Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Holiday 2025
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

CJ Hodge: cat series, acrylic on board
Amy Cunningham-Waltz: watercolor, gouache and ink paintings
Smokepail Studios: Ellen and Dia Haffar ceramics
Dana Stenson: metalsmith jewelry

40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Step into a winter wonderland at the 40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery, a cherished holiday tradition. Dozens of gingerbread creations crafted by local bakers will be on display in the 19th-century storefront windows.

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

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.

Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance: A Palestinian Diaspora Collection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Palestinian thobe is more than an embroidered garment — it is a living archive. For Palestinians in the diaspora, these intricately stitched dresses are tangible connections to a homeland many have never seen, yet fiercely carry within them. Each motif tells a story — of identity, ancestral village, and unbroken resilience. Tragically, many thobes have been lost to time, war, and dispossession — from heirloom dresses smuggled out of Palestine to stolen thobes rediscovered in antique markets, their narratives preserved only in the whispers of fading thread.

This exhibit, "Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance," is both a memorial and a call to action: to rescue, preserve, remember, and honor the hands that embroidered them. More than fabric, these thobes weave memory and return into every stitch. This is more than an exhibit — it is a reclamation. An act of cultural preservation which ensures that this art form, and the Palestinian narrative itself, remains alive for future generations.

*SOLD OUT* Elvis Birthday Bash with the Lustre Kings
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

The King's birthday is January 8 — help us celebrate with the rockin' sounds of The Lustre Kings.
The Lustre Kings boast a devoted international fanbase and continue to perform over 150 dates a year, including regular stops at nightspots, festivals, and casinos like Tip Top Deluxe, Skinny Dennis, and The Continental Club; Viva Las Vegas, Heritage Folk Festival, and the Rockin 50s Fest; and the Potawamoti Hotel. Gamsjager, a Gretsch guitars endorsee who has taught for the National Guitar Workshop, has been a guest at prestigious venues ranging from Kennedy Center (Washington DC) to the Montreal Jazz Fest.

MJ
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Syracuse in MJ, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It's thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America; London's West End; Hamburg, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia ... and now MJ is startin' somethin' in Syracuse as it makes its premiere at the Landmark Theatre.

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Holiday 2025
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

CJ Hodge: cat series, acrylic on board
Amy Cunningham-Waltz: watercolor, gouache and ink paintings
Smokepail Studios: Ellen and Dia Haffar ceramics
Dana Stenson: metalsmith jewelry

40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Step into a winter wonderland at the 40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery, a cherished holiday tradition. Dozens of gingerbread creations crafted by local bakers will be on display in the 19th-century storefront windows.

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.

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance: A Palestinian Diaspora Collection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Palestinian thobe is more than an embroidered garment — it is a living archive. For Palestinians in the diaspora, these intricately stitched dresses are tangible connections to a homeland many have never seen, yet fiercely carry within them. Each motif tells a story — of identity, ancestral village, and unbroken resilience. Tragically, many thobes have been lost to time, war, and dispossession — from heirloom dresses smuggled out of Palestine to stolen thobes rediscovered in antique markets, their narratives preserved only in the whispers of fading thread.

This exhibit, "Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance," is both a memorial and a call to action: to rescue, preserve, remember, and honor the hands that embroidered them. More than fabric, these thobes weave memory and return into every stitch. This is more than an exhibit — it is a reclamation. An act of cultural preservation which ensures that this art form, and the Palestinian narrative itself, remains alive for future generations.

*SOLD OUT* Mike Powell
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

A natural-born storyteller with a stage presence that's best described as "real".

His spontaneous nature and extreme comfort behind a microphone create a vibe that engages audiences in a way that only authenticity can. His songs are filled with powerful imagery and thought-provoking themes but a Powell performance is much more than just a concert – it's an exploration into the human heart. Seamlessly weaving hilarious tales of everyday life with heartbreaking songs of tragedy, loss & blue collar hardship. Pulling from his catalog of over 200 original songs he has become one of the "must-see" acts in Central New York.

This concert rescheduled from Jan. 2.

MJ
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Syracuse in MJ, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It's thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America; London's West End; Hamburg, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia ... and now MJ is startin' somethin' in Syracuse as it makes its premiere at the Landmark Theatre.

Friday, January 9, 2026

Holiday 2025
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

CJ Hodge: cat series, acrylic on board
Amy Cunningham-Waltz: watercolor, gouache and ink paintings
Smokepail Studios: Ellen and Dia Haffar ceramics
Dana Stenson: metalsmith jewelry

40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Step into a winter wonderland at the 40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery, a cherished holiday tradition. Dozens of gingerbread creations crafted by local bakers will be on display in the 19th-century storefront windows.

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

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.

Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance: A Palestinian Diaspora Collection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Palestinian thobe is more than an embroidered garment — it is a living archive. For Palestinians in the diaspora, these intricately stitched dresses are tangible connections to a homeland many have never seen, yet fiercely carry within them. Each motif tells a story — of identity, ancestral village, and unbroken resilience. Tragically, many thobes have been lost to time, war, and dispossession — from heirloom dresses smuggled out of Palestine to stolen thobes rediscovered in antique markets, their narratives preserved only in the whispers of fading thread.

This exhibit, "Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance," is both a memorial and a call to action: to rescue, preserve, remember, and honor the hands that embroidered them. More than fabric, these thobes weave memory and return into every stitch. This is more than an exhibit — it is a reclamation. An act of cultural preservation which ensures that this art form, and the Palestinian narrative itself, remains alive for future generations.

*SOLD OUT* Mike Powell
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

A natural-born storyteller with a stage presence that's best described as "real".

His spontaneous nature and extreme comfort behind a microphone create a vibe that engages audiences in a way that only authenticity can. His songs are filled with powerful imagery and thought-provoking themes but a Powell performance is much more than just a concert – it's an exploration into the human heart. Seamlessly weaving hilarious tales of everyday life with heartbreaking songs of tragedy, loss & blue collar hardship. Pulling from his catalog of over 200 original songs he has become one of the "must-see" acts in Central New York.

This concert rescheduled from Jan. 3.

CNY Songbirds: The Big Motown Review
Folkus Project

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

Something special happens when voices blend in harmony. When the CNY Songbirds blend their voices, their "tighter than three coats of paint" harmonies create magic! Backed by a rock-solid rhythm section, and often featuring the "Heart of Gold" horns, the Songbirds leave audiences happy. Every. Single. Time. Their outstanding musicianship and sophisticated interpretations always leave audiences cheering for more.

MJ
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Syracuse in MJ, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It's thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America; London's West End; Hamburg, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia ... and now MJ is startin' somethin' in Syracuse as it makes its premiere at the Landmark Theatre.

Saturday, January 10, 2026

40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Step into a winter wonderland at the 40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery, a cherished holiday tradition. Dozens of gingerbread creations crafted by local bakers will be on display in the 19th-century storefront windows.

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.

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance: A Palestinian Diaspora Collection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Palestinian thobe is more than an embroidered garment — it is a living archive. For Palestinians in the diaspora, these intricately stitched dresses are tangible connections to a homeland many have never seen, yet fiercely carry within them. Each motif tells a story — of identity, ancestral village, and unbroken resilience. Tragically, many thobes have been lost to time, war, and dispossession — from heirloom dresses smuggled out of Palestine to stolen thobes rediscovered in antique markets, their narratives preserved only in the whispers of fading thread.

This exhibit, "Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance," is both a memorial and a call to action: to rescue, preserve, remember, and honor the hands that embroidered them. More than fabric, these thobes weave memory and return into every stitch. This is more than an exhibit — it is a reclamation. An act of cultural preservation which ensures that this art form, and the Palestinian narrative itself, remains alive for future generations.

Curator Guided Tour and Talk on Palestinian Thobes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join Ebby for a guided tour and conversation exploring her collection of embroidered thobes and the stories they carry. In this talk, Ebby will discuss the themes woven throughout her curation — identity, heritage, and the preservation of cultural memory — while inviting participants to reflect on the broader narratives embedded in Palestinian dress.

The tour offers a rare opportunity to engage directly with the curator, ask questions, and gain insight into the research and personal connections behind each piece.

12th Night Concert
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Julie Pretzat, conductor

Price: $15
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies from the Southwest for choir, harp, guitar, and percussion, Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, and several smaller works for the season.

Casual Series: Inspired By Jazz
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Maurice Cohn, conductor

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

Johnson Victory Stride
Gershwin/Ellington Selected Songs
Weill Symphony No. 2

Miss Emily
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

We humans are often defined based on a single thing. For some, it could be a career choice. For others, it might be a character trait or even an event. For Miss Emily, it would be simple to say that she's defined by her unparalleled voice, by Maple Blues Female Vocalist of the Year awards in 2020 and 2022, or by a 2022 Juno nomination for Blues Album of the Year. While that type of recognition is flattering, she would encourage you to seek a broader definition of who she is.

Jess Novak
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Jess Novak is a formidable performer — a triple threat singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who brings choice covers and soulful originals to every stage. With 14 original albums to date, Novak is a prolific writer and fierce instrumentalist. Come prepared for powerful vocals, shredding electric violin, and songs that will stay stuck in your head.

MJ
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Syracuse in MJ, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It's thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America; London's West End; Hamburg, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia ... and now MJ is startin' somethin' in Syracuse as it makes its premiere at the Landmark Theatre.

MJ
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Syracuse in MJ, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It's thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America; London's West End; Hamburg, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia ... and now MJ is startin' somethin' in Syracuse as it makes its premiere at the Landmark Theatre.

Sunday, January 11, 2026

40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Step into a winter wonderland at the 40th Annual Gingerbread Gallery, a cherished holiday tradition. Dozens of gingerbread creations crafted by local bakers will be on display in the 19th-century storefront windows.

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

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.

*SOLD OUT* Nachos & Blancos
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Join us for our once-a-month rockin' rhythm and roots par-tay at The 443! It's the best hang in town, and we can't think of a better way to spend Sunday afternoon than grooving to the tasty tunes of the mighty Los Blancos.

Casual Series: Inspired By Jazz
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Maurice Cohn, conductor

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

Johnson Victory Stride
Gershwin/Ellington Selected Songs
Weill Symphony No. 2

12th Night Concert
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Julie Pretzat, conductor

Price: $15
Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Featuring Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies from the Southwest for choir, harp, guitar, and percussion, Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, and several smaller works for the season.

A reception follows this performance.

MJ
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Syracuse in MJ, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It's thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America; London's West End; Hamburg, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia ... and now MJ is startin' somethin' in Syracuse as it makes its premiere at the Landmark Theatre.

MJ
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry comes to Syracuse in MJ, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical centered around the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. Created by Tony Award-winning Director/Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. It's thrilling sold out crowds on Broadway, in cities across North America; London's West End; Hamburg, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia ... and now MJ is startin' somethin' in Syracuse as it makes its premiere at the Landmark Theatre.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artists have obsessed over the relationship between mathematics and art for millennia. As artists turned toward abstraction in the early 20th century, Europeans like Piet Mondrian used geometry to create a set of rules and parameters that guided their creative process. Meanwhile, American artists began developing their own styles and movements—particularly Abstract Expressionism, which was typified by bold, quickly executed brushwork, drips, and splashes. In the mid-20th century in the United States, artists laid the groundwork for Geometric Abstraction as a more cerebral alternative to the often macho flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism. Over the ensuing decades, artists used geometry to produce abstract works that ranged from the dazzling Op Art of Victor Vasarely to the restrained Minimalism of Sol LeWitt.

"Lessons in Geometry" traces the evolution of hard-edged abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order. For these artists, shape, line, and color took precedence over representational compositions. The Everson's collection reflects the wildly varied ways that artists have used geometry to serve their personal expression, from the analytical formulations of Robert Swain to the shaped canvases of Harmony Hammond and the spatial illusions of Tony King.

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.

Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories, 1983-2023
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. "Contested Territories" presents a selection of Kozloff's works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as instruments of influence, ideology, and control.

Kozloff's wide range of sources include historical maps, classroom wall maps, atlases, globes, and even satellite imagery from Google Maps. Her dense and colorful works often layer these materials with hand-painted details, collage, and intricate ornamentation. By combining sources that span centuries—from Renaissance celestial charts to contemporary digital mapping—she exposes how maps carry the legacies of empire, conflict, and shifting territorial claims.

A founding figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Kozloff combines meticulous craftsmanship with political critique. Her works are labor-intensive, involving the detailed process of painting, drawing, and collaging over cartographic surfaces. The resulting richly textured visual field invites viewers to look closely—and to question the conquest, division, and erasure found beneath the official surface narrative.

Whether reimagining educational globes or deconstructing colonial-era charts, Kozloff transforms maps from static documents into contested, dynamic spaces. Her work encourages viewers to reconsider how borders are drawn as well as how art can reclaim such boundaries as sites of resistance, memory, and possibility.

Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance: A Palestinian Diaspora Collection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Palestinian thobe is more than an embroidered garment — it is a living archive. For Palestinians in the diaspora, these intricately stitched dresses are tangible connections to a homeland many have never seen, yet fiercely carry within them. Each motif tells a story — of identity, ancestral village, and unbroken resilience. Tragically, many thobes have been lost to time, war, and dispossession — from heirloom dresses smuggled out of Palestine to stolen thobes rediscovered in antique markets, their narratives preserved only in the whispers of fading thread.

This exhibit, "Reclaiming Our Collective Inheritance," is both a memorial and a call to action: to rescue, preserve, remember, and honor the hands that embroidered them. More than fabric, these thobes weave memory and return into every stitch. This is more than an exhibit — it is a reclamation. An act of cultural preservation which ensures that this art form, and the Palestinian narrative itself, remains alive for future generations.

Jeff Dunham: Artificial Intelligence
The Oncenter

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Curator’s Tour: Lessons in Geometry
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Pay-what-you-wish admission
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join Director of Curatorial Affairs, Steffi Chappell, for a guided tour of "Lessons in Geometry." Learn about works from the Everson's collection and the histories of geometric and hard-edge abstraction in the United States.