Sunday, March 22, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Soulscapes
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

"Soulscapes" brings together an eclectic mix of mediums — from global photography to surrealist painting — to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

Featured Artists
• CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

• Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

• Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

• Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

   

Beginnings: A New Century of Associated Artists of CNY
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Celebrating the 100th year of Associated Artists of CNY, the exhibit, which will feature paintings, drawings, photography, fiber art, sculpture, and fused enamel pieces.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Faure Requiem with orchestra
MasterWorks Chorale
Micheal Kringer, conductor

Price: $20 adults; children 18 and under free
Driver Middle School
2 Reed Parkway, Marcellus

A work of luminous beauty, suffused, in the composer's words, "by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest."

   

The Book of Mormon
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

This outrageous musical comedy follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. With standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.

Tickets

   

Da
Redhouse
Vincent Cardinal, director

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In this Tony award-winner for best play, by Hugh Leonard, middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da." Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent "Charlie Then" is brought back from the past, while the man who is "Charlie Now" grapples with his own mortality, and the part of his life that will always be the irascible "Da."

Tickets

   

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

August Wilson's mystical and heartbreaking masterpiece.

1911. Pittsburgh. Seth Holly's boarding house is home to drifters and broken hearts, a waystation for folks biding their time. The residents include a restless musician with a wandering eye, a young woman waiting on a husband who's not coming back, and an eccentric mystic who performs rituals in the yard while helping others find their song. Enter Herald Loomis, recently freed from a Southern chain gang with his young daughter in tow and desperate to reunite with a wife who might not want to be found. A lyrical triumph from Wilson's magnificent Century Cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a haunting and poetic tale of lost souls searching for spiritual mooring in the raging sea that is America.

   

The Book of Mormon
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

This outrageous musical comedy follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. With standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.

Tickets

   

Monday, March 23, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Singers Cabaret 2026
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
James Commons
Le Moyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Singers present a variety of music featuring student soloists, small groups in addition to the full ensemble.

Tickets

   

The Dollop Podcast Live
The Oncenter

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

History buff and comedian Dave Anthony was considering starting a new podcast in 2014. His idea was to write up an unknown story from American history and read it to a different comedian each week. Having not heard of the story before, Dave hoped the comedian's reaction would be hilarious. He gave it a go and his first guest was comedian Gareth Reynolds. They immediately clicked and fans flooded social media telling Dave to never change the co-host. And he didn't.

Sticking to the formula of Dave reading Gareth a story he has never heard, The Dollop quickly shot up the charts. Fans of both comedy and history were drawn to the wild stories and quick improv skills of Gareth. With millions of downloads, The Dollop has become a regular presence on top of the podcast charts, as well as selling out shows in both the U.S. and Australia.

Tickets

   

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Whimsy and Joy
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Kathleen Crinnin: acrylic paintings
Linda Malik: sculptural ceramics
Eva Hunter: mixed media jewelry, alcohol ink paintings, oils, pastels, and silk scarves

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Soulscapes
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

"Soulscapes" brings together an eclectic mix of mediums — from global photography to surrealist painting — to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

Featured Artists
• CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

• Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

• Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

• Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

   

Brit Floyd: The Moon, The Wall and Beyond
The Oncenter

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This new production by The World's Premier Pink Floyd Experience celebrates two of the most iconic and influential albums in rock history — Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall — with a breathtaking show that captures the spirit, sound, and spectacle of the legendary band.

Since their formation, Brit Floyd has set the standard for tribute performances, delivering stadium-scale concerts that combine stunning musicianship, cutting-edge visuals, and an unparalleled attention to detail. With over 1,500 shows performed in more than 40 countries, Brit Floyd has earned worldwide acclaim as the definitive live Pink Floyd experience.

The 2026 tour will feature a full performance of highlights from The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, including timeless classics such as "Time," "Money," "Comfortably Numb," and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." In addition, audiences can expect a rich selection of fan favourites from across Pink Floyd's vast discography — from Wish You Were Here to The Division Bell and beyond.

Accompanied by a state-of-the-art light show, lasers, video projections, inflatables, and theatrical staging, "The Moon, The Wall and Beyond" promises to be Brit Floyd's most ambitious and immersive production to date — a must-see event for lifelong Floyd fans and new generations alike.

Tickets

   

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Whimsy and Joy
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Kathleen Crinnin: acrylic paintings
Linda Malik: sculptural ceramics
Eva Hunter: mixed media jewelry, alcohol ink paintings, oils, pastels, and silk scarves

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Soulscapes
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

"Soulscapes" brings together an eclectic mix of mediums — from global photography to surrealist painting — to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

Featured Artists
• CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

• Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

• Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

• Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

   

JCM Voice Soiree
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Crouse College, Room 308
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Join students in the Setnor School of Music's jazz and commercial music (JCM) program for a voice soiree.

Watch live stream.

   

The Ten Tenors
The Oncenter

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Ten Tenors are an Australian music ensemble that has toured extensively nationally and internationally and released 15 albums and 4 DVDs. The current line up is: JD Smith, Adrian Li Donni, Cameron Barclay, Ammon Bennett, Boyd Owen, Sam Ward, Jared Newall, Michael Edwards, Riley Sutton and Daniel Belle.

Since The Ten Tenors was first formed in 1995, the group has performed extensively in Australia, overseas and on television, and their signature brand of music featuring 10-part harmonies has been enjoyed by more than 90 million people. They have headlined more than 2,000 concerts around the world, sold more than 3.5 million concert tickets and become renowned for their dynamic, choreographed performances and skillful ability to seamlessly transition from operatic arias to soulful ballads through to chart-topping pop and rock songs.

Tickets

   

Snaps & Taps Open Mic Night
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join us for a night filled with creativity and talent hosted by Randum. Whether you're a poet, musician, comedian, or storyteller, this is your chance to shine! Bring your friends, grab a seat, and get ready to be entertained. Don't miss out on this opportunity to showcase your skills or simply enjoy the performances.

Tickets

   

A Wee Bit 'o Murder
Acme Mystery Company

Dinosaur BBQ (upstairs)
246 W. Willow St., Syracuse

Holy St. Patrick on a stick! Someone has stolen the pot of gold and now you and all the other leprechauns of Clover Union Local Number 7 have your little tails in a spin. The president of your local, Jimmy Jack Daniels O'Toole, is demanding that you get your wee bottoms over to the pub as fast as your little feet can go. If the International Fellowship of Little Knickers finds out about this, you'll all be turned into garden gnomes!

Tickets

   

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

August Wilson's mystical and heartbreaking masterpiece.

1911. Pittsburgh. Seth Holly's boarding house is home to drifters and broken hearts, a waystation for folks biding their time. The residents include a restless musician with a wandering eye, a young woman waiting on a husband who's not coming back, and an eccentric mystic who performs rituals in the yard while helping others find their song. Enter Herald Loomis, recently freed from a Southern chain gang with his young daughter in tow and desperate to reunite with a wife who might not want to be found. A lyrical triumph from Wilson's magnificent Century Cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a haunting and poetic tale of lost souls searching for spiritual mooring in the raging sea that is America.

   

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Whimsy and Joy
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Kathleen Crinnin: acrylic paintings
Linda Malik: sculptural ceramics
Eva Hunter: mixed media jewelry, alcohol ink paintings, oils, pastels, and silk scarves

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Opening: We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Opening: Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Soulscapes
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

"Soulscapes" brings together an eclectic mix of mediums — from global photography to surrealist painting — to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

Featured Artists
• CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

• Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

• Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

• Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

   

Freedom and Control
Brewer Harris Projects

138 Bank Alley (University Building)
Syracuse

"Freedom and Control" explores the passport as a real and imagined object, a repository of dreams and nightmares. The document's fundamental purpose has always been tied to freedom of movement — passports make it possible for some individuals to cross international borders and allow the State to convey and govern the permission to do so. While the the document may seem to provide a kind of freedom to its bearer, it often does the opposite. Passports from some countries carry almost no restrictions on travel, while passports from others severely constrain citizens' ability to leave their home country.

Working in sculpture, photography, book arts and installation, the artists in this exhibition consider, critique and deconstruct this charged document to highlight its myriad uses; as a tool of State control, an indispensable object that fixes or erases national identity, or a portal through which we might imagine other ways of being in and moving through the world.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

*SOLD OUT* Grupo Pagan
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Grupo Pagan is excited to return to The 443 for a fun evening of world rhythms and sounds with special guest and renowned percussionist Emedin Rivera.

Join the waitlist

   

Creativity in Translation
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Syracuse University Press welcomes acclaimed author Ibtisam Azem, writer of The Book of Disappearance (longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize), and her translator Sinan Antoon.

This event features a bilingual reading from the original Arabic novel and its English translation, followed by a conversation with the author and translator on writing, translating, and the reconstruction of narratives across languages, and historical and political borders, concluding with a Q&A session engaging students, scholars, and community members.

Part of the Syracuse Symposium series.

   

Da
Redhouse
Vincent Cardinal, director

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In this Tony award-winner for best play, by Hugh Leonard, middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da." Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent "Charlie Then" is brought back from the past, while the man who is "Charlie Now" grapples with his own mortality, and the part of his life that will always be the irascible "Da."

Tickets

   

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

August Wilson's mystical and heartbreaking masterpiece.

1911. Pittsburgh. Seth Holly's boarding house is home to drifters and broken hearts, a waystation for folks biding their time. The residents include a restless musician with a wandering eye, a young woman waiting on a husband who's not coming back, and an eccentric mystic who performs rituals in the yard while helping others find their song. Enter Herald Loomis, recently freed from a Southern chain gang with his young daughter in tow and desperate to reunite with a wife who might not want to be found. A lyrical triumph from Wilson's magnificent Century Cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a haunting and poetic tale of lost souls searching for spiritual mooring in the raging sea that is America.

   

Friday, March 27, 2026

Arts and Minds: A Showcase for Creative Aging
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This exhibit features 21 works by 12 elder artists in the Syracuse Jewish Family Service (SJFS) Arts and Minds Program. Through their participation in various creative projects, the artists expressed themselves and made choices that reflect their aesthetic preferences while also learning about and exploring new artistic techniques. Most importantly, the participants unlocked a feeling of achievement and success. SJFS is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and families of any faith and age in Central New York.

   

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Whimsy and Joy
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Kathleen Crinnin: acrylic paintings
Linda Malik: sculptural ceramics
Eva Hunter: mixed media jewelry, alcohol ink paintings, oils, pastels, and silk scarves

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Soulscapes
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

"Soulscapes" brings together an eclectic mix of mediums — from global photography to surrealist painting — to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

Featured Artists
• CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

• Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

• Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

• Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

   

Beginnings: A New Century of Associated Artists of CNY
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Celebrating the 100th year of Associated Artists of CNY, the exhibit, which will feature paintings, drawings, photography, fiber art, sculpture, and fused enamel pieces.

   

Freedom and Control
Brewer Harris Projects

138 Bank Alley (University Building)
Syracuse

"Freedom and Control" explores the passport as a real and imagined object, a repository of dreams and nightmares. The document's fundamental purpose has always been tied to freedom of movement — passports make it possible for some individuals to cross international borders and allow the State to convey and govern the permission to do so. While the the document may seem to provide a kind of freedom to its bearer, it often does the opposite. Passports from some countries carry almost no restrictions on travel, while passports from others severely constrain citizens' ability to leave their home country.

Working in sculpture, photography, book arts and installation, the artists in this exhibition consider, critique and deconstruct this charged document to highlight its myriad uses; as a tool of State control, an indispensable object that fixes or erases national identity, or a portal through which we might imagine other ways of being in and moving through the world.

   

ArtRage Goes Off the Wall
ArtRage Gallery

ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join ArtRage for its 2nd annual ArtRage Goes Off the Wall fundraiser, where you can buy art by local artists for $25.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

*SOLD OUT* Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Join the waitlist

   

Da
Redhouse
Vincent Cardinal, director

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In this Tony award-winner for best play, by Hugh Leonard, middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da." Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent "Charlie Then" is brought back from the past, while the man who is "Charlie Now" grapples with his own mortality, and the part of his life that will always be the irascible "Da."

