Syracuse & Central NY - Art & Culture
- Arts Guild of Old Forge
- With workshops, gallery exhibitions and a performance program that includes concert, theater, dance, folk and children's series, the Arts Guild of Old Forge is a multi-disciplinary arts center in Herkimer county.
- Central New York Community Arts Council - Stanley Theatre
- In addition to the presentation of art exhibitions by local artists, the Central New York Arts Council owns and operates the Stanley Performing Arts Center, a magnificent movie palace built in Utica in 1928 in an unusual blend of Mexican, Baroque and Moorish architectural styles. The Stanley hosts regular theatrical performances, concerts by the Utica Symphony and an annual holiday staging of the Nutcracker.
- Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation
- Dedicated to the promotion and understanding of American Jazz music, the Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation holds concerts, cabarets and festivals year-round that celebrate this distinctive form of music. Its three-day Jazz in the Square festival held each July welcomes musicians from around the world to Syracuse to participate in a large-scale jazz jam.
- Chamber Music Society of Utica
- A presenting organization in Oneida County, the Chamber Music Society of Utica presents six concerts a year (Oct-Apr) at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
- Children's Museum of History, Natural History, Science and Technology
- The only children's museum in the nation to be adopted by both NASA and the United States Department of Energy's Office of Science, the Children's Museum in Utica encompasses 24,000 square feet of exhibition space. Interactive exhibits include a play village, an Iroquois longhouse reconstruction as well as transportation exhibits and artifacts from the Utica fire and police departments.
- Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum
- An industrial boatyard complex in Madison county, the Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum presents exhibits on boats and the history of Erie Canal. The museum also hosts workshops, lectures and curricular activities covering topics such as archeology and the history of the area..
- Colgate University—Picker Art Gallery
- With a comprehensive permanent collection of more than 10,000 objects, the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University serves as the area's primary fine arts facility. Located in the Dana Arts Center designed by architect Paul Rudolph, the Picker's broad holdings of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture and decorative arts provide a crucial resource for the Central New York region, and play an important role in the teaching mission and cultural life of one of the country's leading liberal arts universities.
- Cooperstown Concert Series
- Founded in 1969, this performance series which funs from May through September includes a variety of musicians performing in a number of styles, from folk music to dance to jazz to chamber music.
Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County
For more than 50 years, the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County has been promoting the local arts community through the organization of arts exhibitions, workshops and artist support programs. Held at venues both in downtown Syracuse and a number of surrounding suburbs, the Council offers an annual Irish Festival in March, the Michael Harms Theater Festival for high school students, the On My Own Time exhibition held at the Everson Museum of Art that features the work of more than 700 employees from 35 local industries and a seasonal Visual Arts Showcase series that highlights the work of local artists in a juried exhibition held at WCNY, a public television and radio station, in Liverpool.
- Erie Canal Museum
- The Erie Canal was finished in 1825, linking the Hudson River and by extension New York City to the Great Lakes. This museum in Syracuse celebrates and commemorates the influence of this important engineering innovation. Housed in the last remaining weighlock building, where boats were weighed in order to determine a toll, the museum mounts participatory exhibitions about the canal, western New York and 19th-century American culture.
- Everson Museum of Art
- Founded as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Art in 1897, the Everson as it is now called is housed in I.M. Pei's first museum commission, a building that dates to 1968. The Everson mounts temporary exhibitions of work by single artists as well as thematically oriented group shows. Its permanent collection focuses on American Art since the 18th century but boasts examples of European and Asian art from all periods.
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