Exhibits

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.