This teaching workshop will focus on the Museum’s major fall 2024 exhibition, “Homeward to the Prairie I Come”: Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art. The workshop will provide Syracuse University faculty and graduate students with key information and pedagogical tools that will help them to teach from the exhibition. The workshop includes:        An…

Join Aileen June Wang, Ph.D., (Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University), co-curator of the exhibition Homeward to the Prairie I Come: Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art as she discusses the legendary photographer, followed by a reception from 5 - 6:30 p.m. at the museum to view the exhibition. Free and…

Join the museum staff and curator of the exhibiton Aileen Wang (Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University) for a reception celebrating the newly opened exhibition Homeward to the Prairie I Come: Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art. Free and open to the public, this program is sponsored by the Syracuse…

Join the Syracuse University Art Museum and "Process" exhibiting artists Margie Hughto, Beth Bischoff, and Darcy Gerbarg for a reception celebrating the exhibition. The artists will join curator Melissa Yuen for an artist talk at 6:30 p.m.

Performing worldwide for more than 101 years under the guidance of three generations of Ellington’s family, this Grammy Award-winning supergroup has produced more iconic jazz classics than any other band. Today, The Duke Ellington Orchestra comprises brilliant musicians who dedicate themselves to performing Duke’s music while adding—just as their predecessors did–their own creative styles. Together…

Join the museum and the Syracuse community for a free screening of the movie Shaft (1971), directed by Gordon Parks, at the Westcott Theater. Presented in conjunction with the current exhibition "Homeward to the Prairie I Come": Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art, this screening is free for all to enjoy. Doors open at 7…

 Come explore the Art Museum! Visit our galleries and make art inspired by pioneering photographer Gordon Parks.  Open to all, including SU students as well as children & families- Free Family Guide available for the Gordon Parks exhibition!  Schedule of events:  Drop-in art-making: noon-4 p.m.  Story Time: 12:30 pm & 2:30 p.m. Poetry reading &…

Hear from Syracuse University curators about fan culture as seen in exhibitions at the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) and the Syracuse University Art Museum. Led by Danny Sarmiento (Curator, SCRC), the 20-minute tour of Destroy All Monsters will begin at noon at SCRC, 6th floor of Bird Library, followed by Melissa Yuen’s (Interim Chief…

Explore the Gordon Parks exhibition with community member, writer, editor, and curator Nancy Keefe Rhodes as she reflects on the powerful images on view. This talk will also be livestreamed on Instagram @suartmuseum.