Downtown Syracuse Events
Learning Lab at Redhouse Arts Center
Redhouse’s “Learning Lab” is a new program that has been created to help meet the needs of working parents as many schools move forward with Hybrid and Online Learning models. The “Learning Lab” was specifically developed to support students in grades 3-8 who are in need of daily learning support, access to technology, and other in-person instructional accommodations in order to succeed this coming school year. "Learning Lab" runs weekly, Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm, for the entire school year. Full school calendar available at http://www.theredhouse.org/redhouse-learning-lab/.
| Date/Time | 2/25/2021 8:00 AM |
| Runs | 9/08/2020 - 6/24/2021 |
| Cost | $250 for full week enrollment or $65/day for partial week enrollment |
| Contact Phone | 3153622785 |
| Contact Email | info@theredhouse.org |
| Venue | Redhouse Arts Center 201 S. West St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-425-0405 |
Pathway of Resistance: The Erie Canal and the Abolition Movement
Join the Erie Canal Museum on Thursday, February 25th at 12 p.m. for its first Lunchtime Lecture of the year with a look at the abolition movement along the Erie Canal based on our well received “Pathways of Resistance” walking tour. In this virtual presentation, Museum Educator Derrick Pratt will discuss the institution of slavery in New York state itself, economic opportunities found along the newly constructed Canal by African Americans, how the Canal played an important role in the abolition movements development, and what role the canal may have played in the Underground Railroad. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the program will be streamed live on the Museum’s Facebook page as well as released on its YouTube channel. Please consider making a $5 donation, as is typical of all Lunchtime Lectures. Everyone who donates will receive a personal link to watch the lecture live on Zoom and participate in a Q&A session. Donations may be made here: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/virtual-lunchtime-lecture/
| Date/Time | 2/25/2021 12:00 PM |
| Cost | Free with a $5 suggested donation |
| Contact Phone | 315-471-0593 |
| Contact Email | Derrick@eriecanalmuseum.org |
| Venue | Erie Canal Museum 318 Erie Blvd E Syracuse, NY 13202 315-471-0593 |
What Happened: Luis Arnias, Simon Liu, and Zhou Tao Exhibition
Light Work’s Urban Video Project presents What Happened, a three-person exhibition featuring the work of filmmakers Luis Arnias, Simon Liu, and Zhou Tao. The installation will be on view from February 4 thru April 3, 2021, at UVP’s outdoor projection site on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art at 401 Harrison Street, Thursday through Saturday, from dusk until 11pm. What Happened takes us on a tour of ambiguous scenes where we find ourselves disoriented, unsure where and when we are, whether we find ourselves before, after, or during an indeterminate event. These works bear the unmistakable trace of the volatile forces shaping our current moment: protest, pandemic, state brutality, racialized violence, and ecological disaster. But this isn’t the news. As in life, these forces confront us in mostly oblique ways, as a nagging anxiety attaching to fragments torn from context and transforming them into a thousand strange and fascinating portents: a lost face mask in the gutter, an uprooted tree, an endlessly spinning loading icon, a cheerful pop song’s hollow echo, a flash that may or may not be fireworks.
Are these terrains mundane or extraordinary? Fact or fiction? Zones of autonomy or oppression? Recovery or impending disaster?
Did it already happen? Will it happen soon? Is it happening now?
The resulting show is a meditation on living through “interesting” times.
In conjunction with the exhibition, UVP will host a FREE live-streamed screening of the What Happened program with additional works, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers on Thursday, March 4, at 6:30pm. The link will go live on UVP’s website Saturday, March 4, at 6:30 pm EST.
| Date/Time | 2/25/2021 7:30 PM |
| Runs | 2/04/2021 - 4/02/2021 |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | Everson Community Plaza 401 Harrison Street Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
January 30 – March 28, 2021
Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his “Jalethal” dolls.
Jaleel Campbell
Jalethal Print, 2019
Digital image
Courtesy of the artist
| Date | 2/25/2021 |
| Multiple Times | Thursdays 12 noon to 8 pm |
| Runs | 1/30/2021 - 3/28/2021 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Lacey McKinney: Reconfiguration
November 14, 2020 – February 28, 2021
Using portraiture as her point of departure, Lacey McKinney examines themes of identity and embodiment through the human face and figure. Painting with acrylic and oil, McKinney merges multiple faces into one composition—blurring together moments in time. Calling attention to the fallacy that humans maintain a singular fixed or identity and challenging the history of genre portraiture, McKinney questions how much information can be gleaned from a single portrait.
Lacey McKinney
Reconfiguration 16, 2020
Oil and acrylic on panel, 20 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist
| Date | 2/25/2021 |
| Multiple Times | Thursdays, noon to 8pm |
| Runs | 11/14/2020 - 2/28/2021 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today’s contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.
Itsue Ito
Shu to, 1986
Earthenware, 15 x 18 x 19 inches
Purchase Prize given by the Hancock Foundation, 27th Ceramic National, 1987
| Date | 2/25/2021 |
| Multiple Times | Thursdays 12 noon to 8 pm |
| Runs | 11/07/2020 - 5/09/2021 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
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