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Recurring Events
Pretty Woman
Featured in the musical is Roy Orbison and Bill Dee’s international smash hit song “Oh, Pretty Woman,” which inspired one of the most beloved romantic comedy films of all time. Pretty Woman the film was an international smash hit when it was released in 1990. Now, 30 years later, PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is “Big romance and big fun!” (Broadway.com). “Irresistible! A romantic fantasy. A contemporary fairy tale,” says The Hollywood Reporter. PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL delivers on all the iconic moments you remember. Get ready to experience this dazzling theatrical take on a love story for the ages.
Date | 3/19/2024 |
Multiple Times | 3/19 - 7:30PM |
Runs | 3/19/2024 - 3/23/2024 |
Contact Phone | 315-475-7979 |
Contact Email | info@landmarktheatre.org |
Venue | Landmark Theatre 362 S. Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
Off the Rack
On view through May 5, 2024
Off the Rack is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites—all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries. This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.
Jonas Lie
The Black Teapot, 1911
Oil on canvas, 35 x 42 inches
Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, 13.121
Date | 3/20/2024 |
Multiple Times | Museum Hours |
Runs | 1/03/2024 - 5/05/2024 |
Cost | Museum Admission- check Everson.org for details |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
David Edward Johnson: No Roses in December
Based in Skaneateles, NY, David Edward Johnson creates mixed media assemblages that address belief systems, the birth and death of the American Dream, and the effects of loss at a personal level. No Roses in December features a series of works in which Johnson explores his father’s diagnosis of and descent into dementia. Johnson pairs his own photographs of bleak West Texas vistas and abandoned adobe dwellings with abstract mixed media painting, vintage papers, found objects, and other ephemera as a way to evoke fragmented shards of memory that mimic his father’s state of mind. The series title references a poem by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy that was popularized in a speech about courage by Peter Pan author JM Barrie: “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” Without memories, we have no blooms in the chill of the December of life.
David Edward Johnson: No Roses in December 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.
David Edward Johnson
CONCLUSION, 2023
Custom photography, found objects, acrylic, graphite, spray paint, crayon, paper, cardboard, and household on panel, 30 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Date | 3/20/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 1/27/2024 - 3/31/2024 |
Cost | Museum Admission- check Everson.org for details |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Sana Musasama: Returning to Ourselves
On view February 3, 2024-April 28, 2024
Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Sana Musasama has drawn inspiration from travel and research into global cultures. Returning to Ourselves centers around a series of dolls that Musasama produced that mirror African-American topsy turvy dolls containing a white doll whose skirt can be flipped up to transform it into a Black doll. Musasama uses this formal structure to juxtapose different figures drawn from the global Black diaspora. Returning to Ourselves is rounded out by a series of ceramic houses Musasama began early in her career but returned to during the pandemic to combat looming depression.
Sana Musasama
Topsy Turvy Doll, 2022
Date | 3/20/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 2/03/2024 - 4/28/2024 |
Cost | Museum Admission- check Everson.org for details |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Janet Biggs: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
On view February 10, 2024-May 12, 2024
In 2009 and 2010, Janet Biggs traveled to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard with a crew of artists and scientists to document the changing Arctic landscape. As the subject of centuries of exploration, the Arctic was once seen as indifferent to human enterprise, so vast and inhospitable as to be immune to any imposition. Today, scientists expect climate change to leave Arctic summers ice-free as early as the next decade, and Svalbard, located halfway between Europe and the North Pole, finds itself at the epicenter of this metamorphoses. Using footage compiled on her voyages north, Biggs explores this history and the alarming consequences of human enterprise in three videos: Warning Shot (2016), Brightness All Around (2011), and Fade to White (2010). Shown together, these works are a clarion call for a heroic landscape that will completely transform within our lifetimes.
Janet Biggs: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape is organized by the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Barry Lopez Foundation works with contemporary artists to organize exhibitions addressing climate change, biodiversity, habitat loss, and our relationship with the land in a time of environmental crisis.
Janet Biggs
Fade to White (video still), 2010
Single-channel HD video with sound, 16×9 format, running time 12:28
Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Date | 3/20/2024 |
Multiple Times | Monday: Closed |
Runs | 2/10/2024 - 5/12/2024 |
Cost | Museum Admission- check Everson.org for details |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Salty Spring Poets Club
Salty Spring Poets Club
$68 Members | $85 Non-Members
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sign up at any time!
Dates: March: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th | April: 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th | May: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and powerful." -Rita Dove
In this first four-week installment of Salty Spring Poets Club, we will pour language into classical poetic forms. What can forms like the sonnet and haiku teach us about calibrating language with power and intentionality? How does the prose poem emerge as a tool for breaking the rules and sequencing images? Each session, we will investigate a handful of poems written by contemporary poets and write our own poems in conversation with form and immediate environment.
Using the Everson’s permanent collection and rotating exhibitions, we will write in response to visual artworks relevant to our desires and interests. Sessions will prioritize generative writing and supportive, encouraging feedback. At the end of the month, we will perform for our loved ones and peers, coming away with a portfolio of four or more carefully crafted poems.
Instructor Bio:
Misha Tentser is the Arizona-born son of Ukrainian immigrants. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Sonora Review, Terrain.org, and North American Review, where his poem "Half Kaddish" was a finalist for the 2023 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Misha is a community educator, translator, MFA candidate in Poetry at Syracuse University, and the author of the chapbook Born in the Wrong Desert (Mouthfeel Press, 2023).
Visit Everson.org/classes-list to register now.
Date/Time | 3/21/2024 6:00 PM |
Runs | 3/07/2024 - 5/23/2024 |
Cost | https://21573a.blackbaudhosting.com/21573a/Poet-Club-23May2024 |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Saturday Community Programming
$10 per family to participate with Museum Admission!
Come join us for our Saturday drop-in art activities! Experience the Everson's engaging and interactive sessions, available every Saturday from February to May.
"Make & Take" from 10:30am –12:30pm
In this drop-in arts activity, children and families are invited to attend a clay forming session led by Everson staff and docents. Participants will be provided blocks of air-dry clay, sculpting tools, and creative guidance in an encouraging setting. Participants are also welcome to explore the museum after the activity, or even use pieces in the Everson’s permanent collection and rotating exhibitions as inspiration for their clay formations. Join us for a creative morning of communal artmaking.
Young Poets Club from 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Children aged 12-17 are invited to attend Young Poets Club—an encouraging creative writing community led by Everson staff and docents. Participants will generate stories and poems in response to pieces in the Everson’s permanent collection and rotating exhibitions, and learn about forms of creative writing relevant to their interests. Participants will also receive writing prompts and have the opportunity to perform their creations for their peers and families.
Date | 3/23/2024 |
Multiple Times | "Make & Take" from 10:30am –12:30pm |
Runs | 2/24/2024 - 5/25/2024 |
Cost | $10 per family to participate with Museum Admission! |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Sketch and Tell (ages 12-17)
Saturday Afternoons
2:00-4:00pm
$20
Teenagers (12–17) are invited to attend Sketch and Tell—the first in a series of artmaking afternoons led by local artists and Everson staff. Participants will have the option to choose an analog or digital format: charcoal pencil and paper, or iPad and Procreate software.
We’ll provide guided studio time and instruction while participants dive deep into the Everson’s collection, exploring ceramics, sculptures, and paintings.
All ability levels are welcome and materials will be provided, though students are welcome to bring their own sketchbooks and pencils if they prefer.
Visit everson.org/classes-list to register now.
Date/Time | 3/23/2024 2:00 PM |
Runs | 3/02/2024 - 5/25/2024 |
Cost | $20 |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Emergence
Join us for Emergence, an electrifying performance curated under the guidance of our Interim Artistic Director, Jayson Douglas. As we delve into the theme of rebirth and transformation, Emergence showcases the ascent of something fresh and compelling. Closing the evening with mesmerizing Contemporary Dance is the brilliant Destini Rogers, whose captivating movements embody the essence of innovation and possibility. Our Spring program unveils a triple bill that seamlessly weaves together the timeless elegance of classical ballet with the dynamic fusion of contemporary dance. Each piece in this meticulously crafted program reflects the spirit of evolution and the unstoppable momentum of artistic reinvention. Experience the exhilarating convergence of tradition and innovation as Emergence takes flight, inviting you to witness the emergence of a new era in performance art.
Date | 4/05/2024 |
Multiple Times | April 5th Children's Show 9a & 11a |
Runs | 4/05/2024 - 4/06/2024 |
Cost | $35 |
Contact Phone | 917-683-9723 |
Contact Email | melissa@syracusecityballet.com |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Hadestown
HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
Date | 4/16/2024 |
Multiple Times | 4/16 - 7:30PM |
Runs | 4/16/2024 - 4/21/2024 |
Contact Phone | 315-475-7979 |
Contact Email | info@landmarktheatre.org |
Venue | Landmark Theatre 362 S. Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
A Claytacular Spring Camp (Ages 7-12)
April 22–26, 2024
9:00am–4:00pm
$244 Members | $305 Non-Members
Ages: 7-12
Everson Museum of Art
Get ready to be totally immersed in the world of clay at our “Claytacular” Spring Camp at the Everson Museum of Art! Surrounded by the Museum’s unparalleled ceramics collection, campers will delve into sculpting, hand-building, wheel-throwing, and glazing techniques.
Outside of the classroom, campers will enjoy curated tours, scavenger hunts, improv games, and more, fostering friendships and fun.
Join us for a week of creativity and exploration at Syracuse’s cultural hub, the Everson Museum of Art!
Visit Everson.org/classes-list to register now.
Date/Time | 4/22/2024 9:00 AM |
Runs | 4/22/2024 - 4/26/2024 |
Cost | $244 Members | $305 Non-Members |
Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Six: The Musical
From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over!
Date | 5/28/2024 |
Multiple Times | 5/28 - 7:30PM |
Runs | 5/28/2024 - 6/02/2024 |
Contact Phone | 315-475-7979 |
Contact Email | info@landmarktheatre.org |
Venue | Landmark Theatre 362 S. Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
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 | 8/24/2024 |
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 |
Crime of the Century: Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Thaw, and the Murder of Stanford White
Evelyn Nesbit first captivated Americans with her beauty and charm, then became the sympathetic focus of the Crime of the Century in 1906, following the murder of her former paramour, famed architect Stanford White, by her unhinged millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw. The staged reading of a new play by Syracuse playwright Garrett Heater mixes early musical theater sensationalism with the tragedy of Nesbit's abuse by men, money, and the media.
Date | 10/04/2024 |
Multiple Times | Oct 4 & 5 at 7:30 PM and Oct 6 at 2:00 PM |
Runs | 10/04/2024 - 10/06/2024 |
Cost | 25 |
Contact Email | coveynews@gmail.com |
Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |