Casual China: Modernist Dinnerware

On View December 21, 2019 – May 2020

Syracuse-based Iroquois China began as a manufacturer of Victorian fine china, but produced revolutionary dinnerware in the postwar era by designers like Russel Wright and Ben Seibel. Casual China showcases modernist designs produced by Iroquois China, Homer Laughlin, the Hall China Company and others.

A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects

On View November 16, 2019 – March 22, 2020

In 1911, the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (known today as the Everson) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would focus on collecting works made by American artists. This decision, implemented by Museum Director Fernando Carter, was the first of many made by directors that ultimately defined the Everson’s collection as it exists today. This exhibition examines over one hundred years of the Museum’s collecting priorities, from the Museum’s earliest acquisitions in 1911 to work acquired in 2019.

It's Knot Art

Syracuse-based artist Ellen Agnew grew up in Kennebunkport,ME, where she grew up collecting shells and stones on the seashore. After moving to central NewYork, Ellen returned to Maine frequently for vacations and began collectingrope knots that washed up onshore. She uses these bits of found materials tocreate It’s Knot Art, an exhibit showcasing unique abstract fiber art on display in the Erie Canal Museum's first-floor Link Gallery.

Book Release Party for Poet Georgia A. Popoff

Join us to celebrate the DWC’s own Georgia Popoff and her latest book of poems, Psychometry, brand new from Tiger Bark Press. Georgia has three previous poetry collections, most recently Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of CommonCuriosities (2015). She is coauthor of Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry,Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community, a book addressing the value of poetry in K-12 classrooms, which was a finalist for an NAACP 2012 Image Award. In 2017, she co-edited The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent (Haymarket Books), which won the CNY Book Award in nonfiction and was a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books prize for nonfiction.