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On May 19, 1973, the Everson Museum of Art opened a month-long, solo exhibition featuring th work of video artist Frank Gillette. The exhibition was part of Director Jim Harithas’s endeavor to make the Museum a pioneer institution for collecting and exhibiting video and time-based art. Gillette’s exhibition was the first show featuring a video artist to fill all four upper galleries. Read More

Jason Walker grew up in Pocatello, Idaho and received his BFA from Utah State University and his MFA from Penn State University. After graduating, he taught in Napa, California for two years before resigning to become a full-time studio artist. For two years, Walker was an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, where he received the Taunt Fellowship award. Since then, he has lectured, taught, worked, and exhibited all over the world, including at the Haystack Mountain School for the Crafts, the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, and the International Ceramics Workshop in Hungary, Ireland, and France. Read More

Henry Moore (1898- 1986) was an English artist best known for monumental bronze biomorphic sculptures of the human figure. Moore and architect I.M. Pei began their long working relationship when Pei selected Moore’s Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 to be placed at the Everson Museum’s main entrance. The sculpture was an important component of the Everson’s design from Pei’s earliest drawings. Pei included Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 in his original architectural sketches for the Everson in 1962, and in a telegram to the Everson’s director Max Sullivan dated April 19, 1965, Pei stated, “It is #1 on my recommended list of major acquisitions for Everson.” Read More

Arnie Zimmerman (b.1954) is a sculptor and ceramist currently based in Hudson, New York. In the 1970s, Zimmerman apprenticed as a potter in Lincolnshire, England and as a stone carver in the Provence Quarry of France before returning to the United States to complete his formal education. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1977 and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1979, and then relocated to a studio space in Brooklyn. Read More

Today we launch a new blog series, From the Archives! The Everson’s archives document its long history, beginning with the institution’s founding as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts in 1897 and extending through 122 years of exhibitions, programs, and events, as well as the building of a collection with over 11,000 objects. In this series, we will share photographs, correspondence, exhibition materials, and other ephemera that tells the story of the Everson. Our first From the Archives find is material relating to the first Ceramic National exhibition in 1932. Read More