Friday, April 17, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Whimsy and Joy
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Kathleen Crinnin: acrylic paintings
Linda Malik: sculptural ceramics
Eva Hunter: mixed media jewelry, alcohol ink paintings, oils, pastels, and silk scarves

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

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

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Resurrexit!
NYS Baroque

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Glorious 17th-century Italian music for cornetto and voice, reflecting the power of the human spirit.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm.

Tickets

   

Twelve Angry Jurors
CNY Playhouse

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Twelve Angry Jurors contemplates the huge responsibility of 12 ordinary people who must decide the guilt or innocence of a teenager accused of murder. It looks like an open-and-shut case — until one voice casts doubts and challenges a deeper examination of the facts. In the sweltering jury room each person brings their individual histories, biases, and prejudices to the table as they struggle to reach a unanimous decision that will decide one youth's fate. Twelve Angry Jurors explores how our actions (or inaction) have consequences.

Tickets

   

Spring Awakening
LeMoyne College
Maya June Dwyer, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Winner of eight Tony Awards, Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood through an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock and roll. By Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Music direction by Greg Giovanini.

Tickets

   

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

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

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

Depth and Desire
Central New York Ballet

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for unforgettable performances that dive deep into passion and romance. This electrifying program opens with original choreography by guest artists and Artistic Director Claire Solis, showcasing fresh voices and bold movement that explore passion in all its complexity.

The production culminates in a fiery reimagining of Carmen by Claire Solis, bringing new excitement to Bizet's timeless story and offering audiences an engaging and visually stunning experience. This memorable performance will linger with you well beyond the final curtain.

Tickets

   

Depth and Desire
Central New York Ballet

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for unforgettable performances that dive deep into passion and romance. This electrifying program opens with original choreography by guest artists and Artistic Director Claire Solis, showcasing fresh voices and bold movement that explore passion in all its complexity.

The production culminates in a fiery reimagining of Carmen by Claire Solis, bringing new excitement to Bizet's timeless story and offering audiences an engaging and visually stunning experience. This memorable performance will linger with you well beyond the final curtain.

Tickets

   

Casual Series: Let Freedom Ring
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
José-Luis Novo, conductor

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Verdi Nabucco, Overture
Brahms Hungarian Dances, Nos. 1, 3, 10
Sibelius Finlandia, Opus 26, No. 7
Lutoslawski Little Suite (Mala suita)
Ives Variations on America
Skoryk Melody
Adolphus Hailstork Three Spirituals, movement 3
Marquez Danzon No. 7
Copland Rodeo, "Hoedown"

Tickets

   

Spring Awakening
LeMoyne College
Maya June Dwyer, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Winner of eight Tony Awards, Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood through an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock and roll. By Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Music direction by Greg Giovanini.

Tickets

   

Twelve Angry Jurors
CNY Playhouse

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Twelve Angry Jurors contemplates the huge responsibility of 12 ordinary people who must decide the guilt or innocence of a teenager accused of murder. It looks like an open-and-shut case — until one voice casts doubts and challenges a deeper examination of the facts. In the sweltering jury room each person brings their individual histories, biases, and prejudices to the table as they struggle to reach a unanimous decision that will decide one youth's fate. Twelve Angry Jurors explores how our actions (or inaction) have consequences.

Tickets

   

Spring Awakening
LeMoyne College
Maya June Dwyer, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Winner of eight Tony Awards, Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood through an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock and roll. By Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Music direction by Greg Giovanini.

Tickets

   

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Federico Solmi: Adrift
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Visually sumptuous and incisively satirical, Federico Solmi's multimedia works expose the excesses and contradictions of power across history and contemporary culture. Adrift presents new and recent "video paintings" alongside the monumental canvas The Ship of Fools, which reimagines Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–19) through Solmi's irreverent visual language. The painting assembles historical and present-day figures, from Christopher Columbus to Elon Musk, into a chaotic allegory of a society unmoored. Evoking a contemporary America adrift amid spectacle, instability, and competing claims to power, the exhibition also includes a Virtual Reality experience that immerses visitors in Solmi's destabilizing world.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Depth and Desire
Central New York Ballet

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for unforgettable performances that dive deep into passion and romance. This electrifying program opens with original choreography by guest artists and Artistic Director Claire Solis, showcasing fresh voices and bold movement that explore passion in all its complexity.

The production culminates in a fiery reimagining of Carmen by Claire Solis, bringing new excitement to Bizet's timeless story and offering audiences an engaging and visually stunning experience. This memorable performance will linger with you well beyond the final curtain.

