Thursday, August 6, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.

Flat Tires
Light Work Gallery

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

The photographs in this exhibition explore the car in its many forms and potential meanings. The images oscillate between intimacy, spectacle, utility, and fantasy. They showcase how this enduring subject is completely customizable.

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

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.

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

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.

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.

Zelikha Zohra Shoja: In Search of Bluer Tongues
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2021, artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja planned to shoot a new film at the site of her maternal home in Kabul, Afghanistan, but due to the return of the Taliban and ensuing violence, the project could not be realized. In Search of Bluer Tongues reimagines the domestic scenes Shoja hoped to play out in Kabul, working instead with members of resettled communities in the city of Syracuse and in Queens, NY. The resulting piece is an act of collaborative memory-making and a meditation on the diasporic experience of longing to be in a place that can only be watched from afar.

Screening begins at dusk.

Jazz in the City: The Sax Summit
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Will Holton, Bill Tiberio, and Jimmie Highsmith, Jr.

Price: Free
Syracuse Community Health Center
930 S. Salina St., Syracuse

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

Cole Swindell
Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard

Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd., Lafayette

*CANCELLED* Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps are on quite a roll. Her persuasive pipes slathered in honey and soaked in Texas-bred sass, keyboardist Teresa James and her band, the Rhythm Tramps, have long reigned as one of Los Angeles' leading contemporary blues outfits, even though their uncommonly imaginative repertoire, much of it supplied by Terry Wilson, James' husband, producer, and bassist, is by no means strictly limited to the 12-bar form. Their 2019 CD Here in Babylon was nominated for a Grammy in the Contemporary Blues Album category.

Imani Winds & Andy Akiho
Skaneateles Festival

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

Jean Françaix Quintet No. 2
Lalo Schifrin La Nouvelle Orleans
Paquito d'Rivera Aires Tropicales and A Little Cuban Waltz2
Stevie Wonder Overjoyed, arr. Mark Dover (1985)
Andy Akiho Selections from BeLonging

Friday, August 7, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

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: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

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.

Roadside Picnic: An Evening at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

5:00-6:30 pm: Gallery Reception
6:30-8:00 pm: Screening + Talk

Gallery reception for Flat Tires and the 2026 Light Work Grants in Photography, featuring work by Amrita Stützle, Hernease Davis, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Maureen Beitler, and Patty Tomanovich.

The reception will be followed by a film screening and talk by Fatemeh Kazemi + Zelikha Zohra Shoja in the auditorium.

Zelikha Zohra Shoja: In Search of Bluer Tongues
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2021, artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja planned to shoot a new film at the site of her maternal home in Kabul, Afghanistan, but due to the return of the Taliban and ensuing violence, the project could not be realized. In Search of Bluer Tongues reimagines the domestic scenes Shoja hoped to play out in Kabul, working instead with members of resettled communities in the city of Syracuse and in Queens, NY. The resulting piece is an act of collaborative memory-making and a meditation on the diasporic experience of longing to be in a place that can only be watched from afar.

Screening begins at dusk.

KidsFest: Imani Winds & Andy Akiho: Sound Out!
Skaneateles Festival

Price: Adults $5, kids free
Mandana Barn
1274 State Route 359 (Lacy Road), Skaneateles

Come along with the Grammy-winning Imani Winds on a guided tour of the five wind instruments and the amazing sounds they can make, separately and together. They are joined by Andy Akiho, a whiz on the steel pan, for some of the most colorful and mesmerizing music you will ever hear!

An Afternoon with Imani Winds
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $20
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Program to be announced.

Party in the Square: Party Rock Night

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

5:30-7:30 pm: Wagner3000
8:00-11:00 pm: Rydher

Kat Riggins
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by a rich tapestry of musical genres, Kat Riggins' soul-stirring music pays homage to R&B, soul, gospel, and rock'n'roll. Yet, at her core, Kat is undeniably a BLUES WOMAN! She's on a global mission with her Blues Revival Movement, aiming to awaken the world to the depth and authenticity of blues music. Kat's powerhouse voice, often likened to iconic greats like Koko Taylor and Tina Turner, is a force to be reckoned with. The Miami-born singer's live performances, filled with high-energy soul shakers and heart-rending ballads, leave audiences feeling personally moved. Through her dynamic live show and her evocative self-penned albums, including the spankin' new "REVIVAL," Kat Riggins is not just keeping the blues alive—she's ensuring that it thrives.

Garrick Ohlsson in Recital
Skaneateles Festival

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

Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in E minor, op. 87, no. 4
Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Händel, op. 24
Chopin Barcarolle, op. 60
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 58

The Taming of the Shrew
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Hannah Malone, director

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

Dear Evan Hansen
Covey Theatre Company
CJ Roche, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Covey Theater is proud to bring the first non-professional production of the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen to CNY audiences! Winner of 6 Tony awards, including Best Musical and Best Score, the title character's journey ask you to "Lift your head and look around, you will be found."

Happy Together Tour
The Oncenter

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

The touring sensation returns this summer with a show full of chart-topping hits from the '60s and '70s. The tour is once again joined by The Association, The Troggs, Chicago lead singer 1985-2016 Jason Scheff, Gary Puckett, The Fortunes, Ron Dante from The Archies and The Turtles, The Vogues, and The Cowsills.

Saturday, August 8, 2026

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.

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

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.

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

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.

Zelikha Zohra Shoja: In Search of Bluer Tongues
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2021, artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja planned to shoot a new film at the site of her maternal home in Kabul, Afghanistan, but due to the return of the Taliban and ensuing violence, the project could not be realized. In Search of Bluer Tongues reimagines the domestic scenes Shoja hoped to play out in Kabul, working instead with members of resettled communities in the city of Syracuse and in Queens, NY. The resulting piece is an act of collaborative memory-making and a meditation on the diasporic experience of longing to be in a place that can only be watched from afar.

Screening begins at dusk.

Beethoven Under the Stars with Garrick Ohlsson
Skaneateles Festival
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor

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

Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Jessie Montgomery Starburst
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

The Taming of the Shrew
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Hannah Malone, director

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

Dear Evan Hansen
Covey Theatre Company
CJ Roche, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Covey Theater is proud to bring the first non-professional production of the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen to CNY audiences! Winner of 6 Tony awards, including Best Musical and Best Score, the title character's journey ask you to "Lift your head and look around, you will be found."

Sunday, August 9, 2026

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.

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: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

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.

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

Nachos & Blancos
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Join us for our once-a-month rockin' rhythm and roots par-tay at The 443! It's the best hang in town, and we can't think of a better way to spend Sunday afternoon than grooving to the tasty tunes of the mighty Los Blancos.

Dear Evan Hansen
Covey Theatre Company
CJ Roche, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Covey Theater is proud to bring the first non-professional production of the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen to CNY audiences! Winner of 6 Tony awards, including Best Musical and Best Score, the title character's journey ask you to "Lift your head and look around, you will be found."

The Taming of the Shrew
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Hannah Malone, director

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

Monday, August 10, 2026

CNY Jazz Youth Orchestra
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Manlius Amphitheater
Behind the swan pond, Manlius

Rain location: Village Auditorium

FabCats
Liverpool is the Place

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

British Invasion

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

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.

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.

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

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.

Matinée: Afternoon with Friends
Skaneateles Festival

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

Mozart Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K. 304
Bernstein Two movements from "Mass for Cello and Piano"
Valerie Coleman Maombi Asante
Dvorak Trio No. 4 in E minor, Dumky

Works performed by Julia Bruskin, cello; Aaron Wunsch, piano; David McCarroll, violin; and Erin Lesser, flute.

Prime Time Horn
Liverpool is the Place

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

Classic rock and R&B

On the Lash
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

On The Lash formed in early 2022, with their very first set of shows being a tour through PA and DE. Since then, OTL has been busy performing at festivals and concert venues across the US, as well as sharing their unique background and experience in the genre through educational workshops. Some notable festivals include the KVMR Celtic Fest in Grass Valley, CA; the Yachats Celtic Fest in Yachats, OR; the Longs Peak Highland Fest in Estes Park, CO; the Celtic Classic in Bethlehem, PA; and the Michigan Irish Music Festival in Muskegon, MI. During their travels, On The Lash has had the opportunity to share the stage with renowned artists such as Jeremy Kittel, Talisk, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Hass, as well as opening for Altan within their first year of performing.

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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.

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

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: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

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.

Zelikha Zohra Shoja: In Search of Bluer Tongues
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 2021, artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja planned to shoot a new film at the site of her maternal home in Kabul, Afghanistan, but due to the return of the Taliban and ensuing violence, the project could not be realized. In Search of Bluer Tongues reimagines the domestic scenes Shoja hoped to play out in Kabul, working instead with members of resettled communities in the city of Syracuse and in Queens, NY. The resulting piece is an act of collaborative memory-making and a meditation on the diasporic experience of longing to be in a place that can only be watched from afar.

Screening begins at dusk.

*CANCELLED* Richard Smith
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by iconic guitarists like Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Jerry Reed, Django Reinhardt and Joe Pass, Smith's unique style blends country, jazz, classical and ragtime influences. In his very early years, he received mentorship from guitar greats, laying the foundation for his future success.

American Revolutions
Skaneateles Festival

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

Copland Duo for Flute and Piano
Song selections by Bernstein, Barber, Ives, and Amy Beach
Ives Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano
New Work, commissioned by the Skaneateles Festival

Works performed by Elizabeth Sutphen, soprano and former Robinson Award winner; Erin Lesser, flute; and David McCarroll, violin.