Exhibits
Both Ends of the Rainbow
February 1 through March 14, 2026
Both Ends of the Rainbow is an annual exhibit that features more than 1,000 works of art created by pre-K to 12th-grade students in the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES district as well as senior citizens who are Schweinfurth members or live in Cayuga County.
Read MoreThree Lakes Sampler
February 1 through March 14, 2026
Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES’ Talented and Gifted Advisory Committee selected hundreds of artworks from students in their district to display in Gallery Julius at Schweinfurth Art Center.
Read MoreMade in NY 2026
March 28 through May 16, 2026
Made in NY is an annual exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center located in Auburn, NY, that features work by artists who live in New York State. The exhibit is an opportunity for artists to showcase their work in a competitive, juried exhibition.
Read MoreQuilts=Art=Quilts 2025
Oct. 25, 2025, through Jan. 4, 2026
Quilts=Art=Quilts is an international juried quilt exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. This year, nearly 300 applications were submitted, and jurors Petra Fallaux and Paula Kovarik selected 70 quilts from 65 fiber artists.
Read MoreLyrical Moments: Martha M. Deming & Mary P. Murphy
Oct. 25, 2025, through Jan. 4, 2026
Artists and friends Martha M. Deming and Mary P. Murphy both use watercolors to capture nature in all its glory in a joint exhibition.
Read MoreMember 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 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.
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