Monday, November 16, 2026

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Syracuse Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

500 S. Franklin St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit artmartsyracuse.com.

   

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

Syracuse Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

500 S. Franklin St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit artmartsyracuse.com.

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

Kevin Young
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Kevin Young is poetry editor of the New Yorker and award-winning author of 16 books of poetry and prose. His book, Stones, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and his newest work, Night Watch: Poems is a New York Times Editor's Choice. He was director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Tickets

   

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

Home Team Pub
7990 Oswego Rd., Liverpool

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

   

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it 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.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Syracuse Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

500 S. Franklin St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit artmartsyracuse.com.

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

Henry V
Syracuse University Drama Department
John Tufts, director

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

Courage. Loyalty. Power.

Pressed by powerful nobles and church leaders to reclaim England's sovereignty over France, the young, rebellious King Henry V of England raises an army and carves his way to Agincourt, where his troops, depleted and exhausted, must face the enemy head-on. But with dissension in the ranks, Henry will have to prove himself a strong and legitimate ruler if he's to inspire his men to lay down their lives for their country, and their king. Shakespeare's thrilling history play ponders the true cost of winning in the epic game of thrones.

   

Thursday, November 19, 2026

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

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.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

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.

   

Syracuse Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

500 S. Franklin St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit artmartsyracuse.com.

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

Dream Deep Enough to Remember: The Films of Tamika Galanis
Urban Video Project

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

Dream Deep Enough to Remember is a survey of moving image works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Tamika Galanis. Galanis produces counter-archives through her art, mending the holes in the historical record through re-enactment, reclamation, and speculation grounded in research, allowing us to encounter stories and experiences that are systematically erased.

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

   

Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical
The Oncenter

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

Based on the classic, unforgettable movie of the same name, Miracle on 34th Street features a book and score by Meredith Wilson, the author of The Music Man!

Doris Walker, a single mother who works at Macy's, doesn't want her six-year-old daughter Susan to fill her head with romantic notions. Their neighbor, Fred, is falling for Doris, so he tries to woo her by taking Susan to see Santa Claus at Macy's. But this Kris Kringle may in fact be the real deal.

This joyous, heartwarming musical is pure wholesome family entertainment, showcasing "Pinecones and Hollyberries," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "My State, My Kansas," and many other beloved songs.

Filled with humor, music and Christmas spirit, Miracle on 34th Street The Musical will melt even the most cynical heart.

Tickets

   

Henry V
Syracuse University Drama Department
John Tufts, director

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

Courage. Loyalty. Power.

Pressed by powerful nobles and church leaders to reclaim England's sovereignty over France, the young, rebellious King Henry V of England raises an army and carves his way to Agincourt, where his troops, depleted and exhausted, must face the enemy head-on. But with dissension in the ranks, Henry will have to prove himself a strong and legitimate ruler if he's to inspire his men to lay down their lives for their country, and their king. Shakespeare's thrilling history play ponders the true cost of winning in the epic game of thrones.

   

Friday, November 20, 2026

Mythic Presence
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Sofia Luz Perez: renderings in colored pencil, pen, and oil paintings; bringing together present and past, personal and mythic
Lauren Bristol: crochet wall hangings and archetypal female figures; with sculptural coiled vessels
Dana Stenson: metalsmith with stone jewelry

   

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual holiday exhibit featuring Canal-inspired gingerbread creations submitted by amateur and professional bakers in the community.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it 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.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Syracuse Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

500 S. Franklin St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit artmartsyracuse.com.

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

Quinceañera Dreams Exhibition
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Marking its 15th anniversary in 2026, La Casita presents "Quinceañera Dreams," a new exhibition that explores one of the most cherished traditions in Latino cultures: the quinceañera celebration. Through community-sourced photographs, video, oral histories, family memorabilia, stunning gowns, and multimedia installations, Quinceañera Dreams explores the history, beauty, and cultural significance of this beloved coming-of-age tradition that connects generations of women.

Guided tours in English and Spanish by appointment.

   

Dream Deep Enough to Remember: The Films of Tamika Galanis
Urban Video Project

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

Dream Deep Enough to Remember is a survey of moving image works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Tamika Galanis. Galanis produces counter-archives through her art, mending the holes in the historical record through re-enactment, reclamation, and speculation grounded in research, allowing us to encounter stories and experiences that are systematically erased.

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

   

Eileen Ivers & The Brigideens
Folkus Project

Price: $30 regular, $27 Folkus members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Get ready for powerful, resonant, emotional songs and tunes with The Brigideens, the bold new acoustic roots band led by Grammy-winning, Emmy-nominated, 9-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion Eileen Ivers.

Tickets

   

Poet David Weiss
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

David Weiss has published six collections of poetry, most recently Little Mirror (Lynx House) and No Tomorrow (Tiger Bark Press); three novels, The Mensch, Cry Baby, and Do Us Part; and four crime novels, the Ditch Witch series. He is also the author of the brand-new collection of essays on poetry, And Living Things Too. He edited Seneca Review for many years, and taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

This event will be offered in person and on Zoom.

Zoom registration

   

Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical
The Oncenter

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

Based on the classic, unforgettable movie of the same name, Miracle on 34th Street features a book and score by Meredith Wilson, the author of The Music Man!

Doris Walker, a single mother who works at Macy's, doesn't want her six-year-old daughter Susan to fill her head with romantic notions. Their neighbor, Fred, is falling for Doris, so he tries to woo her by taking Susan to see Santa Claus at Macy's. But this Kris Kringle may in fact be the real deal.

This joyous, heartwarming musical is pure wholesome family entertainment, showcasing "Pinecones and Hollyberries," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "My State, My Kansas," and many other beloved songs.

Filled with humor, music and Christmas spirit, Miracle on 34th Street The Musical will melt even the most cynical heart.

Tickets

   

Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical
The Oncenter

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

Based on the classic, unforgettable movie of the same name, Miracle on 34th Street features a book and score by Meredith Wilson, the author of The Music Man!

Doris Walker, a single mother who works at Macy's, doesn't want her six-year-old daughter Susan to fill her head with romantic notions. Their neighbor, Fred, is falling for Doris, so he tries to woo her by taking Susan to see Santa Claus at Macy's. But this Kris Kringle may in fact be the real deal.

This joyous, heartwarming musical is pure wholesome family entertainment, showcasing "Pinecones and Hollyberries," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "My State, My Kansas," and many other beloved songs.

Filled with humor, music and Christmas spirit, Miracle on 34th Street The Musical will melt even the most cynical heart.

Tickets

   

Henry V
Syracuse University Drama Department
John Tufts, director

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

Courage. Loyalty. Power.

Pressed by powerful nobles and church leaders to reclaim England's sovereignty over France, the young, rebellious King Henry V of England raises an army and carves his way to Agincourt, where his troops, depleted and exhausted, must face the enemy head-on. But with dissension in the ranks, Henry will have to prove himself a strong and legitimate ruler if he's to inspire his men to lay down their lives for their country, and their king. Shakespeare's thrilling history play ponders the true cost of winning in the epic game of thrones.

   

Saturday, November 21, 2026

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual holiday exhibit featuring Canal-inspired gingerbread creations submitted by amateur and professional bakers in the community.

   

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.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

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.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

Syracuse Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

500 S. Franklin St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit artmartsyracuse.com.

   

Street Pop / Take 2
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

art haus SYR in collaboration with Midoma NYC is proud to present the Street Pop ???????? (Take 2) Exhibition. This 2-part exhibit pays homage to MIDOMA's final exhibition in NYC during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Featured artists include Cameron Alexander, Mr Sampson, Stetz, and Not Miscellaneous.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Dream Deep Enough to Remember: The Films of Tamika Galanis
Urban Video Project

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

Dream Deep Enough to Remember is a survey of moving image works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Tamika Galanis. Galanis produces counter-archives through her art, mending the holes in the historical record through re-enactment, reclamation, and speculation grounded in research, allowing us to encounter stories and experiences that are systematically erased.

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.

   

Mikal Serafim/Funky Blu Roots
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15–$20 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

   

Henry V
Syracuse University Drama Department
John Tufts, director

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

Courage. Loyalty. Power.

Pressed by powerful nobles and church leaders to reclaim England's sovereignty over France, the young, rebellious King Henry V of England raises an army and carves his way to Agincourt, where his troops, depleted and exhausted, must face the enemy head-on. But with dissension in the ranks, Henry will have to prove himself a strong and legitimate ruler if he's to inspire his men to lay down their lives for their country, and their king. Shakespeare's thrilling history play ponders the true cost of winning in the epic game of thrones.

   

Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical
The Oncenter

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

Based on the classic, unforgettable movie of the same name, Miracle on 34th Street features a book and score by Meredith Wilson, the author of The Music Man!

Doris Walker, a single mother who works at Macy's, doesn't want her six-year-old daughter Susan to fill her head with romantic notions. Their neighbor, Fred, is falling for Doris, so he tries to woo her by taking Susan to see Santa Claus at Macy's. But this Kris Kringle may in fact be the real deal.

This joyous, heartwarming musical is pure wholesome family entertainment, showcasing "Pinecones and Hollyberries," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "My State, My Kansas," and many other beloved songs.

Filled with humor, music and Christmas spirit, Miracle on 34th Street The Musical will melt even the most cynical heart.

Tickets

   

Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical
The Oncenter

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

Based on the classic, unforgettable movie of the same name, Miracle on 34th Street features a book and score by Meredith Wilson, the author of The Music Man!

Doris Walker, a single mother who works at Macy's, doesn't want her six-year-old daughter Susan to fill her head with romantic notions. Their neighbor, Fred, is falling for Doris, so he tries to woo her by taking Susan to see Santa Claus at Macy's. But this Kris Kringle may in fact be the real deal.

This joyous, heartwarming musical is pure wholesome family entertainment, showcasing "Pinecones and Hollyberries," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "My State, My Kansas," and many other beloved songs.

Filled with humor, music and Christmas spirit, Miracle on 34th Street The Musical will melt even the most cynical heart.

Tickets

   

Henry V
Syracuse University Drama Department
John Tufts, director

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

Courage. Loyalty. Power.

Pressed by powerful nobles and church leaders to reclaim England's sovereignty over France, the young, rebellious King Henry V of England raises an army and carves his way to Agincourt, where his troops, depleted and exhausted, must face the enemy head-on. But with dissension in the ranks, Henry will have to prove himself a strong and legitimate ruler if he's to inspire his men to lay down their lives for their country, and their king. Shakespeare's thrilling history play ponders the true cost of winning in the epic game of thrones.

   

Sunday, November 22, 2026

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual holiday exhibit featuring Canal-inspired gingerbread creations submitted by amateur and professional bakers in the community.

   

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.

   

Sincerely, Beato
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

We remember Beatrice Wood, who signed her pithy correspondence as "Beato," for her cutting wit, outrageous stories, lustrous ceramics, and complex relationship with artist Marcel Duchamp, a leader of the Dada movement. Determined to resist the life her wealthy parents envisioned for her, Wood became a defining figure of New York City's Dada scene, embracing the art movement that reveled in absurdity, nonsense, and humor.

Sincerely, Beato features self-portraits, sketches, and illustrations that Wood made primarily in the latter half of her life, after she settled in Ojai, California. They function as a pictorial diary, revealing the inner worries, emotions, and desires of the "Mama of Dada."

   

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.

   

America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The American story is a tangle of aspiration and contradiction, triumph and struggle, liberty and oppression. From the nation's founding, rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries have shaped the course of American history through acts of courage and innovation as well as challenges to convention and authority. This exhibition presents artists whose works reflect that journey, celebrating moments of courage and progress while also confronting inequity and inaction.

Organized to commemorate America's 250th anniversary, America 250: Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries invites visitors to reflect on the individuals, events, and ideas that continuously shape (and reshape) the United States. Rather than offering a single, linear narrative, the exhibition embraces the nation's messy, complex history and recognizes that the "American story" is different for every individual living within the country's borders. Some works celebrate defining moments in American history. Others turn our attention to often overlooked or deliberately omitted histories: the enduring legacies of slavery and Indigenous oppression, the struggles for civil rights, the fight for gender equality, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. Shown together, these works remind us that patriotism is strongest when we have the courage to face uncomfortable truths.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

Space and the Sacred: Letterio Calapai's Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Between the 1940s and his death in 1993, the printmaker Letterio Calapai produced dozens of works about outer space and Catholic subjects. This exhibition examines how his art transformed as these subjects evolved during his lifetime and reveals how one man understood the changing world around him.

   

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Reclaimed: The Art of Recology presents a survey of 33 artists who were selected to participate in Recology's Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 1990. Armed with safety gear and a shopping cart, each of these artists have scavenging privileges in the Public Reuse and Recycling Area—what most artists refer to as "The Big Store"—to recycle and reclaim the discarded waste as imagined art objects. Through introspective, playful, and highly original explorations, the artists reveal the hidden stories our rubbish tells us about our complex relationship with the world, while highlighting the need to create sustainable communities.

   

Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibitions spotlights Jill Nathanson's Contrapuntal for a year-long inquiry into light, color, music, and making. Nathanson's use of polymers and acrylic paint in this work will also invite conversations around materials and their properties.

   

The Art Wall Project: Helen Zughaib, Patterns of Migration
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the sixth iteration of The Art Wall Project, Helen Zughaib '81 uses her characteristic bright color palette and intricate patterns to explore the stories of people's displacement from their homes. By painting migration narratives from her own family's history and our contemporary experiences, Zughaib considers how this global movement of individuals has shaped America as we know it today.

   

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

Syracuse Turners
619 N. Salina St., Syracuse

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn't gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she's invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

   

Monday, November 23, 2026

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual holiday exhibit featuring Canal-inspired gingerbread creations submitted by amateur and professional bakers in the community.

   

The Thing Itself
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work presents The Thing Itself, a selection of self-portrait photographs from our collection highlighting 18 artists from over nine decades of picture-making. Presented are works by Ellen Carey, Dylan Everett, Jermaine Francis, Robert Giard, Rita Hammond, Tommy Kha, Mark Klett, Yi Hsuan Lai, Ernesto Pujol, Cindy Sherman, Kerry Skarbakka, Ralph Steiner, riel and Bianca Sturchio, Piotr Szyhalski, Carrie Mae Weems, Dahveed Wilkins, and Albert J. Winn.

   

museum: Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present museum, a collaborative photographic exhibition by the artists Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris) and Christina Seely.

The images in this installation were made in 2014 during the artists' time as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, when they photographed the disassembly of the iconic National Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. More than a decade later, during a 2025 studio visit, the artists rediscovered the photographs and saw them in a new light. Time had changed the images; it had amplified their disorienting, dreamlike qualities. What is presented inside this exhibition at Light Work is the breaking down of a museum exhibit. The idea of a museum, its authority, certainty, and clarity, is replaced with the rediscovery of the original meaning of museum—a site for muses, a site where knowledge is not fixed but in perpetual development.

   

Syracuse Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

500 S. Franklin St.
Syracuse

A pop-up art show featuring 45 or more local artists who have created jewelry, watercolor painting, oil painting, ceramics, pottery, woodwork, glasswork, textiles, consumables, photography, and other unique products.

For more information, visit artmartsyracuse.com.