Sunday, February 15, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Afterimages examines the visual, social, and political legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for a convicted crime. Curated by first-year graduate students of art history under the direction of Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition highlights works in the SU Art Museum collection created by artists working in the United States from the 19th century to the present.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Peter & The Wolf
Central New York Ballet

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tickets

   

Peter & The Wolf
Central New York Ballet

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tickets

   

Peter & The Wolf
Central New York Ballet

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tickets

   

*SOLD OUT* Nachos and 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.

Join the waitlist

   

Bang Bang Experience on Tour
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

More than just a traditional New Orleans "second line" brass band, the group plays with a decidedly eclectic and modern point of view, encompassing funk, pop, reggae, West African, and Latin American styles. They're also known for their uniquely interactive shows. Every member of the band is an accomplished soloist. Leader, composer, and trumpeter Sam Dechenne has ties to Central New York, where he performed and toured globally for many years with Ithaca-based reggae band John Brown's Body.

At CNY Jazz Central they'll be adding a heavy dose of New Orleans favorites to their repertoire, in anticipation of Mardi Gras just two days later.

Tickets

   

War of the Worlds: The 1938 Radio Broadcast
CNY Playhouse
Sara Harrington and Erica Moser, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This production includes a world premier first act written by co-director Sara Harrington that shows the origins of the broadcast creation. And, the second act brings the original broadcast to the stage!

The Mercury Theater Live On Air's Halloween show is coming up, and Orson Welles won't settle for a typical adaptation of a classic literature. He joins his producer John Houseman and assistant producer Paul Stewart to select a work to adapt. But this won't be any ordinary radio show. Wells intends for this show to be a realistic, action-packed adventure that will make listeners feel as though they are witnessing events in real time, as they occur. Reporters! Bulletins! Excitement! What could go wrong?

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The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Redhouse
Blondean Young, director

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

Struggles with addiction, friendship, love, and the challenges of adulthood are at the center of the story. Jackie, a petty drug dealer, is just out of prison and trying to stay clean. He's also still in love with his coke-addicted childhood sweetheart, Veronica. Ralph D. is Jackie's too-smooth, slightly slippery sponsor. He's married to the bitter and disaffected Victoria, who, by the way, has the hots for Jackie. And then there's Julia, Jackie's cousin ... a stand-up, "stand by me" kind of guy. Join us for the CNY premiere of this 6-time Tony Award nominee, including best play. By Stephen Adly Guirgis.

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

Monday, February 16, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tim Rodrigo: Nature in the Abstract
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Thought provoking paintings of Upstate New York.

At first glance, Rodrigo's work may appear to the viewer to be simply a collection of shapes, each of which is alive with color, yielding a pleasing and often joyful whole. As with many abstract paintings however, the viewer is challenged to look further and find the original subject. Rodrigo invites us to examine his work from a distance to see the images that he portrays. Fog along a river or a small waterfall among the trees on a hillside may then emerge from the canvas.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tim Rodrigo: Nature in the Abstract
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Thought provoking paintings of Upstate New York.

At first glance, Rodrigo's work may appear to the viewer to be simply a collection of shapes, each of which is alive with color, yielding a pleasing and often joyful whole. As with many abstract paintings however, the viewer is challenged to look further and find the original subject. Rodrigo invites us to examine his work from a distance to see the images that he portrays. Fog along a river or a small waterfall among the trees on a hillside may then emerge from the canvas.

   

On the Edge
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Michael Sickler: recent mixed media collages
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass and sculptural metal jewelry

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Afterimages examines the visual, social, and political legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for a convicted crime. Curated by first-year graduate students of art history under the direction of Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition highlights works in the SU Art Museum collection created by artists working in the United States from the 19th century to the present.

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tim Rodrigo: Nature in the Abstract
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Thought provoking paintings of Upstate New York.

At first glance, Rodrigo's work may appear to the viewer to be simply a collection of shapes, each of which is alive with color, yielding a pleasing and often joyful whole. As with many abstract paintings however, the viewer is challenged to look further and find the original subject. Rodrigo invites us to examine his work from a distance to see the images that he portrays. Fog along a river or a small waterfall among the trees on a hillside may then emerge from the canvas.

   

On the Edge
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Michael Sickler: recent mixed media collages
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass and sculptural metal jewelry

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Afterimages examines the visual, social, and political legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for a convicted crime. Curated by first-year graduate students of art history under the direction of Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition highlights works in the SU Art Museum collection created by artists working in the United States from the 19th century to the present.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

Faculty Recital Series: William Knuth, violin; Scott Cuellar, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program includes works by Brahms, Korngold and Bacewicz.

Watch live stream.

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tim Rodrigo: Nature in the Abstract
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Thought provoking paintings of Upstate New York.

At first glance, Rodrigo's work may appear to the viewer to be simply a collection of shapes, each of which is alive with color, yielding a pleasing and often joyful whole. As with many abstract paintings however, the viewer is challenged to look further and find the original subject. Rodrigo invites us to examine his work from a distance to see the images that he portrays. Fog along a river or a small waterfall among the trees on a hillside may then emerge from the canvas.

   

On the Edge
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Michael Sickler: recent mixed media collages
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass and sculptural metal jewelry

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Afterimages examines the visual, social, and political legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for a convicted crime. Curated by first-year graduate students of art history under the direction of Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition highlights works in the SU Art Museum collection created by artists working in the United States from the 19th century to the present.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Orion Wertz
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Orion Wertz, professor of fine art in painting at Columbus State University, was born and raised in Pittsburgh. The derelict industry and forested hills of the region left an impression that reappears in his artwork.

Wertz studied painting at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he received a bachelor's degree. He went on to study at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he received a master's degree and taught painting and drawing. In spite of his interest in the Chicago art scene, Wertz decided to leave the Midwest and move to New York City. He has exhibited paintings, drawings and sculptures in a variety of venues and has produced several comic books.

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

Friday, February 20, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tim Rodrigo: Nature in the Abstract
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Thought provoking paintings of Upstate New York.

At first glance, Rodrigo's work may appear to the viewer to be simply a collection of shapes, each of which is alive with color, yielding a pleasing and often joyful whole. As with many abstract paintings however, the viewer is challenged to look further and find the original subject. Rodrigo invites us to examine his work from a distance to see the images that he portrays. Fog along a river or a small waterfall among the trees on a hillside may then emerge from the canvas.

   

On the Edge
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Michael Sickler: recent mixed media collages
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass and sculptural metal jewelry

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Afterimages examines the visual, social, and political legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for a convicted crime. Curated by first-year graduate students of art history under the direction of Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition highlights works in the SU Art Museum collection created by artists working in the United States from the 19th century to the present.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Ensemble Series: Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Setnor School of Music's jazz and commercial music Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble performs.

Watch live stream.

   

*SOLD OUT* Mary Fahl
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

With "a voice for the gods that can transport listeners to other realms" (Boston Globe), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s NYC-based chamber-pop group October Project, a band known for their lush harmonies, sweeping melodies and Fahl's unique and powerful vocals. After two records on Epic, Fahl went on to pursue her own muse, whether that meant writing and recording songs for movies (including the theme for the Civil War epic "Gods and Generals"), singing arias and medieval Spanish songs for Sony Classical, or releasing a unique album-length take on "Dark Side of the Moon".

Join the waitlist

   

Paul O’Dette, lute
NYS Baroque

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Dowland Mini-Festival Part 2: Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland in February 1626, featuring the many moods of Dowland, merry to melancholic, played by our local world-renowned lute maestro.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm.

Tickets

   

Skye Consort & Emma Björling
Folkus Project

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

"An assortment of whirling polskas, groovy reels, passionate love songs, breathtaking hymns, and original compositions"

The members of Skye Consort and Emma Björling met in Montreal for a La Nef project in 2017, when a severe storm canceled Emma's flight home to Sweden, leading to the formation of a musical bond like no other. This group offers a perfect blend of music from various parts of the world, creating trans-Atlantic arrangements in multiple languages. As a collective, these musicians delight audiences with performances of their own original songs, which draw from Scandinavian, Irish, British, and French-Canadian influences. Their powerful arrangements and mastered musicianship can be heard on their albums Skye Consort & Emma Björling (2019) and Ode & Ballade (2024).

Tickets

   

War of the Worlds: The 1938 Radio Broadcast
CNY Playhouse
Sara Harrington and Erica Moser, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This production includes a world premier first act written by co-director Sara Harrington that shows the origins of the broadcast creation. And, the second act brings the original broadcast to the stage!

The Mercury Theater Live On Air's Halloween show is coming up, and Orson Welles won't settle for a typical adaptation of a classic literature. He joins his producer John Houseman and assistant producer Paul Stewart to select a work to adapt. But this won't be any ordinary radio show. Wells intends for this show to be a realistic, action-packed adventure that will make listeners feel as though they are witnessing events in real time, as they occur. Reporters! Bulletins! Excitement! What could go wrong?

Tickets

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

Preview: Picnic
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

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

Unfolding over one repressively hot Labor Day, William Inge's passionate drama charts the awakenings stirred up by a mysterious drifter in 1950s Kansas.

   

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tim Rodrigo: Nature in the Abstract
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Thought provoking paintings of Upstate New York.

At first glance, Rodrigo's work may appear to the viewer to be simply a collection of shapes, each of which is alive with color, yielding a pleasing and often joyful whole. As with many abstract paintings however, the viewer is challenged to look further and find the original subject. Rodrigo invites us to examine his work from a distance to see the images that he portrays. Fog along a river or a small waterfall among the trees on a hillside may then emerge from the canvas.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

On the Edge
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Michael Sickler: recent mixed media collages
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass and sculptural metal jewelry

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Afterimages examines the visual, social, and political legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for a convicted crime. Curated by first-year graduate students of art history under the direction of Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition highlights works in the SU Art Museum collection created by artists working in the United States from the 19th century to the present.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Dance History is Black History
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a program of dance that celebrates Black culture, featuring choreography and music in a variety of styles rooted in Black history in America, with performances by the Le Moyne College Dance Minor Program, Another Level, Dolphin Steppers, and the Syracuse City Ballet.

Tickets

   

Dance History is Black History
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a program of dance that celebrates Black culture, featuring choreography and music in a variety of styles rooted in Black history in America, with performances by the Le Moyne College Dance Minor Program, Another Level, Dolphin Steppers, and the Syracuse City Ballet.

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Simplelife & Corey Paige
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Songs, stories, and crazy-good guitars… what more could you ask for?

Tickets

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

War of the Worlds: The 1938 Radio Broadcast
CNY Playhouse
Sara Harrington and Erica Moser, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This production includes a world premier first act written by co-director Sara Harrington that shows the origins of the broadcast creation. And, the second act brings the original broadcast to the stage!

The Mercury Theater Live On Air's Halloween show is coming up, and Orson Welles won't settle for a typical adaptation of a classic literature. He joins his producer John Houseman and assistant producer Paul Stewart to select a work to adapt. But this won't be any ordinary radio show. Wells intends for this show to be a realistic, action-packed adventure that will make listeners feel as though they are witnessing events in real time, as they occur. Reporters! Bulletins! Excitement! What could go wrong?

Tickets

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

Opening: Picnic
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

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

Unfolding over one repressively hot Labor Day, William Inge's passionate drama charts the awakenings stirred up by a mysterious drifter in 1950s Kansas.

   

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Karolina Wojtas: Made in Poland
Light Work Gallery

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

Made in Poland, Karolina Wojtas' first U.S. solo exhibition, unfolds like a care package sent to America — one filled with the absurd, the folkish, and the wonderfully weird cultural treasures of Poland. The exhibition features a dynamic mix of fabric prints, soft sculptures, and traditional photographs that play with form while drawing on everyday observations, childhood memories, and the oddities of growing up. Wojtas' project becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and first loves—infused throughout with nostalgia, humor, and a generous dose of self-irony.

   

2026 BFA Art Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

With great pleasure, Light Work presents the 2026 BFA Art Photography Annual. This exhibition features work by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Film and Media Arts Department at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

Exhibiting Artists: Alex Cai, Donniae Collins, Sofia Marie Capparelli, Brooke Datys, Ixchel Loren Flores, Ashlyn Garcia, Nadia Holl, Adeline Hume, Mia Ignazio, Hannah Stein, Ella Tovey, Ming Zhong

   

Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Afterimages examines the visual, social, and political legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for a convicted crime. Curated by first-year graduate students of art history under the direction of Professor Sascha Scott, the exhibition highlights works in the SU Art Museum collection created by artists working in the United States from the 19th century to the present.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

*SOLD OUT* Shakedown Sunday
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Shakedown Sunday is a monthly series hosted by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and members of Dead to the Core, with special guests, that celebrates the Grateful Dead—not just the band's originals but songs from across the roots and rock worlds they made their own. This month's guest is Liz Strodel.

Join the waitlist

   

*SOLD OUT* Black History Month Cabaret: Jeff Kashiwa and Lori Williams
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $45 advance, $50 at the door (includes buffet dinner)
Drumlins Country Club
800 Nottingham Rd., Syracuse

Join the waiting list by calling 315-479-5299.

Tickets

   

Stardew Valley: Symphony Of Seasons
The Oncenter

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

Join us on a musical journey from your first day in the valley all the way to your arrival to the
summit, with the brand new Stardew Valley concert Symphony of Seasons!

Curated by ConcernedApe, Symphony of Seasons features a 35-piece orchestra performing the most memorable music from the game, and a screen above the stage playing gameplay footage plus original content created exclusively for this tour.

Concert-goers can look forward to hearing the game's most cherished songs as they watch their farm grow throughout the seasons and explore some of the valley's most memorable locations, from Pelican Town to the Skull Cavern, Ginger Island to Calico Desert, the Submarine to the Wizard's Tower and much more.

Tickets

   

War of the Worlds: The 1938 Radio Broadcast
CNY Playhouse
Sara Harrington and Erica Moser, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This production includes a world premier first act written by co-director Sara Harrington that shows the origins of the broadcast creation. And, the second act brings the original broadcast to the stage!

The Mercury Theater Live On Air's Halloween show is coming up, and Orson Welles won't settle for a typical adaptation of a classic literature. He joins his producer John Houseman and assistant producer Paul Stewart to select a work to adapt. But this won't be any ordinary radio show. Wells intends for this show to be a realistic, action-packed adventure that will make listeners feel as though they are witnessing events in real time, as they occur. Reporters! Bulletins! Excitement! What could go wrong?

Tickets

   

Relentless
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.

Monique Jeffries was poised to be one of the greatest professional boxers in history, but years after her career has ended, she is right back where she started: running Bailey's, her childhood gym, training finance bros with delusions of grandeur, and taking directions from her former coach Johnny. As the Golden Gloves amateur tournament approaches, Monique receives a surprising offer from one of her "white collar" boxing clients: he wants to buy Bailey's and convert it into an elite boxing facility, where they can train the best of the best and revitalize the flagging sport. But Johnny isn't about to let that happen, and the ensuing bout between teacher and student is as intimate as it is brutal in this bare-knuckled world premiere.

   

Picnic
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

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

Unfolding over one repressively hot Labor Day, William Inge's passionate drama charts the awakenings stirred up by a mysterious drifter in 1950s Kansas.