Saturday, March 14, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Kids Series: Windy Day
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

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

Come learn all about The Syracuse Orchestra Wind Section in this fun concert featuring all of the woodwind instruments.

Tickets

   

Kids Series: Windy Day
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

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

Come learn all about The Syracuse Orchestra Wind Section in this fun concert featuring all of the woodwind instruments.

Tickets

   

Miller & the Other Sinners
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Miller and The Other Sinners is: David Michael Miller ("Miller") on vocals & guitars, Steve Davis on keys, organ, key bass, and vocals, Isaiah Griffin on drums & percussion, Dalton Sharp on saxophone, and for the last 2 years, Paul Gaspar on trumpet. These five together tracked this latest effort, a full-length album, recorded in a studio that Miller built in his mid-1800s farm house during the COVID shutdown. "Thieves In The Breadline," is an amazing step in defining this band's last 4+ years of work together, finding their sound and capturing their live chemistry. Inspired by the Marcus King record produced by Warren Haynes, both strong influences on Miller, Thieves sets to capture that fat warm sound reminiscent of iconic recordings, yet with a modern presence and push. Miller engineered, arranged, produced, mixed, and mastered this project as a labor of love and passion, yet had to hit the high water mark of his first solo album in 2014, "Poisons Sipped."

Tickets

   

The Bandwitts
Steeple Coffee House

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

The bandwitts are Hymie and Brandy Witthoft, a Marcellus-based couple who write, record, and perform original music of various styles. Hymie plays drums and a wide range of percussion instruments, while Brandy plays bass guitar and is lead vocalist. During Brandy's 17-year career in the U.S. foreign service, their family lived in Africa, Central Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, where they performed in bands that shared and showcased American roots music. They loved having the opportunity to learn about and experience the musical traditions of these places. Now that they have returned stateside permanently, Hymie and Brandy are thrilled to be joined by Jason King on electric and acoustic guitar and by Joanne Perry on mandolin and vocals.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Sunday, March 15, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

*SOLD OUT* Nachos and Blancos
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Join us for our once-a-month rockin' rhythm and roots par-tay at The 443! It's the best hang in town, and we can't think of a better way to spend Sunday afternoon than grooving to the tasty tunes of the mighty Los Blancos.

Join the waitlist

   

Braving the Elements
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Julie Pretzat, conductor

Price: $15
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Celebrating Earth, Wind and Fire and Water, featuring music that celebrates this beautiful earth and recognizes the threats to our planet and its resources.

   

Braving the Elements
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Julie Pretzat, conductor

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Celebrating Earth, Wind and Fire and Water, featuring music that celebrates this beautiful earth and recognizes the threats to our planet and its resources.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Monday, March 16, 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.

   

Tuesday, March 17, 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.

   

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.

   

McKinley James
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

McKinley James is equal parts old soul and modern man. Armed with an electric guitar and sharp songwriting chops, he breathes new life into classic sounds with Working Class Blues, a debut album that introduces his mix of American rock & roll, amplified soul, and raw rhythm & blues.

Tickets

   

Lords of the Sound: The Music of Hans Zimmer
The Oncenter

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

Lords of the Sound is a famous Ukrainian symphony orchestra that introduces a new orchestral culture with a modern flavor. The Music of Hans Zimmer is an exhilarating journey into the world of unique sounds, bringing the extraordinary atmosphere of cinematic masterpieces to the stage through the performance of a symphony orchestra.

Hans Zimmer is one of the most influential and prominent creators of contemporary film soundtracks. He has established himself as a master of epic music, crafting unforgettable musical accompaniments for numerous global blockbusters. This program will feature compositions from iconic films such as Dune, Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Sherlock Holmes, Pearl Harbor, Gladiator, Inception, Pirates of the Caribbean, Spirit, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Madagascar, The Lion King, 007: No Time to Die, and Man of Steel.

Tickets

   

Saxophone Studio and Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Setnor School of Music's Saxophone Studio and Ensemble perform.

Watch live stream.

   

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.

   

Wednesday, March 18, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

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.

   

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 Simon & Garfunkel Story
The Oncenter

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

Few shows have experienced the phenomenal global success of The Simon & Garfunkel Story, with multiple sold-out shows in over 50 countries worldwide and over 20 headline performances in London's West End, including multiple appearances at the world-famous London Palladium.

Using huge projection photos and original film footage, the show tells the story of the origins and meteoric rise of Simon & Garfunkel blended together seamlessly with a full live band performing all the hits including Mrs. Robinson, Cecilia, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, and many more.

Tickets

   

Thursday, March 19, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

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.

   

Survival Guide: Syracuse
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A special indoor screening of The Temple of Our Survival, with panel talk. Artist Alisha B Wormsley will be present.

