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Events for Thursday, July 31, 2025
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
9:30 AM-6:00 PM
The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
Dead End Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
7:00 PM
The Henry Girls The 443 Social Club
7:30 PM
Opening Night: Folk Meets Baroque Skaneateles Festival, featuring Ruckus; Keir GoGwilt, violin; Fiona Gillespie, vocals
9:00 PM-11:00 PM
Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Events for Friday, August 1, 2025
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
9:30 AM-6:00 PM
The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Dead End Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
4:00 PM-10:00 PM
Macedonian Festival
5:30 PM
Twelfth Night Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
6:30 PM
Dark Star Orchestra Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard
7:00 PM
Little Big Town: Summer Tour 2025, with Wynonna Judd, Shelby Lynne Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater
7:00 PM
Simplelife & Corey Paige The 443 Social Club
7:30 PM
Into the Woods Covey Theatre Company
8:00 PM
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, and Antonio Sánchez Trio Skaneateles Festival
9:00 PM-11:00 PM
Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Events for Saturday, August 2, 2025
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Dead End Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
12:00 PM-11:00 PM
Macedonian Festival
2:00 PM
Into the Woods Covey Theatre Company
5:30 PM
Twelfth Night Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
7:00 PM
Miller’s Garage The 443 Social Club
8:00 PM
Listen to the Wind Skaneateles Festival, featuring Soyeon Kate Lee, piano
9:00 PM-11:00 PM
Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Events for Sunday, August 3, 2025
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Dead End Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Macedonian Festival
2:00 PM
Twelfth Night Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Events for Monday, August 4, 2025
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
Events for Tuesday, August 5, 2025
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
9:30 AM-6:00 PM
The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
7:00 PM
*SOLD OUT* Nikki Hill The 443 Social Club
Events for Wednesday, August 6, 2025
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
9:30 AM-6:00 PM
The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Dead End Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Walking and Talking Wednesday: Footsteps in Freedom Walking Tour Onondaga Historical Association
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Dewitt Summer Music: Fritz's Polka Band
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Dewitt Summer Music: End of Summer Bash
Events for Thursday, August 7, 2025
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
9:30 AM-6:00 PM
The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
Dead End Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
11:00 AM-8:00 PM
CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Jazz in the City: Marion Meadows CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
7:30 PM
From Beethoven to John Williams Skaneateles Festival
8:45 PM-11:00 PM
Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Thursday, July 31, 2025
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The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.
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2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County). This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways." The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.
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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, July 31 |
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The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd.,
Syracuse
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, July 31 |
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Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, July 31 |
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John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea's photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions. Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, "John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians" examines the role of photojournalism in shaping the public's understanding of war.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, July 31 |
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D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
D. Lee DuSell (1927-2024) was a prolific designer and woodworker who made significant contributions to the interiors of religious shrines, chapels, and temples around the world. But Everson audiences may know him best as the creator of the bronze sculpture Spiritual Freedom (1969) that graces the Museum's Plaza. Benediction honors DuSell's large-scale work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his sculptures became kinetic, interactive, and overtly spiritual. This exhibition includes three rocking chairs that originally appeared here at the Everson in his 1980 solo show entitled Doxology—notably, the chairs contain musical elements powered by their rocking motion.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, July 31 |
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Dead End Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze. During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection. For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past. DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, July 31 |
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CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, July 31 |
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Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries. This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.
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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, July 31 |
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Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art. In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication. "In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives. Screening begins at dusk.
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7:00 PM, July 31 |
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The Henry Girls The 443 Social Club
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave.,
Syracuse
The Henry Girls are a marvelous trio of three sisters from Ireland: Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin. They are great songwriters and have gorgeous super-tight three-part harmonies that come partly from the sisterhood bond that they share as well as their lengthy musical history. Twenty years of gracing stages together, this trio interweaves their native traditions with bluegrass, jazz and country, and are one of Ireland's top emerging folk acts. With the harp as their main accompaniment, their shimmering harmonies weave a continuous spell throughout their music. They have become one of the most talked about folk/roots acts to come out of Ireland, now captivating audiences on worldwide stages having toured in Germany, America, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, and the UK.
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7:30 PM, July 31 |
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Opening Night: Folk Meets Baroque Skaneateles Festival Featuring Ruckus; Keir GoGwilt, violin; Fiona Gillespie, vocals
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St.,
Skaneateles
Corellia Trio Sonatas, Op. 5, No. 1 and No. 6 Geminiani Four Scottish Airs Neil Gow Fiddle Tunes from Books of Strathspey Reels Traditional Selection of Gaelic folk songs
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Friday, August 1, 2025
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County). This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways." The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.
