Syracuse University Art Museum

10/16/2026

Join us Thursday, October 29 at 5 pm at Bird Library for “What Objects Carry: Art, Ecology, and Black Experience.”

Presented in collaboration with SU Engaged Humanities Network and Environmental Storytelling CNY, professor Delali Kumavie and artist Rodney Ewing will discuss how artists can help us see the lives of environmental and cultural lives of everyday materials differently.

Free and open to all! Read more through the link in our bio or at museum.syr.edu.

10/12/2026

Join us this Wednesday, October 14 at 5 pm to hear from associate professor and filmmaker Soudabeh Moradian in conversation with Art Wall artist Helen Zughaib ‘81!

Free and open to all, their conversation will span memory, migration, image-making and storytelling. We can’t wait.

See you there!

10/07/2026

Now open at the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery:

“And she had a pose that was fascinating”: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s Models and Sculptures

Curated by Em Spencer G’26, this exhibition highlights a selection of American Sculptor Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s small bronze sculptures and preparatory sketches to explore her intimate, yet liberating depictions of the female form. Through the process of making these works, she befriended the dancers who served as her models and thus moved away from the static poses she learned during her classical training in Europe and America.

If you’re in NYC, don’t miss this exhibition on view through February 4, 2026.

10/06/2026

Join artist Helen Zughaib in conversation with filmmaker and professor Soudabeh Moradian on Wednesday, October 14 from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm.

Helen Zughaib was born in Beirut, Lebanon, living mostly in the Middle East and Europe before coming to the United States to study art at Syracuse University, earning her BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Helen currently lives and works in Washington, DC, as an artist.

Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Lebanon. Her paintings are included in many private and public collections, including the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, US Consulate General, Vancouver, American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, the Barjeel Collection in Sharjah, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the DC Art Bank Collection. 

Her work has been included in Art in Embassy State Department exhibitions abroad, including Brunei, Nicaragua, Mauritius, Iraq, Belgium, Lebanon, Sweden, Abu Dhabi, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Helen has served as Cultural Envoy to Palestine, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. The John F. Kennedy Center/REACH selected Helen as a member of the 2021-24 Inaugural Social Practice Residency. Her paintings have been gifted to heads of state by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She is the recipient of the Senior Fellowship at Abraham Path Initiative, 2024-25. “As an Arab American, I hope through my work, to encourage dialogue and bring understanding and acceptance between the people of the Arab world and the West. My work is ultimately about creating empathy and  a shared space for introspection and dialogue. I ask the viewer to see through someone else’s eyes, to walk in another’s shoes. To accept the ‘other.’ To reject divisiveness. To promote acceptance and understanding and to reject violence and subjugation of anyone anywhere. To give voice to the voiceless, to heal, and to reflect in our shared humanity.”

Helen is our 2026-27 Art Wall artist exhibiting “Patterns of Migration” on view now through May 8, 2027 at the Syracuse University Art Museum.

10/05/2026

“Imagine yourself as a painter. What songs would you listen to as you worked to create color harmony? What would your artwork look like?”

These are the questions we posed as part of the interactive exhibition, Collection Spotlight: Jill Nathanson, Contrapuntal — and here are just a sampling of the responses from our community!

09/30/2026

Introducing our 2026-27 mini print lineup from Anastasia Inciardi — 10 all new prints to collect, including one stunning new custom and an old favorite returning victoriously.

Join us this Saturday, Oct 3 for Community Day and enter a free raffle to win one of two sets of print: last year’s lineup and this years. ✨

09/29/2026

Community Day is this Saturday, October 3 from 12pm - 4pm!

Drop by anytime and join us for a mending and dyeing workshop, enter a raffle for a set of mini prints, snag a free family guide, meet local community organizations and more.

Free and open to all! We can’t wait to see you there.

09/28/2026

The title of this work by Jill Nathanson, “Contrapuntal” comes from the world of music and roughly means “counterpoint” or the art of composing two independent melodies distinct from one another but bound into a single harmony.

This artwork, a generous gift from the artist and Berry Campbell is the seed of an entire year of exploration inviting interdisciplinary conversations with our campus and community. Our first event kicking off this year of programming is this Wednesday, September 30 at noon: our own Melissa Yuen and Kate Holohan will lead an interactive conversation about light and color in “Contrapuntal”.

This event is free and open to all! Stick around afterwards to dive deeper into these concepts with interactive elements as part of the exhibition.

This exhibition and related programs are sponsored by Coca Cola.

09/22/2026

Learn all about our upcoming free Community Day on Saturday, October 3 in this feature on Syracuse.com!

Syracuse University Art Museum Community Day gathers local organizations, offers free mending and dyeing workshop for all