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Soulscapes
⭐️art haus SYR is proud to announce the opening of SOULSCAPES, a dynamic group exhibition featuring four local artists whose work explores the diverse textures of identity and the environment. The exhibition will run from 2/28 through 4/11, with a public opening reception Saturday 2/28, 2-4pm.
Soulscapes brings together an eclectic mix of mediums—from global photography to surrealist painting—to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.
The Featured Artists
* CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.
* Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.
* Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.
* Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.
„This exhibition is a celebration of the unconventional,“ says Marianna Ranieri-Schwarzer Curator at art haus SYR. „By pairing the grounded, global reality of Marc Safran’s photography with the surreal and outlandish visions of Hodge and Murphy, we invite the viewer to see the ‚soul‘ in all its forms—the beautiful, the traditional, and the delightfully strange.“
Event Details:
* What: Soulscapes Group Art Exhibition
* Where: Art Haus SYR, 120 Walton St, Syracuse, NY
* When: Opening Reception 2/28/ 2-4pm
| Date | 4/03/2026 |
| Multiple Times | Tuesday-Friday 12-7pm |
| Runs | 2/28/2026 - 4/11/2026 |
| Contact Phone | 646-318-2742 |
| Contact Email | midoma@mac.com |
| Venue | Art Haus 120 Walton St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
William Finn's perfectly charming musical is a fun-filled, heartwarming, tuneful gem of a show that brings out the kid in all of us! Seven hopeful middle-school spellers (played by adults) vie for the Spelling Bee trophy. Their quirky personalities shine through as they step up to the mic. If they hear that dreaded bell, they know their time at the bee is over! The question persists: who will win? Covey is pleased to bring this little musical with a big heart to CNY audiences. Made possible in part by The Bill Molesky Memorial Fund.
| Date | 4/03/2026 |
| Multiple Times | May 27-28 and April 3 at 7:30 PM, April 4 at 2:00 PM |
| Runs | 3/27/2026 - 4/04/2026 |
| Cost | 34 |
| Contact Email | coveynews@gmail.com |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
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/Time | 4/03/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 3/07/2026 - 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Federico Solmi: Adrift
Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi’s multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent “video paintings” alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi’s irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi’s destabilizing world.
About the Exhibition:
Born in 1973 in Bologna, Italy, Federico Solmi now lives in New York. His groundbreaking work in video and audio was recognized with the award of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2009. Solo museum surveys include American Circus at the Haifa Museum of Art in Haifa, Israel, in 2016; The Grand Masquerade at the Tarble Art Center in Charleston, Illinois, in 2019; and Joie de Vivre at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, in 2022–23. In September 2024, his solo show The Great Farce opened at the Block Museum of Art Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Solmi: Ship of Fools was also the subject of a major exhibition in Venice, Italy at Palazzo Donà Dalle Rose, during the Venice Biennale in 2024.
In 2018, Solmi participated in the citywide project Open Spaces: A Kansas City Arts Experience in Kansas. In 2019, his work was included in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s traveling exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. In 2021, he was featured in the Phillips Collection’s centennial exhibition Seeing Differently as well as the inaugural exhibition of the Ocean Flower Museum Island in Danzhou, China. He has participated in several international biennial exhibitions, including the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico in 2010; Venice Biennale in 2011; Shenzhen Animation Biennial in China in 2013; and Beijing Media Art Biennale in 2016.
Solmi’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Phillips Collection (Washington DC), The Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix AZ), The Block Museum (Evanston, IL), The Thoma Foundation (Chicago, Santa Fe), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milano IT), Table Art Center (Charleston, IL), 21 C Museum Hotel (Louisville KY), Fundacion Mer (Madrid ES), Ocat Oct Contemporary Art Terminal (Shanghai CN), Collezione Farnesina Experimenta (Rome IT), Collezione Bologna Fiere SPA (Bologna IT).
| Date/Time | 4/03/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 1/30/2026 - 4/19/2026 |
| 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories
For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. Contested Territories presents a selection of Kozloff’s works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.
Kozloff’s wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.
A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.
Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.
Virtual Reality Experience
A fully immersive virtual reality experience of Kozloff’s newest public artwork, developed by Brooklyn-based MediaCombo, accompanies the exhibition. Using VR headsets, visitors can explore Memory and Time, a series of 17 glass and mosaic tile panels illustrating the history of Greenville’s textile industry, installed at the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. United States Courthouse in Greenville, South Carolina. Kozloff herself narratives the 9-minute experience, guiding visitors through several panels and describing how they represent local history.
| Date/Time | 4/03/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 9/27/2025 - 4/05/2026 |
| 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Iconoclasts marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste’s vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.
About the Artist:
French-born artist Laurent Craste lives and works in the village of Saint-Gabriel in Quebec. Craste has received numerous awards and honors throughout his career (Winifred Shantz Award, grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Quebec Arts Council, Jean-Marie Gauvreau Award, etc.). His works are on display in many private and public collections (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Public Collection of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Claridge Collection, Majudia Collection, etc.). On the occasion of their entry into the permanent collection of the Musée des Métiers d’Art du Québec in 2018, 15 of his works have been recognized as of exceptional interest and of national importance by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board.
During his more than 20-year career, Laurent Craste has participated in more than 60 group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Among others, his work has been exhibited in New York (Museum of Moving Image), in Ottawa (Carleton University Art Gallery), as well as in Paris (Cité de la mode et du design). He has also had more than a dozen solo exhibitions, including at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Burlington in Ontario, as well as the Hohmann Fine Arts Gallery in Palm Springs California.
| Date/Time | 4/03/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 11/15/2025 - 5/24/2026 |
| 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
Fifteen Minutes—Homage to Andy Warhol: Vertical Street Edition
Street Gallery NY by MIDOMA, in collaboration with CNY Arts, is proud to announce the opening of “FIFTEEN MINUTES—HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL: VERTICAL STREET EDITION.” This groundbreaking exhibition transforms the historic 1869 City Hall Commons (201 E. Washington St.) into a seven-story vertical art display, lighting up the downtown skyline from February 9 through April 9, 2026.
Fresh off its record-breaking 2025 run as the most-visited exhibition at art haus SYR, this collection carries a prestigious global pedigree, having toured the world from 2011 to 2017. The installation features 36"x36" digital prints and original audio (available online at www.midoma.com) from cultural icons including Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Christopher Makos, and Ultra Violet.
A Skyline Transformed
In a stunning architectural takeover, individual art pieces are installed in every window from the 2nd through the 7th floors at all three corners of the triangular flatiron building. This "Street Edition" democratizes the gallery experience, allowing the public to view world-class art 24/7 from the sidewalk.
The Experience
Visitors are encouraged to "Look Up" and engage with the display using their smartphones. By syncing with hosted audio recordings, viewers can hear the stories behind the art while standing beneath the massive vertical columns of the "mini Flatiron."
“This installation serves as a vibrant cultural bridge,” says the organizing team. “As the City Hall Commons prepares for its $13.2 million transformation into mixed-use apartments, we are ensuring its legacy remains lit with the spirit of the 1960s Factory scene.”
About the Exhibition
Dates: Feb 13, 2026 – April 9, 2026Location: 201 E. Washington St., Syracuse, NYAdmission: Free; public viewing 24/7Prints: Limited edition prints are available for purchase via Midoma and art haus SYR.
| Date/Time | 4/03/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 2/09/2026 - 4/09/2026 |
| Contact Phone | 646-318-2743 |
| Contact Email | midoma@mac.com |
| Venue | Midoma Gallery 222 Walton St Syracuse, NY 13202 646-318-2742 |
Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the exhibition Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival at their architectural projection venue on the Everson Museum facade..
The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Wormsley will be present for a special indoor film screening and panel talk on Thursday, March 19.
About the Work
The Temple of Our Survival
2026
While in-residence in Syracuse, Wormsley worked with Sankofa Reproductive Health and Healing Center, setting up her eponymous traveling film set and workshop space “The Temple of Our Survival” for the month of July. A work of art in its own right, the Temple is a massive tent draped in quilts made of vibrant traditional fabrics and sewn by the artist in designs invoking her own ancestral histories of migration and search for refuge.
In Wormsley’s own words, “This set is mobile not just for convenience but as a signifier of our relationship to land and landscape. That relationship is migrant. Ancestrally adapting to weather, plant-life, water and resources in every part of this country and beyond. The resilience is of the spirit.”
The Temple of Our Survival filmset has travelled to a total of eight sites around the country. At each of these, the artist held workshops using herbs grown in her grandmother’s garden and conducted interviews with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers, each of whom shared their own stories of and strategies for survival.
Film and Set by Alisha B Wormsley
Producers
Sibyls Shrine
Jessica Gaynelle Moss
Tsedaye Makonnen
Camera and 2nd Camera
Alisha B Wormsley
Ricardo Robinson
Brett Wormsley
Location Sound
Ricardo Robinson
Sound design
Ricardo Robinson
Alisha Wormsley
Syracuse Cast
Asa Rogers
Asteir Bey
Assata Bey
Katrina Delee
Sequoia Kemp
Shakera Kemp
Miesha Shih
Raniqueka Vereen
Cheeki Williams
Ammale Yousuf
Pittsburgh Cast
Betty Lane
Bekezela Mguni
Naomi Chambers
Alisha Wormsley
Fort Lauderdale Cast
Jessica Gaynelle Moss
St. Louis Cast
Dail Chambers
Tiara Burtin
Alexe Harlem
Oakland Cast
amara t smith
Courtney Desiree Morris
About the Artist
Alisha B Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her main concern is to transform the world into a place where people can live. Her work has been shown at REDCAT in Los Angeles, Participant, INC, Cue Arts, and the Bronx Museum in NYC, and at the Andy Warhol Museum and Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, among many other venues. In 2020, Wormsley launched an artist residency for Black artists who M/other called Sibyls Shrine that supports over 150 artists. Wormsley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts and an Assistant Professor of Social Practice at Carnegie Mellon School of Art.
In addition to being awarded a UVP Residential Commission, this project has won an Anonymous was a Woman NYFA Award, a Pittsburgh Foundation grant and the Sundance Interdisciplinary grant.
Artist’s website: www.alishabwormsley.com
Sponsors
All Light Work exhibitions are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and through a Tier Two Support Grant from the County of Onondaga, with the support of County Executive Ryan McMahon and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts.
| Date/Time | 4/03/2026 8:00 PM |
| Runs | 2/19/2026 - 5/30/2026 |
| Contact Phone | 315-443-9933 |
| Contact Email | cali@lightwork.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art Plaza 701 S. State Street Syracuse, NY 13202 315-422-8284 |
Ann Clarke: Under the Canopy
Textile artist Ann Clarke frequently describes herself as “the kid who took a walk alone.” Solitary labor and contemplation are essential building blocks for her work, which ranges from intricately woven landscapes to impossibly detailed anatomical tufted wall hangings. For Clarke, the importance of solitude is held in tension with her role as an educator and community builder. The techniques underpinning her work have been passed from one maker to another in workshops, sewing circles, and from parent to child, weaving a literal social net.
Clarke’s body of work presented in Under the Canopy was shaped by her mother’s physical and mental decline in the years before her passing. A ghostly knit of her mother’s hand evokes the intimacy that comes with sharing skill and labor. Images of nature exist alongside others that draw on the material culture of domestic environments like flower arrangements, vases, and empty chairs. Grouped together, the works in Under the Canopy create space for both artist and viewer to contemplate human relationships, mortality, and shared labor.
About the Artist:
Ann Clarke, originally from Rochester, NY, is a celebrated fiber artist who received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan. Clarke has exhibited throughout her academic career having taught at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, she joined SU as a faculty member in Fiber Arts/Material Studies. In 2008, she was named the Dean of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, and returned to faculty in 2016, retiring in 2024 to be a full-time artist. Clarke’s newest series, Interior Landscapes, includes large-scale rugs installed on walls for museum visitors to contemplate. Dreamlike images of trees challenge us to consider the vulnerability of our wooded landscapes. Oversized, empty chairs remind us of the consequences of loss—of both people and the environment in which we make our homes.
| Date/Time | 4/04/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 4/04/2026 - 6/07/2026 |
| 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
CNY Ballet presents Depth & Desire
You don't want to miss this! Join us for an unforgettable
performance that dives deep into passion and romance. This electrifying program
opens with original choreography by Artistic Director Claire Solis and
guest artists Jared Brunson and Nataniel Taylor, showcasing fresh voices
and bold movement that explore passion in all its complexity.
The production culminates in a fiery reimagining
of Carmen by Claire Solis, bringing new excitement to
Bizet’s timeless story and offering audiences an engaging and visually stunning
experience. This memorable performance will linger with you well beyond the
final curtain.
April
11-12 and April 18-19
Saturdays
2:00 PM and 7:00 PM, Sundays 2:00 PM
Everson
Museum of Art Hosmer Auditorium, Syracuse
| Date | 4/11/2026 |
| Multiple Times | Saturdays 2:00 and 7:00 PM |
| Runs | 4/11/2026 - 4/19/2026 |
| Cost | Adults $45, Children 3-12 $40 |
| Contact Phone | 610-457-2739 |
| Contact Email | info@cnyballet.com |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
The Syracuse Orchestra - Let Freedom Ring
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, The Syracuse Orchestra performs music from around the world that celebrates freedom and our richly diverse local community.
| Date | 4/18/2026 |
| Multiple Times | Saturday 4/18 at 7:00 PM; Sunday 4/19 at 3:00 PM |
| Runs | 4/18/2026 - 4/19/2026 |
| Contact Phone | 315-299-5598 |
| Contact Email | info@syracuseorchestra.org |
| Venue | St. Paul's Syracuse - The Downtown Episcopal Church 220 E Fayette St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
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/Time | 4/18/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 4/18/2026 - 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
& Juliet
Includes flashing/strobe lighting, loud noises, confetti, and pyrotechnics throughout. Recommended for ages 8+.
Created by the Emmy®-winning writer from “Schitt’s Creek,” this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love—her way.
Juliet’s new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including “Since U Been Gone‚” “Roar,” “Baby One More Time,” “Larger Than Life‚” “That’s The Way It Is,“ and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”—all from the genius songwriter/producer behind more #1 hits than any other artist this century. Break free of the balcony scene and get into this romantic comedy that proves there’s life after Romeo. The only thing tragic would be missing it.
*Interpreters will be available at this performance
**Anyone, regardless of age, must have their own ticket.
| Date | 4/21/2026 |
| Multiple Times | Apr. 21 – 7:30PM |
| Runs | 4/21/2026 - 4/26/2026 |
| Contact Phone | 315-475-7979 |
| Contact Email | info@landmarktheatre.org |
| Venue | Landmark Theatre 362 S. Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year’s circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
By the time he exhibited at the Ceramic International, Valentini’s work had begun to move away from strict functionality. Although his studies were rooted in pottery traditions at the Istituto d’Arte per la Ceramica in Faenza, Valentini saw himself as a fine artist rather than craftsman. In the 1960s, he began creating conceptual wall-based ceramics that drew from exciting developments in Italian painting. By the 1970s, he produced a groundbreaking series of works called Trasparenza (Transparency), which further broke down the barriers between painting and sculptural object. Before his untimely death in 1985, Valentini established that ceramics were an inextricable part of the fine art canon.
In collaboration with the Nanni Valentini Archive, Fondazione Museo della Ceramica di Savona, and ABC-ARTE, Interspaces re-introduces Valentini’s groundbreaking work to American audiences.
| Date/Time | 5/02/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 5/02/2026 - 9/06/2026 |
| 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
LIFE: Six Women Photographers
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.
| Date/Time | 5/02/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 5/02/2026 - 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 Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | everson@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Recommended for all ages.
THE UNTOLD TRUE STORY OF A BROOKLYN KID WHO BECAME A CHART-BUSTING, SHOW-STOPPING, AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN ICON
Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE is the uplifting true story of how a kid from Brooklyn became a chart-busting, show-stopping American rock icon. With 120 million albums sold, a catalogue of classics like “America,” “Forever in Blue Jeans,” and “Sweet Caroline,” an induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, a Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award, and sold-out concerts around the world that made him bigger than Elvis, Neil Diamond’s story was made to shine on Broadway-and head out on the road across America.
Like Jersey Boys and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical before it, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL is an inspiring, exhilarating, energy-filled musical memoir, that tells the untold true story of how America’s greatest hitmaker became a star, set to the songs that defined his career. Presented in association with and endorsed by Neil Diamond.
*Interpreters will be available at this performance
**Anyone, regardless of age, must have their own ticket.
| Date | 6/09/2026 |
| Multiple Times | Jun. 9 – 7:30PM |
| Runs | 6/09/2026 - 6/14/2026 |
| Contact Phone | 315-475-7979 |
| Contact Email | info@landmarktheatre.org |
| Venue | Landmark Theatre 362 S. Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
Syracuse Polish Festival
The Syracuse Polish Fest is a three-day, family-friendly celebration of Polish culture, heritage, and traditions. In addition to Polish food, arts & crafts, music, and dance, the festival offers a pierogi-eating contest, a Miss Polonia presentation, and more!
| Date/Time | 6/12/2026 (All day) |
| Runs | 6/12/2026 - 6/14/2026 |
| Cost | free |
| Contact Phone | 315-663-6452 |
| Contact Email | mirka.banach@yahoo.com |
| Venue | Clinton Square N Clinton St & W Genesee St. Syracuse, NY 13202 |
Everson Summer Arts Camp (Week 2, Ages 8-12)
9 am – 12 pm Daily | (Drop-off between 8:45 – 9 am, pick-up between 12 – 12:15 pm)
Connect with the world of art! Draw inspiration from the exciting exhibitions at the Everson Museum of Art during this year’s Summer Art Camp, with projects designed to fuel creative thinking and exploration.
Artists ages 8-12 will learn about artwork in the Museum, then make their own creations with projects based on its current exhibitions. Students will be guided through a range of fun and engaging artmaking experiences that will spark their creative minds and strengthen their creative muscles. Material explorations will include ceramics, painting, sculpture, and collage.
Our camp aspires to be a nurturing environment for young artists to explore, learn, and grow in an inspiring, supportive environment designed and facilitated by our own staff of experienced art educators.
This half-day camp is well-suited for students eager to try new mediums, learn fresh skills, and complete engaging projects within short, manageable time frames.
| Date/Time | 7/13/2026 9:00 AM |
| Runs | 7/13/2026 - 7/17/2026 |
| Cost | $244 Members | $280 Non-Members |
| Contact Phone | 315-474-6064 |
| Contact Email | cwalsh@everson.org |
| Venue | Everson Museum of Art 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY 13202 315-474-6064 |
