2025 marks 200 years since the Erie Canal’s completion—a transformative milestone for New York State. Today, most upstate residents live near the canal, yet its role often feels stuck in the past. The 2024 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence—Alon Koppel, Judit German-Heins, and Clara Riedlinger—spent a ...
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 dev...
After building his own kiln near Athens, Georgia in 1980, Simon began setting one exemplary piece from each kiln firing aside for posterity. These “pick of the kiln” pieces are a testimony to Simon’s enduring influence on the field of ceramics....
On view through December 29, 2024: Off the Rack is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportu...
The Everson is thrilled to have a brilliant installation by Derek Porter titled Faceted Wrap transform our Kilburg Family Staircase into a brilliant, light-filled space. Thousands of individually oriented mirrored reflectors capture isolated moments of the surrounding scene...
This long-term exhibition presents highlights from the more than 300 ceramic objects that the Everson acquired as purchase prizes from its famed Ceramic National exhibitions, which are the bedrock of the American Studio Ceramics Movement....
Courtney Rile is a lens-based artist and co-founder of Daylight Blue Media, a video production company in Syracuse, New York. She holds a BFA in Art Video from Syracuse University and an AA in Communications from Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania. Rile’s photographs, documentary fi...
Opening February 15: This exhibition explores new narratives of the history of American art, embracing stories about women artists, LGBTQ+ artists, and artists of color within a visual and thematic structure that also features iconic works traditionally associated with the Pennsyl...
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 November 10, 2024: CNY Arts’ 51st annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes outstanding works by employees of Central New York companies and organizations....
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....
On view through September 22, 2024: UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. ...
On view through October 27, 2024: I’ve Learned to Hold Myself Softly utilizes self-portraiture, still-lifes, and architecture to examine Banks’ return to Syracuse. Many of the places that she had found solace in as a youth have now been demolished, abandoned, or gentrified. ...
Manuel Matias was born in Puerto Rico and raised on New York City’s Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s, a time when drug addiction and violence made daily life a struggle. For Matias, art provided solace from the chaos that swirled around him. He remembers drawing on the walls of his apartment while waiting for his parents to come home and he remembers the attention of friends and neighbors who recognized his talent. Besides filling countless sketchbooks with graffiti designs, he also designed flyers for a neighbor’s hair-braiding business....
When the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts opened in 1897, it lacked clear collection policies, filling its space in the Carnegie Library with diverse items. This changed in 1911 when the Museum decided to focus on American art. Adelaide Alsop Robineau's porcelains in 1916 started the ceramics collection, which gained prestige with the Ceramic Nationals in 1932, making ceramics the Museum's sole globally-focused collection....
Opening November 9, 2024: Across the country, Department of Veterans Affairs facilities incorporate creative arts into their therapy programs to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival is an annual celebration of the progress and recovery made through that therapy and is a way to recognize the creative achievements of our nation’s Veterans....
