Friday, October 16, 2026

Stages of the Swirl: Animations, Drawings, and Paintings of John Knecht
Chamot Gallery

Chamot Gallery
11 Woodview Terrace, Fayetteville

John Knecht is one of the longest-practicing experimental animators in the US. His films, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Vienna Festival, Bard College, UnionDocs, Westbeth Gallery and the Urban Video Project.

He is the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History and Film and Media Studies, Emeritus, at Colgate University, where he taught from 1981 until retirement.

Knecht's work fuses horror and humor, producing images that feel both uncanny and playful. His films and installations often draw on the apocalyptic and supernatural, resulting in vivid, hand-drawn animation and immersive video environments that explore philosophical, perceptual, and Anthropocene themes.

Gallery is open by appointment. Contact charleschamot@yahoo.com or 347-228-8890.

Where We Stop and Nature Begins
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gentle margins between ourselves and nature — watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner

   

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

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

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

Mosaic Narratives
Brewer Harris Projects

138 Bank Alley (University Building)
Syracuse

Rooted in one of America's oldest and most enduring art traditions, Mosaic Narratives brings quilting, textiles, and fiber-based practices into the gallery through an exhibition centering Black women artists and their vital contributions to the evolution of these forms. Works by Ellen M. Blalock, Tina Williams Brewer, Isis Davis Marks, and Beverly Y. Smith

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

Dream Deep Enough to Remember: The Films of Tamika Galanis
Urban Video Project

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

Dream Deep Enough to Remember is a survey of moving image works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Tamika Galanis. Galanis produces counter-archives through her art, mending the holes in the historical record through re-enactment, reclamation, and speculation grounded in research, allowing us to encounter stories and experiences that are systematically erased.

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

   

Jake Blount
Folkus Project

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

An award-winning scholar and performer of Black folk music, initially recognized for his skill as a string band musician, Jake Blount has charted an unprecedented, Afrofuturist course on his pilgrimage through sound archives and song collections.

Blount will be performing with a full, 4-person string band to promote their recent release in September of the album Single-Footing Horse, which is now available on all the major music platforms including Apple, Amazon, and Spotify.

The performance will highlight the many folk, bluegrass, roots and Americana tracks on the new album, as well as Jake's massive oeuvre of earlier string band work.

Tickets

   

We Are the Tigers
CNY Playhouse
Emily Harrington, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Tigers' high school cheerleading squad is meeting for their annual sleepover at captain Riley's house, and they've brought plenty of their teenage troubles with them. Love triangles, a lustful boyfriend, and hurt feelings over a now-viral cheer stunt gone wrong complicate their team-bonding activities. So does the untimely death of one of their own in the front yard. Will that be the only murder? Who did it?

With a pop-driven, belting score and a seriously silly book, We Are the Tigers will have audiences cheering for The Tigers as these girls learn to cheer for themselves.

Book, music, and lyrics by Preston Max Allen.

Tickets

   

La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
José Miguel Hernández Hurtado, director

Price: $10
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Spanish-language play by Federico García Lorca, adapted by Naomi Zulueta Zamora and Kimberly Seipio Santana; music and lighting by Brad Beckman; assistant director Lily Beckman. Join us in supporting these talented young artists.

   

Thinning of the Veil: The Damsel and the Damned
Deviant Productions

Venue at Lakeside
1002 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

Thinning of the Veil is your new favorite spooky tradition, a guided walking tour that immerses audiences in a haunting world of performance and visual art.

This season's production, The Damsel and the Damned, turns its gaze toward the eerie elegance of silent film and the women who helped shape cinema's earliest years. Through theatrical expression, multimedia art, and movement, Deviant reimagines the iconic female archetypes of the silent screen — the virtuous heroine, the helpless damsel, and the seductive Vamp — revealing the desires, struggles, power, and transformations within the roles they were given.

Audiences are invited to step beyond the screen and into a world where the damsels are no longer waiting to be rescued; the Vamps have stories of their own, and the damned refuse to remain silent.

Aerial Arts: Pole, Lyra, and Silks artists defy gravity through innovative movement and storytelling.
Dance: Contemporary, Jazz, and Chair dance bring unique characters and haunting stories to life.
Visual Art: Local artists Dan Bingham, Lief Brunet, Christine Stadler, and Lisa Price create props, installations, and multimedia elements that transform the venue into a vintage theatre.

Audience Participation: Each audience member will be asked to wear a paper masquerade mask, a "veil", through which they will experience the show. Audiences will encounter a haunting collection of unforgettable characters as they walk from installation to installation.

Thinning of the Veil is a show for the senses. It is intended to be thought-provoking, rather than scary, with an atmosphere that is eerie, beautiful, and surreal.

Whether you love Halloween, silent cinema, or compelling theatrical dance, Thinning of the Veil promises an evening that is both chilling and beautiful.

* Arrive 15 minutes before your tour time. There is a free parking lot attached to the venue.
* Tours will begin promptly! All audience members must book a tour time, regardless of their donation amount. All audience members will be admitted based on their reserved time slot. There is no late entry, and there is no refund for a missed time slot.
* Approximate show time is 1 hour 15 minutes.

Preregistration required

   

The Utterly Predictable Rise and Fall of Congressman Cassidy Brown
Covey Theatre Company
Chelsea Colton, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Sick of politics? So are we! Written by Covey artistic director Garrett August Heater, this diabolically funny new comedy skewers the hypocrisy of American politics. Featuring an all-star cast, this full production will have you doubled over in laughter from lights up until bows.

Politicians only face accountability in comedies! The meteoric rise and spectacular flameout of America's youngest congressman enjoys a world premiere right before the mid-term elections! Does he have your vote?

Tickets

   

Preview: Rent
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lainie Sakakura, director

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

La Vie Boheme!

Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical showcases a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan's East Village: Aspiring filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, free-spirited Mimi and Angel, buttoned-up Joanne, and wild-child performance artist Maureen. Their dreams, losses, and loves weave through this bohemian portrait of 1980s New York City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS.

   

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Stages of the Swirl: Animations, Drawings, and Paintings of John Knecht
Chamot Gallery

Chamot Gallery
11 Woodview Terrace, Fayetteville

John Knecht is one of the longest-practicing experimental animators in the US. His films, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Vienna Festival, Bard College, UnionDocs, Westbeth Gallery and the Urban Video Project.

He is the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History and Film and Media Studies, Emeritus, at Colgate University, where he taught from 1981 until retirement.

Knecht's work fuses horror and humor, producing images that feel both uncanny and playful. His films and installations often draw on the apocalyptic and supernatural, resulting in vivid, hand-drawn animation and immersive video environments that explore philosophical, perceptual, and Anthropocene themes.

Gallery is open by appointment. Contact charleschamot@yahoo.com or 347-228-8890.

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

   

Where We Stop and Nature Begins
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gentle margins between ourselves and nature — watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner

   

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Community Day at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Pay what you wish; members free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We're celebrating the opening of America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries with a day full of art-making, family fun, and community connection. Come make something interesting, discover something new, and see how creativity sparks change – are you a Rebel, a Radical, or a Revolutionary?

What's happening:
• Guided gallery tours — 11 am & 1 pm
• Watch and participate in 3D printing demos, courtesy of Budmen Industries
• Design and screen-print your own T-shirt with Teaching Artist Ashe Martin
• Write and illustrate your own zine, inspired by our exhibitions
• Explore with a scavenger hunt highlighting our newest exhibitions
• Get caricatured by local artist John Manders
• Treat yourself: ice cream from The Ice Cream Stand, café specials at Louise, a High Tea demo, and free cider & donuts
• Tactile Library Opening: Explore the museum through touch in our new Tactile Library
• Browse a reading list curated by Parthenon Books, inspired by America 250
• Register to vote and play games (with prizes of course!) with Sidney Federal Credit Union

