Community Calendar

Kathy Donovan is an artist and educator living and working in the Mohawk Valley. Beginning June 4th Donovan will have a selection of her abstract figurative and landscape paintings on display in 4 Elements Studio’s Satellite Gallery in the windows of 131 Genesee Street in Downtown Utica. The public is able to view this exhibition from the street at any time.

Local artist John Fitzsimmons will be exhibiting a selection of his large-scale figurative paintings in the windows in 4 Elements Studio's Satellite Gallery at 131 Genesee Street in Downtown Utica. The public is able to view this exhibition from the street at any time.

“Here/Hear,” a solo exhibit by Quinn A. Hunter, focuses on erasure of Black history in both the South and the North. Hunter’s exhibit contains work from two recent series. In “I See You Now, I Hear You Then,” she presents chandeliers and rugs she weaved by hand out of hair, referencing antebellum plantations that ignore their slave-owning past. In “Paradise: The Myth of a Liberal North,” she examines the destruction of two Black neighborhoods in Detroit that were destroyed to build a highway. Gallery is open 10am to 5pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5pm Sundays. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

“Excellence in Fibers VII” is a touring exhibit organized by the national magazine Fiber Art Now. It contains 2- and 3-dimentional artworks by artists from around the world, many using nontraditional materials. Artworks were selected by jurors Petra Slinkard, curator of fashion and textiles at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and Melinda Watt, president of the Textile Society of America and curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago. Gallery is open 10am to 5pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5pm Sundays. CLosed Mondays and Tuesdays.

The quilts and fiber artworks of Syracuse artist Vanessa Johnson in her exhibit "In God's Voice: A Celebration of the Spirituality of Harriet Tubman" examine Tubman’s faith in nature, God, and her supporters as she led enslaved people to freedom. Johnson’s exhibit is part of the Emerging Artists Project, a joint program of the Schweinfurth and Cayuga Museum of History & Art that is in its second year. Artists present their work in both locations, and the institutions offer a discounted joint admission ticket so visitors can see both shows.

Schweinfurth gallery is open 10am to 5pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5pm Sundays. Johnson will be giving an Artist's Talk about her work at 5:30 pm Aug. 5, 2022, at the Schweinfurth as part of First Friday. Admission during First Friday, from 5 to 8pm, is free.

Cayuga Museum gallery is open 11am to 4pm Wednesdays through Saturdays.

Celebrate the Fourth of July with Symphoria on picturesque Owasco Lake at Emerson Park Pavilion in Auburn. There will be fireworks after the performance! Please note: In the event of rain, this performance will take place on July 10 at 8pm.

Kathy Donovan is an artist and educator living and working in the Mohawk Valley. Beginning June 4th Donovan will have a selection of her abstract figurative and landscape paintings on display in 4 Elements Studio’s Satellite Gallery in the windows of 131 Genesee Street in Downtown Utica. The public is able to view this exhibition from the street at any time.

Local artist John Fitzsimmons will be exhibiting a selection of his large-scale figurative paintings in the windows in 4 Elements Studio's Satellite Gallery at 131 Genesee Street in Downtown Utica. The public is able to view this exhibition from the street at any time.

“Here/Hear,” a solo exhibit by Quinn A. Hunter, focuses on erasure of Black history in both the South and the North. Hunter’s exhibit contains work from two recent series. In “I See You Now, I Hear You Then,” she presents chandeliers and rugs she weaved by hand out of hair, referencing antebellum plantations that ignore their slave-owning past. In “Paradise: The Myth of a Liberal North,” she examines the destruction of two Black neighborhoods in Detroit that were destroyed to build a highway. Gallery is open 10am to 5pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5pm Sundays. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

“Excellence in Fibers VII” is a touring exhibit organized by the national magazine Fiber Art Now. It contains 2- and 3-dimentional artworks by artists from around the world, many using nontraditional materials. Artworks were selected by jurors Petra Slinkard, curator of fashion and textiles at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and Melinda Watt, president of the Textile Society of America and curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago. Gallery is open 10am to 5pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5pm Sundays. CLosed Mondays and Tuesdays.