Light Work
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Light Work is a major photography center in Syracuse, New York. The artist-run nonprofit supports photographers through residencies, publications, exhibitions, and a community-access digital lab facility.
History
Founding directors Phil Block and Tom Bryan established Light Work in 1973. Since 1982, Jeffrey Hoone has led the organization, which is housed at Syracuse University in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Light Work programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; JGS (Joy of Giving Something, Inc.); Robert and Joyce Menschel; Vital Projects Fund, Inc.; Syracuse University (SU); the Central New York Community Foundation, as well as by local subscribers.
Syracuse University’s Division of Student Affairs, Autograph ABP, the Community Folk Art Center, En Foco, the Everson Museum of Art, the Red House Art Center, the Urban Video Project (UVP), and others are collaborative partners of Light Work.
Collection
The Everson houses roughly 11,000 pieces of art, including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and video.
Paintings include one of Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George Washington, Edward Hicks's The Peaceable Kingdom, and works by Eastman Johnson, Charles Burchfield, Helen Frankenthaler, and others.
The Syracuse China Center for the Study of Ceramics is one of the largest ceramics collections in the nation, with pieces ranging from ancient sculpture and Ming dynasty porcelain up to contemporary works.
The museum established one of the first video art collections in the United States; its video collection is the largest in the world. Nam June Paik exhibited early works at the Everson, including his first United States retrospective in 1974. Bill Viola's first job was as a video technician at the Everson; his works are now in the collection.
The museum also has a collection of Arts and Crafts Movement furniture, featuring a number of works of Gustav Stickley.
Location and opening hours
The museum is located in the southeast corner of Downtown Syracuse, at 401 Harrison Street, near the Oncenter complex. It is directly accessible from Interstate 81 Exit 18 (Adams Street / Harrison Street).
Currently the museum is open the following hours:
- Tuesday - Friday & Sunday: Noon - 5:00pm
- Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
- It is closed on Mondays
Notable Traveling Exhibitions
The Everson has presented a number of exhibitions that are available for loan, either in entirety or broken down as individual artworks, including:
- Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
- Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
- Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales
- Pollock Matters
- Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar
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