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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, August 1 |
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The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd.,
Syracuse
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
D. Lee DuSell (1927-2024) was a prolific designer and woodworker who made significant contributions to the interiors of religious shrines, chapels, and temples around the world. But Everson audiences may know him best as the creator of the bronze sculpture Spiritual Freedom (1969) that graces the Museum's Plaza. Benediction honors DuSell's large-scale work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his sculptures became kinetic, interactive, and overtly spiritual. This exhibition includes three rocking chairs that originally appeared here at the Everson in his 1980 solo show entitled Doxology—notably, the chairs contain musical elements powered by their rocking motion.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea's photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions. Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, "John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians" examines the role of photojournalism in shaping the public's understanding of war.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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Dead End Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze. During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection. For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past. DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries. This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 1 |
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CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.
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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, August 1 |
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Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art. In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication. "In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives. Screening begins at dusk.
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4:00 PM - 10:00 PM, August 1 |
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Macedonian Festival
Price: Free St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd.,
Onondaga
Macedonian music, folk dances, and ethnic food. For more information, visit stgeorgemoc.com
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6:30 PM, August 1 |
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Dark Star Orchestra Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard
Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd.,
Lafayette
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7:00 PM, August 1 |
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Little Big Town: Summer Tour 2025, with Wynonna Judd, Shelby Lynne Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater
Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way,
Syracuse
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7:00 PM, August 1 |
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Simplelife & Corey Paige The 443 Social Club
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave.,
Syracuse
The 443 is excited to present its favorite dynamic doubleheader — The Simplelife Duo (aka Mike Frisina and Ben Sumner) and Corey Paige. Songs, stories, and crazy-good guitars ... what more could you ask for?
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8:00 PM, August 1 |
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Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, and Antonio Sánchez Trio Skaneateles Festival
Robinson Pavilion at Anyela's Vineyards
2433 W. Lake Rd.,
Skaneateles
Béla Fleck, banjo, joins with virtuoso Columbian harpist, Edmar Casteñada, and sensational Mexican jazz drummer, Antonio Sánchez, composer of the iconic film score for the Oscar-winning film Birdman. Together, they explore the intersections of bluegrass and Latin American styles in ways that audiences are finding irresistible.
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5:30 PM, August 1 |
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Twelfth Night Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park Lynn King, director
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave.,
Syracuse
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7:30 PM, August 1 |
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Into the Woods Covey Theatre Company Garrett August Heater, director
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Stephen Sondheim's tuneful tale of wishes and their consequences receives an immersive Covey production in the intimate Bevard Studio. The single-minded desires of Grimm's fairytale characters give way to fight against a common enemy in a story that seems to carry fresh relevance today. Featuring an all-star cast of local performers, Into the Woods will resonate long after curtain call. Due to some adult themes, including death, the show may not be suitable for children under 10 years of age.
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
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The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd.,
Syracuse
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 2 |
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D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
D. Lee DuSell (1927-2024) was a prolific designer and woodworker who made significant contributions to the interiors of religious shrines, chapels, and temples around the world. But Everson audiences may know him best as the creator of the bronze sculpture Spiritual Freedom (1969) that graces the Museum's Plaza. Benediction honors DuSell's large-scale work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his sculptures became kinetic, interactive, and overtly spiritual. This exhibition includes three rocking chairs that originally appeared here at the Everson in his 1980 solo show entitled Doxology—notably, the chairs contain musical elements powered by their rocking motion.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 2 |
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Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 2 |
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John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea's photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions. Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, "John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians" examines the role of photojournalism in shaping the public's understanding of war.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 2 |
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Dead End Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze. During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection. For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past. DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 2 |
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CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 2 |
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Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries. This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.
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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, August 2 |
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Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art. In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication. "In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives. Screening begins at dusk.
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12:00 PM - 11:00 PM, August 2 |
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Macedonian Festival
Price: Free St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd.,
Onondaga
Macedonian music, folk dances, and ethnic food. For more information, visit stgeorgemoc.com
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7:00 PM, August 2 |
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Miller’s Garage The 443 Social Club
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave.,
Syracuse
Hailing from Buffalo, a town rich with music history, David Michael Miller, nationally touring founder and lead singer of Miller and The Other Sinners, brings his brand of acoustic based southern soul to the road with his side solo project & band, Miller's Garage. Named after his grandfather's business in Wellsville, NY where he spent much of his growing up years, Miller uses this side project as a story-teller for introducing his songs and the background in their individual lyrics and melodies. He blends his diverse Americana influences pulling from gospel, country blues, soul and folk on acoustic and electric guitar, accompanied by Miller and The Other Sinner's drummer, Isaiah Griffin and keyboardist, Steve Davis, but also with Tommy Formicolla (Teagan and The Tweeds) on pedal/lap steel and Nat Kalnitz (The Brass Machine, JaySharptet ) on upright bass. Garages are a place to fix the broken things that keep us moving.
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8:00 PM, August 2 |
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Listen to the Wind Skaneateles Festival Skaneateles Festival Orchestra Featuring Soyeon Kate Lee, piano
Robinson Pavilion at Anyela's Vineyards
2433 W. Lake Rd.,
Skaneateles
Vivaldi Selection from The Seasons Theofaniidis The Wind and Petit Jean Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")
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2:00 PM, August 2 |
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Into the Woods Covey Theatre Company Garrett August Heater, director
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Stephen Sondheim's tuneful tale of wishes and their consequences receives an immersive Covey production in the intimate Bevard Studio. The single-minded desires of Grimm's fairytale characters give way to fight against a common enemy in a story that seems to carry fresh relevance today. Featuring an all-star cast of local performers, Into the Woods will resonate long after curtain call. Due to some adult themes, including death, the show may not be suitable for children under 10 years of age.
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5:30 PM, August 2 |
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Twelfth Night Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park Lynn King, director
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave.,
Syracuse
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Sunday, August 3, 2025
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 3 |
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Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries. This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 3 |
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CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 3 |
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Dead End Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze. During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection. For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past. DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 3 |
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D. Lee DuSell: Benediction Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
D. Lee DuSell (1927-2024) was a prolific designer and woodworker who made significant contributions to the interiors of religious shrines, chapels, and temples around the world. But Everson audiences may know him best as the creator of the bronze sculpture Spiritual Freedom (1969) that graces the Museum's Plaza. Benediction honors DuSell's large-scale work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his sculptures became kinetic, interactive, and overtly spiritual. This exhibition includes three rocking chairs that originally appeared here at the Everson in his 1980 solo show entitled Doxology—notably, the chairs contain musical elements powered by their rocking motion.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 3 |
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John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea's photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions. Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, "John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians" examines the role of photojournalism in shaping the public's understanding of war.
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 3 |
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Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.
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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, August 3 |
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Macedonian Festival
Price: Free St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd.,
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Macedonian music, folk dances, and ethnic food. For more information, visit stgeorgemoc.com
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2:00 PM, August 3 |
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Twelfth Night Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park Lynn King, director
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave.,
Syracuse
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Monday, August 4, 2025
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 4 |
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The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.
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2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County). This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways." The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County). This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways." The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 5 |
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The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.
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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, August 5 |
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The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd.,
Syracuse
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature
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7:00 PM, August 5 |
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*SOLD OUT* Nikki Hill The 443 Social Club
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave.,
Syracuse
Nikki Hill is sweet seduction, sweeter threat, and smoldering energy. An original force in American music, she is tender and tough, flamboyant, witty, and dangerous. To put it plainly, Hill brings daggers back to the stage and studio. Overlapping soulful, sensual, and bold vocal tones with powerful chrome-plated riffs and swagger, her voice finds a home in it – a soul singing, bar rocking, roots revivalist, that writes with frank self-reflection at a dancing tempo.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 6 |
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The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 6 |
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2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County). This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways." The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.
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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, August 6 |
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The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd.,
Syracuse
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 6 |
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Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.
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Dead End Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze. During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection. For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past. DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 6 |
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CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.
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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 6 |
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Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries. This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, August 6 |
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Walking and Talking Wednesday: Footsteps in Freedom Walking Tour Onondaga Historical Association
Price: $20 regular, $15 OHA members Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St.,
Syracuse
Tour covers a wide array of topics including abolition, architecture, and the role of the Erie Canal. Spend your midweek lunch hour with Curator of History Robert Searing, listening to some local history as you get in a midday walk around town. Tours leave at noon from 321 Montgomery Street and last for 45-60 minutes.
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, August 6 |
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Dewitt Summer Music: Fritz's Polka Band
Price: Free Ryder Park
5400 Butternut Dr.,
DeWitt
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, August 6 |
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Dewitt Summer Music: End of Summer Bash
Price: Free Ryder Park
5400 Butternut Dr.,
DeWitt
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 7 |
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2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County). This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways." The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, August 7 |
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The Archive as Liberation Light Work Gallery
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University,
Syracuse
"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.
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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, August 7 |
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The Natural World Edgewood Gallery
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd.,
Syracuse
Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, August 7 |
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Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, August 7 |
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Dead End Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze. During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit. Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection. For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past. DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, August 7 |
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Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries. This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.
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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, August 7 |
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CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield Everson Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.
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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, August 7 |
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Courtney Rile: In Conversation Urban Video Project
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St.,
Syracuse
"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art. In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication. "In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives. Screening begins at dusk.
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, August 7 |
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Jazz in the City: Marion Meadows CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Price: Free Syracuse Community Health Center
930 S. Salina St.,
Syracuse
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7:30 PM, August 7 |
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From Beethoven to John Williams Skaneateles Festival Calidore String Quartet
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St.,
Skaneateles
Beethoven String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 John Williams With Malice Toward None, from the film "Lincoln" Korngold String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34
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