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

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

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

Mosaic Narratives
Brewer Harris Projects

138 Bank Alley (University Building)
Syracuse

Rooted in one of America's oldest and most enduring art traditions, Mosaic Narratives brings quilting, textiles, and fiber-based practices into the gallery through an exhibition centering Black women artists and their vital contributions to the evolution of these forms. Works by Ellen M. Blalock, Tina Williams Brewer, Isis Davis Marks, and Beverly Y. Smith

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Dream Deep Enough to Remember: The Films of Tamika Galanis
Urban Video Project

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

Dream Deep Enough to Remember is a survey of moving image works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Tamika Galanis. Galanis produces counter-archives through her art, mending the holes in the historical record through re-enactment, reclamation, and speculation grounded in research, allowing us to encounter stories and experiences that are systematically erased.

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

   

Beauty and the Beast
Central New York Ballet

CNY Ballet Black Box Theater
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

A magical ballet adaptation of Beauty and the Beast brings a timeless tale of love and transformation to life through stunning professional classical ballet, enchanting visual storytelling, and gorgeous original music by composer David Goldstein. All performances are narrated in English and signed in American Sign Language.

?Choreographed by Claire Solis, Beauty and the Beast is an experience for the entire family.

Tickets

   

Beauty and the Beast
Central New York Ballet

CNY Ballet Black Box Theater
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

A magical ballet adaptation of Beauty and the Beast brings a timeless tale of love and transformation to life through stunning professional classical ballet, enchanting visual storytelling, and gorgeous original music by composer David Goldstein. All performances are narrated in English and signed in American Sign Language.

?Choreographed by Claire Solis, Beauty and the Beast is an experience for the entire family.

Tickets

   

The Jamie McLean Band
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Jamie McLean Band is a triple threat. The group's energetic and captivating live show is undeniable. McLean's fiery guitar has joined the ranks of Derek Trucks, Gregg Allman, Aaron Neville, Dr. John, and more on stages from Madison Square Garden to Japan's Fuji Rock. His blue-eyed southern soul vocals ooze real emotion. And his top-line songwriting chops have crafted profound, honest, and heartfelt songs that will keep you singing, dancing, and feeling like the song was written about you. Jamie McLean Band creates a musical gumbo that incorporates New Orleans soul, middle Americana roots, Delta blues, and New York City swagger.

Tickets

   

Guitar Concert: Atlantic Guitar Quartet
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

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

Founded in 2010, the Atlantic Guitar Quartet is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to promoting the music of living composers. Through virtuosic performances, innovative programming and collaborations with other visual and performing artists, AGQ has broadened the repertoire for—and the definition of—the classical guitar quartet.

Each of the four members, Mark Edwards, James Keretses, Matthew Slotkin and Zoë Johnstone Stewart have enjoyed extensive solo and chamber performing careers prior to joining the ensemble. As a group AGQ has performed as part of the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society concert series, Ulster Chamber Series, Evolution Contemporary Music series, and at Bloomsburg University, York College of Pennsylvania, Loyola University, Marshall University and the Peabody Institute.

AGQ has been proactive in expanding the repertoire of the classical guitar quartet by commissioning new works. The quartet's world premieres include performances of works by Douglas Lora, Benjamin Verdery, Judah Adashi, Olga Amelkina-Vera, and many others.

   

Masterworks Series: Ravel and Stravinsky's Firebird
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Austin Chanu, conductor
Featuring Scott Cuellar, piano

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

Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit, op. 58
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major
Sravinsky The Firebird

Tickets

   

Thinning of the Veil: The Damsel and the Damned
Deviant Productions

Venue at Lakeside
1002 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

Thinning of the Veil is your new favorite spooky tradition, a guided walking tour that immerses audiences in a haunting world of performance and visual art.

This season's production, The Damsel and the Damned, turns its gaze toward the eerie elegance of silent film and the women who helped shape cinema's earliest years. Through theatrical expression, multimedia art, and movement, Deviant reimagines the iconic female archetypes of the silent screen — the virtuous heroine, the helpless damsel, and the seductive Vamp — revealing the desires, struggles, power, and transformations within the roles they were given.

Audiences are invited to step beyond the screen and into a world where the damsels are no longer waiting to be rescued; the Vamps have stories of their own, and the damned refuse to remain silent.

Aerial Arts: Pole, Lyra, and Silks artists defy gravity through innovative movement and storytelling.
Dance: Contemporary, Jazz, and Chair dance bring unique characters and haunting stories to life.
Visual Art: Local artists Dan Bingham, Lief Brunet, Christine Stadler, and Lisa Price create props, installations, and multimedia elements that transform the venue into a vintage theatre.

Audience Participation: Each audience member will be asked to wear a paper masquerade mask, a "veil", through which they will experience the show. Audiences will encounter a haunting collection of unforgettable characters as they walk from installation to installation.

Thinning of the Veil is a show for the senses. It is intended to be thought-provoking, rather than scary, with an atmosphere that is eerie, beautiful, and surreal.

Whether you love Halloween, silent cinema, or compelling theatrical dance, Thinning of the Veil promises an evening that is both chilling and beautiful.

* Arrive 15 minutes before your tour time. There is a free parking lot attached to the venue.
* Tours will begin promptly! All audience members must book a tour time, regardless of their donation amount. All audience members will be admitted based on their reserved time slot. There is no late entry, and there is no refund for a missed time slot.
* Approximate show time is 1 hour 15 minutes.

Preregistration required

   

We Are the Tigers
CNY Playhouse
Emily Harrington, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Tigers' high school cheerleading squad is meeting for their annual sleepover at captain Riley's house, and they've brought plenty of their teenage troubles with them. Love triangles, a lustful boyfriend, and hurt feelings over a now-viral cheer stunt gone wrong complicate their team-bonding activities. So does the untimely death of one of their own in the front yard. Will that be the only murder? Who did it?

With a pop-driven, belting score and a seriously silly book, We Are the Tigers will have audiences cheering for The Tigers as these girls learn to cheer for themselves.

Book, music, and lyrics by Preston Max Allen.

Tickets

   

La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia Del Teatro Latino
José Miguel Hernández Hurtado, director

Price: $10
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Spanish-language play by Federico García Lorca, adapted by Naomi Zulueta Zamora and Kimberly Seipio Santana; music and lighting by Brad Beckman; assistant director Lily Beckman. Join us in supporting these talented young artists.

   

Thinning of the Veil: The Damsel and the Damned
Deviant Productions

Venue at Lakeside
1002 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

Thinning of the Veil is your new favorite spooky tradition, a guided walking tour that immerses audiences in a haunting world of performance and visual art.

This season's production, The Damsel and the Damned, turns its gaze toward the eerie elegance of silent film and the women who helped shape cinema's earliest years. Through theatrical expression, multimedia art, and movement, Deviant reimagines the iconic female archetypes of the silent screen — the virtuous heroine, the helpless damsel, and the seductive Vamp — revealing the desires, struggles, power, and transformations within the roles they were given.

Audiences are invited to step beyond the screen and into a world where the damsels are no longer waiting to be rescued; the Vamps have stories of their own, and the damned refuse to remain silent.

Aerial Arts: Pole, Lyra, and Silks artists defy gravity through innovative movement and storytelling.
Dance: Contemporary, Jazz, and Chair dance bring unique characters and haunting stories to life.
Visual Art: Local artists Dan Bingham, Lief Brunet, Christine Stadler, and Lisa Price create props, installations, and multimedia elements that transform the venue into a vintage theatre.

Audience Participation: Each audience member will be asked to wear a paper masquerade mask, a "veil", through which they will experience the show. Audiences will encounter a haunting collection of unforgettable characters as they walk from installation to installation.