   

Dirty Dancing in Concert
The Oncenter

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

Relive the film that stole the hearts of generations with Dirty Dancing in Concert.

This unique live-to-film concert event features the original film projected in full, accompanied by a live band and singers performing every unforgettable song from the soundtrack.

Feel the romance, rhythm, and emotion as you watch Baby and Johnny's love story come to life on a full-size cinema screen, with every iconic moment amplified by the power of live music.

After the final scene, the fun keeps going with a dance-along encore party that invites you to celebrate the music that made history.

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 20, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

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.

   

Artist Talk: Healing Forward by Amber Robles Gordon
Community Folk Art Center

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

Join us for an artist talk on "Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation" with Amber Robles-Gordon, moderated by Dr. Tanisha M. Jackson.

"Healing Forward: Rituals of Self-Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation" is a retrospective exhibition that traces the throughline of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological — 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.

   

Cantrip
Folkus Project

Price: $25 regular, $22 Folkus members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Their music comes from wild landscapes and wild places of the spirit."

Just like the Old Scots definition of their band name, Scottish band Cantrip leaves audiences spellbound when they take on any stage.

After forming in Edinburgh 20 years ago, this group came together to create music that is not shy of its Celtic origins or influences from the folk, metal, bluegrass, swing, and klezmer genres.

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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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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.

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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.

   

Saturday, March 21, 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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The voices and visions of teenagers rarely take center stage in professional exhibition spaces. Yet, young people in our communities hold valuable perspectives on the world.

Forging a new network of neighbors, Teens with a Movie Camera's hands-on workshops embrace the artistic potential of everyday tools such as smartphones, envisioning movies as a mode of personal expression and artistic exploration rather than a commercial product. The TwMC artist collective asks: can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful and imaginative engagement with media arts, as a way of building local community? Featured works will center upon themes of creativity and hope, emphasizing imagination as a pathway toward meaningful futures.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

New Choreographic Works, by Manatsu Tanaka and Nadia Khayrallah
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Choreographic works by Manatsu Tanaka and Nadia Khayrallah.

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Creations: New Choreographic Works by Dominique Dawkins
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A showcase of new choreographic works by Dominique Dawkins.

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The Words Escaping Us, by Sky Xue
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

With a dangerous blizzard on the way, two drifters come together to find a missing woman stranded at an abandoned ranch before it's too late.

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The Aura of Upstate, by Evens Angulo-Duvil
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Animated film, followed by documentary about the process

Despite being born in Italy, Evens Angulo-Duvil is an Upstate New Yorker through and through. From his childhood to the present day, he's used his talents to capture the feeling of Upstate, but his latest project, and directorial debut, aims to do something greater. Angulo-Duvil's magnum-opus (to this point at least) is a short film titled The Aura of Upstate. Taking lessons he learned from Trussell and Ward's Midnight Gospel, he's attempted to capture the spirit of Upstate New York through the same method.

Over the course of the year, he's interviewed locals from the Capital Region, from bars to skate shops and everything in between. He's taken the best clips from these interviews, and animated over them to create a cohesive project that tells the story of the Capital Region from none other than the real people that inhabit it.

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Born Into Oceans, by Jagged Honey
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A cinematic mood poem interweaving three generations of Valentine family womb-en, their fated connections with love, loss, and transcendence.

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Video Ocean, by Courtney Rile
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Video Ocean is an experimental documentary by Courtney Rile about the origin story of a cultural microclimate of video art in Syracuse in the 1970s. Through interviews with contemporary artists, curators, and journalists, along with archival documentation and excerpts of works of video art, Video Ocean explores the inception of video art as a medium, the creation of Synapse at Syracuse University, the establishment of a degree program dedicated to art video at Syracuse University, and the hiring of the first Curator of Video Art at a museum in the world at the Everson Museum of Art. Video Ocean establishes Syracuse as a center for innovation and explores the question of where video art stands today in a moment where video is ubiquitous and AI is propelling us into the next iteration of the moving image.

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Peaks, by Navzad Dabu
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Peaks is the award-winning third directorial outing in a series of shorts all focused on observing stories in a much distilled temporal space, to appeal to a viewer's activity rather than their passivity, to slow down the viewer's observation to something more akin to a real life experience of a singular moment. This Slow Cinema piece, at a 30-minute runtime, was produced in Australia around 2020. The idea for it was birthed when my close friend and collaborator [Dina Grinberg, who also plays Mila in the film] brought up the idea of children playing a prank on each other that has unexpected, lasting repercussions. What developed was a film that explores male toxicity, jealousy and micro-violence in a natural landscape where distance is visually synonymous with time.

The short observes a largely unspoken communication — when one person's fleeting sensibilities meet another person's unrelenting, nagging daemons. What "is" between two people who supposedly care for each other isn't always enough when a single party can't let go of what "isn't." Peaks desires to explore this dynamic and the confusing releases of energy that arise from irreconcilable relationships.

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GAEA by Christopher J. Reilly
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Immerse yourself in the haunting beauty of GAEA, an award-winning short film shot and produced in Syracuse. This captivating short film follows a woman's search to piece together her past, leading to a chilling revelation — she is not alone in the woods. With its gripping narrative and striking visuals, GAEA delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, survival, and self discovery.

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The Jamie McLean Band
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Jamie McLean Band is a triple threat. The group's energetic and captivating live show is undeniable. McLean's fiery guitar has joined the ranks of Derek Trucks, Gregg Allman, Aaron Neville, Dr. John, and more on stages from Madison Square Garden to Japan's Fuji Rock. His blue-eyed southern soul vocals ooze real emotion. And his top-line songwriting chops have crafted profound, honest, and heartfelt songs that will keep you singing, dancing, and feeling like the song was written about you. Jamie McLean Band creates a musical gumbo that incorporates New Orleans soul, middle Americana roots, Delta blues, and New York City swagger.

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Pops Series: Symphonic Dances
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

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

Maria Millar and Shawn Wyckoff bring their violin and flute dancing duo to The Syracuse Orchestra stage in a concert that will fill you with delight and get your feet tapping.

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Pops Series: Dancing Queen: The Music of ABBA
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

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

You can be The Dancing Queen and sing along to your ABBA favorites as The Syracuse Orchestra rocks out with vocalists in The Music of ABBA.

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Solomon on 6th Ave, by Max Loria
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A developmental reading of a new play.

Greenwich Village, summer of '69. A bisexual, bipolar, booze-addled drag queen forced to live in strict anonymity takes a 21-year-old social worker under his wing, hoping to secure his legacy amidst rising political tensions in New York's gay nightlife.

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How to Make a Doll, by Marisa Caruso
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Digging through memory, medical text, and a gigantic pile of socks, a picture of mental health in America emerges through the story of a mother-daughter relationship, the mystery of a changing brain, and the question of how to communicate when words fall short. Where science meets art and humor meets grief, How to Make a Doll is an interdisciplinary solo blending research, memoir, and a healthy dose of absurdity. Through video, sound, text, and puppetry, this performance explores dementia, family, and the transformative power of making something by hand.

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Fires, by Binaifer Dabu
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Fires is an original solo performance exploring identity, belonging, and reckoning of living between worlds. Humor, heart, and poetic imagery blend rich storytelling and movement to bring vivid characters to life, inviting audiences to reflect on what we inherit, leave behind, and choose to become. Written and performed by Binaifer Dabu, storyteller and lifelong performer, whose journey spans India, Boston, and Upstate NY, Fires celebrates stories rooted in personal experience.

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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.

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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.

   

Plays in Progress, featuring Le Moyne College Student Playwrights
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Excerpts of student works

Quadways, by Joe Calveric
In the year 2025, a young woman is cryogenically frozen and wakes 500 years later. Making unlikely allies with the locals, she navigates the new world and tries to make do as she survives in a glowing future. Will she make it back home?

The Future is Now, by Francesca Smith
Awkward and extremely anxious, Prudence has been known to be a loner. Now, a year and a half after a tragedy, she's only gotten worse. When she begins college and meets someone new, however, Prudence is given an opportunity to start anew — until it all goes wrong. Pushed to the brink, she makes a plan that threatens to upend the world. (Note: This play includes sensitive topics, those being child death, mental illness, and suicide ideation.)

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The Suburban Republic, by Ellis Clay
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

With war looming and a cherished homecoming tradition under fire, a quiet suburban neighborhood finds itself slipping towards upheaval.

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Will, by Zizi Majid
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Zizi Majid is a playwright whose plays advocate for a shared humanity. The recipient of the 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, her work has been developed at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Syracuse Stage, WP Theatre and the Dramatists Guild Foundation.

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Monologue Jam, with Donovan Stanfield
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Price: Free ($5 suggested donation at the door)
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

   

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.

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The Plea, by Jason Zencka
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

In The Plea, a young attorney tries to convince a younger client to take a life-changing plea bargain over the course of three meetings in a jailhouse visitation room. Their argument is intimate, urgent, and recursive, and the two characters must continually decide how far to leverage their power and their vulnerability in an effort to get what they need from one another. With each encounter, the pair draws closer to a trial date that threatens to test the parts of themselves they hold most dear, as well as liberate the truths they would rather keep locked away.

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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.

   

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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