Member Show 2025
August 30 to October 11, 2025
Schweinfurth Art Center’s fifth Member Show features works by 129 artists who are members of the art center. Their artwork includes drawings, paintings, photography, and sculptures.
Read MoreSchweinfurth, Stone Quarry Art Park collaborate on 3 exhibits
Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn and Stone Quarry Art Park in Cazenovia collaborated this summer to create three exhibits that share themes around the rich and complicated histories contained with materials, landscapes, and nature: Ellery Bryan, Patrick Costello, and Patrick McGuan.
Read MoreSchweinfurth exhibit highlights beauty, complexity of printed fabric
The Schweinfurth Art Center’s current exhibition “Imprinted on Cloth” showcases four fiber artists whose work crosses the boundaries between quilting and printmaking: Petra Fallaux of Pittsburgh; Pat Pauly of Rochester, NY; Karen Schulz of the Washington, DC, area; and Margaret Boys Wolf of Issaquah, WA.
Read Morei solemnly swear by Paul Pearce
August 30 to October 11, 2025
Syracuse Artist Paul Pearce creates art as therapy for dealing with the trauma he suffered as an officer serving in Vietnam. ” I am haunted by what I did and what I witnessed,” he said.
Read MoreFossil Memory, by Ellery Bryan
May 31 to August 16, 2025
“Fossil Memory” traces history through direct and indirect artifacts, using planetary movements and geological records as jumping-off points for memory and subjectivity. Shooting on celluloid film, Ellery Bryan collapses vignettes of past gestures into mineral composition, activating silver to visually explore recollection.
Read MoreAfter Flowers, by Patrick Costello
May 31 to August 16, 2025
“After Flowers” takes inspiration from a Jacquard woven coverlet, produced in 1838 by the incarcerated weavers at Auburn State Prison. Under what became known as the ‘Auburn System,’ inmates alternated between periods of silent labor and solitary confinement, forced to manufacture a wide variety of products, including shoes, home goods, and raw silk. The system resulted in the country’s first for-profit prison, an institutional paradigm we still see today.
Read MoreSongs from the Sky, by Patrick McGuan
May 31 to August 16, 2025
“Songs from the Sky” uses text and multimedia sculpture to trace ways that language shifts from description to inscription as it moves across the landscape. Patrick McGuan explores the contradictions in how we create meaning and highlights strains of interdependence that run counter to narratives of extraction.
Read MoreImprinted on Cloth
May 31 to August 16, 2025
The exhibit Imprinted on Cloth showcases four fiber artists whose work crosses the boundaries between quilting and printmaking: Petra Fallaux, Pat Pauly, Karen Schulz, and Margaret Boys Wolf.
Read MoreREST STOP, by Julia J. Wolfe
May 31 to August 16, 2025
Rochester artist Julia J. Wolfe is the second of two Emerging Artists to be featured simultaneously in the Schweinfurth Art Center and Cayuga Museum of History & Art. Her work explores the struggle to practice true rest in our contemporary capitalist society with its emphasis on remaining productive.
Read MoreRibbon cutting for West End Arts Campus set for May 2
The major element of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative project for the Schweinfurth is a new entrance addition and elevator that provides access from the parking lot, eliminating the need to walk up the driveway to the front entrance.
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