Thinning of the Veil is a show for the senses. It is intended to be thought-provoking, rather than scary, with an atmosphere that is eerie, beautiful, and surreal.

Whether you love Halloween, silent cinema, or compelling theatrical dance, Thinning of the Veil promises an evening that is both chilling and beautiful.

* Arrive 15 minutes before your tour time. There is a free parking lot attached to the venue.
* Tours will begin promptly! All audience members must book a tour time, regardless of their donation amount. All audience members will be admitted based on their reserved time slot. There is no late entry, and there is no refund for a missed time slot.
* Approximate show time is 1 hour 15 minutes.

Preregistration required

   

The Utterly Predictable Rise and Fall of Congressman Cassidy Brown
Covey Theatre Company
Chelsea Colton, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Sick of politics? So are we! Written by Covey artistic director Garrett August Heater, this diabolically funny new comedy skewers the hypocrisy of American politics. Featuring an all-star cast, this full production will have you doubled over in laughter from lights up until bows.

Politicians only face accountability in comedies! The meteoric rise and spectacular flameout of America's youngest congressman enjoys a world premiere right before the mid-term elections! Does he have your vote?

Tickets

   

Opening: Rent
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lainie Sakakura, director

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

La Vie Boheme!

Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical showcases a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan's East Village: Aspiring filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, free-spirited Mimi and Angel, buttoned-up Joanne, and wild-child performance artist Maureen. Their dreams, losses, and loves weave through this bohemian portrait of 1980s New York City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS.

   

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Stages of the Swirl: Animations, Drawings, and Paintings of John Knecht
Chamot Gallery

Chamot Gallery
11 Woodview Terrace, Fayetteville

John Knecht is one of the longest-practicing experimental animators in the US. His films, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Vienna Festival, Bard College, UnionDocs, Westbeth Gallery and the Urban Video Project.

He is the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History and Film and Media Studies, Emeritus, at Colgate University, where he taught from 1981 until retirement.

Knecht's work fuses horror and humor, producing images that feel both uncanny and playful. His films and installations often draw on the apocalyptic and supernatural, resulting in vivid, hand-drawn animation and immersive video environments that explore philosophical, perceptual, and Anthropocene themes.

Gallery is open by appointment. Contact charleschamot@yahoo.com or 347-228-8890.

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

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

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

   

Beauty and the Beast
Central New York Ballet

CNY Ballet Black Box Theater
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

A magical ballet adaptation of Beauty and the Beast brings a timeless tale of love and transformation to life through stunning professional classical ballet, enchanting visual storytelling, and gorgeous original music by composer David Goldstein. All performances are narrated in English and signed in American Sign Language.

?Choreographed by Claire Solis, Beauty and the Beast is an experience for the entire family.

Tickets

   

Goethe's Faust
Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Ian Fraser, theater organ

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Ian Fraser will accompany the 1926 silent film.

   

Hohenfels Trombone Quartet

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Quartet will perform works from silent films, classical arrangements, fun songs, and more.

   

Stars of Tomorrow Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Adults $10, children under 18 $5
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Vocalists from the previous day's vocal jazz jam coaching sessions with Nancy Kelly are invited to perform in this elegant cabaret, accompanied by the CNY Jazz Trio.

   

Thinning of the Veil: The Damsel and the Damned
Deviant Productions

Venue at Lakeside
1002 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse

Thinning of the Veil is your new favorite spooky tradition, a guided walking tour that immerses audiences in a haunting world of performance and visual art.

This season's production, The Damsel and the Damned, turns its gaze toward the eerie elegance of silent film and the women who helped shape cinema's earliest years. Through theatrical expression, multimedia art, and movement, Deviant reimagines the iconic female archetypes of the silent screen — the virtuous heroine, the helpless damsel, and the seductive Vamp — revealing the desires, struggles, power, and transformations within the roles they were given.

Audiences are invited to step beyond the screen and into a world where the damsels are no longer waiting to be rescued; the Vamps have stories of their own, and the damned refuse to remain silent.

Aerial Arts: Pole, Lyra, and Silks artists defy gravity through innovative movement and storytelling.
Dance: Contemporary, Jazz, and Chair dance bring unique characters and haunting stories to life.
Visual Art: Local artists Dan Bingham, Lief Brunet, Christine Stadler, and Lisa Price create props, installations, and multimedia elements that transform the venue into a vintage theatre.

Audience Participation: Each audience member will be asked to wear a paper masquerade mask, a "veil", through which they will experience the show. Audiences will encounter a haunting collection of unforgettable characters as they walk from installation to installation.

Thinning of the Veil is a show for the senses. It is intended to be thought-provoking, rather than scary, with an atmosphere that is eerie, beautiful, and surreal.

Whether you love Halloween, silent cinema, or compelling theatrical dance, Thinning of the Veil promises an evening that is both chilling and beautiful.

* Arrive 15 minutes before your tour time. There is a free parking lot attached to the venue.
* Tours will begin promptly! All audience members must book a tour time, regardless of their donation amount. All audience members will be admitted based on their reserved time slot. There is no late entry, and there is no refund for a missed time slot.
* Approximate show time is 1 hour 15 minutes.

Preregistration required

   

Rent
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lainie Sakakura, director

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

La Vie Boheme!

Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical showcases a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan's East Village: Aspiring filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, free-spirited Mimi and Angel, buttoned-up Joanne, and wild-child performance artist Maureen. Their dreams, losses, and loves weave through this bohemian portrait of 1980s New York City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS.

   

Monday, October 19, 2026

Stages of the Swirl: Animations, Drawings, and Paintings of John Knecht
Chamot Gallery

Chamot Gallery
11 Woodview Terrace, Fayetteville

John Knecht is one of the longest-practicing experimental animators in the US. His films, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Vienna Festival, Bard College, UnionDocs, Westbeth Gallery and the Urban Video Project.

He is the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History and Film and Media Studies, Emeritus, at Colgate University, where he taught from 1981 until retirement.

Knecht's work fuses horror and humor, producing images that feel both uncanny and playful. His films and installations often draw on the apocalyptic and supernatural, resulting in vivid, hand-drawn animation and immersive video environments that explore philosophical, perceptual, and Anthropocene themes.

Gallery is open by appointment. Contact charleschamot@yahoo.com or 347-228-8890.

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

   

Where We Stop and Nature Begins
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gentle margins between ourselves and nature — watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

An Evening of Sonnets Fundraier
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Harvey's Garden
1200 E. Water St., Syracuse

Themes of love, desire, time, and mortality are viewed through the Bard's classic lens by Aaron Alexander, Ronnie Bell, Anne-Margaret Childress, Leigh Fought, Eva Guggenheim, David Hitchcock, Bella Lupia, Tone Merrick, Byron Petraroja, Carolyn Reid, and David Spiro.

   

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Stages of the Swirl: Animations, Drawings, and Paintings of John Knecht
Chamot Gallery

Chamot Gallery
11 Woodview Terrace, Fayetteville

John Knecht is one of the longest-practicing experimental animators in the US. His films, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Vienna Festival, Bard College, UnionDocs, Westbeth Gallery and the Urban Video Project.

He is the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History and Film and Media Studies, Emeritus, at Colgate University, where he taught from 1981 until retirement.

Knecht's work fuses horror and humor, producing images that feel both uncanny and playful. His films and installations often draw on the apocalyptic and supernatural, resulting in vivid, hand-drawn animation and immersive video environments that explore philosophical, perceptual, and Anthropocene themes.

Gallery is open by appointment. Contact charleschamot@yahoo.com or 347-228-8890.

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

   

Where We Stop and Nature Begins
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gentle margins between ourselves and nature — watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner

   

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

*SOLD OUT* Mike Powell
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Mike Powell is a natural-born storyteller with a stage presence that's best described as "real".