Tickets

   

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Covey Theatre Company
Mike Racioppa, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless wit and humor. Featuring a fast-paced, wildly funny and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin and a truly fresh and vibrant score by William Finn, this bee is one unforgettable experience.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

Tickets

   

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

August Wilson's mystical and heartbreaking masterpiece.

1911. Pittsburgh. Seth Holly's boarding house is home to drifters and broken hearts, a waystation for folks biding their time. The residents include a restless musician with a wandering eye, a young woman waiting on a husband who's not coming back, and an eccentric mystic who performs rituals in the yard while helping others find their song. Enter Herald Loomis, recently freed from a Southern chain gang with his young daughter in tow and desperate to reunite with a wife who might not want to be found. A lyrical triumph from Wilson's magnificent Century Cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a haunting and poetic tale of lost souls searching for spiritual mooring in the raging sea that is America.

   

Preview: A Rebel Prayer
Syracuse University Drama Department
Kathleen Wrinn, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Look the beast in the eyes, and stare. Say a rebel prayer." When a politically provocative play costs her father his life, 16-year-old Nikita and her mother are forced to flee Moscow for Domikov, a remote Russian town where tyrannical headmistress Ludmilla Mukhina rules the local school with an iron fist. Mired in grief and desperate to return home, Nikita is visited by the spirits of Pussy Riot, the real-life punk-protest collective imprisoned for their art. But when they offer Nikita one of their masks to carry on her father's legacy, Nikita is faced with a dangerous choice: submit or rebel? Book and lyrics by Eloise T. Govedare.

Tickets

   

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Whimsy and Joy
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Kathleen Crinnin: acrylic paintings
Linda Malik: sculptural ceramics
Eva Hunter: mixed media jewelry, alcohol ink paintings, oils, pastels, and silk scarves

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Soulscapes
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

"Soulscapes" brings together an eclectic mix of mediums — from global photography to surrealist painting — to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

Featured Artists
• CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

• Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

• Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

• Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

   

Beginnings: A New Century of Associated Artists of CNY
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

There will be a public reception this afternoon 2:00-4:00 pm.

Celebrating the 100th year of Associated Artists of CNY, the exhibit, which will feature paintings, drawings, photography, fiber art, sculpture, and fused enamel pieces.

   

Freedom and Control
Brewer Harris Projects

138 Bank Alley (University Building)
Syracuse

"Freedom and Control" explores the passport as a real and imagined object, a repository of dreams and nightmares. The document's fundamental purpose has always been tied to freedom of movement — passports make it possible for some individuals to cross international borders and allow the State to convey and govern the permission to do so. While the the document may seem to provide a kind of freedom to its bearer, it often does the opposite. Passports from some countries carry almost no restrictions on travel, while passports from others severely constrain citizens' ability to leave their home country.

Working in sculpture, photography, book arts and installation, the artists in this exhibition consider, critique and deconstruct this charged document to highlight its myriad uses; as a tool of State control, an indispensable object that fixes or erases national identity, or a portal through which we might imagine other ways of being in and moving through the world.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Composers’ Pop-Up Concert
Society for New Music

Price: $20 adults, students free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Pop-Up Composers' Concert and cocktail party featuring works by Syracuse University composition majors, bookended with works by local composers Doc Woods and Loren Loiacono. SNM musicians include Sar Strong, piano; Zachary Sweet, cello; and Jim Spadafore, saxophone.

Tickets

   

Triple Dog Death Barrage Album Release Concert and Benefit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A local alternative music showcase, with proceeds benefiting Helping Hounds Dog Rescue and the Central New York Cat Coalition.

Hear performances by Syracuse bands Disinclined (shoegaze), Maryam Webster Dictionary (noise pop), Viva Whatever (post-punk), and Triple Dog Death Barrage (shoegaze), accompanied by visuals and projection art.

   

Candlelight Series: Candlelight Pops
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Dance and sing along with six decades of pop and rock hits as The Syracuse Orchestra performs by candlelight.

Tickets

   

Adeem the Artist
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Harvested from the roaming hills of the lower Piedmont Mountains, Adeem the Artist reimagines the soundscape of the greater American South. In short bursts of literary folk songs that draw inspiration from a full library of greater Roots sounds, Adeem traverses the complexities of political, racial violence and disparate realities with humor and elasticity.

