Light Work

UVP Community Night: Voices Rising
2024-09-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Lens-Based Open Studio
2024-02-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
When: 2/13, 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!
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.

Open House
2024-01-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Join us on Thursday, January 25th for Light Work’s Open House, and to celebrate Syracuse University’s BFA work in photography. Food and refreshments will be served!
Sophia Chai’s exhibition, “Character Space”, will also be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery.

RSVP here

2024 BFA Art Photography Annual Reception
2024-01-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Light Work presents the 2024 BFA Art Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. The exhibition takes place in the Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery from January 19th – March 8th, 2024. We will host a reception with the exhibiting artists on Thursday, January 25th, at 6:30p.m. The in-person reception is free and open to the public and includes refreshments.
The exhibiting artists are Keming Chen, Madison Chloe, Zhiyu Feng, Siya Hu, Megan Ivy, Megan Jonas, Yu-Hsia Liu, Tyber Longacre, Chika Winston Ma, Clara Neville, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Avery Wild, Suhao Yang, and Joe Zhao. Nelson Chan served as juror, selecting Siya Hu as Best in Show.
Associate Professor Laura Heyman, coordinator of the Art Photography BFA program, writes:
Each spring, seniors in the art photography program exhibit a selection of images from their senior thesis at Light Work. Senior thesis is a yearlong (or longer) in-depth photographic exploration of a subject chosen by the students. The open-ended nature of the process can be a challenge, and the work often changes radically between the beginning of September, when students start their projects, and December, when the work is installed for exhibition. Students choose, edit, and print the images in collaboration and with the assistance Light Work’s curatorial staff and master printers. The BFA Art Photography Annual is not only the first exhibition for many of our students, but also an important learning opportunity for them. In addition to giving students the space to imagine how their thesis work might develop over the next several months, the Art Photography Annual introduces their thesis work to their peers, the local community and the renowned curators and critics who jury the exhibition.

Strange Terrain: Institute of Queer Ecology in Conversation with Jack Halberstam
2023-11-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
Urban Video Project (UVP) will present media arts collective The Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) for an multimedia artist talk followed by panel discussion with writer and scholar Jack Halberstam using Halberstam’s concepts “unworlding” and “bewilderment” as a way to reimagine inhabiting the landscape beyond colonial and extractive practices.
This event will take place in the Everson Museum’s Hosmer Auditorium in conjunction with an exhibition of new work (working title: Hysteria) by IQECO specially commissioned for UVP, which will be shown as an architectural projection on the facade of the Everson. Additional work by IQECO will also be on view inside the museum.
In early 2023, Urban Video Project (UVP) hosted the Institute of Queer Ecology for a residency. During their residency, the artists worked with local performers and shot footage for a new piece in Syracuse and at various sites around Central New York, including the Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant at Onondaga Lake, Three Falls Park, Pratts Falls, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. This piece explores the poorly understood “dancing plagues” of the medieval era, in which the afflicted danced, often in massive groups, to the point of collapse. These strange events are now thought to have been the result of a combination of psychosocial contagion and, perhaps, water-born environmental contamination. IQECO reimagines the uncontrolled dance of choreomania as a mode of queer resistance to environmental degradation.
In making the work here in Syracuse, IQECO were particularly interested in the contrast between the Central New York landscape as a site of “pristine” natural beauty—e.g. Pratt’s Falls—and as a site of ecological damage, such as Onondaga Lake, with its complex status as both a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation and as an EPA Superfund site once dubbed the “most polluted lake in the America”, now in the process of ongoing remediation.
About Institute of Queer Ecology:
Founded in 2017 and co-directed by Lee Pivnik and Nicolas Baird, The Institute of Queer Ecology has worked with over 130 different artists across a variety of arts, humanities and scientific disciplines. In their own words, “The IQECO navigates the idea of vanishing ‘nature’ through frameworks of queer futurity. The artists assume a position of critical optimism, in part as a coping mechanism for the pain of living in, engaging with, and loving a biodiverse world that is being undeniably annihilated.”

Jeffrey Hoone Gallery Dedication
2023-09-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
A gallery dedication event for our current Hallway Gallery.

2023 Light Work Grants in Photography Opening Reception
2023-09-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States
Light Work announces the 49th annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2023 award recipients are Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, and Linda Moses. 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.
Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants program is one of the longest-running photography fellowships in the country. Each recipient receives a $3,000 stipend and appears in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual. This year’s judges were Ally Caple, Kris Graves, and Kelsey Sucena.
August 25– December 13, 2023
Hoone Gallery
Reception: Thursday, September 14, 5-7pm
Hoone Gallery Dedication: Thursday, September 14, 6pm

Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Opening Reception
2023-09-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, 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 its ever-present light and heat—two intangible forces that we feel but we cannot directly see or photograph. Yet light and heat wield direct and enigmatic power over who and what Rivera photographs. While seeking this subject in everyday moments, Rivera moves fluidly between two very different analog cameras: the 6 x 7 medium format and the 4 x 5 field camera. The results of his moving between these two precise instruments to interpret and organize what he sees within the frame, his knowledge, clarity of intention, and sense of space all become obvious. Whether using the handheld camera or the one upon a tripod, he might stage the image. Rivera responds to what he sees in front of him.

August 25–December 15, 2023
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
Opening Reception: Thurs, Sep 14, 5-7pm
Artist Talk & Gallery Dedication: Thurs, Sep 14, 6pm

Evan Starling-Davis: FRACTURE Guided Experience
2023-08-31 20:00 - 22:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
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.
FRACTURE will transform the Everson Plaza into a space of communal interactivity—between viewers, the virtual world, and each other. Leaning into the experience of play, FRACTURE allows the audience to immerse themselves imaginatively in the created world, taking time to reflect on the possibility suggested by the title: “Maybe you may find yourself in the fracture.”
CREDITS
Artist: Evan Starling-Davis
Lead Developer: Sonny Cirasuolo
Consulting Developer: Gary Tyler McLeod
3D Model and Game Engine Consultant: Chanee Choi
Artist Talk & Guided Experience on the Plaza
Thursday, August 31 | 8pm
Everson Plaza

Black Artist Collective: Black August at Freedom Fest
2023-08-19 17:00 - 23:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
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 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., there is an outdoor screening on the plaza of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER. This event is FREE and open to the whole community!

Lessons in Living Otherwise ONLINE Screening + Q&A
2023-05-25 18:30 - 20:00 | ONLINE
Join us for an online screening of “Lessons in Living Otherwise”!
RSVP required

Lessons in Living Otherwise PROGRAM 1: Screening + Q&A
2023-04-19 19:00 - 20:30 | NY
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

Deborah Willis Keynote Lecture | Remarks on Light Work's 50th Anniversary
2023-04-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
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.

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Reception and Artist Talk
2023-04-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, 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 landscape is fleeting.

Artist Talk begins at 6:30 pm.

Photobook Night
2023-03-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, 13210, 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 love and want to share and/or your books-in-progress. Pizza and napkins provided
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

50th Anniversary Opening Reception
2023-02-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Everson Museum Auditorium, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY, 13202
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 event is free for Everson Museum members, $20 for non-members, and includes hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.
Everson Museum Gallery C and D
Members free | Non-members $20
