by Diablo Cody.

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

Steel Hearts: The John Henry Musical
The Oncenter
Sing America

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

A story of love, hope, chains, and freedom.

This electrifying production follows a free Black man in the 19th-century South as he dares to dream bigger than the chains that tried to hold him, and stronger than the machine that tried to replace him. As John lays down rail, finds love, and leads a crew toward their promised land, his story becomes the story of a people and of a nation. A love letter to the American Dream proving the power of a heart of steel against any foe, Steel Hearts is the story we need now, more than ever.

With an original Indie-Gospel score that swings like steel on rail, Steel Hearts turns the epic of John Henry into a living myth, echoing the dream of every person who has stood against the storm.

Steel Hearts is a foot-stomping, heart-pounding race for the soul, a thunderous new American musical that will have you on your feet, clapping in rhythm, and telling the tale of the American legend and American Hero, John Henry.

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Redhouse
Temar Underwood, director

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

Inspired by the Grammy-award winning album of the same name and 15-time Tony nominated musical. Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys' lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane's drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.

Lyrics by Alanis Morissette; music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballary, book by Diablo Cody.

Sunday, June 7, 2026

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Hues of 'Cuse: Reflecting Lives Lived in Syracuse and CNY
Art in the Atrium

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

Exciting artwork of various styles by local artists, and interactive elements inviting you to contribute to an exhibit exploring experiences of life in the CNY Region.

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

Season Finale
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

St. Cecilia's Church
1001 Woods Rd., Syracuse

Elgar's Enigma Variations plus hidden gems by Emilia Meyer and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Summer Solstice Concert: Hope Courage Resistance
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor

Tucker Missionary Baptist Church
515 Oakwood Ave., Syracuse

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Redhouse
Temar Underwood, director

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

Inspired by the Grammy-award winning album of the same name and 15-time Tony nominated musical. Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys' lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane's drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.

Lyrics by Alanis Morissette; music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballary, book by Diablo Cody.

Steel Hearts: The John Henry Musical
The Oncenter
Sing America

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

A story of love, hope, chains, and freedom.

This electrifying production follows a free Black man in the 19th-century South as he dares to dream bigger than the chains that tried to hold him, and stronger than the machine that tried to replace him. As John lays down rail, finds love, and leads a crew toward their promised land, his story becomes the story of a people and of a nation. A love letter to the American Dream proving the power of a heart of steel against any foe, Steel Hearts is the story we need now, more than ever.

With an original Indie-Gospel score that swings like steel on rail, Steel Hearts turns the epic of John Henry into a living myth, echoing the dream of every person who has stood against the storm.

Steel Hearts is a foot-stomping, heart-pounding race for the soul, a thunderous new American musical that will have you on your feet, clapping in rhythm, and telling the tale of the American legend and American Hero, John Henry.

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

Monday, June 8, 2026

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

Kid Cudi Presents: The Rebel Ragers Tour 2026
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

The Stan Colella Orchestra
Liverpool is the Place

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

Big band swing

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

Under the Waves
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charles Cowell: paintings inspired by the artist's diving experiences
R. Jason Howard: glass sculpture
Susan Machamer: metalsmith jewelry

Smörgåsbord
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring works by Peter Allen, Dennis Kinsey, CJ Hodge, Tyrel De Bique, Steve Pearlman, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Robert Poormon, and Steve Nyland.

*SOLD OUT* The Nighthawks
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Legendary blues and roots rock band The Nighthawks is heading back to Syracuse.

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A Beautiful Noise is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chart-busting, show-stopping American rock icon. With 120 million albums sold, a catalog of classics like "America," "Forever in Blue Jeans," and "Sweet Caroline," an induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and sold-out concerts around the world that made him bigger than Elvis, Neil Diamond's story was made to shine on Broadway — and head out on the road across America.

Like Jersey Boys and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical before it, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is an inspiring, exhilarating, energy-filled musical memoir, that tells the untold true story of how America's greatest hit-maker became a star, set to the songs that defined his career. Presented in association with and endorsed by Neil Diamond.

