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.

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.

Selections from the Everson Video Archive

On view through April 19, 2020

Selections from the Everson Video Archive features recently digitized works by pioneering women who helped shape the future of video art.

Renegades & Reformers: American Art Pottery

On View January 25 – July 5, 2020

Since acquiring its first works by Adelaide Alsop Robineau in 1916, the Everson Museum of Art has built one of the finest collections of art pottery in the world. Renegades and Reformers revolves around two common personality types among potters: the “renegades” who embarked on highly personal artistic quests that pushed clay and glaze to their limits, and the “reformers,” whose modern designs and social attitudes pushed back against Victorian mores.

DWC Visiting Author Readings: Author Tina May Hall and Poet Adam Giannelli

Tina May Hall’s stories have appeared in The Collagist, 3rd bed, the Minnesota Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Water-Stone Review, Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. Her novella in prose poems, All the Day’s Sad Stories,was published by Caketrain Press in the spring of 2009. Her debut novel, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, was the winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her latest novel, The Snow Collectors, will be published by Dzanc Books in February 2020.She teaches at Hamilton College.

Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press,2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Hamilton College.

Winter & Spring Break Youth Art Classes (Ages 5-12)

February 18–21, April 6–10
9:00am–Noon

Looking for fun and creative activities during break? Sign up for one day or the entire week! Each day will hold a different themed activity to engage young artists including art-making, gallery exploration, and more! The Spring Break session incorporates yoga. Space is limited.