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6/18/2025 (All day)
Lee DuSell: Benediction
Runs 5/10/2025 - 8/31/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

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/Time6/18/2025 (All day)
Runs5/10/2025 - 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 Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
6/18/2025 (All day)
Nancy Friedeman-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Runs 4/19/2025 - 10/18/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

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/Time6/18/2025 (All day)
Runs4/19/2025 - 10/18/2025
CostAdults $14, Seniors (65+) $10, Students $5, Children 6-12
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
6/18/2025 (All day)
Anna Warfield: Relearning Play
Runs 6/14/2025 - 8/17/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

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/Time6/18/2025 (All day)
Runs6/14/2025 - 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 Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
6/18/2025 (All day)
DEAD END.
Runs 6/07/2025 - 8/31/2025
Everson Museum of Art
 

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/Time6/18/2025 (All day)
Runs6/07/2025 - 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 Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
6/18/2025 (All day)
Nucor Steel Innovation Station
Runs 1/17/2025 - 6/29/2025
Museum of Science & Technology (MOST)
 

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/Time6/18/2025 (All day)
Runs1/17/2025 - 6/29/2025
CostFree with admission
VenueMuseum of Science & Technology (MOST)
500 South Franklin Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-425-9068
6/18/2025 12:00 PM
CNY Artist Initiative Gallery Talk with Anna Warfield
Everson Museum of Art
 

CNY Artist Initiative Gallery Talk with Anna Warfield

Anna Warfield (she/they) is a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, New York, working with text-based fiber sculptures that explore the body and identity. Recent solo exhibitions include UNDOINGS at SUNY Oneonta and Placid Thoughts at the Roberson Museum. Warfield has shown work at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. They are the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and hold a BFA and BS from Cornell University, where their thesis won the Charles Baskerville Painting Award.

The Everson CNY Artist Initiative is a competitive program that highlights the multi-faceted talents of regional artists. Each year, Everson curators select artists to display their work in solo exhibitions at the Museum. Selections are based on the innovative quality of the work, how the work aligns with the Museum mission, and its relevance to the community.

Anna Warfield: Word Play is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists. The CNY Artist Initiative is made possible with support from Terry and Bill Delavan.

Date/Time6/18/2025 12:00 PM
CostPay-What-You-Wish
Contact Phone(315) 474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
 
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