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As we close out the year, your support is more important than ever. By making a gift to the Everson Museum of Art, you help provide transformative art experiences, educational programs, and community outreach that enrich lives across Central New York. Donate today to ensure the arts continue to inspire and connect our community in 2024 and beyond!

At the Everson

  • On view through March 30, 2025: In the wake of the 1960s, artists felt free to use humor for self-expression, shock value, or to serve as a “spoonful of sugar” to deliver a message. While the 1970s are usually seen as a time of wild individual expression, the decade also saw the development of a network of galleries and collectors that would ultimately professionalize the field and develop grudging respect from the fine art world. It Came From the 70s features groovy works from the Everson collection that tell these stories....

  • On view through December 29, 2024: Fifty years following his Everson Museum debut, Syracuse-native Tim Atseff returns with a solo exhibition dedicated to a topic he knows intimately—the news media. Timed to coincide with the 2024 US Presidential elections, Tim Atseff: Final Edition features more than 15 works from the last decade, along with a selection of editorial cartoons penned during Atseff’s newspaper career. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive slate of programs focusing on journalism from a variety of perspectives, including symposia, lectures, film series, art-making workshops, and much more. ...

  • On view through December 29, 2024: Putting Art to Work features more than sixty prints made under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project between 1934 and 1942. Most of the prints in the Everson’s collection were donated to the Museum by the Public Works of Art Project of New York City, but Putting Art to Work includes key loans from the Syracuse University Art Museum, the Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY Oswego, the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, and the Onondaga Historical Association that show the program’s economic and cultural impact on our region’s public institutions and artists. ...

  • On view through December 29, 2024: Sascha Brastoff: California King is the first museum exhibition to fully explore the bold and vibrant career of midcentury icon Sascha Brastoff. Featuring his famous dinnerware, Hollywood costume designs, and innovative metalwork, this exhibition celebrates an artist who broke boundaries and made a lasting impact on American art and design....

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