His spontaneous nature and extreme comfort behind a microphone create a vibe that engages audiences in a way that only authenticity can. His songs are filled with powerful imagery and thought-provoking themes but a Powell performance is much more than just a concert – it's an exploration into the human heart. Seamlessly weaving hilarious tales of everyday life with heartbreaking songs of tragedy, loss & blue collar hardship. Pulling from his catalog of over 200 original songs he has become one of the "must-see" acts in Central New York.

Join the waitlist

   

Dead Silent
Acme Mystery Company

Home Team Pub
7990 Oswego Rd., Liverpool

It's 1927 and local radio personality Nevelle Haspin invites you to the broadcast of a gala reception for silent film diva Lorraine Bowes who is making a film portraying hometown hero and notorious WWI spy Florence Goode a.k.a. Hata Mahma. Joining Lorraine will be her leading man, if he's sober, Roland DeHay, and Lorraine's agent, Harold "Hawk" Toohey. Arriving without an invitation is the nationally syndicated gossip columnist Helena Handbasquet. Be careful. These celebrities autograph with poisoned pens.

   

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Stages of the Swirl: Animations, Drawings, and Paintings of John Knecht
Chamot Gallery

Chamot Gallery
11 Woodview Terrace, Fayetteville

John Knecht is one of the longest-practicing experimental animators in the US. His films, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Vienna Festival, Bard College, UnionDocs, Westbeth Gallery and the Urban Video Project.

He is the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History and Film and Media Studies, Emeritus, at Colgate University, where he taught from 1981 until retirement.

Knecht's work fuses horror and humor, producing images that feel both uncanny and playful. His films and installations often draw on the apocalyptic and supernatural, resulting in vivid, hand-drawn animation and immersive video environments that explore philosophical, perceptual, and Anthropocene themes.

Gallery is open by appointment. Contact charleschamot@yahoo.com or 347-228-8890.

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

   

Where We Stop and Nature Begins
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gentle margins between ourselves and nature — watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner

   

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

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

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cosmic Collisions
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

All the things that go bump in the night (and in the day). And yes, the universe wants to kill you: On occasion these collisions — asteroid and comet impacts on Earth — render life extinct. Learn why and how this happens, and what we are doing (or not doing) about it.

Tickets

   

*SOLD OUT* Mike Powell
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Mike Powell is a natural-born storyteller with a stage presence that's best described as "real".

His spontaneous nature and extreme comfort behind a microphone create a vibe that engages audiences in a way that only authenticity can. His songs are filled with powerful imagery and thought-provoking themes but a Powell performance is much more than just a concert – it's an exploration into the human heart. Seamlessly weaving hilarious tales of everyday life with heartbreaking songs of tragedy, loss & blue collar hardship. Pulling from his catalog of over 200 original songs he has become one of the "must-see" acts in Central New York.

Join the waitlist

   

The Comedy of Errors
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin
Matt Chiorini, director

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

Shakespeare meets Margaritaville in this tropical retelling of his hilarious slapstick farce.

Tickets

   

Rent
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lainie Sakakura, director

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

La Vie Boheme!

Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical showcases a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan's East Village: Aspiring filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, free-spirited Mimi and Angel, buttoned-up Joanne, and wild-child performance artist Maureen. Their dreams, losses, and loves weave through this bohemian portrait of 1980s New York City, under the shadow of HIV and AIDS.

   

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Stages of the Swirl: Animations, Drawings, and Paintings of John Knecht
Chamot Gallery

Chamot Gallery
11 Woodview Terrace, Fayetteville

John Knecht is one of the longest-practicing experimental animators in the US. His films, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Vienna Festival, Bard College, UnionDocs, Westbeth Gallery and the Urban Video Project.

He is the Russell Colgate Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History and Film and Media Studies, Emeritus, at Colgate University, where he taught from 1981 until retirement.

Knecht's work fuses horror and humor, producing images that feel both uncanny and playful. His films and installations often draw on the apocalyptic and supernatural, resulting in vivid, hand-drawn animation and immersive video environments that explore philosophical, perceptual, and Anthropocene themes.

Gallery is open by appointment. Contact charleschamot@yahoo.com or 347-228-8890.

99th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

   

Where We Stop and Nature Begins
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Gentle margins between ourselves and nature — watercolor paintings by Lucie Wellner

   

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Rich Harrington
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Harrington's work explores how popular culture shapes identity, drawing on toys, games, and icons from his youth to create playful yet incisive autobiographical commentary. Through painting, sculpture, video, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives and new intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy
Art in the Atrium

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

Before the White House, there was Central New York ...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here.

   

Mosaic Narratives
Brewer Harris Projects

138 Bank Alley (University Building)
Syracuse

Rooted in one of America's oldest and most enduring art traditions, Mosaic Narratives brings quilting, textiles, and fiber-based practices into the gallery through an exhibition centering Black women artists and their vital contributions to the evolution of these forms. Works by Ellen M. Blalock, Tina Williams Brewer, Isis Davis Marks, and Beverly Y. Smith

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

Katie Mulligan: No Man’s Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"No Man's Land: Reimagining the Myth of Cicero Swamp" offers a look into Cicero Swamp Wildlife Management Area, often known to locals as Rattlesnake Gulch. Cicero Swamp is a complex network of ecosystems that stretches across nearly 5,000 acres. The swamp was deemed a 'wasteland' throughout its early history, and local perception and myth evolved into attempts to drain and alter the swamp. Cicero Swamp is a sample of a larger story; throughout the history of the United States, wetlands were perceived by settlers as mysterious, dangerous, and evil. This perception has led to the draining and destruction of 50% of the nation's wetlands in the present day. "No Man's Land" glimpses into a wetland ecosystem through fibers and illustration, and attempts to combat bias and misconception of wetlands, particularly swamps; before it is too late.

   

Dream Deep Enough to Remember: The Films of Tamika Galanis
Urban Video Project

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

Dream Deep Enough to Remember is a survey of moving image works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Tamika Galanis. Galanis produces counter-archives through her art, mending the holes in the historical record through re-enactment, reclamation, and speculation grounded in research, allowing us to encounter stories and experiences that are systematically erased.

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

   

Beyond the Dress
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Join author Yamile Saied Méndez for an engaging conversation exploring how the quinceañera tradition shapes identity, family, memory, and belonging across generations. Drawing on her acclaimed books Dreaming of a Quinceañera and Twice a Quinceañera, Méndez examines the cultural significance of this coming-of-age ritual, followed by an audience Q&A and an opportunity for participants to share their own stories and reflections. A reception with Latin American refreshments concludes the evening, inviting continued conversation and community connection.

This event is part of the 2026 Syracuse Symposium on "Dreams" organized and sponsored by the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

   

*SOLD OUT* Neil Minet Band
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Neil loves performing almost as much as he loves adventuring in solitude. Born, raised, and currently working in rural, upstate New York, Neil is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. He's on a never-ending search for the right sound, the right word, and the right story. Had he lived in another time, he might've been an explorer, returning only to share his findings with the world. Perhaps in some small way he's able to do this through his songs. He enjoys playing small listening rooms as much as he enjoys large stages and as a listener first, finds his purpose in making music that can give back some small sliver of the joy and meaning he's experienced from it himself.

Join the waitlist

   

Composition Department Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

   

Ragtime
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Set in turn-of-the-century America, Ragtime weaves together the stories of three very different groups: a wealthy white family, a determined Black musician and his family, and Jewish immigrants pursuing a better life. As their lives intersect, the musical explores hope, injustice, love, prejudice, and the changing American Dream against the backdrop of a nation entering a new century. Featuring music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally, Ragtime is based on the acclaimed novel by E.L. Doctorow.

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