Tickets

   

A Truly Complete Messiah
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $5 students and children
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Loosely following the Baroque tradition of presenting oratorios during Lent when opera houses were closed, Schola presents, in chamber-format, a spring performance of the complete Handel's Messiah - uncut – both the Christmas and the Easter portions.

   

Casual Series: Let Freedom Ring
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
José-Luis Novo, conductor

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Verdi Nabucco, Overture
Brahms Hungarian Dances, Nos. 1, 3, 10
Sibelius Finlandia, Opus 26, No. 7
Lutoslawski Little Suite (Mala suita)
Ives Variations on America
Skoryk Melody
Adolphus Hailstork Three Spirituals, movement 3
Marquez Danzon No. 7
Copland Rodeo, "Hoedown"

Tickets

   

Twelve Angry Jurors
CNY Playhouse

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Twelve Angry Jurors contemplates the huge responsibility of 12 ordinary people who must decide the guilt or innocence of a teenager accused of murder. It looks like an open-and-shut case — until one voice casts doubts and challenges a deeper examination of the facts. In the sweltering jury room each person brings their individual histories, biases, and prejudices to the table as they struggle to reach a unanimous decision that will decide one youth's fate. Twelve Angry Jurors explores how our actions (or inaction) have consequences.

Tickets

   

Monday, April 20, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Doubles Duo
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Doubles Duo presents a selection of contemporary music arranged for the unique instrumentation of oboe (Jillian Honn) and double bass (Zack Merkovsky).

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& Juliet
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created by the Emmy-winning writer from "Schitt's Creek," this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would happen next if Juliet didn't end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love—her way.

Juliet's new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including "Since U Been Gone‚" "Roar," "Baby One More Time," "Larger Than Life‚" "That's The Way It Is," and "Can't Stop the Feeling!" — all from the genius songwriter/producer behind more #1 hits than any other artist this century. Break free of the balcony scene and get into this romantic comedy that proves there's life after Romeo. The only thing tragic would be missing it.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

& Juliet
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created by the Emmy-winning writer from "Schitt's Creek," this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would happen next if Juliet didn't end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love—her way.

Juliet's new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including "Since U Been Gone‚" "Roar," "Baby One More Time," "Larger Than Life‚" "That's The Way It Is," and "Can't Stop the Feeling!" — all from the genius songwriter/producer behind more #1 hits than any other artist this century. Break free of the balcony scene and get into this romantic comedy that proves there's life after Romeo. The only thing tragic would be missing it.

Tickets

   

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

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

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

LeMoyne Student Dance Company Spring 2026
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

LSDC presents its spring recital with over a dozen routines in a variety of styles, choreographed by students and guest choreographers.

Tickets

   

& Juliet
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created by the Emmy-winning writer from "Schitt's Creek," this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would happen next if Juliet didn't end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love—her way.

Juliet's new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including "Since U Been Gone‚" "Roar," "Baby One More Time," "Larger Than Life‚" "That's The Way It Is," and "Can't Stop the Feeling!" — all from the genius songwriter/producer behind more #1 hits than any other artist this century. Break free of the balcony scene and get into this romantic comedy that proves there's life after Romeo. The only thing tragic would be missing it.

Tickets

   

Friday, April 24, 2026

Gary Quirk: The Nature I See Through Clay
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gary Quirk creates images in slabs of clay as a way of remembering and celebrating the world around him. According to Quirk, the images emerge from chance sightings or from dreams of sightings yet hoped for. They are derived from encounters with the outdoors that range from grand vistas to familiar urban settings, some from his own neighborhood. It is his wish that his tiles will serve as a focal point for other people to observe the beauty we find in our world.

   

Healing Forward: Rituals of Self Repair, Cultivation of Community, and Collective Activation
Community Folk Art Center

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

A retrospective exhibition of over 60 multimedia and quilted works by Amber Robles-Gordon, an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. This body of work traces the through-line of healing — personal, communal, spiritual, and ecological frameworks — across the artistic career of Amber Robles-Gordon. Bringing together installations, quilts, assemblages, and collages created over more than a decade, the exhibition reveals how healing has functioned not only as a thematic concern, but as a methodology and ethical framework within the artist's practice.

   

Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture
Light Work Gallery

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

Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other's stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

   

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys: Brian Van Lau
Light Work Gallery

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

We're Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau's relationship with his estranged father. Lau's father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau's life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father's sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father's unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father's passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai'i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father's life. Entrusted with dispersing his father's ashes across O'ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

   

Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This landmark exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the Wynn Newhouse Award, a pioneering initiative that has recognized and elevated artists of excellence who happen to live with disabilities. Established in 2006 by Wynn Newhouse, the award has championed bold, boundary-defying voices in contemporary art — highlighting practices that are as varied in form as they are unified in vision: a vision of art as a space where representation, identity, and access are not peripheral concerns, but central to the discourse.

