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What Makes Syra...
10:00 AM
 

What Makes Syracuse Home Workshop

Join A Long Look featured artist Joe Librandi-Cohen in an exploration of home in this hands-on photography workshop. During the 4-hour program, Librandi-Cowen will introduce participants to documentary photography, share insights into his work, and lead them in a photography exercise Downtown. Using smartphones, participants will explore and photograph the Downtown landscape while reflecting on the question: “What makes Syracuse home?”

After taking a lunch break in the Everson’s café, Louise, participants will review the photos captured and work collaboratively to create postcards and/or a poster of our city.

This workshop is open to creatives of all ages. Lunch at Louise is not included in registration fee.

Date/Time9/13/2026 10:00 AM
Cost$36 Members | $45 Non-Members
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
 
St. Paul's...
11:45 AM
 

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Bicentennial History Presentation

Derrick
Pratt, director of education at the Erie Canal Museum, will present “The Erie
Canal:  The Ditch That Changed America.” Pratt’s
crash course on the Erie Canal promises to answer such questions as:  Why was the Erie Canal built? How was it
built? How was it used once it was built? How did it influence the
establishment of several churches, including St. Paul’s? and Where is it now? 

Date/Time9/13/2026 11:45 AM
CostFree and open to the public
Contact Phone315-278-5807
Contact Emailieva.doyle@gmail.com
VenueSt. Paul's Syracuse - The Downtown Episcopal Church
220 E Fayette St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
 
 
 
 
 
2026 Clay for a...
5:00 PM
 

2026 Clay for a Cause

Come join us for a night of creative art philanthropy! Local ceramic artists have donated finished pieces for the annual Independent Potter's Association (IPA) fundraiser to support 13Thirty Cancer Connect, a local non-profit providing community support and programing from adolescents and young adults since 2001.
Entry donation enables guests to enjoy complementary food, drinks, and live music, donated by the IPA, Middle Ages Brewery, and Benjamin's on Franklin. For additional donation, guests may select from hundreds of hand-crafted ceramic pieces to take home! 100% of proceeds goes directly to 13Thirty Cancer Connect! Check out their mission at 13thirty.org/

Date/Time9/18/2026 5:00 PM
CostSuggested $15 entry
Contact Phone315-466-9430
Contact Emailjhaw174@gmail.com
VenueBenjamins on Franklin
314 S. Franklin Street
Syracuse, NY 13206
3152994756
 
Gallery Talk wi...
12:00 PM
 

Gallery Talk with Rich Harrington

Join CNY Artist Initiative featured artist Rich Harrington for a gallery talk to learn more about his work and special exhibition, Rich Harrington: Fissure. Light refreshments to follow. Free with Museum Admission. 
About the Artist:Rich Harrington was born in Binghamton, New York. He earned a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University in 1980 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1993. From 1978 to 1979, he studied in London with the partners of Pentagram Design Ltd. and faculty from St. Martin College of Art and Design. Harrington’s work examines how popular culture shapes identity, referencing toys, games, teaching materials, and icons from his youth. Using painting, sculpture, video projection, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives, creating intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

Date/Time9/19/2026 12:00 PM
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
 
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Lessons in Geom...
(All day)
 

Lessons in Geometry

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early twentieth century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-twentieth century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

Lessons in Geometry traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson’s collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

Date/Time9/20/2026 (All day)
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
 
LEGO Block Prin...
1:00 PM
 

LEGO Block Printing Class

Participants will design and build their own printing plates, then use ink to create bold, graphic prints on paper. This hands-on class blends art, design, and a bit of engineering—perfect for families, kids, and anyone looking to make a meaningful handmade gift.

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Understand the basics of relief printmakingExplore pattern, repetition, and compositionUse unconventional materials (LEGOs) as a printmaking toolCreate multiple original prints to take homeExperiment with color layering and texture

This workshop is taught by CNY Artist Initiative Teaching Artist Ashe Martin. 

Date/Time9/20/2026 1:00 PM
Cost$60 Non-Members | $48 Members (Ticket for 1 child, 1 adult)
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justin Willman:...
7:00 PM
 

Justin Willman: One For The Ages Tour

Fresh off the release of Magic Lover—Netflix’s first-ever magic comedy special—Justin Willman is hitting the road with an all-new tour: One for the Ages.

Willman is best known as the star and creator of Netflix’s Magic for Humans and Magic Prank Show, where his signature mix of mind-blowing magic and relatable humor has made him a streaming favorite, a viral hit (1 billion views and counting), and a fan favorite for families, comedy lovers, and skeptics alike.

He’s appeared on The Tonight Show, The Today Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and Conan, and was recently named “Stage Magician of the Year” by the Magic Castle. He’s performed at the White House, packed theaters across the country, and managed to make grown adults openly weep over a card trick. But the live show? That’s where the real magic happens.

One for the Ages is Justin’s biggest tour to date, featuring brand-new material and more. It’s an interactive, laugh-filled, sleight-of-mind experience that’s smart, silly, and astonishing.

And yes—it’s the kind of show you can bring your kids, your date, or your dad to. All ages. All generations. All-new.

This is One for the Ages.





Show Website


Date/Time9/26/2026 7:00 PM
VenueThe Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater
421 Montgomery Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-435-8000
 
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Central Current...
7:30 PM
 

Central Current presents: Laurie Woolever

Laurie Woolever has been writing about the world of food for nearly thirty years. A graduate of Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute, Woolever started as an assistant to chef Mario Batali, helping him write cookbooks and launching her freelance journalism career in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and others.
She was an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator magazines and then became the lieutenant to TV travel host and former chef Anthony Bourdain, whose memoir Kitchen Confidential introduced the world to the secrets of the restaurant world. She co-authored two books with Bourdain, and after his death, wrote Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. She won a James Beard Award in 2025 for Richard Hart Bread, and her own memoir, Care and Feeding, was an instant New York Times best-seller. Her writing has also appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue and other publications.
Woolever now lives and works in New York City, but her journey began in the newsrooms of Syracuse. A native of Chittenango, she first learned the fundamentals of journalism as an intern at the Syracuse Herald-Journal, prior to its closure in 2001.
We invite you to join us at the Everson Museum auditorium to hear Woolever share the lessons she has learned over three decades in the food and media industries, the ways being a parent has made her fall in love with cooking again, and why your information diet matters (almost) as much as your food diet.

Date/Time9/30/2026 7:30 PM
CostFree
Contact Emailinfo@centralcurrent.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
 
 
 
 

Recurring Events

9/13/2026 (Multi-time)
The Hurt Monster
Runs 9/12/2026 - 9/13/2026
Redhouse Arts Center
 

The Hurt Monster

The Hurt Monster is an original puppetry-driven theatrical work for children and families. The story follows a child named Kiya who encounters a mysterious creature said to transform pain into light. Supported by the Jim Henson Foundation’s Family Grant, the project reflects artistic excellence and innovation and is produced by Central New York–based The Dusty & Dott Company.


Date9/13/2026
Multiple Times

Saturday, 12pm & 5pm
Sunday, 2pm + Followed by a "Behind the Seams" talkback with the Creative & Engineering teams.

Runs9/12/2026 - 9/13/2026
CostFree & Open to the Public!
Contact Emaildustyanddott@gmail.com
VenueRedhouse Arts Center
400 So. Salina St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-425-0405
9/13/2026 (All day)
Realities Within
Runs 3/07/2026 - 12/31/2026
Everson Museum of Art
 

Realities Within

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist’s reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed “salon-style”—a term inspired by the eighteenth and nineteenth century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space—the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

The landscape section explores artists’ responses to the natural world, from expansive vistas to intimate views. In contrast, the cityscape section examines the built environment, capturing rhythms of urban life and the evolving character of towns and cities across America. The still life section turns inward, focusing on interior spaces and objects arranged and captured with deliberation. The section with representations of the body centers on the human presence, revealing varied approaches to capturing likeness, identity, and expression.

Featuring old favorites alongside new acquisitions, Realities Within offers a dynamic survey of artistic observation, highlighting how artists have continually returned to these genres to interpret the visible world.

Date/Time9/13/2026 (All day)
Runs3/07/2026 - 12/31/2026
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/13/2026 (All day)
Rich Harrington: Fissure
Runs 8/22/2026 - 10/25/2026
Everson Museum of Art
 

Rich Harrington: Fissure

For many people, personal identity flows naturally from their families, the objects they grew up with, and the physical place they are rooted in. These small puzzle pieces connect to construct one’s personality and sense of self. For others, notions of self and identity are more fluid and mysterious—a sum total that is somehow different from its constituent parts. Artist Rich Harrington has spent his career grappling with his own identity and the ways it has been shaped by popular culture.

Harrington digs into his early life experiences by constructing physical and metaphorical spaces to understand his own developing identity and his search for place within the family structure and society. For Fissure, Harrington revisits preconceived notions of gender roles and the popular culture that reinforces them. By appropriating imagery and text that once affirmed conventional ideas of gender, Harrington disrupts their original context, creating a conceptual fissure: a space where the dominant narrative fractures, allowing overlooked, suppressed, or alternative narratives to emerge. The fissures encourage viewers to question inherited assumptions and reconsider the cultural narratives that shape identity.

About the Artist: 

Rich Harrington was born in Binghamton, New York. He earned a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University in 1980 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1993. From 1978 to 1979, he studied in London with the partners of Pentagram Design Ltd. and faculty from St. Martin College of Art and Design. Harrington’s work examines how popular culture shapes identity, referencing toys, games, teaching materials, and icons from his youth. Using painting, sculpture, video projection, and assemblage, he reassigns familiar images and texts to reveal alternative narratives, creating intersections of memory, meaning, and belonging.

Date/Time9/13/2026 (All day)
Runs8/22/2026 - 10/25/2026
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/13/2026 (All day)
A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Runs 4/18/2026 - 9/27/2026
Everson Museum of Art
 

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late nineteenth century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent ten days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind’s Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

Spanning from 1888 to 2016, A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two. A Long Look is presented in conjunction with LIFE: Six Women Photographers to foster discussions on the relationship between documentary photography and photojournalism.

Date/Time9/13/2026 (All day)
Runs4/18/2026 - 9/27/2026
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/13/2026 (All day)
LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Runs 5/02/2026 - 9/27/2026
Everson Museum of Art
 

LIFE: Six Women Photographers

The Annual Charles D. Edelman & Ilene C. Siegler Exhibition. 

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the “American Century.” Photojournalism, or “photo essays” as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce’s words, “to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm.” By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE’s pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth. These photographers were among the few women who were retained as full-time staff or on a semi-permanent basis rather than as freelancers. Their cameras captured events both international and domestic, wide-ranging and intimate, serious and playful. Central to LIFE’s reportage was the sometimes contentious relationship between photographers and editors, with each holding a stake in the ideology and content of the final essay. Ultimately, the editorial staff, not the photographers, chose which images would be published, and thus how each story was presented.

In his prospectus for LIFE, Luce stressed the importance for one “to see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events…” It was not about reading but rather about allowing the images to tell the stories. These six photographers played a vital role in Luce’s quest to achieve that end.

LIFE: Six Women Photographers is organized by The New York Historical. All photographs in the exhibition are © The Picture Collection LLC. All rights reserved. LIFE is the registered trademark of TI Gotham Inc. Used under license.

Date/Time9/13/2026 (All day)
Runs5/02/2026 - 9/27/2026
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/13/2026 (All day)
Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Runs 5/16/2026 - 9/27/2026
Everson Museum of Art
 

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts’ career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist’s practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

The project broadens Roberts’ historical lens to include Germany, the Netherlands, and South Africa—nations deeply implicated in the exploitation of land and people. In these new works, she repurposes imagery and text from grocery store signage and packaging, referencing foods once discarded or given to enslaved peoples that are now reframed as delicacies. Through these transformations, Roberts considers how colonial histories continue to shape cultural identity, economic access, and the politics of consumption. While her figures bear traces of dehumanizing language and imagery, they are also imbued with presence, dignity, and spirituality, asserting survival and self-definition.

Roberts constructs her hybrid figures—often young Black children—through a distinctive collage process that combines found, manipulated, drawn, and painted elements. Drawn from the social and economic environments these children must navigate, the imagery foregrounds the precarity imposed by racial stereotyping and its impact on identity and agency. Her signature expanses of white space isolate the figures, intensifying attention to how Black bodies are centered, measured, and read in relation to structures of whiteness.

The exhibition also debuts a new ceramic bust, Zuri, named after the Swahili word for “beautiful” or “good,” affirming enduring cultural lineages and the inherent value, brilliance, and potential of Black children.

Date/Time9/13/2026 (All day)
Runs5/16/2026 - 9/27/2026
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/13/2026 (All day)
New Works in Clay
Runs 6/20/2026 - 1/03/2027
Everson Museum of Art
 

New Works in Clay

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson’s history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

The Museum and the University shared a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to transform an old can factory into a working ceramics studio. Beginning in 1975, Hughto hosted artists like Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Poons, Anthony Caro, and Billy Al Bengston at the studio. Each artist was given a team of assistants, as well as access to technical advice from veteran ceramic artists. This flurry of activity resulted in the landmark 1976 exhibition New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist’s repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

Date/Time9/13/2026 (All day)
Runs6/20/2026 - 1/03/2027
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/13/2026 (All day)
Canal as Collaborator: Works by Sarah Cameron Sunde & Kari Varner
Runs 4/17/2026 - 9/27/2026
Erie Canal Museum
 

Canal as Collaborator: Works by Sarah Cameron Sunde & Kari Varner

How do we reconcile our engineered past with an ecological future?

