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Downtown Committee Signature Events
Recurring Events
Virtual Family Days
Visit the Everson Museum during the month of October to explore the galleries on your own with your family. Stop by our Visitors Service desk to pick up a take-home bag of art activities inspired by what you see in the Museum. The kit includes lessons with easy to follow instructions and all the materials you will need to complete the activities at home. Kits are available on a first come first served basis. Share your creations with us using #EversonAtHome.
| Date | 10/01/2020 |
| Multiple Times | Thursdays, 12 noon to 8 pm |
| Runs | 10/01/2020 - 10/31/2020 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Appositions
September 19, 2020 – November 1, 2020
Appositions features work by recent graduates of Syracuse University’s Studio Arts MFA program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, including Franco Andres, Brandy Boden, Darcie Brown, Stephen Farrell, Devon Gelhar, Charles Hickey, Eric Mowen, and Katie Shulman.
| Date | 10/01/2020 |
| Multiple Times | Thursdays, noon to 8pm |
| Runs | 9/19/2020 - 11/01/2020 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects
In 1911, the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (known today as the Everson) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would focus on collecting works made by American artists. This decision, implemented by Museum Director Fernando Carter, was the first of many made by directors that ultimately defined the Everson’s collection as it exists today. This exhibition examines over one hundred years of the Museum’s collecting priorities, from the Museum’s earliest acquisitions in 1911 to work acquired in 2019.
Jonas Lie, The Black Teapot, 1911, Oil on canvas, 35 x 42 inches Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, 13.121
| Date/Time | 10/01/2020 (All day) |
| Runs | 8/01/2020 - 1/02/2021 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Renegades & Reformers: American Art Pottery
Since acquiring its first works by Adelaide Alsop Robineau in 1916, the Everson Museum of Art has built one of the finest collections of art pottery in the world. Renegades and Reformers revolves around two common personality types among potters: the “renegades” who embarked on highly personal artistic quests that pushed clay and glaze to their limits, and the “reformers,” whose modern designs and social attitudes pushed back against Victorian mores.
| Date/Time | 10/01/2020 (All day) |
| Runs | 8/01/2020 - 10/18/2020 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Virtual Live Yoga with heART
Saturdays July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 10:00am–11:15am
Class available online via Zoom
*You MUST pre-register for each class no later than 24-hours before the class.
Open your heart space in this alignment-based yoga class and connect your body with the surroundings of your own home space in this live virtual class. Long-time and favorite yoga instructor Dara Harper will guide you through proper form and precision of poses from her home studio. For more on Dara Harper, visit Yogawithdara.com. All skill levels welcome. Follow Zoom link provided through e-mail after registration of class.
Members $8 / Non-Members $10 (fee per class)
Purchase all 4-weeks at a discount $28.80 Members / $36 Non-Members
$5/ class recording. Recordings e-mailed the following Monday after class.
Members receive a discounted price.
This discount will be reflected on the Payment Window once you have "signed in"
Contact Kimberly Griffiths with questions, kgriffiths@everson.org
| Date/Time | 10/03/2020 10:00 AM |
| Runs | 5/16/2020 - 11/21/2020 |
| Cost | $8/$10 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
City Market
August-October (Second Sunday of each month) Sunday Market Museum hours: 10:00am–5:00pm
Admission is Pay What You Wish
Every second Sunday from August through October you’ll find vendors from all over the region selling ceramics, vintage clothing, furniture, home décor, handmade crafts, antiques, and much more. Parking at OnCenter garage is $2.50 with Everson Museum validation.
City Market is committed to the safety and well-being of every vendor, our loyal customers and the general public and will therefore be putting measures in place to safeguard all
–All vendors and customers must wear a face covering for the duration of their time on the plaza
–A safe social distance must be between you and those who are not in your group (at least 6 feet apart) at all times including while on line waiting to purchase items
–Vendors will have hand sanitizers available for use
–Please refrain from touching merchandise until you are ready to purchase items
| Date/Time | 10/04/2020 10:00 AM |
| Runs | 8/09/2020 - 10/11/2020 |
| Cost | Admission - Pay What You Wish |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Portal: The Window in American Photography
October 10, 2020 – January 24, 2021 Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson’s collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.
Minor White
Windowsill Daydreaming, 1958
Gelatin silver print, 91⁄2 x 71⁄8 inches,
Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, 89.24. Reproduced with permission of The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum © Trustees of Princeton University.
| Date | 10/10/2020 |
| Multiple Times | Thursdays 12 noon to 8 pm |
| Runs | 10/10/2020 - 1/24/2021 |
| 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 | 11/06/2020 |
| 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 |
Virtual Open Figure Drawing
November 12
6:00pm–8:00pm
Free, available online on Zoom
You must pre-register to participate
Enjoy an evening of figure drawing through the study of a model right from your own home. In collaboration with Open Figure Drawing Inc. Openfiguredrawing.com
| Date/Time | 11/12/2020 6:00 PM |
| Runs | 11/12/2020 - 11/12/2020 |
| Cost | free |
| 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 – January 10, 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 | 11/13/2020 |
| Multiple Times | Thursdays, noon to 8pm |
| Runs | 11/14/2020 - 1/10/2021 |
| Cost | Free with Museum Admission |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
