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 ...
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 Publi...
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 c...
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. ...
On view through October 20, 2024: When he was in college in the 1970s, Syracuse artist and entrepreneur Don Seymour named a series of ceramic landscape sculptures Clayscapes. This hybrid word, with roots in both the earth and the ceramic community that is built around shapi...
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...
On view through November 11, 2024: The Everson Museum houses a significant collection of enamels by artists including June Schwarcz, Edward H. Winter, and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley. Several leading ceramists—for example, Carleton Ball and Jade Snow Wong—also worked in enamel....
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....
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 o...
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. ...
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....
On view through August 18, 2024: Akwesasne Mohawk artist Natasha Smoke Santiago has spent the last two decades mastering traditional Haudenosaunee pottery techniques. Her unique work incorporates storytelling, activism, and the exploration of native foodways, including experiments with seedkeeping and collaborations with Indigenous chefs. ...
Feats of Clay Student Exhibition. Green Room. Everson Museum of Art. April 13-May 4, 2024...
On view through September 22, 2024: Is it possible to live a year, a week, or even a day of everyday life without looking at a clock? This is the question that DeepTime Collective (Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer) asked themselves at the beginning of their year-long residency at the Everson Museum, which began in June 2023. Through conversation and collaboration with diverse Syracuse community partners, the artists realized that the tyranny of the atomic clock dictates how we relate to ourselves, our labor, the land, and each other in the modern world....
On view through June 9, 2024: After an early career in graphic design, Rachel Ivy Clarke turned to librarianship, which led to her current role as an associate professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. Her award-winning research focuses on the application of design methodologies and epistemologies to librarianship to facilitate the systematic, purposeful creation of library services....
On view through June 30, 2024: The concept of teenagehood changes each generation and, like any other human experience, has personal and individual perspectives. The Everson Teen Arts Council curated works of art by local teenagers that reflect their personal firsthand experiences as modern-day teens. ...
Queens-based artist Sana Musasama creates work that draws inspiration from travel and research into global cultures. Sana Musasama: Returning to Ourselves opened February 3, 2024....
