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4/20/2025 (Multi-time)
SUNY Oswego BFA Exhibition 1
Runs 4/17/2025 - 4/27/2025
Tyler Art Gallery @ SUNY Oswego
 

SUNY Oswego BFA Exhibition 1

Visit Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY Oswego to see the first of two BFA exhibitions honoring our graduating seniors in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Programs. This exhibit is the culmination of four years of hard work by students in Studio Art, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, and Illustration. This exhibition will be on view through April 27th.

Date4/20/2025
Multiple Times

This exhibition is on view through April 27th.
Tue–Fri, 2–6pm
Sat & Sun, 11am-3pm
Closed Monday

Runs4/17/2025 - 4/27/2025
CostFree and open to all.
Contact Emailemily.junker@oswego.edu
VenueTyler Art Gallery @ SUNY Oswego
7060 Route 104
Oswego, NY 13126
315-312-2112
4/20/2025 (All day)
At Water's Edge: Reflections on 200 years of the Erie Canal
Runs 1/18/2025 - 4/27/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

At Water's Edge: Reflections on 200 years of the Erie Canal

2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal’s completion. The Canal transformed New York State in the 19th century. Today, eighty percent of the upstate population lives within twenty-five miles of the waterway, yet in much of the public’s imagination, the canal remains confined to the past. The 2024 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence—Alon Koppel, Judit German-Heins, and Clara Riedlinger—each embarked on a year-long photographic exploration contemplating the Canal’s current condition, activating the landscape, and considering the waterway’s lasting impacts on present-day American culture. At Water’s Edge: Reflections on 200 Years of the Erie Canal highlights the culmination of these artists’ projects.

At Water’s Edge is organized by the Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse, New York. The Artist-in-Residence program was created through a partnership between the New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse.

Date/Time4/20/2025 (All day)
Runs1/18/2025 - 4/27/2025
Cost$14 – Adults $10 – Seniors (65+), Students $5 – Children 6-12 $2 – with EBT card FREE – Everson Members, Children 5 and under, Military (w/ ID) P
Contact Phone(315) 474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
4/20/2025 (All day)
Simply Simon: Pottery from the Collection of Michael Simon and Susan Roberts
Runs 11/23/2024 - 4/27/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

Simply Simon: Pottery from the Collection of Michael Simon and Susan Roberts

Over the course of five decades, Georgia-based potter Michael Simon’s name became synonymous with American functional pottery. Simon was born in Minnesota and studied with legendary pottery Warren MacKenzie. After building his own kiln near Athens, Georgia in 1980, Simon began setting one exemplary piece from each kiln firing aside for posterity. These “pick of the kiln” pieces are a testimony to Simon’s enduring influence on the field of ceramics.

In 2018, Simon donated one of his favorite “pick of the kiln” vases to the Everson’s permanent collection. With the vase came a donation of more than thirty functional pots by other artists that Simon and his wife Susan Roberts had collected over the years. Simon passed away in August of 2021, but left an immense legacy through his work, which now graces the collections of more than a twenty museums across the United States. The works exhibited in Simply Simon reflect the qualities that Simon valued as a potter, while also illuminating his enduring relationships with his friends and colleagues.

Date/Time4/20/2025 (All day)
Runs11/23/2024 - 4/27/2025
Cost$14 – Adults $10 – Seniors (65+), Students $5 – Children 6-12 $2 – with EBT card FREE – Everson Members, Children 5 and under, Military (w/ ID)
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
4/20/2025 (All day)
Nucor Steel Innovation Station
Runs 1/17/2025 - 6/29/2025
Museum of Science & Technology (MOST)
 

Nucor Steel Innovation Station

Visit the newest installation in the MOST's Nucor Innovation Station! Open through June

Nucor Steel Auburn presents “Pioneering the Circular Economy,” an exhibit showcasing the endless possibilities of steel. Explore interactive stations that bring Nucor’s steel production process to life, and learn the vital role of recycling and how steel shapes our daily lives. Discover the remarkable journey of steel from start to finish and see how each of us contributes to building a more sustainable future.

Date/Time4/20/2025 (All day)
Runs1/17/2025 - 6/29/2025
CostFree with admission
VenueMuseum of Science & Technology (MOST)
500 South Franklin Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-425-9068
4/20/2025 (All day)
Nancy Friedeman-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Runs 4/19/2025 - 10/18/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

Nancy Friedeman-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia’s material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in Dream Map and Cornucopia, Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. she then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia’s rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson’s Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum’s permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America’s tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Date/Time4/20/2025 (All day)
Runs4/19/2025 - 10/18/2025
CostAdults $14, Seniors (65+) $10, Students $5, Children 6-12
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
4/20/2025 (All day)
Catherine Spencer: Alchemy of a Seed
Runs 4/05/2025 - 6/08/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

Catherine Spencer: Alchemy of a Seed

A seed begins in darkness—buried, fragmented, waiting. In its stillness, it holds the potential for transformation, a quiet alchemy that unfolds when the time is right. Alchemy of a Seed explores this process of change, resilience, and emergence through biomorphic sculptures that blur the boundaries between organic and synthetic, natural and surreal.

