Upcoming Events

Julio Salgado is the co-founder of DreamersAdrift.com and Migrant Storytelling Manager for The Center for Cultural Power. His status as an undocumented, queer artivist has fueled the contents of his visual art, which depict key individuals and moments of the DREAM Act and the migrant rights movement. Undocumented students and allies across the country have used Salgado’s artwork to call attention to the youth-led movement. Salgado is the co-creator of The Disruptors Fellowship, an inaugural fellowship for emerging television writers of color who identify as trans/and or…

Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Gaspar's projects have been supported by the Art for Justice Fund, the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, the Creative Capital Award, among others. Gaspar has lectured and exhibited extensively at venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the African American Museum, Philadelphia; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She…

Join curator David Prince and faculty guest Dr. Susan Parks, Associate Professor, Biology, as they discuss COVID-19’s impact on the marine environment. Prince will approach the subject using art from the permanent collection while Parks will explore commercial shipping and near shore recreational boating’s sonic effect on undersea life. Register in advance for this meeting: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArfuuvqD4uHNDpjEVqNeaK812wSDzh4ohX  

Set Hernandez Rongkilyo is an undocumented immigrant filmmaker and community organizer whose roots come from Bicol, Philippines. They are the fruit of their parents' sacrifices, their siblings' resilience, and their community's nurturing. Set envisions a filmmaking landscape that centers equity and abundance, where all artists have the resources to thrive using the unique skill sets they embody. Set’s short films have been televised, featured, and awarded in film festivals across the U.S. As part of the inaugural cohort of the…

Arshia Fatima Haq (born in Hyderabad, India, based in Los Angeles) works across film, visual art, performance and sound. She is interested in counter-archives, speculative documentaries, and the intersections of fact and fiction, and is currently exploring themes of embodiment and mysticism, particularly within the Islamic Sufi context. Her work emerges from the complexities of inhabiting multiple personas – woman, Muslim, immigrant, citizen – and is conceptualized in feminist modes outside of the Western model. Narrative threads include migration, celebration,…

Led by Fritz Horstman, education director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation After looking at a few of Josef Albers’s leaf collages from the 1940s, we’ll try our hands at it ourselves. Using autumn leaves and colored paper we will discover, invent and assemble creatures. This workshop will be appropriate for learners as young as 6 (with help from an adult), and also for older learners. It will be conducted via Zoom. We hope that we’ll be able to…

Independent curator Evan Starling-Davis and interdisciplinary artist Ivan Forde talk about the necessity of repurposing lost histories and legacies within present-day artmaking, the responsibility and advocacy of art institutions, and Afro-surrealism as a socially conscious point of entry for this work to be imagined. Register here: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscuGtqT0qEt1tmk_imUEx_npDmwdM-Wec

This virtual workshop co-presented by Donna Gustafson (Rutgers University – Zimmerli Art Museum) and Syracuse University Art Museum Director, Vanja Malloy challenges participants to explore innovative ways to use art for teaching across disciplines. RSVP by Nov. 2 to suart@syr.edu to receive event link. This event is part of Syracuse Symposium’s year-long series on “Futures.” See the full season schedule at humcenter.syr.edu.