At the heart of the exhibition is a curatorial inquiry: How do artists with disabilities navigate the art world, and the world at large, on their terms? And how does that navigation inform their work, influence its reception, and expand the field of cultural production? The goal is not to position disability as a central or singular theme, but to acknowledge it as one of many intersecting conditions that inform artistic practice. In doing so, this exhibition prompts us to reconsider who gets seen, whose experiences shape the canon, and how institutions can create more equitable conditions for artistic participation and recognition.

Exhibiting artists include Beverly Baker, Derrick Alexis Coard, Courttney Cooper, Joseph Grigley, Em Kettner, Reverend Joyce McDonald, William Scott, Kambel Smith, Katz Tepper, Melvin Way, and Peter Williams.

   

Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition, encompassing 21 works in various media, surveys the portrayal of nudity and semi-nudity in a variety of subjects rendered by Dutch artists over several centuries. It will explore how the nude has been articulated, both artistically and contextually, to disrupt traditional ideas of nudity in art, which were primarily argued by Sir Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956).

In this influential text, Clark posited that the presence of the nude in art, existed above and beyond cultural circumstances, as a timeless, almost abstract ideal. He advanced a distinction between "naked" and "nude," with the latter explained as an idealization, or an evocation of timeless ideals. To the contrary, this exhibition presents nudity in art as a phenomenon that is time-bound and culturally determined.

   

Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Iconoclasts" marks the American museum debut for French-born Canadian ceramist Laurent Craste. Over the past decade, Craste has committed a wide range of indignities and abuse against his ornate vases and urns, including pummeling them with baseball bats and crowbars and piercing them with arrows. Despite the violence that runs through his work, Craste has a great passion for historical porcelain. Working with porcelain allows Craste to explore the prestige and power of upper-class society, but also inequality and the strain that is placed on working people. The anthropomorphic nature of Craste's vases echoes the human body, making it no surprise that people feel strong emotions when seeing a helpless vase struck by a baseball bat. Triggering these strong emotions in his audience allows Craste to connect on a deeper level as he asks questions about class, money, and power.

   

Alisha B Wormsley: The Temple of Our Survival
Urban Video Project

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

The Temple of Our Survival is new video work commissioned by Light Work for projection at UVP exploring what survival means and looks like through a series of interviews conducted by the artist with local care workers, land stewards, and cultural workers in her nomadic film set and project space.

Screening begins at dusk.

   

LeMoyne Student Dance Company Spring 2026
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

LSDC presents its spring recital with over a dozen routines in a variety of styles, choreographed by students and guest choreographers.

Tickets

   

Jerron Paxton & Dennis Lichtman
Folkus Project

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

Two extraordinary musicians and storytellers with a mutual love of the history, stories, and significance of the music they play...

Jerron Paxton and Dennis Lichtman are world-renowned multi-instrumentalists and vocalists whose formal musical partnership began with a video shoot at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in 2017. Since 2019, the duo has toured across the United States and internationally, and they served as artists-in-residence at New York City's Symphony Space for the 2024-25 season. They released their first duo album in 2021.

Paxton and Lichtman share a mutual love of the history, stories, and significance behind the music they play. Their energetic sets feature acoustic blues, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley pop songs, 1920s jazz, twin fiddle hoe-downs, and original songs and compositions. This is roots music in the true sense of the word, performed by two extraordinary musicians and storytellers.

Tickets

   

& Juliet
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Created by the Emmy-winning writer from "Schitt's Creek," this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would happen next if Juliet didn't end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love—her way.

Juliet's new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including "Since U Been Gone‚" "Roar," "Baby One More Time," "Larger Than Life‚" "That's The Way It Is," and "Can't Stop the Feeling!" — all from the genius songwriter/producer behind more #1 hits than any other artist this century. Break free of the balcony scene and get into this romantic comedy that proves there's life after Romeo. The only thing tragic would be missing it.

Tickets

   

Preview: Kentucky
Syracuse University Drama Department
Michelle Chan, director

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

Hiro is a self-made woman making it in New York. But she is also single, almost 30 and estranged from her dysfunctional family who lives in Kentucky. When her little sister, a born-again Christian, decides to marry at 22, Hiro takes it upon herself to do whatever she can to stop the wedding and salvage any shred of hope she had about her sister's future. By Leah Nanako Winkler.

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