2025 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence Sarah Cameron Sunde and Kari Varner explore the Canal from an environmental lens.

Kari Varner, a distinguished photographer and educator, explored key ecological sites along the canal, integrating harvested plants into her photographic artworks. Sarah Cameron Sunde, an innovative interdisciplinary artist, engaged with canal communities to create pieces that physically and ecologically connect with the canal. She also developed work in collaboration with Jeremy Dennis, a contemporary fine art photographer and an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY.

Date/Time9/13/2026 (All day)
Runs4/17/2026 - 9/27/2026
CostFree
Contact Phone315-471-0593
Contact Emailinterpretation@eriecanalmuseum.org
VenueErie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd E
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-471-0593
9/13/2026 10:00 AM
M&T Bank Senior and Student Sundays
Runs 9/13/2026 - 12/27/2026
Everson Museum of Art
 

M&T Bank Senior and Student Sundays

Thanks to the generosity of M&T Bank, Seniors (65+) and Students (K-12 or College 18+ with a valid student ID) receive free admission to the Museum on Sundays.

This incredible opportunity will continue until December 27, 2026 (Festival of Trees & Light not included).

Date/Time9/13/2026 10:00 AM
Runs9/13/2026 - 12/27/2026
CostFREE for Seniors (65+) and Students (K-12 or College 18+ with a valid student ID)
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/15/2026 (Multi-time)
(Not) ALL ENCOMPASSED
Runs 8/04/2026 - 9/26/2026
Art Haus
 

(Not) ALL ENCOMPASSED

⭐️ art haus SYR is proud to present “(Not) ALL ENCOMPASSED” a group exhibition featuring works by Laurel Moranz @laurelmoranz - Lauren Bristol @laurenbristolart - Karin Bruckner @kbmatter - Deborah Walsh @artdebbie- Todd Behrendt @trbehrendt - Michael Schwarzer @mschwarzerart and Sherry Spann Allen @sspannallenart . In-haus viewing begins 8/4/26 12pm.art curation @marastudionyc_syr#exhibition #nyart #downtownsyracuse #independentart #collectart originalart localart supportartists livebeautiful

Date9/15/2026
Multiple Times

Tuesday-Friday 12pm-6pm
Saturday 12pm-6pm (closed through Labor Day)

Runs8/04/2026 - 9/26/2026
Contact Phone646-318-2742
Contact Emailmidoma@mac.com
VenueArt Haus
120 Walton St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
9/15/2026 8:00 AM
Downtown Syracuse Farmers Market
Runs 6/09/2026 - 10/13/2026
Clinton Square
 

Downtown Syracuse Farmers Market

The Downtown Syracuse Farmers Market, organized by the Downtown Committee of Syracuse and presented by Community Bank, Inc., will feature fresh produce, seasonal vegetables, fruits, baked goods, flowers, plants, and more from local vendors and visitors enjoyed entertainment during the “Lunchtime Live Music Series” from 11:30am - 1:30pm each week.

The "Lunchtime Live Music Series" was made possible with funding from the Tier Three Project Support program, a regrant program from the County of Onondaga, with the support of the County Executive and administered by CNY Arts. Additionally, this project receives support through grant funding from Tomorrow’s Neighborhoods Today.

Date/Time9/15/2026 8:00 AM
Runs6/09/2026 - 10/13/2026
Contact Phone315-422-8284
Contact Emailmail@downtownsyracuse.com
VenueClinton Square
N Clinton St & W Genesee St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
9/16/2026 (Multi-time)
Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy @ Art in the Atrium
Runs 9/15/2026 - 11/15/2026
Art in the Atrium
 

Yoichi Okimoto: Photographer in Service of Democracy @ Art in the Atrium

Before the White House, there was Central New York...

Long before Yoichi Okamoto entered the Oval Office with a camera, he was finding his way in Central New York. A Colgate Alumni, he refined his trade in the ballrooms of the Hotel Syracuse and at the Syracuse Post Standard. When the Army turned him away, people here stood up for him. His extraordinary career did not just pass through this region. It began here. Click here to learn more.

