Friday, April 23, 2021

New Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris: Pastel and acrylic paintings
Tom Slocum: Wood sculpture
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: Sculptural jewelry

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Cruel April: Ada Salas
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Online

Ada Salas was born in Cáceres, Spain in 1965. She has published the following books of poetry: Arte y memoria del inocente (1988, University of Extremadura, "Juan Manuel Rozas" award) Variaciones en blanco (1994, Hiperión, "Hiperión" award) La sed (1997, Hiperión) Noticia de la luz (2003, Escuela de arte de Mérida), Lugar de la derrota (2003, Hiperión), Esto no es el silencio (2008, Hiperión, "Ciudad de Córdoba" award), No duerme el animal (2009, Hiperión)—a collection of most of her previously published poetry—Limbo y otros poemas (Pre-Textos, 2013) and Descendimiento (Pre-Textos, 2018). Also, in collaboration with photographer Tete Alejandre she published Reflejos (2006). The books Ashes to Ashes (Editora Regional de Extremadura, 2011) and Diez Mandamientos (La Oficina ediciones, 2016) are the fruit of her work with painter Jesús Plancencia.

In 2016 the press Fondo de Cultura Económica published the anthology Escribir y borrar that also includes a selection of her essays. Highlights of her prose work about poetic writing are the books Alguien aquí (Hiperión, 2005), El margen, el error, la tachadura (de la metáfora y otros asuntos más o menos poéticos) (Diputación de Badajoz, Best Essay Award "Fernando Pérez", 2011) and Lengua del alma ("Poética y Poesía", Fundación Juan March, 2019).

In 2019 she was awarded the "Medalla de Extremadura" for her body of work.

Together with Juan Abeleira she has translated A la Misteriosa and Las tinieblas by Robert Desnos (Hiperión).

Three of her books have been translated to Swedish and an anthology of her work has been translated to Italian.

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Poets Christopher Citro and Shira Dentz
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His poetry appears in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, the 2018 Pushcart Prize Anthology, West Branch, Gulf Coast, Best New Poets, and Alaska Quarterly Review. He teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego and lives in sunny Syracuse.

Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), and two chapbooks. Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org), and NPR. Interviews with her about her writing appear in journals such as Rain Taxi, Ploughshares, and Kenyon Review. She's a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets' Prize, Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem Award, and Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. Currently, she is Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky and lives in New York.

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Saturday, April 24, 2021

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Spring Swing & Shop
Chelsea Opera

Price: $30
Wildflowers Armory at McCarthy Mercantile
217 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Join us for an evening of music spanning the genres of opera, classical, crossover, and jazz.

The first half of the program will feature vocal selections with Leonarda Priore, mezzo soprano; Julia Ebner, soprano; Jake Goz, tenor; and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano.

The second half will feature jazz with Barry Blumenthal, piano; Tom Brigandi, bass; Jimmy Johns, drums; Jeff Stockham, trumpet; and Joe Carello, saxophone/flute.

Special shopping discount to patrons — 10% discount on all shopping purchases for patrons after the event from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Limited tickets available for this in-person event. Masks and social distancing required.

Sunday, April 25, 2021

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Casual Series: April in Paris
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Hannah White, violin

Price: Live stream: $20 individual, $35 family
Online

Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D major, K.297 (300a), "Paris"
Saint-Georges Violin Concerto No. 1 in G major
Haydn Symphony No. 82 in C major, "L'ours; The Bear"

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Bill McKibben
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Author of the first book about global warming, 1989's The End of Nature, McKibben also founded 350.org, the biggest grassroots climate campaign in the world. His latest book, Falter, a New York Times bestseller, offers a "call-to-arms" 30 years after his first book set the stage. The author of fifteen books, The Boston Globe called McKibben "probably America's most important environmentalist."

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Morgan Manifacier, tenor
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Online

Facebook event

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Everson Close-Up Artist Series: Ehren Tool: A Different Kind of Mission with Special Guest Omar Columbus
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Online

Who: Artist Ehren Tool is the ceramics studio manager in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley and US Marine Corp Veteran. Omar Columbus is a poet, writer, photographer, and US Air Force Veteran.

What: Ehren will share about his featured work and how serving in the military informed his pursuit of the arts, and how it continues to influence his work as an artist and a teacher. He'll be joined for a spoken word performance by poet and fellow Veteran Omar Columbus.

Zoom registration closes 10 minutes before start time.

Cruel April: Graciela Cros
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Online

Graciela Cros (1945) was born in the Carlos Casares providence of Buenos Aires. She has lived in Bariloche for 50 years. Poet, narrator, and organizer of poetry workshops, she also conducts seminars and offers advice to writers.

She has published: Poemas con bicho raro y cornisas (1968); Pares Partes (1985); Flor Azteca (1991); Decimos (1992); La escena imperfecta (1996); Urca (1999); Cordelia en Guatemala (2001; 2013, 2nd ed. revised and corrected); Libro de Boock (2004); La cuna de Newton (2007); Hacer la de Elvis (2009); Mansilla (2010); Cantos de la gaviota cocinera- Antología personal (Amargord Ediciones, Madrid, 2013), Pampa de Huenuleo (2017) and Una posición propia (2019). Her novel Muere más tarde (2004) received the First Prize of the National Cultural Secretary. In 1995, she edited Antología de Poetas Jóvenes de Bariloche - Marcas en el tránsito, for which she selected the poems and wrote the prologue, and in 2019 she edited Transversal. Poesía contemporánea de Río Negro. Antología, published by FER, Fondo Editorial Rionegrino, where she brings together 36 women poets from the province Río Negro. Her poetic body of work, distinguished and translated on many occasions, appears in numerous national and international anthologies including La frontera móvil, Antología de poesía contemporánea de la Patagonia argentina (Barcelona, 2015); 200 años de poesía argentina, selection and prologue by Jorge Monteleone (2010); Patagonia literaria VI, Antología de poesía del sur argentino, compiled and with a prologue by Luciana A. Mellado, and edited with Claudia Hammerschmidt (2019).

Zoom registration here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Friday, April 30, 2021

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Poet Benjamin Garcia
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Benjamin Garcia's first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions, August 2020), was selected by Kazim Ali for the 2019 National Poetry Series. He works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator throughout the Finger Lakes region of New York and serves as faculty for Alma College's low-residency MFA program. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in: AGNI, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and New England Review.

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