Downtown Syracuse Events


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 | 7/15/2025 (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 |


Tyler K. Smith: Bombotz
Based in Elmira, New York, artist, designer, and educator Tyler K. Smith creates works featuring creatures who inhabit his imaginative BOMBOTZ universe, a place where science fiction-inspired machines and fantastical creatures reign supreme. With robotic bodies bursting open to reveal organic internal organs, the creatures of Smith’s universe are a signature mashup of machine and monster.
Smith draws inspiration from the cartoons, trading cards, and comic books he enjoyed as a child of 1960s pop culture. He also grew up surrounded by farm equipment and the devices that his ophthalmologist father used to examine and treat his patients. Smith echoes renegade artists of the era like the Hairy Who and the ceramic artists of the Funk movement, gleefully drawing upon art forms previously viewed as “lowbrow:” underground comics, the hot rod art of Robert Williams and Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, and the sci-fi artists like H.R. Giger and Moebius.
Smith’s inspirations are filtered through his fevered imagination, resulting in a world of his own creation where organic spaceships with biological features collide with quasi-mechanical monsters and sentient machines. The resulting drawings, paintings, and sculptures comprise a universe that serves as a window into Smith’s distinctive vision.
Date/Time | 7/15/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 7/12/2025 - 8/03/2025 |
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 |


Lee DuSell: Benediction
Lee DuSell (1927-2024) is perhaps best known to Everson audiences as the creator of the bronze sculpture Spiritual Freedom (1969) that graces the Museum’s Plaza, but he was also a prolific designer and woodworker. DuSell’s furniture has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Over a three-decade span, DuSell frequently collaborated with noted Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki on a series of commissions that included the Ford Motor Company, Harvard University, and Reynolds Aluminum. DuSell particularly relished his contributions to religious shrines, chapels, and temples around the world.
DuSell served as the founding chairman of the Experimental Studios at the Syracuse University School of Art from 1965 until his retirement in 1992. Benediction honors DuSell’s work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his works became kinetic and interactive. This exhibition features large-scale works, including three rocking chairs containing musical elements powered by their rocking motion that were originally exhibited at the Everson in a 1980 solo exhibition. DuSell passed away in September of 2024, and is remembered not only for his innovative designs, but also for the formidable impact that he made on his students and community.
Date/Time | 7/15/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 5/10/2025 - 8/31/2025 |
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 |


Anna Warfield: Relearning Play
Binghamton-based artist and poet Anna Warfield creates text-based fiber sculptures in order to consider identity and how we communicate through words both spoken and unspoken. Her work revolves around plush letterforms spelling out words and phrases that are often as prickly as her materials are soft and yielding. Warfield delights in the slippage between words and their meanings, leaving her viewers to read between the lines. Sculptures that appear at first glance to be about comfort reveal, upon closer examination, layers that address gender roles, queer identity, and the eternally fraught nature of human communication.
Relearning Play is built around the elements of Warfield’s work that speak to language learning during childhood—a time when books and games are inextricable from language itself. For many, the challenges of communicating as an adult strip away the fun and playful elements of language, leaving anxiety and uncertainty in their wake. Warfield’s sculptures remove the high stakes and risk from communication, instead allowing viewers to reconnect with the joy that comes from playing with words.
Date/Time | 7/15/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 6/14/2025 - 8/17/2025 |
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 |


DEAD END.
Curated by William Strobeck.
Featuring work by: Larry Clark, Mark Gonzalez, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGingley, Earsnot Irak, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze.
Filmmaker and photographer William Strobeck spent a good part of his teenage years on the Everson Museum’s Community Plaza during the 1990s. It was here that he discovered a skateboarding crew populated by “weirdos and outcasts” who, in turn, introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals with a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. Living in the pre-digital age, Strobeck and friends poured over coveted VHS skate tapes and magazines, recognizing themselves in images of like-minded communities all over the world. Skateboarding offered them a sense of identity and belonging unlike anything else available at the time.
Fast forward thirty years and Strobeck is now considered one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. He first started capturing Syracuse’s skate scene in the 1990s but now travels internationally making videos and images that transcend the mere physical gymnastics of skating. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection.
For DEAD END., Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson’s history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck’s exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck’s vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness. In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture’s influence on the popular culture of today: handheld skate videos are today’s Tiktok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.
The participatory and egalitarian nature of DEAD END. is intentional, emblematic of the free-for-all nature of skateboarding, a worldview built on repurposing the built environment for its own purpose. Similarly, a new sculpture by artist (and professional skateboarder) Mark Gonzales will be installed as part of the Everson’s collection and as a new obstacle for skaters who still gather in the Everson’s Community Plaza today.
Date/Time | 7/15/2025 (All day) |
Runs | 6/07/2025 - 8/31/2025 |
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 |


2025 Everson Summer Camp
Offered for ages 8-12, with a 25-camper capacity each week.
9:00am-4:00pm
$255 Members $305 Non-Members
Campers will dive into an array of artistic mediums and disciplines while making friends, and most importantly, having fun! Students will take classes in drawing, painting, ceramics, fiber arts, and much more. Campers will also explore the Everson Museum of Art’s exhibitions and incredible collection of artworks, inspiring them to make art of their own. These unique experiences and artistic explorations will develop campers’ critical thinking skills, communication, and appreciation for the arts.
Registrations are offered in week-long increments.Campers may register for multiple week-long sessions.Full-day attendance option only.Members receive a 20% discount. Please sign in at the top right-hand corner of the check-out page. If you do not remember your password, simply choose the “forgot password” link. Session 1: July 7-11Session 2: July 14-18Session 3: July 21-25Session 4: August 4-8Session 5: August 11-15
Date/Time | 7/15/2025 9:00 AM |
Runs | 7/07/2025 - 8/15/2025 |
Cost | $255 Members | $305 Non-Members |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Contact Email | cwalsh@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


Downtown Farmers Market Lunchtime Live! Music Series
The Downtown Farmers Market Lunchtime Live! Music Series is a weekly live music performance that is free and open to the public. Every Tuesday from June 10 to October 14, a unique artist will play outdoors in Clinton Square from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm during the Downtown Syracuse Farmers Market.
Date/Time | 7/15/2025 11:30 AM |
Runs | 6/10/2025 - 10/14/2025 |
Cost | FREE |
Contact Phone | 315-422-8284 |
Contact Email | maile@downtownsyracuse.com |
Venue | Clinton Square N Clinton St & W Genesee St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |