Arts & Culture
Syracuse University Art Museum Announces New Curator
The Syracuse University Art Museum has announced the appointment of Melissa Yuen, Ph.D., as the museum’s new curator. Yuen, a curator and art historian, comes to Syracuse from the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and will join the…
‘Cultivated Imaginaries,’ a Boghosian Fellow Exhibition, Opens Nov. 11
“Cultivated Imaginaries: Superblock and the Idea of the City” will be on exhibit beginning Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Marble Room on the first floor of Slocum Hall. The exhibition represents the culmination of a yearlong design research and teaching…
Light Work Presents James Henkel: Object Lessons Exhibition
Object Lessons, by North Carolina-based artist James Henkel, runs Oct. 25–Dec. 9 at Light Work in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center at 316 Waverly Ave. In his new exhibition, Henkel looks back over 30 years of image-making, following a…
Morton Kaish ’49: A Print Retrospective Exhibit at Palitz Gallery in NYC
The Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University’s Lubin House presents “Morton Kaish: A Print Retrospective,” on view beginning Nov. 8. Organized by Vanja Malloy, director and chief curator of the museum and Morton Kaish ’49, the retrospective presents…
Join the Lender Center Conversation: ‘Creative Activity as a Human Right’
For James Haywood Rolling Jr. ’91, the upcoming “Creative Activity as a Human Right” event is two months in the planning but decades in the making. Rolling, a dual professor of arts education in the College of Visual and Performing…
Architecture Students Awarded Inaugural Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarships
Two School of Architecture students have received a prestigious national scholarship for young Black designers by Gensler, one of the world’s largest design and architecture firms. Krystol Austin G’22 (M.Arch.) and Coumba Kanté ’22 (B.Arch.) were named two of the…
Genet Gallery Presents ‘Peter Piening: Abstract Visions in Modernist Graphic Design’
A new exhibition at Syracuse University’s Sue and Leon Genet Gallery features Peter Piening’s dynamic abstract commercial work and his role as an educator. According to exhibition curator Meri A. Page, assistant professor of communications design in the College of…
First Phase Complete of New Onondaga Art Installation on the Quad
Those strolling through the Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle may notice a new addition to the landscape this week, as the first phase of a new Onondaga Art Installation—led by the Indigenous Students at Syracuse (ISAS), Native Student Program, Ongwehonwe Alumni…
A Decade to Celebrate: La Casita Cultural Center
La Casita Cultural Center hosted a reception Sept. 18 for the opening of a new exhibition, “Corazón del Barrio (Heart of the Barrio),” celebrating the center’s 10th anniversary. The exhibition’s opening reception, held in person and via Zoom, coincided with…
Syracuse Stage Opens 2021/2022 Season for Live Performance With ‘Eureka Day’
Syracuse Stage is back. With the opening of Jonathan Spector’s timely play, “Eureka Day,” Syracuse Stage marks a joyous return to live performance. The first of six shows in the 2021/2022 season, “Eureka Day” runs Oct. 13 -31. Tickets on…