Wednesday, September 3, 2025

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

CNY Artist Initiative: Maria Park
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Maria Park examines how technology shapes our perception and participation in the world. Her work spans serial paintings, site-specific installations, and public projects, often focusing on the relationship between human presence and media reliance. Her recent work explores the ritual and legibility of diagrammatic language. Born in Munich, Germany, Park grew up in the Bay Area and holds an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University and has lived in Ithaca since 2006.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

CNY Artist Initiative: Maria Park
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Maria Park examines how technology shapes our perception and participation in the world. Her work spans serial paintings, site-specific installations, and public projects, often focusing on the relationship between human presence and media reliance. Her recent work explores the ritual and legibility of diagrammatic language. Born in Munich, Germany, Park grew up in the Bay Area and holds an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University and has lived in Ithaca since 2006.

HARDY: Jim Bob World Tour, with Koe Wetzel, Stephen Wilson Jr., Sikarus
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Friday, September 5, 2025

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

CNY Artist Initiative: Maria Park
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Maria Park examines how technology shapes our perception and participation in the world. Her work spans serial paintings, site-specific installations, and public projects, often focusing on the relationship between human presence and media reliance. Her recent work explores the ritual and legibility of diagrammatic language. Born in Munich, Germany, Park grew up in the Bay Area and holds an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University and has lived in Ithaca since 2006.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
4:00 pm: Kevin Flanagan
5:00 pm: Attractive Nuisance
5:45 pm: McDonald School of Irish Dance
6:05 pm: Aoife Scott
7:15 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance
7:45 pm: Goitse
9:30 pm: The Elders

Pub Stage
6:00 pm: Kevin Flanagan
7:00 pm: McDonald School of Irish Dance
8:00 pm: Mike Centore
8:30 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com.

Titanic The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher J. Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Titanic The Musical is a stirring and unforgettable account of the first and last days of the "ship of dreams." This epic musical features the real stories of people aboard the most legendary ship in the world — from the third-class immigrants dreaming of a better tomorrow to the first-class passengers living a life of privilege. Story and book by Peter Stone; music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

98th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibit will feature recently-completed work in a variety of media by the group's members.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

CNY Artist Initiative: Maria Park
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Maria Park examines how technology shapes our perception and participation in the world. Her work spans serial paintings, site-specific installations, and public projects, often focusing on the relationship between human presence and media reliance. Her recent work explores the ritual and legibility of diagrammatic language. Born in Munich, Germany, Park grew up in the Bay Area and holds an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University and has lived in Ithaca since 2006.

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

Opening: Najee Dorsey: Poor People’s Campaign
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Set in the layered world of Najee Dorsey's Poor People's Campaign, this powerful Afrofuturist vision grounded in the environmental struggles of today's impoverished communities. Blending Southern nostalgia with digitally-collaged speculative futures, Dorsey's work unveils a future shaped by environmental racism, industrial pollution, and the resilience of those who endure these atrocities. This exhibition challenges viewers to confront what's hidden in plain sight — smokestacks on the horizon, decaying landscapes, and children at play in dystopian backdrops, unaware, just going about their lives.

Each candid portrayal of a child, each scar of environmental injustice plaguing the earth, is a symbol of ongoing corporate greed, and a masterful fusion of futures transforming the landscape into an intimate battleground. Through these works Dorsey challenges us to consider the true cost of progress and unchecked power.

Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
12:00 pm: Syracuse Irish Session
1:30 pm: Joe Davoli & Students
2:00 pm: Joe Davoli
3:20 pm: Aoife Scott
4:30 pm: Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance
4:50 pm: Goitse
6:00 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance
6:20 pm: The Causeway Giants
7:45 pm: Special Guests
8:15 pm: The Elders
9:50 pm: The Public House

Pub Stage
5:00 pm: Shawn Halloran
5:50 pm: Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance
8:00 pm: Project: LOCKSLEY
8:30 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com.

