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In the late summer of 1971, the Everson Museum of Art erected a life-size elephant-shaped playground slide on the grounds just east of the Museum. Designed by Irwin Sirota, founder of the Punch and Judy Theater/Studio in Syracuse, and artist Ivan Powell, the sixteen-foot structure was built as part of an initiative instituted by then-Museum director Jim Harithas to make the Everson a more accessible place for the community. Harithas also intended the slide to address the need for creative recreation facilities for the children of Syracuse. Read More

Over the course of her thirty-year career, Ellamarie Woolley created innovative work that significantly advanced the field of enamel arts. Woolley, along with her husband Jackson, first encountered the art of enameling through a demonstration at Scripps College in Claremont, California in 1947. Fascinated by the process, the couple began working collaboratively, beginning with bowls, plates, ashtrays, and boxes. In the 1950s, they started making largescale enameled murals which were often installed on public buildings throughout California. The couple’s creative interests diverged in the mid-1960s, and Ellamarie began constructing hard-edge, abstract wall pieces. Read More

The ashes of family members are literally an integral component of artist TR Ericsson’s work—he mixes the ashes with different mediums when screen-printing. As part of his current exhibition I Was Born To Bring You Into This World at the Everson, the artist worked with local ceramist and Syracuse University professor Margie Hughto and her ceramics student Kwan Jeong to design, throw, glaze, and fire several vessels inspired by the urns that house the funerary ashes of his mother, grandmother, and grandfather. Ericsson never felt satisfied with the original urns as the final containers for his loved ones’ ashes, so designing these vessels was an opportunity to reimagine a more appropriate resting place. Read More

Welcome to the new Everson Museum of Art Blog! This is a space for us to share information about the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, programs, and history. Every Monday we will post an Object of the Week, highlighting a work of art currently on display at the Museum, while other posts throughout the month will discuss topics such as ongoing exhibitions, exciting events and programming, and interesting tidbits from the Everson’s past. Our first Object of the Week is Adelaide Alsop Robineau’s Scarab Vase, one of the most important works in the Everson’s collection and a favorite of Museum visitors. Read More