Frenetic & electrifying; their live performances nest in the intersection of stand-up comedy, social commentary, and well-seasoned country songs that follow the likes of Tyler Childers in expanding the genre. Their thematic albums and confounding one-person show invite audiences to lead with curiosity, disarm their expectations, and warm up to the dialogue.

Tickets

   

Donna Colton & Sam Patterelli
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

   

Salix Piano Trio
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $30 regular, $25 seniors
Grant Middle School
2400 Grant Blvd., Syracuse

Beethoven Piano Trio op. 1, no. 1
Paul Schoenfeld Cafe Music
Mendelssohn Piano Trio, op. 49, no. 1

   

Da
Redhouse
Vincent Cardinal, director

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In this Tony award-winner for best play, by Hugh Leonard, middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da." Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent "Charlie Then" is brought back from the past, while the man who is "Charlie Now" grapples with his own mortality, and the part of his life that will always be the irascible "Da."

Tickets

   

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

August Wilson's mystical and heartbreaking masterpiece.

1911. Pittsburgh. Seth Holly's boarding house is home to drifters and broken hearts, a waystation for folks biding their time. The residents include a restless musician with a wandering eye, a young woman waiting on a husband who's not coming back, and an eccentric mystic who performs rituals in the yard while helping others find their song. Enter Herald Loomis, recently freed from a Southern chain gang with his young daughter in tow and desperate to reunite with a wife who might not want to be found. A lyrical triumph from Wilson's magnificent Century Cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a haunting and poetic tale of lost souls searching for spiritual mooring in the raging sea that is America.

   

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Covey Theatre Company
Mike Racioppa, director

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless wit and humor. Featuring a fast-paced, wildly funny and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin and a truly fresh and vibrant score by William Finn, this bee is one unforgettable experience.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

Tickets

   

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

August Wilson's mystical and heartbreaking masterpiece.

1911. Pittsburgh. Seth Holly's boarding house is home to drifters and broken hearts, a waystation for folks biding their time. The residents include a restless musician with a wandering eye, a young woman waiting on a husband who's not coming back, and an eccentric mystic who performs rituals in the yard while helping others find their song. Enter Herald Loomis, recently freed from a Southern chain gang with his young daughter in tow and desperate to reunite with a wife who might not want to be found. A lyrical triumph from Wilson's magnificent Century Cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a haunting and poetic tale of lost souls searching for spiritual mooring in the raging sea that is America.

   

Da
Redhouse
Vincent Cardinal, director

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In this Tony award-winner for best play, by Hugh Leonard, middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da." Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent "Charlie Then" is brought back from the past, while the man who is "Charlie Now" grapples with his own mortality, and the part of his life that will always be the irascible "Da."

Tickets

   

Opening: A Rebel Prayer
Syracuse University Drama Department
Kathleen Wrinn, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Look the beast in the eyes, and stare. Say a rebel prayer." When a politically provocative play costs her father his life, 16-year-old Nikita and her mother are forced to flee Moscow for Domikov, a remote Russian town where tyrannical headmistress Ludmilla Mukhina rules the local school with an iron fist. Mired in grief and desperate to return home, Nikita is visited by the spirits of Pussy Riot, the real-life punk-protest collective imprisoned for their art. But when they offer Nikita one of their masks to carry on her father's legacy, Nikita is faced with a dangerous choice: submit or rebel? Book and lyrics by Eloise T. Govedare.

Tickets

   

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

   

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Tal Placido: Meeting Place
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tal Placido's large-scale abstract paintings begin with a conversation. Instead of working on blank primed canvas, Placido paints on vintage linens, embracing their stains, snags, and embellishments. A native of the Philippines, Placido is attuned to the family stories and lived experiences that she literally weaves into her work. The images she presents in Meeting Place are a record of the dialogue between experience-laden objects and an artist more concerned about thoughtful questions than concrete answers.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Soulscapes
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

"Soulscapes" brings together an eclectic mix of mediums — from global photography to surrealist painting — to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

Featured Artists
• CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

• Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

• Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

• Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

   

Beginnings: A New Century of Associated Artists of CNY
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Celebrating the 100th year of Associated Artists of CNY, the exhibit, which will feature paintings, drawings, photography, fiber art, sculpture, and fused enamel pieces.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

*SOLD OUT* Shakedown Sunday
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Shakedown Sunday is a monthly series hosted by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and members of Dead to the Core, with special guests, that celebrates the Grateful Dead—not just the band's originals but songs from across the roots and rock worlds they made their own.

