Sunday, October 12, 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.

   

Bernarda Alba
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Carlos Angulo, director

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

Federico Garcia Lorca's searing tale of a Spanish matriarch's stranglehold over her daughters is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa.

   

Tuesday, October 14, 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.

   

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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.

   

“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.

   

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.

   

An Evening with Amy Grant
The Oncenter

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

Tickets

   

Bernarda Alba
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Carlos Angulo, director

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

Federico Garcia Lorca's searing tale of a Spanish matriarch's stranglehold over her daughters is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa.

   

Thursday, October 16, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Bernarda Alba
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Carlos Angulo, director

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

Federico Garcia Lorca's searing tale of a Spanish matriarch's stranglehold over her daughters is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa.

   

Friday, October 17, 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.

   

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.

   

Dracula
Syracuse City Ballet

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

Bram Stoker's iconic tale, Dracula takes flight in a bold ballet with choreography by Artistic Director, Jayson Douglas. Prepare for an elegant journey into the heart of desire where passion, power, and the supernatural collide.

Tickets

   

Darpana: Mirroring Traditions of Raga & Harmony
NYS Baroque

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

An innovative cross-cultural collaboration exploring the connections and contrasts between two distinct musical traditions — European medieval to baroque music, and classical Indian music.

Vidita Kanniks, Indian classical vocalist; Andréa Walker, soprano; Rohan Krishnamurthy, Indian percussion; Boel Gidholm, violin; Christopher Haritatos, cello; Caroline Giassi, oboe; Deborah Fox, lute; Naomi Gregory, harpsichord

Tickets

   

William Kanengiser
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

Price: Free
Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

William Kanengiser has forged a career that expands the possibilities of the classical guitar. A prize-winner in major competitions (1987 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, Toronto Guitar '81) he has toured throughout North America, Asia, and Europe with his innovative programs and expressive musicianship. He recorded four CDs for the GSP label, playing music as diverse as Caribbean, Eastern European, and jazz. A member of the guitar faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music since 1983, he has given master classes around the world and produced two instructional videos. Most recently, he performed the U.S. premiere of Folk Concerto by Clarice Assad, with fellow LAGQ member Scott Tennant and the Albany Symphony conducted by David Allan Miller.

   

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
CNY Playhouse
Michele Lindor, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 revolves around the creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop, in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher." The team assembles for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways, and a German maid who is apparently four different people — all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem that follows when the infamous "Slasher" makes his reappearance and strikes again and again.

On stage, as the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight. Knives spring out of nowhere; masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the "Slasher" unmasked — but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the author's biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit.

Tickets

   

Bernarda Alba
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Carlos Angulo, director

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

Federico Garcia Lorca's searing tale of a Spanish matriarch's stranglehold over her daughters is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa.

   

Saturday, October 18, 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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Dracula
Syracuse City Ballet

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

Bram Stoker's iconic tale, Dracula takes flight in a bold ballet with choreography by Artistic Director, Jayson Douglas. Prepare for an elegant journey into the heart of desire where passion, power, and the supernatural collide.

Tickets

   

Masterworks Series: Prokofiev & Beethoven
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Stephen Mulligan, conductor
Featuring Stefan Jackiw, violin

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

Kodaly Dances of Galanta
Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Violin and Orchestra, op. 63
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92

Tickets

   

Jazz Night
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Jeff Welcher, conductor

Price: $15
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring vocal jazz old and new, accompanied by a jazz instrumental combo.

   

Bernarda Alba
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Carlos Angulo, director

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

Federico Garcia Lorca's searing tale of a Spanish matriarch's stranglehold over her daughters is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa.

   

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
CNY Playhouse
Michele Lindor, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 revolves around the creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop, in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher." The team assembles for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways, and a German maid who is apparently four different people — all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem that follows when the infamous "Slasher" makes his reappearance and strikes again and again.

On stage, as the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight. Knives spring out of nowhere; masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the "Slasher" unmasked — but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the author's biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit.

Tickets

   

Bernarda Alba
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Carlos Angulo, director

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

Federico Garcia Lorca's searing tale of a Spanish matriarch's stranglehold over her daughters is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa.

   

Sunday, October 19, 2025

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.

   

“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.

   

Jo Koy: Just Being Koy Tour
The Oncenter

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

As one of today's premiere stand-up comedians, Jo Koy has come a long way from his modest beginnings performing in a Las Vegas coffee house. Jo's uniquely relatable comedy pulls inspiration from his colorful family that has reached all kinds of people and has translated into sold-out arenas around the world.

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The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
CNY Playhouse
Michele Lindor, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 revolves around the creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop, in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher." The team assembles for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways, and a German maid who is apparently four different people — all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem that follows when the infamous "Slasher" makes his reappearance and strikes again and again.

On stage, as the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight. Knives spring out of nowhere; masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the "Slasher" unmasked — but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the author's biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit.

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Bernarda Alba
Syracuse University Drama Department
William Carlos Angulo, director

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

Federico Garcia Lorca's searing tale of a Spanish matriarch's stranglehold over her daughters is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa.