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September 2023
Orange Central 2023: Art Museum Open House
Join us for an open house at the SU Art Museum. Explore our newly installed galleries with selections from our collection of global art. Check out our new special exhibitions featuring the ceramic work of the Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones. We’ll have pop-up tours with our curators as well as special giveaways. Don’t forget to have your Syracuse University Exhibits Passport stamped for a chance to win our exclusive All Things Orange Prize Pack!
Find out more »October 2023
Monumental Concerns
“Monumental Concerns,” a daylong symposium hosted by Syracuse University artist-in-residence Carrie Mae Weems, will consider the role of monuments and their contested histories in contemporary society. The event will bring together scholars, artists, curators, activists and local historians to explore how monuments can commemorate challenging histories and shape dominant narratives on national and local levels. How do we dialogue about these often-controversial issues and fairly address a multitude of perspectives? To what extent do we invite opposition to discussions of monument…
Find out more »Community Day
Come explore the Art Museum! Visit our galleries and make art inspired by Haudenosaunee artist Peter B. Jones. Open to all, including SU students as well as children & families. Drop-in art-making & gallery trivia 12-4 p.m. The museum's Community Day is sponsored by the Office of Strategic Initiatives, Syracuse University.
Find out more »“Wings of Glass” Reception & Gallery Talk
Please join the staff of the Syracuse University Art Museum and guest curator Theresa Moir Engelbrecht G'17 for a reception celebrating the newly opened exhibition Wings of Glass: Richard Koppe's Works on Paper. Listen to Engelbrecht present a gallery talk on the exhibition and mingle with friends and alumni over snacks and cocktails.
Find out more »In Conversation: Nona Faustine and Rawiya Kameir
Photographer and visual artist Nona Faustine and Assistant Professor of Magazine, News, and Digital Journalism at the Newhouse School of Public Communications Rawiya Kameir discuss Faustine’s work, including her My Country series, currently on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum. The conversation will touch on Faustine’s engagement with history, identity, and representation as well as her interest in evoking a critical and emotional understanding of the past in order to examine contemporary racial and gender stereotypes. The conversation will…
Find out more »November 2023
Family Weekend | Josh T Franco: Scriptorium con safos
Artist and art historian Josh T Franco was invited to guide the Syracuse University Art Museum’s permanent collection installation for the 2023-2024 academic year. Over Family Weekend, Franco will use the galleries as a setting for his ongoing performance series, Scriptorium con Safos. In this performance, Franco combines his Chicano identity with conventions of academic training to create a place for practicing a self-guided and feral art history.
Find out more »Family Weekend | Josh T Franco: Scriptorium con Safos
Artist and art historian Josh T Franco was invited to guide the Syracuse University Art Museum’s permanent collection installation for the 2023-2024 academic year. Over Family Weekend, Franco will use the galleries as a setting for his ongoing performance series, Scriptorium con Safos. In this performance, Franco combines his Chicano identity with conventions of academic training to create a place for practicing a self-guided and feral art history.
Find out more »Art Break: A Conversation with the Curators of Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance
Join the curators of the current exhibition Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones for a conversation about the exhibition and artwork on view.
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