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

Under the Waves
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charles Cowell: paintings inspired by the artist's diving experiences
R. Jason Howard: glass sculpture
Susan Machamer: metalsmith jewelry

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Smörgåsbord
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring works by Peter Allen, Dennis Kinsey, CJ Hodge, Tyrel De Bique, Steve Pearlman, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Robert Poormon, and Steve Nyland.

25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

25 Million Stitches, a global community art and activism project, was initiated by California artist Jennifer Kim Sohn in 2019 to visually document the enormity of the number of refugees in the world and to sustain a concern for the refugees in the minds of global citizens. Over 2,300 stitchers participated — from all 50 states and 37 countries. ArtRage will be exhibiting a selection of the nearly 400 panels that make up the project.

More than just a visual exhibit, the installation offers an immersive experience that prompts us to confront the realities of displacement on a profoundly personal level. On view during the USA's 250th anniversary, this exhibition will honor Syracuse's identity as a refugee resettlement community while also addressing the USA's current anti-immigration policies.

Pride Ethos: A Living Exhibit 2026
Everson Museum of Art
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: Pay what you like ($30 suggested)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pride Ethos is a manifestation of the radical spirit of queer performance. Over two unforgettable nights, the Everson Museum of Art becomes a living, breathing exhibit — a celebration of identity, creativity, and community, staged throughout the museum's striking modern architecture and alongside its celebrated collection of American art.

Come breathe collective life into this immersive, two-night experience. Each evening features a different lineup of LGBTQ+ performers from across Upstate New York — offering intimate and electrifying expressions of pride through drag, burlesque, theater, dance, and more.

Wander the galleries. Sip cocktails in the atrium while a DJ spins. Discover surprise performances in the outdoor sculpture garden, or catch a ten-minute play unfolding in the museum theatre.

One ticket gives you access to both nights. Ages 18+ to enter.

Pride Ethos is a project of Breadcrumbs Productions, Jo March, Come Out CNY and the Everson Museum of Art.

First Night: Community Film Screening
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free (donations accepted)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A screening of Syracuse filmmaker Rayan Mohamed's new film First Night.
On her first night of resettlement in the United States, a young refugee girl confronts stress, anxiety, and loneliness as she struggles to adjust to an unfamiliar new home.

First Night is an experiential fiction film that immerses the viewer in the disorienting, fragile experience of resettlement. The story follows Layla, a young refugee spending her first night in the United States. Rather than relying on conventional narrative, the film unfolds through textures of sound, fragments of memory, and the quiet, uneasy rhythms of her new 'home.'

Rayan Mohamed is a Somali American filmmaker. Her work explores storytelling as a tool of expression, healing, and care, with a focus on themes of migration, identity, and belonging.

Flicks on the Crick: The Breakfast Club

Price: Free
Sound Garden parking lot
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs, blankets, and snacks. The movie starts at sundown, around 7:30-8:00 pm.

Monterays
Liverpool is the Place

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

Oldies

Kelli Baker Band
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Recently signed to Gulf Coast Records by blues legend Mike Zito, powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Kelli Baker continues her meteoric rise as one of the most electrifying voices in modern blues-rock. With a voice that commands attention and lyrics that cut to the bone, Baker has earned a reputation for setting stages ablaze across the country.

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A Beautiful Noise is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chart-busting, show-stopping American rock icon. With 120 million albums sold, a catalog of classics like "America," "Forever in Blue Jeans," and "Sweet Caroline," an induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and sold-out concerts around the world that made him bigger than Elvis, Neil Diamond's story was made to shine on Broadway — and head out on the road across America.

Like Jersey Boys and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical before it, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is an inspiring, exhilarating, energy-filled musical memoir, that tells the untold true story of how America's greatest hit-maker became a star, set to the songs that defined his career. Presented in association with and endorsed by Neil Diamond.

