50th Anniversary Opening Reception

Everson Museum 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

Through a partnership with the iconic Everson Museum of Art, Light Work’s 50th Anniversary retrospective exhibition will be on view in two of the Museum’s main gallery spaces from January 28 through May 14, 2023. An opening reception and program will be held on Friday, February 3, 2023, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Please Note: This […]

$20

Photobook Night

Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Come and share photobooks you love and we will do the same. This freeform hang with Director Dan Boardman and Associate Director Whitney Hubbs, (two huge photobook nerds) is for anyone interested in photography and photobooks. They will be sharing gems from their personal collections plus books from former Light Work Artists.  Bring books you […]

FREE

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Reception and Artist Talk

Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Arko Datto’s epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world’s largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this […]

Deborah Willis Keynote Lecture | Remarks on Light Work’s 50th Anniversary

Everson Museum 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

Light Work will host an artist lecture with award-winning historian, author, curator, photographer, and former Light Work residency participant (1990), Deborah Willis, Ph.D., in the Everson Museum’s Hosmer Auditorium on Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 p.m. This Event is free and open to the public.

FREE

Lessons in Living Otherwise PROGRAM 1: Screening + Q&A

Program 1: Wednesday, April 19 at 7pm in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Bldg. (SU campus) Light Work UVP presents two different film programs, both featuring the work of multimedia artists Sofía Gallisá Muriente and TJ Cuthand. More Info and RSVP

Black Artist Collective: Black August at Freedom Fest

Everson Museum 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

Black Artist Collective in collaboration with Urban Video Project commemorate BLACK AUGUST at the 3rd Annual Freedom Fest on Saturday, August 19, 2023, on Everson Museum Plaza. The Fest from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. will include a pop-up market of 30+ vendors and food trucks Elbita's Cocina, Yum Yum Shack and The Crab Ladies! From […]

Free

Evan Starling-Davis: FRACTURE Guided Experience

Everson Museum 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

In this innovative exhibition, viewers can interact with UVP’s projection on the facade of the Everson using their personal smart devices to explore the virtual world of FRACTURE, imagined by Evan Starling-Davis. FRACTURE is an Afro-Surreal poetic experience featuring 3D renderings of objects from Afro-diasporic culture in local collections and archives, including the SUArt Museum. […]

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Opening Reception

Light Work 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

The Sun Echoed Like A Song is an exhibition of photographs made in Eduardo L Rivera’s childhood hometown near the Arizona/Mexico border. Taking inspiration from light and heat, he has been exploring the personal histories of family, community, and environment throughout the last decade. Rivera takes his visual cues from this project’s central character, Phoenix, and […]