Downtown Living Tour September 24
Downtown Syracuse Events


Kite & Devin Ronneberg: Fever Dream
April 21—August 21, 2022
Museum Admission
Fever Dream is an interactive multimedia installation by Kite, an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer, and Devin Ronneberg, a multidisciplinary artist of Kanaka Maoli/Okinawan descent working primarily in sculpture, sound, image-making, and computational media. The work brings together their mutual interests in the implications of emergent technologies and artificial intelligence, information control and collection, Indigenous ontologies, and bodily interfaces. In response to the audience’s proximity in the gallery, a large projection flips between channels algorithmically tuned in to scraped footage of conspiracy theories, paranormal and extraterrestrial sightings, and recent news broadcasts. The work plumbs the depths of the settler-colonial psyche and the ways in which settler conspiracies are often founded on a denial of Indigenous agency, such as the belief that “ancient aliens” are responsible for the building of Indigenous earthworks and monuments.
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 (All day) |
Runs | 4/21/2022 - 8/21/2022 |
Cost | Museum Admission- check Everson.org for details |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


Curious Vessels: The Rosenfield Collection
On View March 12—October 23, 2022
Louise Rosenfield is among the most avid pottery collectors in the United States. Over the past thirty years, she has amassed a collection of more than 4,000 pieces of functional pottery from artists across the globe. Her ambition for her collection has always been clear—instead of donating work to a museum, she would rather donate it to a restaurant, where patrons could enjoy the work as originally intended.
Curious Vessels is a celebration of both Rosenfield’s eclectic taste and her unrivaled generosity. Museum visitors will be able to touch many of the pieces in this exhibition while watching videos of Rosenfield and notable potters from the collection pointing out details of the work. After viewing the exhibition, viewers are invited to become participants and collaborators by eating a meal in the Everson’s innovative new café, Louise, which is entirely stocked with functional vessels from the Rosenfield Collection.
Brooks Oliver, Squiggle, 2015, Porcelain, 8 x 16 x 16 inches, Courtesy of the Rosenfield Collection
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 (All day) |
Runs | 3/12/2022 - 10/23/2022 |
Cost | $8 Adults, $6 Seniors/Students, Free Children 12 and Under |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


Helene Starr: Organic Unfolding
On view August 13—September 25, 2022
Over the past four decades, artist Helene Starr has built a significant body of work around the act of draping clay slabs into soft crenelated forms that evoke fiber, flesh, and the natural world. Organic Unfolding marks a return to her work that utilizes curving steel forms that let her array her forms in lyrical three-dimensional compositions.
Starr is one of the artists selected as part of the CNY Artist Initiative, a competitive program that highlights the multi-faceted talents of CNY artists.
This project is made possible, in part, with funding from The Community Partnership of Tompkins County.
Transition in Motion, 1981
Earthenware, 26 x 23 x 8 inches
Everson Museum of Art; Gift of the artist, 81.52
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 (All day) |
Runs | 8/13/2022 - 9/25/2022 |
Cost | Museum Admission- check Everson.org for details |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


Sekou Cooke: 15-81 Opens to the Public
On View April 30–August 21, 2022
15-81 presents architect and urban designer Sekou Cooke’s project We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space alongside documents relating to the 15th Ward in Syracuse, New York. Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in 2021 as part of their exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, We Outchea focuses on the legacy of placement and displacement of Black residents in Syracuse and considers various events in the city’s history—the razing of the historic 15th Ward, the building of multiple public housing projects, and the construction of Interstate-81—while simultaneously critiquing recent proposals to replace low-income communities with mixed-income housing. By contextualizing the We Outchea project with photographs and ephemera that tell the story of the once vibrant 15th Ward, Cooke points to a post I-81 Syracuse future of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Visit everson.org/exhibitions to learn more.
We Outcha: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, 2021
9 digital and screenprints on paper, 13 x 13 inches each
Courtesy of the artist
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 (All day) |
Runs | 4/30/2022 - 8/21/2022 |
Cost | Museum Admission: $8 Adults, $6 Seniors/Students, Free Military and Kids Under 12 |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


Free Third Thursday Tours
Thursday, Jul 21, Aug 18, & Sept 15, 6:00pm
Free
Join in the conversation each month with our incredible volunteer docents and learn about current exhibitions. Wine tasting included on July 21, compliments of the American Wine Society.
July 21: Sharif Bey: Facets
August 18: Forever is Composed of Nows
September 15: Curious Vessels: The Rosenfield Collection
No pre-registration required.
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 6:00 PM |
Runs | 7/21/2022 - 9/15/2022 |
Cost | Free. |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


Hanover Thursdays - Featuring Root Shock + Brownskin Band
Free outdoor concerts every Thursday in August!
Hanover Thursdays kicks off this Summer 2022 in celebration of the Hanover Square neighborhood with music of Syracuse and the greater CNY area. The four week outdoor music series will feature the best in local and regional talent on stage in the heart of Hanover Square every Thursday evening in August. Concerts start at 6pm and are free and open to the public of all ages.
The series will draw from audiences young and old with a broad selection of styles from rock to reggae, blues to funk, and many points in between. This family-friendly event is free and open to the public of all ages
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 6:00 PM |
Cost | Free |
Venue | Hanover Square E. Washington and Warren Streets Syracuse, NY 13202 |


WoW! at the Everson
Thursday, August 18, Begins at Dusk
Devised by Karin Coonrod in 2020, WoW! is the new hybrid event bringing living poets and film together outdoors. A drive-in movie meets poetry slam. In response to the host of performance cancellations in 2020, Coonrod and Compagnia de’ Colombari turned her original production of “More or Less I Am” into seven short films.
Whitman is the iconic New York poet whose radical poem “Song of Myself” shouts out with joy the inclusivity of democracy in the Americas. Recorded over three weeks, with over 50 performers from all over the world, the films embody Whitman’s words. In collaboration with institutional partners and living poets across the globe, WoW! activates us as a community in a collective celebration of freedom.
The one-hour event begins at dusk and will be screened on the façade of the Everson. Following each film, a local poet will stand and “talk back to Whitman” in their own words, challenging or quarreling with him, thus weaving together film and live recitation. There will be opportunities for spoken word artists to speak and land acknowledgments to be made. Local food vendors will be present, and a post-performance convening will encourage conversation amongst audience, poets, and performers.
About Colombari:
Compagnia de’ Colombari founded and led by Karin Coonrod is an international collective of performing artists based in New York City, generating theater in surprising places. Colombari is founded on the twin principles that the magic of great theater can happen anywhere and be made accessible to everyone.
Visit everson.org for more info.
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 7:30 PM |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |


Dermot Kennedy
Irish singer-songwriter, Dermot Kennedy is coming to the Landmark Theatre on August 18, 2022 at 8 pm.
Kennedy is best known for his 2019 single "Outnumbered" and his feature on the 2020 Meduza single "Paradise". He is signed to Interscope Records in the US, and Island Records for the rest of the world.
Kennedy grew up in Rathcoole, County Dublin, Ireland. An avid soccer fan and player, Kennedy started playing guitar at the age of 10, and songwriting at the age of 14.
Date/Time | 8/18/2022 8:00 PM |
Cost | $35.50 - $45.50 |
Contact Phone | 315-475-7979 |
Contact Email | amasters@landmarktheatre.org |
Venue | Landmark Theatre 362 S. Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |


UNIQUE
On view August 19—September 25, 2022
Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad of thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges.
The Everson’s Community Exhibition Program is generously supported by Community Bank, N.A.
Visit everson.org/exhibitions for more information.
Date/Time | 8/19/2022 (All day) |
Runs | 8/19/2022 - 9/25/2022 |
Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |