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Barry Anderson (b. 1969) was born in Greenville, Texas. He grew up in East Texas and in 1991 received his BFA from the University of Texas, Austin, where he primarily studied photography. In 2001, Anderson received his MFA from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University in Bloomington with a concentration in photography and digital media. Today he is based in Kansas City, Missouri and works in photography, video, and installation. Read More

Edwin Scheier (1910-2008) was born in the Bronx, the youngest son of two German immigrants. To supplement his family’s income, Scheier left school in eighth grade to work as both a delivery boy and as an assembler in a factory. Not content to stay in the Bronx, he hitchhiked across the country multiple times before turning sixteen, working odd jobs as he traveled. While working as a delivery boy at the Blue Kitchen, Scheier met fellow delivery boy Jacob Kainen, who later became a notable printmaker and painter. Through Kainen, Scheier discovered the thriving New York art scene. Read More

Kenneth Dierck (1927-2012) was a printmaker and ceramist born in Tacoma, Washington, known for his whimsical and figural works with a folk style. Nationally and internationally praised for both his lithograph and silkscreen prints, and later for his ceramics and tile work, Dierck did not fully develop his ceramic career until the 1970s. He received both his BA and MFA from University of Washington located in Seattle, Washington, and he completed his post-graduate studies in ceramics through a scholarship with Hal Riegger and Edith Heath at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Read More

The Everson Museum of Art has had several homes throughout its history. The Museum, which began as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts in 1897, first rented space in the Onondaga County Savings Bank, located adjacent to Clinton Square in downtown Syracuse. In 1906, the Museum moved a few blocks southeast of their first home into a rented room in the Syracuse Public Library’s Carnegie Building on the corner of Montgomery and Jefferson Streets. The Museum quickly outgrew this space, and in 1915 expanded into the entire third floor of the public library. Read More

Frank Goodnow (1923-2004) was born in Evanston, Illinois, and first studied art in Chicago at the now-closed Frederic Mizen Academy of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. His education was interrupted by America’s entry into World War II, and in 1942, Goodnow enlisted in the military, where he served for four years in the United States Army Medical Corps. When the war ended, Goodnow resumed his studies, first enrolling in Northwestern University and then again at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1948. Upon graduation, Goodnow received a fellowship allowing him to study abroad. Read More