EDUCATION AND PROGRAMS
EDUCATION AND PROGRAMS
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Adirondack Vernacular: The Photography of Henry M. Beach
September 19, 2003 - February 22, 2004 American photographer Henry Beach captures a changing America during the Civil War era, focusing on his native Adirondacks.
African Shapes of the Sacred: Yorůbá Religious Art
June 16 - September 16, 2007 Organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, this exhibition includes mostly 20th century traditional objects such as figures, masks, headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels and shrine furniture made by the Yorůbá People of Western Africa.
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Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
September 17, 2005 - February 19, 2006 Contemporary artist John D. Freyer explores the increasingly complex relationship between art and commercial culture. The exhibit includes components of four different, but inter-related projects, including AllMyLifeForSale.Com, Walm-Art.Com, Surplus and Big Boy.
Ah Leon: Memories of Elementary School
March 12 – June 5, 2011 Taiwanese artist Ah Leon created a monumental ceramic installation showcasing a classroom of stoneware desks and chairs in neat rows, like the classrooms of our youth, creating an environment that would “lead audiences to remember their childhood stories.”
Clay Works: American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art
March 13 – May 23, 2004 Highlights from the Everson’s collection of twentieth-century American ceramics divided into ten thematic groupings. Artists include Adelaide Robineau, Peter Voulkos, Maria Martinez, Robert Arneson and more.
Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
April 29 - July 11, 2010 Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrishʼs work in a variety of printed media including advertisements, lithographs, and magazines.
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Framing Sight: The Nancy and Russell Carlson Collection of American Landscape Photography
September 18, 2004 - January 30, 2005 Framing Sight includes 25 landscape photographs created between 1861 and 2003, featuring subjects ranging from the majestic mountains of the American West to the lakes, woods, and milder mountains of the Northeast. What unites them is the concept of landscape itself.
From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America
October 1, 2011 – January 12, 2012 From Here to There: Alec Soth's America provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes.
From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
February 11, 2012 - May 13, 2012 This exhibition examines Robert Henri, the American artist, whose work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928.
Good Design: Stories From Herman Miller
August 14 - October 17, 2010 This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost ninety years. The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series Designed to Scale August 14 - October 24, 2010 Designed to Scale showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Designers include Chrissy Albanese, Don Carr and Liza Lamb (Carr & Lamb), Wendell Castle, Rob Englert (ram industrial design, inc.), Cas Holman, Chris Irick, and Chase Design.
Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, The
March 3 - May 27, 2007 During the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. The Lives They Left Behind presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard by displaying several suitcases and a selection of their contents.
Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
September 20, 2008 - January 11, 2009 Syracuse University Professor and internationally acclaimed artist and fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer presents an exhibition of 20th and 21st-century fashion design, inspired by the 18th-century fashion aesthetic of Marie Antoinette.
Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
September 16, 2006 - January 7, 2007 Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the paintings, collages and artist books created by Miriam Beerman. Beerman draws inspiration for her richly textured, expressively colored paintings and collages from poetry and from the history of human suffering, presenting brutal events and suffering through her unique painting style.
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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Museum of Art and Syracuse University Collections
February 1- May 25, 2008 On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.
Ońgweson gyastońh Haudenosaunee: Elements
November 13, 2010 – January 16, 2011 The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Artists include Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweńheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.
Only an Artist: Adelaide Robineau, American Studio Potter
March 11 - May 21, 2006 Only an Artist features approximately 100 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau. These exquisite works are drawn largely from the Everson's collection, with additional key works from other public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910.
Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
March 3 ‐ May 27, 2007 This exhibition highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. At the center of the exhibit are dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Louisiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity.
Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
March 12 – July 10, 2011 This exhibition features more than 100 original works of art by cartoon artist Dan Reynolds that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depict the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike, and are all rendered by hand in a variety of media.
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post War America
September 27, 2002 - January 26, 2003 A collection of collage works by artists Miriam Schapiro, Joseph Cornell, Romare Bearden and more.
Turner to Cézanne Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales
October 9, 2009 - January 3, 2010 This exhibition is drawn from an extraordinary group of 260 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings assembled largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. The fifty-three works included here present a survey of modern art, from Turner’s Romantic naturalism to Cézanne’s modern aesthetic innovations.
Under One Roof Reprise
September 29, 2007 –-January 13, 2008 The exhibition highlights the diverse artistic strategies of a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University. The exhibit includes site-specific installations, video, objects created for the public to touch or to act as co-creators with the artist. The artists use traditional and nontraditional materials ranging from bronze, wood and paper to fabric, toys and soap. Several themes and issues are represented, including play, time, identity, politics, memory and the environment.