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

Under the Waves
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charles Cowell: paintings inspired by the artist's diving experiences
R. Jason Howard: glass sculpture
Susan Machamer: metalsmith jewelry

54th Annual Teenage Competitive Awards Ceremony
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Enjoy a day of art and inspiration as we celebrate creativity and talent of teenage artists from all over the region.

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Smörgåsbord
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring works by Peter Allen, Dennis Kinsey, CJ Hodge, Tyrel De Bique, Steve Pearlman, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Robert Poormon, and Steve Nyland.

25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

25 Million Stitches, a global community art and activism project, was initiated by California artist Jennifer Kim Sohn in 2019 to visually document the enormity of the number of refugees in the world and to sustain a concern for the refugees in the minds of global citizens. Over 2,300 stitchers participated — from all 50 states and 37 countries. ArtRage will be exhibiting a selection of the nearly 400 panels that make up the project.

More than just a visual exhibit, the installation offers an immersive experience that prompts us to confront the realities of displacement on a profoundly personal level. On view during the USA's 250th anniversary, this exhibition will honor Syracuse's identity as a refugee resettlement community while also addressing the USA's current anti-immigration policies.

Pride Ethos: A Living Exhibit 2026
Everson Museum of Art
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: Pay what you like ($30 suggested)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pride Ethos is a manifestation of the radical spirit of queer performance. Over two unforgettable nights, the Everson Museum of Art becomes a living, breathing exhibit — a celebration of identity, creativity, and community, staged throughout the museum's striking modern architecture and alongside its celebrated collection of American art.

Come breathe collective life into this immersive, two-night experience. Each evening features a different lineup of LGBTQ+ performers from across Upstate New York — offering intimate and electrifying expressions of pride through drag, burlesque, theater, dance, and more.

Wander the galleries. Sip cocktails in the atrium while a DJ spins. Discover surprise performances in the outdoor sculpture garden, or catch a ten-minute play unfolding in the museum theatre.

One ticket gives you access to both nights. Ages 18+ to enter.

Pride Ethos is a project of Breadcrumbs Productions, Jo March, Come Out CNY and the Everson Museum of Art.

St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

6:00 pm: Youth dance performance
7:30 pm: Adult dance performance

NYS Blues Festival

Price: Free
Chevy Court
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

4:15 pm: (side stage) Golden Soul Revue
5:00 pm: JW-Jones
6:30 pm: (side stage) Golden Soul Revue
7:00 pm: Rick Estrin & The Nightcats
9:00 pm: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Redhouse
Temar Underwood, director

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

Inspired by the Grammy-award winning album of the same name and 15-time Tony nominated musical. Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys' lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane's drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.

Lyrics by Alanis Morissette; music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballary, book by Diablo Cody.

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A Beautiful Noise is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chart-busting, show-stopping American rock icon. With 120 million albums sold, a catalog of classics like "America," "Forever in Blue Jeans," and "Sweet Caroline," an induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and sold-out concerts around the world that made him bigger than Elvis, Neil Diamond's story was made to shine on Broadway — and head out on the road across America.

Like Jersey Boys and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical before it, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is an inspiring, exhilarating, energy-filled musical memoir, that tells the untold true story of how America's greatest hit-maker became a star, set to the songs that defined his career. Presented in association with and endorsed by Neil Diamond.

Friday, June 12, 2026

Under the Waves
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Charles Cowell: paintings inspired by the artist's diving experiences
R. Jason Howard: glass sculpture
Susan Machamer: metalsmith jewelry

   

Journey Through Time: The First 100 Years
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibition featuring the work of past Associated Artists of CNY Best of Show winners from their annual juried exhibition

   

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

   

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

   

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

   

Smörgåsbord
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring works by Peter Allen, Dennis Kinsey, CJ Hodge, Tyrel De Bique, Steve Pearlman, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Robert Poormon, and Steve Nyland.

   

Hues of 'Cuse: Reflecting Lives Lived in Syracuse and CNY
Art in the Atrium

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

Exciting artwork of various styles by local artists, and interactive elements inviting you to contribute to an exhibit exploring experiences of life in the CNY Region.

   

25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

25 Million Stitches, a global community art and activism project, was initiated by California artist Jennifer Kim Sohn in 2019 to visually document the enormity of the number of refugees in the world and to sustain a concern for the refugees in the minds of global citizens. Over 2,300 stitchers participated — from all 50 states and 37 countries. ArtRage will be exhibiting a selection of the nearly 400 panels that make up the project.

More than just a visual exhibit, the installation offers an immersive experience that prompts us to confront the realities of displacement on a profoundly personal level. On view during the USA's 250th anniversary, this exhibition will honor Syracuse's identity as a refugee resettlement community while also addressing the USA's current anti-immigration policies.

   

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

A family-friendly celebration of Polish culture, heritage, and traditions, featuring a variety of entertainment, including the sounds of polka, pop/jazz, dance-funk music along with beautiful folklore and contemporary dance performances by the group Lechowia from Canada. The event offers a taste of Polish and American cuisine and Polish beer along with Polish and American arts and crafts.

For more information, visit polishscholarship.org.

4:00-6:00 pm: Simone Band
6:00-8:00 pm: The Swooners Band
8:00 pm: Prime Time Horns Band

   

St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

6:00 pm: Youth dance performance
7:30 pm: Adult dance performance

   

Historic Ghostwalk: Voices from the Valley
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $20 regular, $15 OHA members. Advance purchase required.
Heath Park
5559 S. Salina St., Syracuse

From its early days as The Hollow to present-day Nedrow, The Valley is rich with stories waiting to be rediscovered. Walk, listen, and experience the voices that shaped this place.

Advance purchase is required; tickets not sold at tour location. Walking tours leave every 15 minutes. Check in at the Heath Park entrance at the intersection of Richfield Avenue and Coldbrook Drive.

Tickets

   

NYS Blues Festival

Price: Free
Chevy Court
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

4:00 pm: Joe Whiting Band
5:00 pm: (side stage) Raedwald Howland-Bolton
5:30 pm: Ray Fuller & The Bluesrockers
6:45 pm: (side stage) Raedwald Howland-Bolton
7:15 pm: Piper & the Hard Times
9:00 pm: Grace Bowers

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

   

Dark Star Orchestra
Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard

Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd., Lafayette

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Live & Jive Jazz Night
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $10 adults, $5 teens, free for 12 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A night of live music with Young Jazz Cats

   

King Lear
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Roger Lipson, director

Price: $10
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

King Lear centers on an aging monarch, King Lear of Britain, who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters based on their declarations of love for him. What could possibly go wrong?

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Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage

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

Sisterhood, stirring songs, and spectacular adventure.

In the Kingdom of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa enjoy a sheltered royal life, as they prepare to one day inherit a throne that is rightfully theirs. But when Elsa's budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she's forced to bury her icy talents — until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. Determined to save her home and her sister, Anna ventures into the treacherous storm, where she must reunite with Elsa if she ever hopes to thaw the cold hearts intent on keeping them apart. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney's majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" is a thrilling theatrical event with stirring songs, spectacular adventure, and one magical snowman.

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee.

   

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Redhouse
Temar Underwood, director

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

Inspired by the Grammy-award winning album of the same name and 15-time Tony nominated musical. Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys' lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane's drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.

Lyrics by Alanis Morissette; music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballary, book by Diablo Cody.

   

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A Beautiful Noise is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chart-busting, show-stopping American rock icon. With 120 million albums sold, a catalog of classics like "America," "Forever in Blue Jeans," and "Sweet Caroline," an induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and sold-out concerts around the world that made him bigger than Elvis, Neil Diamond's story was made to shine on Broadway — and head out on the road across America.

Like Jersey Boys and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical before it, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical is an inspiring, exhilarating, energy-filled musical memoir, that tells the untold true story of how America's greatest hit-maker became a star, set to the songs that defined his career. Presented in association with and endorsed by Neil Diamond.

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