Art on the Porches

Price: Free
Ruskin Avenue
Strathmore neighborhood, Syracuse

Art on the Porches is an art show, sale, and celebration of the historic Strathmore Neighborhood. Artists will be displaying and selling their work from the spacious porches and lawns of the beautiful historic homes along Ruskin Avenue. In addition to artists, there will be local musicians and food trucks, as well as pop-up art installations and art workshops to create a fun-filled day for all ages.

Acoustic Stage
11:00 am: Sappy CY
12:30 pm: Clove Music
1:30 pm: Cloey Tierno
2:30 pm: Bella Luna Belly Dance
3:30 pm: Christopher White

Ruskin Ave/Min Stage
12:00 pm: Unity Street Band Parade and Set
1:00 pm: Harmonic Dirt
2:00 pm: Modaferri
3:00 pm: Alison & Zoe
4:00 pm: Know Nothing

Titanic The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher J. Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Titanic The Musical is a stirring and unforgettable account of the first and last days of the "ship of dreams." This epic musical features the real stories of people aboard the most legendary ship in the world — from the third-class immigrants dreaming of a better tomorrow to the first-class passengers living a life of privilege. Story and book by Peter Stone; music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.

Sunday, September 7, 2025

CNY Artist Initiative: Maria Park
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Maria Park examines how technology shapes our perception and participation in the world. Her work spans serial paintings, site-specific installations, and public projects, often focusing on the relationship between human presence and media reliance. Her recent work explores the ritual and legibility of diagrammatic language. Born in Munich, Germany, Park grew up in the Bay Area and holds an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University and has lived in Ithaca since 2006.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

Artist Talk: Najee Dorsey
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Najee Dorsey is the founder of Black Art in America, an online media platform for African American artists, collectors, art enthusiasts, and arts professionals. As an artist, Najee Dorsey has become known for his mixed-media collage, digital media collage images of little known and unsung historical figures, as well as nostalgic scenes from African American life in the southern United States. In his work, as Najee chronicles moments in Black life throughout history, he maintains that, "stories untold are stories forgotten."

Blast Off Sunday with Count Blastula
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Join us for Blast Off Sunday, a once-a-month event featuring Syracuse favorite Count Blastula.

Founded by Adam Fisher in Central New York, Count Blastula features eclectic music combined with visual expression, broadening genres in thoughtful ways. For over a decade, Fisher has been at the core of the experience; each live show is a journey displaying the multi-faceted talents of his cohorts, featuring original works and familiar interpretations.

Titanic The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher J. Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Titanic The Musical is a stirring and unforgettable account of the first and last days of the "ship of dreams." This epic musical features the real stories of people aboard the most legendary ship in the world — from the third-class immigrants dreaming of a better tomorrow to the first-class passengers living a life of privilege. Story and book by Peter Stone; music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.

Monday, September 8, 2025

98th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibit will feature recently-completed work in a variety of media by the group's members.

Lady for a Day (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Cast: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Jean Parker, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Nat Pendleton, Walter Connolly
Director: Frank Capra

The season begins with this classic comedy-drama from Columbia, based on a story by Damon Runyon. A ragged apple vendor (Robson) must be quickly transformed into a refined lady before her grown daughter visits from abroad. It's up to a slick gambler (William) and his gang of cohorts to make the transformation happen and be believable. Capra remade this story years later as Pocketful of Miracles, but this 1933 original is generally considered to be the far superior version. A wonderful movie that brought Columbia Pictures its first Academy Award nomination (for Best Picture).

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

98th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibit will feature recently-completed work in a variety of media by the group's members.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Sherlock Jr.: Silent Film with New Music
LeMoyne College
Society for New Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, students free with ID
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a 7:15 pm screening of Buster Keaton's brilliant silent film Sherlock Jr. (1924, 45 mins.) with a new score by Nic Scherzinger performed live by the Society for New Music. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the composer.

The event will be preceded, at 6:30 pm, by a panel discussion on imaginative movies about movies, with Le Moyne English and Communication professors Julie Grossman, Rebecca Pelky, and Daniel Rudin, and composer of the score for Sherlock Jr., Syracuse University professor Nic Scherzinger. The discussion will take place in Marren Studio.

