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July 2024
PAL Project Summer Workshop
Join Syracuse University Art Museum’s PAL (Photography and Literacy) program for a trip to Green Lakes State Park on July 19! We’ll explore the park together, taking photos as we go. The trip will be led by a professional photographer and museum educators. Cameras and lunch provided. Space is limited. Please sign up by July 12 to secure your spot. When: Friday, July 19, 9:30 am-1 pm Where: Meet at SU Art Museum, travel by bus to Green Lakes, return…
Find out more »August 2024
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 work of preeminent photographer and interdisciplinary artist Gordon Parks. This event is open to all students, families and supporters.
Find out more »September 2024
Teaching Workshop: “Homeward to the Prairie I Come”: Gordon Parks Photographs from the Beach Museum of Art
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 exhibition tour led by Beach Museum of Art curator Aileen June Wang, co-curator of the exhibition Interactive gallery activities and teaching strategies that can be adapted…
Find out more »Gordon Parks’s Curated Photographs and His Ideas About Community
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 open to the public, this program is sponsored by the Syracuse University Humanities Center, Syracuse Symposium: Community.
Find out more »Opening Reception: Gordon Parks
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 University Humanities Center, Syracuse Symposium: Community.
Find out more »Process: Artist Talk & Reception
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.
Find out more »The Duke Ellington Orchestra
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 they share a history and lineage that goes back to Duke’s original band members. Musicians like tenor saxophonist Shelley Paul honor their place in the…
Find out more »October 2024
Film Screening of “Shaft” (1971)
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 p.m., screening starts at 8 p.m. You must reserve a free ticket below to guarantee entry. Tickets will also be available at the door until…
Find out more »Art Museum Community Day!
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 & workshop with Kofi Antwi: 1-2 p.m. Kofi Antwi is an African American writer, composition professor at SUNY Cortland, and assistant editor of Aquarius Press/Willow Books. In…
Find out more »Curator Talks: Fan Culture at SCRC and SUArt
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 Curator, Art Museum) introduction to LANscapes at 12:30 p.m. at the SUArt Museum in Shaffer Art Building. Q&A and discussion to follow.
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