Light Work

2025 MFA Photography Survey Opening Reception
2025-09-18 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Light Work announces with great pleasure our triennial exhibition in partnership with the Art Photography MFA program from the Film and Media Arts Department in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. In this survey of candidates, we see a wide range of approaches that complement and vary from each other: ideas of documentary and fictionalized documentary, the landscape, the personal archive combined with found imagery, female gender, power dynamics, a reworking of personal histories, cultural histories, and mass media. Altogether, this selection presents both a curious and confident showcase in experimental and traditional picture-making processes that highlights the ever-expanding field of photography through distinct perception and follow-through.
The goal of the Art Photography MFA program is to help artists develop their unique voice. Through intensive study that includes individual and group critique along with courses in history, theory, and criticism, candidates benefit from an intense and passionate learning environment that emphasizes contemporary art and practice.
The exhibition includes work by: Reyad Abedin, Lucas Cobb, Jared Dominique, Taylor Gearhart, Suihang Huang, Christian Jones, Jacobb Nichol, Tony Rayo, Lia Teeuwissen, and Jiayue Yu.

Sasha Phyars-Burgess: Everything Nice Opening Reception
2025-09-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Sasha Phyars-Burgess’s photographic project Everything Nice traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.
Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.
Through research and picture-making, Phyars-Burgess’s ongoing project affords us a better understanding of globalization and its languages, and shows us that places which at first glance look “ethnic” can be regarded differently.
The work’s title, Everything Nice, is the name of a song by Popcaan. In it, he speaks about the hardships and struggles that people are going through while also joining together in community, getting to the heart of the matter, and being present. This exhibition invites us to slowly look, ask questions, and decipher information to uncover possible and actual answers.
—
Sasha Phyars-Burgess.
b. 1988.
Scorpio.
Black.
Alive.
sashaphyars-burgess.com

Source Material: An Evening of Archival Explorations at Light Work
2025-07-25 17:00 - 22:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Stop by Light Work’s galleries at 5 PM to check our shows, The Archive as Liberation and the 2025 Grants in Photography. At 5:30 PM, Aaron Turner will be present for a gallery talk.
Enjoy some food & stay for the premiere of Video Ocean at 7 PM, a documentary by our 2025 UVP Regional Commissioned Artist, Courtney Rile, followed by a panel discussion between Rile and curators DJ Hellerman (MoCA Cleveland) and Tara Merenda Nelson (Visual Studies Workshop) exploring media art history and preservation.
Then head down to the Everson Museum Plaza to see Rile’s commissioned piece In Conversation on the facade of the building at 9 PM and on exhibit at UVP through August 30.
All events are free & open to the public.

Book Signing at Baxter St CCNY
2025-07-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Baxter St CCNY, 154 Ludlow Street, New York, New York, 10002
Join us at Baxter St on July 23rd for a book signing with Aaron Turner! This event is open to the public and runs from 5-7 PM. Books will be available for purchase, and you can come check out Baxter Street’s new space!
Reach out to Light Work and Baxter St for any questions. We hope to see you there!

In Conversation: Courtney Rile
2025-06-26 20:30 - 2025-08-30 23:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the exhibition In Conversation from June 26 to August 30 at their architectural projection venue on the Everson Museum facade.
In Conversation is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art.

In Conversation
2025
In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication.
In Conversation is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early 70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout In Conversation: reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today’s world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives.

2025 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition
2025-05-12 10:00 - 2025-08-29 17:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
May 12–August 29, 2025
Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery
Reception: Friday, July 25, 5-7pm
With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County).
This year’s judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: “From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year’s grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways.”
The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a fifty-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.

The Archive as Liberation Exhibition
2025-05-12 10:00 - 2025-08-29 17:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
May 12–August 29, 2025
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
Reception: Friday, July 25th, 5-7pm
The Archive as Liberation is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner (Light Work artist–in-residence, 2018, and Light Work exhibiting artist, 2021). Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book’s editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.
To mark the launch of this publication, Light Work has mounted an exhibition highlighting many of the contributing artists. This exhibition includes work by Andre Bradley, Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, Wendel A. White, and Savannah Wood.
“The artists included in this publication and exhibition are engaged in resilience, ancestral understanding, counter-memory, translation, activism, tension, narrative, and critique. Through their artistic gestures, they illustrate freedom in the Archive.” —Aaron Turner
The exhibition also includes a unique reading room curated by Turner with artists’ books from his personal collection and pieces from Light Work’s collection. The reading room will be in Light Work’s Lab for the duration of the exhibition.

B&W Non-Toxic Developing Workshop
2025-04-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
When: Wednesday 4/23, 6-9pm
Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center
Cost: $130 All materials included, except film
REGISTER HERE
Open to members and non-members!
Spend an evening with Cali and learn how to develop your black and white film using coffee! For black and white non-toxic processing, there are many formulas that allow you to experiment with different looks and feels to your work. Caffenol (coffee-based) processing dates back to 1995, created by Dr. Scott Williams at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Participants will learn how to mix their own negative processing chemistry using a combination of items from the grocery store, and then develop their roll of film.
Please note: this is a DIY and very experimental process. There may be some inconsistencies during processing, so we suggest not using your most precious film.
All materials are provided EXCEPT film – bring one roll of your own EXPOSED black & white film*. We will also have film dryers and light tables.
*Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, Medium Format, etc. ALL FORMATS WELCOME!
*Includes a DIY flatbed scanning certificate to come back and scan your processed film! (Still images only.)
Compensation for participants who cancel will not be available.

Lines of Flight: Screening + Q&A with Miryam Charles and Joiri Minaya
2025-03-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Join Light Work in Watson Theater (across from our galleries) on Thursday, March 20 for a screening and Q&A with filmmaker Miryam Charles and multimedia artist Joiri Minaya.
Light refreshments from Recess Coffee & Roastery will also be served.
This event is FREE & OPEN to the public.
Street parking is available on Waverly and Comstock Avenue outside of the building.
This special event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Lines of Flight at Light Work UVP’s architectural projection site on the Everson Museum facade February 20 through May 24, 2025.

Thursday, March 20 | 6:30pm
Light Work, Watson Theater
316 Waverly Ave

Peppy Downer
2025-03-17 10:00 - 2025-04-25 17:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Curated by Lucas Blalock
March 17 – April 25, 2025 | Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery, Light Work
Light Work presents Peppy Downer, a selection of photographs from our collection by Vikky Alexander, Mike Barth, Robert Benjamin, Phil Block, David Broda, John Collier, Larry Cook, Peter De Lory, Lucinda Devlin, Lydia Ann Douglas, Alex Harsley, Biff Henrich, Jeffrey Hoone, Saiman Li, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Diane Neumaier, Ernesto Pujol, Jon Reis, Patricia Reynolds, Coreen Simpson, Aaron Siskind, Lenard Smith, Miso Suchy, and James Welling.
The works selected here form a picture of our common plot. They are whistling a song about time, history, and experience. They are a collective of individuals in the present that coordinate the real differences of their pasts. There is some not so sublimated violence here, alongside cheap gags, hard-won beauty, and everyday disbelief. There is Americana, conceptual ploys and surrealism. There are documents and fictions. I called the show Peppy Downer as a nod to a feeling of disappointment that is somehow still ringed in giddiness, an optimism that is cruel to the believer, or an overly caffeinated doldrum. It is a mirror to our times and a window.
Peppy Downer draws exclusively from the Light Work Collection and pulls together works whose makers might have never imagined exhibiting together. It is a portrait through difference as much as similarity, but its music is a mixtape of our time, laid down by our importantly diverse and complicated cohort. Power to the people.
– Lucas Blalock, Artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Bard College

Photoshop Crash Course: Masking
2025-03-12 10:00 - 2025-03-19 12:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
When: Wednesdays 3/12, 3/19 from 10am-12pm
Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center
Cost: $100
REGISTER HERE
Open to members and non-members!
This two-week intermediate level class with Becky and Koz will cover how to isolate specific areas of a photograph for adjustment in Photoshop. Ranging from basic to complex masking methods, we will discuss dodging and burning, making localized color tweaks, selecting intricate details, and more! Each class will be one hour of instruction followed by a work period for practice. At the end of the two weeks, participants will leave with a written guide on the course material.
Compensation for participants who cancel will not be available.

Lens-Based Open Studio
2025-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
When: Thursday, 3/6, 6-8pm
Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE
Open to members and non-members!
Come hang with us in the lab! Bring your photos or other lens-based projects and check out what others are working on. Show us your working prints, book dummy, portfolio, collage pieces, etc.! In-progress and finished projects are welcome at this open studio. Whether you’re a seasoned photographer or just starting out, this is the perfect opportunity to share your work and receive feedback.

Lines of Flight: Joiri Minaya | Miryam Charles
2025-02-27 19:00 - 2025-05-24 23:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the exhibition Lines of Flight featuring short films by multimedia artist Joiri Minaya and filmmaker Miryam Charles exploring the tangled trajectories of displacement, immigration, invasion, exploration and escape.
The exhibition will run from February 27 – May 24, 2025 as an architectural projection venue on the Everson Museum facade.
Additional work by Joiri Minaya will be on view at the Syracuse University Museum in the show Joiri Minaya: Unseeing the Tropics at the Museum from January 21 to May 10, 2025.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Minaya and Charles will be present for a screening and Q&A on Thursday, March 20 at 6:30pm in Watson Theater across from Light Work’s galleries.

February 27 – May 24, 2025
Thursday – Saturday, dusk – 11pm
Everson Museum Plaza
401 Harrison Street

Lens-Based Open Studio
2024-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Come hang with us in the lab! Bring your photos or other lens-based projects and check out what others are working on. Show us your working prints, book dummy, portfolio, collage pieces, etc.! In-progress and finished projects are welcome at this open studio. Whether you’re a seasoned photographer or just starting out, this is the perfect opportunity to share your work and receive feedback.
Click here to register!

2024 Newhouse Photography Annual
2024-10-21 10:00 - 2024-12-13 17:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Light Work presents the 2024 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The exhibition is a collection of seventeen photographs by students enrolled in the Visual Communications Department. Thematically diverse and representing various approaches to photographic practice and technique, this collaboration showcases the breadth of images that today’s students are producing. Selected works will be on view in the Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery at Light Work from October 21 to December 13, 2024.
Light Work congratulates the exhibiting artists: Troy Conner, Justin Dalaba, Reed Granger, Md Zobayer Hossain Joati, Ania Johnston, Sadie Jones, Kelsey Leary, Arthur Maiorella, So Nishitani, Kailyn Peng, Cassandra Roshu, Malcolm Taylor, Shuyang (Sky) Zhuang, Surya Vaidy, Diana Valdivia, Joe Zhao, and Emily Zheng.
“The Newhouse Photography Annual is the first exhibition for many of our students and an important learning opportunity for them, introducing their work to their peers and Light Work’s community.”
—Michael Snyder, Assistant Professor of Visual Communications, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Communities of Care: Documenting Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Country
2024-10-17 17:30 - 19:30 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Join Light Work in Watson Theater (across from our galleries) on Thursday, October 17 for a screening by The Abortion Clinic Film Collective, a group of six feminist filmmakers with diverse backgrounds and distinctive styles who came together from around the country in the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade to document the impact of the ruling on their own communities. The program includes new work by award-winning filmmaker Lynne Sachs, who shot footage in Syracuse with local reproductive justice advocates from Layla’s Got You.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and participants.
This special event is held in conjunction with the exhibition of Sachs’ new work at Light Work UVP’s architectural projection site on the Everson Museum facade October through December 2024.
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UVP Community Night: Voices Rising
2024-09-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
“Voices Rising: Syracuse’s Fight Against Lead Poisoning” is a compelling documentary highlighting the transformative power of community engagement through participatory budgeting to address the injustice of childhood lead poisoning in Syracuse. This film captures the resilience and determination of Syracuse residents as they took collective action to allocate $150,000 to a project that will move the community toward a safer future. While recognizing the need for substantial additional resources, the documentary emphasizes giving the community a voice in shaping their future and driving impactful change.

Join the Central New York Community Foundation for the documentary premiere of “Voices Rising: Syracuse’s Fight Against Lead Poisoning”. The premiere will be shown outside and under the stars on the Everson Museum of Art Plaza.

The full event is from 6-9 PM, with the documentary premiere scheduled for 8:15 PM.
The first 300 people to register will receive a $10 credit towards the purchase of food from various local food trucks
Visit with members of the LeadSafeCNY Coalition and learn more how you can get the lead out
Limited seating available. Guests are encouraged to bring a blanket and/or lawn chair.
Music provided by DJ Tayboog

*Disclaimer: Due to the outdoor nature of this event, we realize weather may be a factor. Should that be the case, the documentary premiere will be shown inside the Everson Museum of Art Theater to the first 300 people who register. The Central New York Community Foundation encourages all those who register to opt-in to our text alerts for this event!
PARKING

Metered parking is available along Harrison and State Streets. On-street parking is free after 6:00pm.
Limited FREE parking will be available at the Oncenter outdoor parking lot.
The CNY Philanthropy Center (431 E. Fayette Street) parking lot will be made available on September 6 after 5:00 PM.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Photobook Night
2024-08-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
When: 8/27 from 6-8pm
Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Cost: FREE
Open to members and non-members!
Click here to register
The lab hangout is back! Bring your own photobook projects or favs from your collection to pass around and share. This event is open to members and non-members. We’ll have pizza and hope to see you there!

Jessica Ingram: We Are Carver Zoom Lecture
2024-08-21 16:00 - 17:30 | ONLINE
Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArc-ihrzkrHNCCFJT2DkV6JCwHyKnttiCb
Meeting ID: 846 4191 2164
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Date: Wednesday, August 21st
Time: 4 PM EST
Cost: FREE!
“…people themselves create the world. They make the world what it is. And it is your choice, it is our choice, it’s up to us whether the world is going to be a better place or not.” Deanna, age 17
In We Are Carver acclaimed photographer Jessica Ingram invites you into George Washington Carver High School in Columbus, Georgia, located just a few miles from Fort Moore, one of the largest military installations in the world. For six years, Ingram explored the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program there, engaging with the student cadets as they navigated the transition from adolescence to adulthood, all against the backdrop of a changing political landscape. Through vibrant portraits, candid conversations, and classroom ephemera, Ingram captures the hopes and fears of a generation on the cusp of shaping their futures. As the country undergoes a presidential transition, these voices remind us of the power of choice and the collective responsibility we bear in creating a better future. In this pivotal moment in American history, We Are Carver serves as a mirror and a compass, illuminating the resilience and determination of youth in the face of uncertainty, and offering a path forward rooted in acknowledgment, compassion, and justice.
Artist Bio:
Jessica Ingram, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, explores social progress and resistance in American culture through narrative, archives, and representational media, with a focus on the American South. Her commitment to acknowledgment, care, and social justice infuses her explorations of communities and histories. Ingram holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oxford American, Vice, Wired Magazine, NPR, and as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. Her first book Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial (UNC Press, 2020) was named a “Best Art Book of 2020” by The New York Times. Beyond her creative practice, Ingram advocates for young people who are juvenile justice involved in Nashville, teaches art and art history in a Tennessee prison, and facilitates peacekeeping circles.

Embracing the Unpredictable: A Night of Events with Light Work
2024-07-26 17:00 - 21:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Join us for a night of events on July 26th! From 5-7 PM, we will have opening receptions at Light Work (316 Waverly Avenue) for our Summer Exhibitions, According to the Laws of Chance and the 2024 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition. At 8:30 PM, Light Work’s Urban Video Project will have a live video performance from our regional commissioned artist, Paulina Velázquez Solís, on the Everson Plaza (401 Harrison Street).

According to the Laws of Chance
According to the Laws of Chance is a subtitle included in many works by the Dadaist painter Jean Arp that describes his systematic yet chance-driven method of creating his simple and playful paintings. Arp would let torn pieces of paper fall to the floor to determine his painting or collage compositions. Although the outcomes are different, Arp’s ethos can be found in the work of the photographers selected for this group exhibition.
The artists in this exhibition—Cheryl Miller, Claire A. Warden, Jaclyn Wright, Josh Thorson, Kyle Tata, Louis Chavez, and Will Stith, and Light Work’s collection artists, Cecil McDonald, Jr., James Welling, Peter Finnemore, and Rita Hammond—are using and defining chance as a core element of their largely divergent practices.
Chance is a core tenet in photography. Anyone who has ever taken a photograph knows that the translation of light through the camera and onto film or a digital sensor is never one-to-one. Much effort is expended in tamping down the unwanted and unexpected elements of image-making. The image-makers in this exhibition embrace the unpredictable and find ways to amplify chance to suit their own conceptual and creative needs, from using darkroom materials that reveal process rather than mitigate it, to employing the camera to pin down quick moments of emotion in daily life, to exploring images that heighten the tactile aspects of a traditionally flat medium. The diverse work produced by this group of artists demonstrates that chance is being put to use as an essential creative tool in photographic practices today.
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, Light Work
Reception: Friday, July 26, 5-7pm

2024 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition
Light Work announces the 49th annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2024 award recipients are Malik Abdoulmoumine, Rosely Htoo, and Kari Varner. The Light Work Grants in Photography are part of Light Work’s ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to Central New York artists working in photography within a fifty-mile radius of Syracuse.
Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery, Light Work
Reception: Friday, July 26, 5-7pm

Unseen/forgotten: An ode to the humble landscape | Invisible/olvidado: Oda al paisaje humilde
Paulina Velázquez Solís will be present for a live performance on the Everson Plaza on July 26th at 8:30 PM.
This project, which will include interactive and performance-based elements, will explore Central New York as a site of “post-industrial natural wonder”, using regionally extinct species in local herbaria as tools to meditate on “[t]he tension between what prevails and what has shifted or disappeared” in a field of “memory, transformation, and territory”.

Photobook Course
2024-07-09 18:00 - 2024-07-23 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Tuesdays: 7/9, 7/16, 7/23 from 6-8 PM

Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Cost: $120 (materials included)
Open to members and non-members!
CLASS FULL!
Construct a book with Cali and Becky! This three-week course will cover a full bookmaking workflow and is open to photographers of all skill levels. Learn image-sequencing principles, InDesign basics, bookbinding methods, and tips for pre-press file prep. You will leave with a completed photobook bound on Light Work’s Perfect Binder. All materials will be provided.

A Day Without a Clock: Everson Museum of Art
2024-06-06 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
What is time without a clock?
Join us on Thursday, June 6, 2024 to experience an immersive, museum-wide day without a clock. This day-long event, led by DeepTime Collective, features ceramic timekeeping devices, performances that visualize the shape of time, and participatory events coauthored with diverse community partners. Everyone who enters the museum on June 6 (visitors, volunteers and even all museum staff), will be greeted with tools and instructions to cover the clocks on their screens and their wrists. Throughout the museum’s entire indoor and outdoor space, the artists will present alternative timekeeping activities and events to reorient our relationship to time. The museum courtyard will be turned into a sundial, performers will visualize time passing through one’s body, community leaders will have an open dialogue on the shape of time during a time-based lunch, historic timekeeping songs about labor will be sung by community groups in unison, and sand timers will mark the approximate passage of the hours. Clockless events and activities will take place approximately every hour while the museum is open.
A Day Without a Clock is a pay-what-you-wish museum day. The museum will be open from 11am to 8pm on Thursday, June 6.
From June 7, 2024 – August 2024 a corresponding exhibition of the same title will be on view at the Everson Beadel Gallery featuring objects and ephemera from A Day Without a Clock.
Find out more about the artists’ work at the links below:
DeepTime Collective www.deeptimecollective.com
Amanda Leigh Evans www.amandaleighevans.com | @amandaleighevans
Tia Kramer www.tiakramer.com | @tiakramer

Zine Making Course
2024-06-04 18:00 - 2024-06-18 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Tuesdays: 6/4, 6/11, 6/18 from 6-8 PM

Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Cost: $75 (materials included)
Open to members and non-members!
CLASS CLOSED!
Join the zine revolution on Tuesdays with Cali and Koz! Learn the ropes of DIY publishing in this three-week course open to people of all skill levels. We’re cutting & pasting, we’re xeroxing, we’re collaging. You will leave with both a personal and collaborative class zine as part of the anti-capitalist underground publishing movement! All materials will be provided.

Advanced Photoshop Course
2024-05-07 18:00 - 2024-05-28 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Tuesdays: 5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28 from 6-8 PM

Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Cost: $150
Open to members and non-members!
Link to register: CLASS FULL
Join us for season two of Photoshop with Koz and Becky. Learn the ropes of masking, color correction, and advanced retouching tools in this four-week course. Each class will be an hour of instruction followed by an hour of studio time. At the end of the four weeks, you will leave with a finished print and written guide on the editing workflow used. Running Tuesdays from 6-8pm EST.

Lens-Based Open Studio
2024-04-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Cost: Free
Open to members and non-members!
Link to register: https://forms.gle/sqUk3VcjEE7CPuvz5
Come hang with us in the lab! Bring your photos or other lens-based projects and check out what others are working on. Show us your working prints, book dummy, portfolio, collage pieces, etc.! In-progress and finished projects are welcome at this open studio. Whether you’re a seasoned photographer or just starting out, this is the perfect opportunity to share your work and receive feedback.

Sophia Chai: Character Space Reception and Artist Lecture
2024-04-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Sophia Chai’s Character Space comprises photographs that are a return to her mother tongue, Korean. In these studio-made images she references these written characters and enacts three key ideas of language, optics, and photography.
An opening reception will take place in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work on April 4th, from 6-7 PM. There will be a public lecture in Watson Theater from 5-6 PM.
This event is part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s 20th annual Syracuse Symposium, focused on a “Landscapes” theme for 2023-2024.

How To Watch A Solar Eclipse with Jason Lazarus
2024-03-25 16:00 - 17:30 | ONLINE
How To Watch A Solar Eclipse with Jason Lazarus
When: Monday, March 25th, 4 PM
Where: Online (Zoom)
Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 853 8936 6642

Passcode: [REDACTED]
Cost: FREE
Open to members and non-members!
In anticipation of the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse–the last total solar eclipse in the lower 48 states until 2044, HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE will touch on vision and visibility, poetry and poetics, art, history, science, intergenerational intimacy, and access. and particularly speak to artists and art students, interdisciplinary thinkers, and dreamers as well–everyone is invited. The lecture concludes with an invitation to participate in a public art project that endeavors to become the world’s largest archive of used handmade solar eclipse viewers–each one named by the name, age, and location of each project participant. The collection, to be titled April 8, 2024, is designed to become a safety net for those who might otherwise toss their viewers in the trash. All participants who donate a used solar eclipse viewer will receive a free signed artist thank-you print celebrating the eclipse!

Crystal Z Campbell: Artist Lecture
2024-03-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
Light Work’s Urban Video Project presents Makahiya, an exhibition projected on the facade of the Everson, featuring new work by multimedia artist Crystal Z Campbell.
Makahiya, a Tagalog word that translates to “shame” or “shyness”, is the latest short experimental film from Crystal Z Campbell. Rooted in botanical research on a plant that displays the unusual trait of thigmonasty, or touch-induced movement, Campbell’s film is structured like intertwined vines. Digital video filmed on a recent trip to their mother’s ancestral homeland in the Philippines mingles with archival footage, hand drawn animation, and manipulated photographs. Campbell’s work explores this seemingly sentient plant’s paradoxical identity, from rampant weed to indigenous medicinal plant. Makahiya reflects on photosynthesis, memory, and the violent colonial impetus of regimented forgetting.
Makahiya is an excerpt from Campbell’s longer, forthcoming film project, Post Masters. This body of work is drawn from Campbell’s familial history––a Black military father formerly stationed in the Philippines and Filipinx mother hailing from the archipelago, who both retired from the US Post Office. Campbell explores both explicit and implicit traces of labor, landscape, love, and bodies as intimate agents, modes, and witnesses of empire ripe for decolonizing through the unraveling of sound, image, and cinematic time.
All programs are free and open to the public
Screening:
February 22 – May 25, 2024
Thursday – Saturday, dusk – 11pm
Everson Museum Plaza
401 Harrison Street, Syracuse, NY
Lecture:
Thursday March 21, 6p.m. – Artist Talk at Hosmer Auditorium at the Everson Museum of Art

UVP Community Night: Teens With A Movie Camera
2024-03-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
Join Light Work’s Urban Video Project for a series of Community Night pop-up exhibitions and events on the plaza this [SEASON]! Are you interested in hosting a UVP community night event? Submit a proposal today!
These events are FREE & OPEN to the public.

TeenReel: Teens With A Movie Camera

Friday | March 8
Rain or shine!
Light Work’s Urban Video Project (UVP) is honored to feature a short film program as part of Teens With A Movie Camera, a community day celebrating the filmmaking collaboration between the City of Syracuse teens and the City of Syracuse media artists.
The collaboration is led by Associate Professor Mišo Suchý; Guggenheim Fellow Lida Suchy; and award winning filmmaker & recent SU alum Evan Bode. Teens with a Movie Camera is made with the support of Urban Video Project / Light Work, Nottingham High School, The North Side Learning Center, Engaged Humanities, the SOURCE, VPA, CNYArts, and Say Yes to Education-Syracuse. This creative project focuses on personal visual storytelling and culminates with the creation of original short movies and their public presentation in the community in which they were made.
Teens with a Movie Camera is made possible through the CNY Arts Grants for Regional Arts and Cultural Engagement regrant program thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature, the Office of the Governor and administered by the New York State Council.

Photoshop Basics Course
2024-03-05 18:00 - 2024-03-26 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Tuesdays: 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 from 6-8 PM

Where: Light Work, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Cost: $150
Open to members and non-members!
Link to register: https://commerce.cashnet.com/lightworklab?ItemCode=41200-079
Get to know Photoshop in this four-week course led by Koz and Becky. Running each Tuesday from 6-8pm, this class will cover the fundamentals of image-editing in Photoshop. Learn how to make color and contrast adjustments in your photos, lightly retouch, and then prep to print! Each class will be an hour of instruction followed by an hour of studio time. At the end of the four weeks, you will leave with a finished print and written guide on the editing workflow used.
