Laurent Craste: Iconoclasts, An American Museum Debut
“When I hit a beautiful porcelain vase with a baseball bat, I provoke a visual shock. There is a contrast between the beauty and luxury of the objects and the violence that is submitted to....
Sean Kirst: For Arlene Abend, legendary Syracuse artist, a daughter’s quest to create a living memorial
Great art is so often found behind red velvet ropes, fragile artifacts from another time that are too delicate to handle. For children, said Marguerite Mitchell, that frequent reality is defined by words they begin...
A Life in Clay and Laughter: Pelham Potter Michael Cohen, 89, Left a Lasting Legacy
Michael Cohen’s friends knew him for two things: making a life in pottery and being the life of the party. “He was very funny,” said Harriet Cohen, Michael’s ex-wife. “He could crack a joke …...
Company News: Everson Museum of Art Has 6 New Board Members
The Everson Museum of Art announced six new members to its board of trustees. The new trustees are Isaac Budmen of Budmen Industries, Louise Rosenfield, David J. Foor, Dirk Sonneborn, Gia Mahmoud, and Ed Cronk. Their appointments bring expertise spanning technology, business, philanthropy, nonprofit...
Crafting Your Legacy
As the Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, I’m one of a small handful of contemporary ceramics curators in the United States. Last June, I...
Everson Museum of Art Welcomes New Board Members
Syracuse, NY — The Everson Museum of Art (Everson) is pleased to welcome six new members to its Board of Trustees: Isaac Budmen, Ed Cronk, David J. Foor, Gia Mahmoud, Dirk Sonneborn, and Louise Rosenfield....
Laurent Craste
Laurent Craste is exhibiting his historically accurate vessels, which have been displayed with weapons that have seemingly destroyed them. The juxtaposition of the delicate gold fleur-de-lis patterned porcelain attacked by actual baseball bats, axes, arrows, and...
Putting the “A” in STEAM: Syracuse City School District Students Take the Stage at the Everson
The Everson Museum of Art is proud to help put the “A” in STEAM by welcoming students from the Syracuse City School District to its auditorium for a historic moment: STEAM High School’s first-ever fine arts performance. On Friday, January 16 at...
Laurent Craste’s Sculpture Exhibit Violently ‘Attacked’ at Everson Museum of Art
Laurent Craste’s “Iconoclasts” sculpture show at the Everson Museum of Art features porcelain vessels apparently attacked with axes, crowbars and bats. The violence is faked, Craste told Syracuse.com. For example, he created his sculpture of a porcelain...
Indigenous Artist Born with One Arm, One Leg Creates Colorful World
Artist Frank Buffalo Hyde, whose work was featured in a 2023 solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, is featured on an episode of "Enable: The Disability Podcast"...
10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York this January
I first learned of Joyce Kozloff’s diverse artistic practice and alignment with feminist art during the late 1990s, and her work continues to inspire a contemporary generation today. Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023 at the Everson Museum...
Announcing the Winners of AN’s 2025 Best of Design Awards
The results are in! After four months of open calls for submissions, weeks of review, and hours of deliberation, the 2025 Best of Design Awards have arrived. Best of Design was inaugurated 13 years ago as a way...
Phase Change
In Relapse, the penultimate number of Erin Cuevas’s Ouroboros, three dancers appear suspended within a field of projected digital images. Striped vertical lines mark each body. As they begin to glide up and down the thirty-six dancing...
Memory and Time: Labor and Cultural History in Virtual Reality
Memory and Time is a beautiful virtual reality (VR) tour of painter Joyce Kozloff’s powerful new art installation at the Federal Courthouse in Greenville, SC, commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Art in Architecture...
Four Artists Awarded Solo Exhibitions in The Everson’s Growing CNY Artist Initiative
After reviewing a record number of applicants, the Everson Museum of Art (the Everson) is pleased to announce the 2026 selections for the CNY Artist Initiative! The program, launched in 2022, builds upon the Everson’s...