Created from discarded memory foam, found materials, and textiles, Catherine Spencer’s sculptures take shape as she cuts, stitches, airbrushes, embroiders, and applies beadwork, to breathe life into her anthropomorphic creations. The sculptures embody both rupture and repair, echoing the physical and emotional labor of growth. Vibrant, plant-like organisms populate the exhibition, their textures and colors evoking the tension between attraction and defense, fragility and power.

Like seeds rising from the soil, these forms emerge from obscurity into color, embracing the light only when they are ready. Alchemy of a Seed is a meditation on transformation—not just as a cycle of life and death, but as an act of agency, play, and rebirth. The viewer is invited to consider what is planted in the unseen spaces of our lives and what it means to step fully into becoming.

Date/Time4/20/2025 (All day)
Runs4/05/2025 - 6/08/2025
Cost$14 – Adults $10 – Seniors (65+), Students $5 – Children 6-12 $2 – with EBT card FREE – Everson Members, Children 5 and under, Military (w/ ID) P
Contact Phone(315) 474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
4/20/2025 (All day)
Feats of Clay
Runs 4/12/2025 - 5/11/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

Feats of Clay

Central New York’s Feats of Clay competition was established in 1987 to foster education in the ceramic arts for Syracuse-area high schools. Now in its 36thyear, the event includes schools from as far away as the North Country and the Southern Tier and features a juried exhibition that recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in ceramic sculpting and vessel making.

On Friday, May 2, 500 students representing more than twenty-five schools will converge on the Everson Community Plaza to compete in a series of Olympic-style competitive events that involve (among other things) throwing blindfolded on the potter’s wheel, stacking wheel-thrown cylinders, and building towering constructions out of clay coils.

Feats of Clay is supported by Clayscapes Pottery and the Independent Potters Association.

Date/Time4/20/2025 (All day)
Runs4/12/2025 - 5/11/2025
Cost$14 – Adults $10 – Seniors (65+), Students $5 – Children 6-12 $2 – with EBT card FREE – Everson Members, Children 5 and under, Military (w/ ID) P
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
4/20/2025 (All day)
Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Runs 2/15/2025 - 5/11/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1776-1976 presents more than 70 of the most acclaimed and recognizable works of American art, which have played a demonstrable role in shaping conversations about the nation’s history and identity. The exhibition explores new narratives of the history of American art, embracing stories about women artists, LGBTQ+ artists, and artists of color within a visual and thematic structure that also features iconic works traditionally associated with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Making American Artists presents PAFA’s formidable collection of well-known historic works alongside pieces by traditionally underrepresented artists to pose questions about what it meant to be an American artist from when the institution was founded to the late 20th century.

Painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale and sculptor William Rush founded PAFA in 1805 to champion American art and artists. Making American Artists features works from PAFA’s esteemed collection that helped define new chapters in the history of American art, including works by Mary Cassatt, Barkley L. Hendricks, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert Stuart, Henry O. Tanner, and Andrew Wyeth. The exhibition also features icons of PAFA’s history and collection, such as Stuart’s George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) (1796) and Peale’s The Artist in His Museum (1822).

Date/Time4/20/2025 (All day)
Runs2/15/2025 - 5/11/2025
Cost$14 – Adults $10 – Seniors (65+), Students $5 – Children 6-12 $2 – with EBT card FREE – Everson Members, Children 5 and under, Military (w/ ID) P
Contact Phone(315) 474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
4/20/2025 11:00 AM
Eleven Waters Easter Brunch
Runs 4/20/2025 - 4/20/2025
Eleven Waters
 

Eleven Waters Easter Brunch

Easter Sunday Brunch at Eleven Waters

Join us for a delightful Easter Sunday Brunch at Eleven Waters, located inside the historic Marriott Syracuse Downtown. Enjoy a thoughtfully curated menu featuring chef-crafted brunch classics, seasonal specialties, carved meats, fresh dessert, and more. Whether you're gathering with family or friends, Eleven Waters offers the perfect atmosphere for your Easter Sunday plans. Reservations are available on OpenTable.

Date/Time4/20/2025 11:00 AM
Runs4/20/2025 - 4/20/2025
VenueEleven Waters
500 S Warren St
Syracuse, NY 13202-2618
315-554-3541
 
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