Special guest guitarist Pete Heitzman has been creating a joyous blend of folk, blues, and soul with singer-songwriter Karen Savoca for 45 years—releasing eight albums, touring across North America (including over 200 shows with Greg Brown), and earning eight Sammy Awards and induction into the Sammy Hall of Fame.

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Malmgren Concert: Dedication of the Harrold Organ at SU Catholic
Hendricks Chapel
Featuring Anne Laver, organist

Price: Free, but seating is limited. Advance registration is required.
St. Thomas More Chapel at SU Catholic Center
110 Walnut Place, Syracuse

The Malmgren Concert Series hosts the first public concert featuring the newly installed organ for Syracuse University's Catholic Center. The 24-stop organ was originally built by California builder Greg Harrold in 1995 for the computer engineer Alan Kay at his home in Los Angeles.

University Organist Anne Laver performs with the Hendricks Chapel Choir and dancers from the Meagan Woods Collaborative, featuring music by Bach, Buxtehude, Vivaldi, Natalie Draper, and a new work by José "Peppie" Calvar.

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A Truly Complete Messiah
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $5 students and children
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Note: This is a change from the originally announced date.

Loosely following the Baroque tradition of presenting oratorios during Lent when opera houses were closed, Schola presents, in chamber-format, a spring performance of the complete Handel's Messiah - uncut – both the Christmas and the Easter portions.

   

Shakedown Sunday
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Shakedown Sunday is a monthly series hosted by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and members of Dead to the Core, with special guests, that celebrates the Grateful Dead—not just the band's originals but songs from across the roots and rock worlds they made their own.

Special guest guitarist Pete Heitzman has been creating a joyous blend of folk, blues, and soul with singer-songwriter Karen Savoca for 45 years—releasing eight albums, touring across North America (including over 200 shows with Greg Brown), and earning eight Sammy Awards and induction into the Sammy Hall of Fame.

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A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
The Oncenter

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

A Boogie Wit da Hoodie is a Bronx-born rapper, singer, and songwriter known for blending melodic rap with emotional storytelling.

With his introspective lyrics, melodic flow, and genuine connection to his Bronx roots, A Boogie has become a defining voice in modern hip-hop.

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Da
Redhouse
Vincent Cardinal, director

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In this Tony award-winner for best play, by Hugh Leonard, middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da." Reminiscence gives way to memory and illusion as an adolescent "Charlie Then" is brought back from the past, while the man who is "Charlie Now" grapples with his own mortality, and the part of his life that will always be the irascible "Da."

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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

August Wilson's mystical and heartbreaking masterpiece.

1911. Pittsburgh. Seth Holly's boarding house is home to drifters and broken hearts, a waystation for folks biding their time. The residents include a restless musician with a wandering eye, a young woman waiting on a husband who's not coming back, and an eccentric mystic who performs rituals in the yard while helping others find their song. Enter Herald Loomis, recently freed from a Southern chain gang with his young daughter in tow and desperate to reunite with a wife who might not want to be found. A lyrical triumph from Wilson's magnificent Century Cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a haunting and poetic tale of lost souls searching for spiritual mooring in the raging sea that is America.

   

A Rebel Prayer
Syracuse University Drama Department
Kathleen Wrinn, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Look the beast in the eyes, and stare. Say a rebel prayer." When a politically provocative play costs her father his life, 16-year-old Nikita and her mother are forced to flee Moscow for Domikov, a remote Russian town where tyrannical headmistress Ludmilla Mukhina rules the local school with an iron fist. Mired in grief and desperate to return home, Nikita is visited by the spirits of Pussy Riot, the real-life punk-protest collective imprisoned for their art. But when they offer Nikita one of their masks to carry on her father's legacy, Nikita is faced with a dangerous choice: submit or rebel? Book and lyrics by Eloise T. Govedare.

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