This event is sponsored by the Le Moyne College Film Program, the Society for New Music, the Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum, the Le Moyne College Music Program, and the Syracuse International Film Festival.

   

Hamilton
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A revolutionary story of passion, unstoppable ambition, and the dawn of a new nation.

Hamilton is the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fights for honor, love, and a legacy that would shape the course of a nation. Based on Ron Chernow's acclaimed biography and set to a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. Hamilton features book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. In addition to its 11 Tony Awards, it has won Grammy, Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.

Tickets

   

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

98th Annual Juried Members Exhibit
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The exhibit will feature recently-completed work in a variety of media by the group's members.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Maria Park
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Maria Park examines how technology shapes our perception and participation in the world. Her work spans serial paintings, site-specific installations, and public projects, often focusing on the relationship between human presence and media reliance. Her recent work explores the ritual and legibility of diagrammatic language. Born in Munich, Germany, Park grew up in the Bay Area and holds an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University and has lived in Ithaca since 2006.

   

Najee Dorsey: Poor People’s Campaign
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Set in the layered world of Najee Dorsey's Poor People's Campaign, this powerful Afrofuturist vision grounded in the environmental struggles of today's impoverished communities. Blending Southern nostalgia with digitally-collaged speculative futures, Dorsey's work unveils a future shaped by environmental racism, industrial pollution, and the resilience of those who endure these atrocities. This exhibition challenges viewers to confront what's hidden in plain sight — smokestacks on the horizon, decaying landscapes, and children at play in dystopian backdrops, unaware, just going about their lives.

Each candid portrayal of a child, each scar of environmental injustice plaguing the earth, is a symbol of ongoing corporate greed, and a masterful fusion of futures transforming the landscape into an intimate battleground. Through these works Dorsey challenges us to consider the true cost of progress and unchecked power.

   

A Day to Remember: Maximum Fun Tour, with Yellowcard, State Champs, Boundaries
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

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Special Event: September Soirée
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse Orchestra String Quartet

Carol Watson Greenhouse
2980 Sentinel Heights Rd., LaFayette

Kick off the 2025-26 season in style with an enchanting evening of music, community, and friendly competition.

• 5:30 pm: Greenhouse Exploration & Picnic Setup Begins
Wander through Carol Watson Greenhouse, immerse yourself in its beauty, and find the perfect spot on the lawn for your picnic masterpiece.

• 6:00 pm: Picnic Competition Judging
Unleash your creativity and prepare your most spectacular picnic spread! Our judges will be circulating to crown the top three displays, each winning an incredible prize package that includes free Orchestra tickets.

• 7:00 pm: Live Performance by The Syracuse Orchestra String Quartet
Settle into your lawn chairs (don't forget to bring them!) and prepare to be captivated by a special performance. Diane Jones of WCNY will be your host to this exclusive sneak peek which will offer a taste of the music awaiting you in the coming season.

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Hamilton
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A revolutionary story of passion, unstoppable ambition, and the dawn of a new nation.

Hamilton is the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fights for honor, love, and a legacy that would shape the course of a nation. Based on Ron Chernow's acclaimed biography and set to a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. Hamilton features book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. In addition to its 11 Tony Awards, it has won Grammy, Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.

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Preview: The Hello Girls
Syracuse Stage
Cara Reichel, director

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

A heroic new musical about connection in a time of conflict.

1918. As the world plunges further into unprecedented catastrophe, Grace Banker works as a telephone operator in New York City, proving herself more than capable in a male-dominated industry. But when the U.S. Army recruits her to lead a group of women directing communications on the frontlines in France, she and her fellow "Hello Girls" will have to prove themselves again and again if they are to convince the top brass — and the countr — that they belong in the fight. This new American musical reminds us that in the battle against hopelessness and hate, no weapon can match the power of the human spirit.

Music and lyrics by Peter Mills, book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel