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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.
Date | 4/20/2025 |
Multiple Times | This exhibition is on view through April 27th. |
Runs | 4/17/2025 - 4/27/2025 |
Cost | Free and open to all. |
Contact Email | emily.junker@oswego.edu |
Venue | Tyler Art Gallery @ SUNY Oswego 7060 Route 104 Oswego, NY 13126 315-312-2112 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 1/18/2025 - 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 Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 11/23/2024 - 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 1/17/2025 - 6/29/2025 |
Cost | Free with admission |
Venue | Museum of Science & Technology (MOST) 500 South Franklin Street Syracuse, NY 13202 315-425-9068 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 4/19/2025 - 10/18/2025 |
Cost | Adults $14, Seniors (65+) $10, Students $5, Children 6-12 |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 4/05/2025 - 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 Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 4/12/2025 - 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 2/15/2025 - 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 Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


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/Time | 4/20/2025 11:00 AM |
Runs | 4/20/2025 - 4/20/2025 |
Venue | Eleven Waters 500 S Warren St Syracuse, NY 13202-2618 315-554-3541 |