Free and Open to the PublicWhen: September 15th until November 15thWhere: Art in the Atrium, 201 East Washington StreetTimes:Wednesday-Friday: 12:00pm to 6:00pmSaturday & Sunday: 12:00pm to 8:00pm

Presented With Support From: 

Anthony Malavenda and Martine Burat
Austrian Embassy Washington
Austrian National Library
Ayni Brigade
Botstiber Institute of Austrian-American Studies
Bousquet Holstein PLLC
Central Current, Inc.
CNY Arts, Inc.
Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation
Kevin Duke
Laurence G. and Lauri Pepe Bousquet
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
Onondaga Historical Association
Syracuse University Libraries
Today’s Seeds

Date9/16/2026
Multiple Times

Wednesday-Friday: 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12:00pm to 8:00pm

Runs9/15/2026 - 11/15/2026
CostFREE
Contact Emailatrium@cnyarts.org
VenueArt in the Atrium
201 E Washington St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-435-2155
9/19/2026 (All day)
Sincerely, Beato
Runs 9/19/2026 - 1/03/2027
Everson Museum of Art
 

Sincerely, Beato

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as “Beato,” for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City’s Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Wood first took drawing courses as a teenager at the Académie Julien in Paris and Duchamp encouraged her to make drawing a priority even as her focus shifted to ceramics. Over the course of her career, Wood’s drawings became increasingly personal and autobiographical, often depicting the events and individuals that populated her life.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the “Mama of Dada.”

Date/Time9/19/2026 (All day)
Runs9/19/2026 - 1/03/2027
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/19/2026 (All day)
Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Runs 9/19/2026 - 1/03/2027
Everson Museum of Art
 

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin’s mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Although her stream of consciousness can seem like a firehose, Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work. 
About the Artist: Julia Kunin lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Pecs, Hungary where she conducts research and develops new work. She received her BA from Wellesley College in Massachusetts and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She has exhibited extensively in Europe as well as the United States. Kunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013. She is the recipient of a 2010 Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary. In 2008 she received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and had a residency at Art Omi. In 2007 she received the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency. Fellowships have included: MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York; Vermont Studio Center, Vermont; Core Program at the Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas; and Skowhegan Residency, Maine. Her work has been featured in ARTnews, House and Garden, the Brooklyn Rail, and in Harmony Hammond’s book Lesbian Art in America (Rizzoli, 2000). Kunin’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Museum of Applied Art and Design, Frankfurt, Germany; Sculpture Center, New York; and Brattleboro Museum, Vermont. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; German Leather Museum, Offenbach, Germany; the Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida; and the Museum of Art and Design, New York.

Date/Time9/19/2026 (All day)
Runs9/19/2026 - 1/03/2027
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 Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064
9/26/2026 12:00 PM
Arc of Onondaga and Redhouse - Fall Acting Workshop
Runs 9/26/2026 - 11/21/2026
Redhouse Arts Center
 

Arc of Onondaga and Redhouse - Fall Acting Workshop

Students, both experienced and new to Theatre, participate in acting exercises and games while being mentored by professional performers. The workshop culminates in an original sketch show celebrating the actors strengths and hard work.
For: Children of all abilities, ages 12 – 18Dates: Saturdays September 26 – November 21Times: 12pm – 4pmLocations: Sept-October at OneGroup, 706 N Clinton St, Syracuse, NY 13204November at Redhouse, 400 S Salina St, Syracuse, NY 13202

To register, reach out to Sarah ClarkEmail: sarah.clark@arcon.orgPhone: 315-476-7441

Date/Time9/26/2026 12:00 PM
Runs9/26/2026 - 11/21/2026
CostFree
Contact Phone315-476-7441
Contact Emailinfo@arcon.org
VenueRedhouse Arts Center
400 So. Salina St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-425-0405
10/24/2026 10:30 AM
Abstract & Semi-Abstract Carving Workshop
Runs 10/24/2026 - 10/24/2026
Everson Museum of Art
 

Abstract & Semi-Abstract Carving Workshop

This workshop introduces participants to subtractive sculpture—the process of creating a form by removing material rather than building it up. Working with either a bar of soap or a block of floral foam, participants will explore how carving can transform a simple block into an expressive three-dimensional sculpture.

Discover form through observation and experimentation. Rather than forcing the material into a predetermined shape, participants will learn to respond to its qualities, allowing curves, planes, openings, and textures to emerge as they carve. Inspiration will be drawn from the work of modern sculptors such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, whose simplified organic forms demonstrate how abstraction can express movement, balance, and emotion.

No previous sculpting experience is necessary—only patience, curiosity, and a willingness to experiment. All tools and materials provided.

This workshop is taught by Everson Teaching Artist Greg Lendeck.

Date/Time10/24/2026 10:30 AM
Runs10/24/2026 - 10/24/2026
Cost$48 Members | $60 Non-Members
Contact Phone315-474-6064
Contact Emaileverson@everson.org
VenueEverson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315-474-6064