Tuesday, July 21, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.

   

Phish
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Tickets

   

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

   

Fate
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Classic rock

   

Summer Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free, but advance registration recommended
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Orchestra performs light classical favorites, patriotic tunes, and popular standards.

Reserve tickets

   

Thursday, July 23, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

   

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

Jazz in the City: The Blacklites
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Valley Plaza
4141 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Live music, plus food vendors, arts and crafts, free health screenings, and guest speakers

   

Friday, July 24, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

   

Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

The spectacular three-day festival showcases talented artists, craftspeople and entertainers. Around 140 artists and crafters will provide an exceptionally wide selection of contemporary arts and crafts, from functional to decorative. Attendees can enjoy free daily strolling entertainment which includes a variety of music entertainers, Open Hand Legacy Puppets, hooping, and much more!

For more information, visit downtownsyracuse.com/syracuse-arts-and-crafts-festival/.

   

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher James Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical. The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson. An evocative tale of two men – one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman – and two women – one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself – both women in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret.

Tickets

   

Saturday, July 25, 2026

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

   

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

The spectacular three-day festival showcases talented artists, craftspeople and entertainers. Around 140 artists and crafters will provide an exceptionally wide selection of contemporary arts and crafts, from functional to decorative. Attendees can enjoy free daily strolling entertainment which includes a variety of music entertainers, Open Hand Legacy Puppets, hooping, and much more!

For more information, visit downtownsyracuse.com/syracuse-arts-and-crafts-festival/.

   

Ukrainian Festival

Price: Free
St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church
207 Tompkins St., Syracuse

Ukrainian dancing, live music, traditional food, and Ukrainian crafts.

For more information, visit www.stjohnbaptistucc.com/ukrainian-festival.

   

TOTO + Christopher Cross + The Romantics
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Tickets

   

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher James Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical. The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson. An evocative tale of two men – one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman – and two women – one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself – both women in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret.

Tickets

   

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Realities Within
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Realities Within presents four enduring genres of artmaking to explore how artists shape, frame, and inhabit the world. Whether a landscape, cityscape, still life, or representation of the human body, these works show how each artist's reality is impacted by their lived experience. Separated by genre and installed "salon-style" — a term inspired by the 18th and 19th century Paris Salons, where paintings were hung from floor to ceiling, covering every inch of wall space — the dense arrangement invites close looking and visual comparison, encouraging viewers to find connections across time, style, and subject matter.

   

New Works in Clay
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson has a long history of working with important contemporary artists. Over the last 58 years, the Everson has produced solo exhibitions for Yoko Ono, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Carrie Mae Weems, and a host of artists who loom large on the world stage. No exhibition in the Everson's history can compare to New Works in Clay by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, a 1976 exhibition that involved bringing well-known painters and sculptors to Syracuse to produce a body of work in ceramics. The project was the brainchild of Margie Hughto, who served as both a professor at Syracuse University and as a curator at the Everson.

For the first time in 50 years, the Everson will bring together ceramic works by the original 11 participants, as well as works by artists like Kenneth Noland and Mary Frank who participated in subsequent projects in 1978 and 1981. Five decades later, it is not unusual for clay to be a part of an artist's repertoire. New Works in Clay explores how the Everson broke down barriers between art and craft and set the stage for the current ceramic renaissance in the art world.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang: Neither Here nor Elsewhere
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Throughout her career, Renqian Yang has consistently embraced duality. It is unsurprising that her favored material is porcelain, whose dual properties are fragility and permanence. Porcelain's uses range from industrial materials like insulators and laboratory ware to Ming vases and Meissen figurines. Porcelain begins as earth but, after firing, evokes transcendence. Despite its solidity, porcelain is translucent when held up to the light. Porcelain has beguiled and seduced artists and collectors for centuries.

Neither Here nor Elsewhere features works Yang made in her home studio in Oswego and during residencies in China and North Carolina, all deeply rooted in place while simultaneously reflecting porcelain's ubiquity and universality. Yang makes porcelain a vehicle for inquiry, reflection, and self-expression. She brings together organic and constructed forms, personal experience and collective histories, her work exploring how emotions persist, transform, and connect humanity across time, place, and culture.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Deborah Roberts: Consequences of being
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Consequences of being brings together large-format paintings, works on paper, and— for the first time in Deborah Roberts' career—ceramic sculpture. The exhibition marks a significant expansion of the Austin, Texas–based artist's practice and a deepening investigation into the histories and legacies of colonialism. Roberts, who received her MFA from Syracuse University, uses collage to approach identity as something fragmented and continually reconstructed, reclaiming found materials and images to examine how Black bodies are seen, positioned, and understood globally.

   

Amy Lincoln: Fractured Light
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dreamy, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes recalling her childhood under the overcast skies of the Pacific Northwest. At once tranquil and vibrant, otherworldly and familiar, Lincoln's imagined scenes of radiant suns, calm seas, and vivid foliage present a stylized version of the natural world in every color of the rainbow. An exploration of the phenomena of light reflection and refraction, Fractured Light is Lincoln's first solo museum exhibition.

   

LIFE: Six Women Photographers
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

LIFE founder and editor-in-chief, Henry R. Luce, was convinced that American political, economic, and cultural power would, and should, dominate the era he defined as the "American Century." Photojournalism, or "photo essays" as he coined them, could effectively shape an authentically American vision of the United States as an international power, inspiring its people, in Luce's words, "to live and work and fight with vigor and enthusiasm." By giving readers vivid images of industrial strength, women and the family, race relations, World War II, labor, and the Cold War, the photographers in this exhibition contributed to this view of the United States as a global player seeking its identity on the world stage.

Six pioneering female photographers were among those who contributed to LIFE's pursuit of this American character: Margaret Bourke-White, Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth.

   

Nanni Valentini: Interspaces
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Over the half-century span of its Ceramic National exhibitions, the Everson launched the career of countless American ceramists. In 1942 and 1958, the scope of the Ceramic Nationals became international, showcasing talents from both the Western hemisphere and Europe. On the advice of Italian artist Lucio Fontana, a brilliant ceramist in his own right, the 1958 Ceramic International introduced Nanni Valentini to the world. Valentini received a coveted purchase prize, and his work was exhibited on that year's circuit, which included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

   

Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

The spectacular three-day festival showcases talented artists, craftspeople and entertainers. Around 140 artists and crafters will provide an exceptionally wide selection of contemporary arts and crafts, from functional to decorative. Attendees can enjoy free daily strolling entertainment which includes a variety of music entertainers, Open Hand Legacy Puppets, hooping, and much more!

For more information, visit downtownsyracuse.com/syracuse-arts-and-crafts-festival/.

   

The Princess Concert
The Oncenter

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

We invite you to an enchanting concert, singing the most magical music in all of the land!

Prepare for a show stopping performance as we pay tribute to the iconic, heartwarming and nostalgic songs from animations including; Frozen, Wicked, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Moana, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty & The Beast, Anastasia, Pocahontas, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and more! As well as a few from our favorite pop stars like Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Rachel Platte.

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Five Finger Death Punch, with Cody Jinks, Eva Under Fire
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

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Monday, July 27, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.

   

The Horn Dogs
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Horn-driven classic rock

   

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

2026 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

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

The five grant recipients are Maureen Beitler (Columbia County), Hernease Davis (Monroe County), Ian Sherlock Molloy (Onondaga County), Amrita Stützle (Onondaga County), and Patty Tomanovich (Monroe County). These photographers reflect the strength and vitality of our talented regional community. They explore the full range of what it means to be an image-maker today.