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Cali M. Banks: I've Learned to Hold Myself Softly
Cali M. Banks, whose ancestors are both Munsee Lenape and Scottish, recently returned to Syracuse, where she was born and raised. As an artist, Banks has long embraced photography as her medium of choice. Rather than embracing photography’s objective or journalistic qualities, Banks seeks to personalize her work through a combination of alchemical processes and labor-intensive embellishment. The result is a body of work that balances nostalgia, loss, identity, longing, and a sense of community.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 8/24/2024 - 10/27/2024 |
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) Pay-wh |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
A DIY Candle Experience - Come make your own custom fragrance!
CAMP is your one – stop destination for all your candle needs! We are a retail shop that allows customers to design and create their own custom candle with our variety of seasonal scents, curated jars, and accessories. Our knowledgeable Fragrance experts are always on hand to guide you through the process of creating your own unique blend, from initial scent selection to final creation. Camp is the perfect place to relax and unwind, whether individually or with a small group, all are welcomed. With handmade candles, USA sourced materials, and a cozy atmosphere, we offer a unique experience designed to soothe the soul while connecting locally. Ignite your happy place at CAMP Candle Bar.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday + Tuesday : Closed |
Runs | 1/24/2024 - 1/31/2025 |
Cost | $45.00 + tax |
Contact Phone | 680-322-7406 |
Contact Email | hello@campcandlebar.com |
Venue | Armory Square Armory Square Syracuse, NY 13202 |
Clayscapes- Exhibition
Clayscapes is a tribute to clay’s ubiquitous presence in our lives, and to the powerful metaphorical and spiritual role that it can play. The Everson’s famous collection of ceramics is filled with works that explore the landscape—from artist Robert Arneson’s monumental celebration of California’s mountainous landscape to Uruguayan-born Lidya Buzio’s earthy vessels adorned with the skyline of her adopted home in New York City. The collection contains many commercially produced souvenir plates and pitchers meant to commemorate and memorialize specific places. These wares are a distinctive part of the Museum’s collection, and they provide inspiration for contemporary artists such as Paul Scott, who makes commemorative plates that reflect the ways that humans have altered the landscape and exploited its resources.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 7/02/2024 - 10/20/2024 |
Cost | Adults $14, Seniors (65+) $10, Students $5, Children 6-12 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Sascha Brastoff: California King
There are many wild and colorful characters in the history of American ceramics, but most pale in comparison to Sascha Brastoff. We most remember Brastoff as a prolific designer of midcentury dinnerware, but he also served in the US Army during World War II, where he created props and costumes for Special Services events to entertain troops. Brastoff also performed as his drag alter-ego, G.I. Carmen Miranda, and was cast in a Broadway production, Winged Victory (later adapted into the 1944 movie of the same name).
When the war ended, Brastoff moved to Los Angeles to design costumes for film stars, including the real Carmen Miranda. Brastoff then built a dinnerware empire (bankrolled by a Rockefeller) after taking a top prize in the Syracuse Museum of Fine Art’s 1948 Ceramic National exhibition. Throughout his career, Brastoff rubbed elbows with celebrities and was at the heart of L.A.’s Queer underground. Besides his work in ceramics, Brastoff also mastered jewelry, metalwork, enamels, and created erotic works for many private clients.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 8/31/2024 - 12/29/2024 |
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 |
I've Learned To Hold Myself Softly: Cali M. Banks
Comprised of 30 images and one film, Banks has created an exhibition with Syracuse as her muse.
She began documenting her hometown of Syracuse in November 2022. When she traveled back to places of importance during my "coming of age" years, she realized many places of both solace and nostalgia have been demolished or abandoned. Banks started to rework this experimental, documentary project with ideas of "teardown towns" and blind tradition. She utilizes self-portraiture, still-lives, and architecture that is specific to Syracuse, and symbolism depicting bodies, ritual, and sensuality, which in turn uses nonverbal communication as a way to emphasize tradition. This project also explores the complexities of layers of existence through materialistic remnants and the essence of non-tangibility. With a rapidly changing hometown as the core of the work, Banks is capturing attention with a familiar setting to the community.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 8/24/2024 - 10/27/2024 |
Contact Email | calibanksart@gmail.com |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Putting Art to Work: Prints of the Works Progress Administration
The Great Depression reached its peak in 1933 when the unemployment rate in the United States plummeted to 20%. The Public Works of Art Project, a relief measure to employ artists, was one of many New Deal initiatives that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law during his first year in office. In 1935, the program was replaced by the Federal Art Project, which was administered by the Works Progress Administration. Together, the two programs employed more than 10,000 artists and generated an estimated 400,000 paintings, murals, prints, and posters. The Everson Museum of Art (then the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) played an important role as Museum Director Anna Wetherill Olmsted oversaw the Central New York region of the Federal Art Project.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 9/14/2024 - 12/29/2024 |
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) Pay-wh |
Contact Phone | 3154746064 |
Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Tim Atseff: Final Edition
Fifty years following his Everson Museum debut, Syracuse-native Tim Atseff returns with a solo exhibition dedicated to a topic he knows intimately—the news media. Atseff spent nearly five decades working in the newspaper business in various professional roles and is perhaps best-known for penning editorial cartoons that satirically skewered political and public figures in print. Atseff’s artistic practice is similarly grounded in current events, but as a platform for expressing his personal views about existential crises facing the world today, it is writ large and in full color in paintings, assemblages, and installations. For the Everson, Atseff presents a selection of recent works about the continued shuttering of American newspapers—and what it means for the future of journalistic integrity, an informed public, and national political debate.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 9/21/2024 - 12/29/2024 |
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) Pay-wh |
Contact Phone | 3154746064 |
Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Jewels from the Fire: 20th Century Enamels Exhibition
Because they use similar materials and processes, enamels and ceramics share a close relationship. Enamellists work on metal surfaces instead of clay, creating everything from functional jewelry and dinnerware to wall-mounted panels. They use pigments called enamels in the process, which behave similarly to ceramic glazes. Comprising mineral pigments and a glassy powder called frit, enamels can be painted as a liquid or sifted and sprinkled onto a surface while dry. Enameled metal is then fired in a kiln at temperatures ranging from 1400°F to 1650°F. Artists often add additional layers of enamel after cooling and fire their pieces multiple times, which creates seductive, jewel-like surfaces.
Date | 10/11/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 7/05/2024 - 11/10/2024 |
Cost | Adults $14, Seniors (65+) $10, Students $5, Children 6-12 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |