This is the Everson
A Museum
of Firsts.

Two Nights. One Rock Legend. Only at the Everson.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and six-time Grammy winner Jason Newsted takes the stage for two unforgettable nights at the Everson Museum of Art, July 18 & 19. Experience an intimate, high-energy performance in support of the arts in Central New York.

Louise will be CLOSED May 16-18

At the Everson

  • Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia’s material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in Dream Map and Cornucopia, Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. she then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia’s rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson’s Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum’s permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America’s tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures....

  • In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea’s photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions....

  • Benediction honors DuSell’s work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his works became kinetic and interactive. This exhibition features large-scale works, including three rocking chairs containing musical elements powered by their rocking motion that were originally exhibited at the Everson in a 1980 solo exhibition....

  • Catherine Spencer, a Central New York artist, creates sculptures and alternative environments inspired by her childhood surroundings. Using found objects and human-made materials, she explores the intersection of human experience and nature....

Upcoming Events & Activities

  • How can our looking, our noticing of Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez’s Dream Map and Cornucopia, inform a poetic practice of resistance and remembering? How does it feel to leave room for image to inform text, and for memory to inform artmaking? In this creative writing session, participants will write poe...

  • Open Figure Drawing is traveling to the Everson Museum on Third Thursdays, September 19, October 17, and November 21, for 3 figure drawing events with a nude model....

  • On the 2nd Sunday of the month, June through September, the plaza transforms into an open-air flea market featuring vintage and antique vendors alongside local artisans, live musicians, food trucks, and access to free docent tours and art activities inside the Everson Museum of Art....