Monday, October 26, 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

   

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.

   

Tuesday, October 27, 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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Abby Jimenez
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Abby Jimenez is a popular romance novelist and winner of Food Network's Cupcake Wars. Her books have landed her on the NY Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Jimenez's book, The Friend Zone, is on Oprah Magazine's list of most addicting romance novels. The Night We Met is her newest romance novel.

Tickets

   

Wednesday, October 28, 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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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."

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Snaps & Taps Open Mic Night
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Pay what you can
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join us for a night of poetry, music, and good vibes, hosted by Randum. Halloween costumes are optional. Whether you're a poet, musician, comedian, or storyteller, this is your chance to shine! Bring your friends, grab a seat, and get ready to be entertained.

Tickets

   

Christopher Kennedy
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Slocum 214
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Christopher Kennedy is the author of the novel Stealing Marquee Moon (Rose Books), six poetry collections, Clues from the Animal Kingdom (BOA Editions, Ltd.), Ennui Prophet (BOA Editions, Ltd.), Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd.), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award in 2007, Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press), and Nietzsche's Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press). He is also one of the translators of Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil (BOA Editions, Ltd.), published in 2013 as part of The Lannan Translation Series. His work has appeared in numerous print and on-line journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, Epoch, The Threepenny Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, and New York Tyrant. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. He is a professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University.

The reading is preceded by a question-and-answer session that begins at 4:00 pm.

   

Thursday, October 29, 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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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."

   

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.

   

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.

   

*SOLD OUT* Women+ on the Edge of Democracy
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

What is the current state of democracy in America? What can history, global context, or futurism offer us in this pivotal moment?

Featuring readings of new 10-minute plays by Justice Hehir, Kimber Lee, a.k. payne, Sarah Ruhl, Heidi Schreck, and others, responding to shared questions about the state of democracy in America ahead of the midterm elections on November 3.

This event is co-presented by Syracuse Stage, Redhouse, Breadcrumbs Productions, S.U. Department of Drama.

   

Friday, October 30, 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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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."

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Stillhouse Junkies
Folkus Project

Price: $20 regular, $17 Folkus members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Acoustic adventurers, Stillhouse Junkies, explore the worlds between roots, bluegrass, Texas swing, blues, and rock. Their free-flowing musical interplay and improvisation make every show unique.

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

   

Lacy Curtain Irish

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Lizzie Borden took an axe ... or did she?

Thirty-five years after the infamous Fall River axe murders, an Irish woman, working in her kitchen in Anaconda, Montana, opens a newspaper to read about the death of the alleged murderer, Lizzie Borden. The woman is Bridget Sullivan, the Borden's former maid.

Katie Migdal performs Carolyn Gage's Lace Curtain Irish — a gripping, solo, one-act that turns history on its head! She will also host a fascinating talkback, exploring issues raised in the piece.

Tickets

   

Saturday, October 31, 2026

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.

   

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."

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Lacy Curtain Irish

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Lizzie Borden took an axe ... or did she?

Thirty-five years after the infamous Fall River axe murders, an Irish woman, working in her kitchen in Anaconda, Montana, opens a newspaper to read about the death of the alleged murderer, Lizzie Borden. The woman is Bridget Sullivan, the Borden's former maid.

Katie Migdal performs Carolyn Gage's Lace Curtain Irish — a gripping, solo, one-act that turns history on its head! She will also host a fascinating talkback, exploring issues raised in the piece.

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

   

Sunday, November 1, 2026

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."

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Yokai! Songs of the Japanese Supernatural
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Fumi Tomita Quartet

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A multimedia concert of live jazz with images of fantastic beings from Japan's folklore

Tickets

Monday, November 2, 2026

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.