April 7, 2023 First Friday
Schweinfurth Art Center is pleased to join other Auburn institutions and businesses to offer free events 5 to 7:30 PM on the First Friday of most months. Artist Tyrone Johnson Neuland gives an Artist Talk at 5:30 pm. Light refreshments will be available. Masks are recommended. First Friday events are free and open to the public.
Thank you to our First Friday sponsor, Wegmans!
Rope Making Workshop
April 15, 2023
Artist Theda Sandiford, who will have a solo exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center March 25 through May 28, is offering a free rope-making workshop. at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 15, at the Schweinfurth.
Sandiford’s exhibit, Triggered, Truth & Transformation, seek to help people release the pain of microaggressions: microaggressions – commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental slights, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward stigmatized or culturally marginalized groups.
The event will be part artist talk, part demonstration, and part group discussion of microaggressions. The workshop is expected to last 1.5 hours and is free with admission to the Schweinfurth, but registration is required online or by calling 315-255-1553.
The workshop is sponsored in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ekphrastic Poetry Reading
May 4, 2023
Members of the Syracuse Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women will read poetry and prose inspired by works in Made in NY 2023 from 5:30 to 7 pm at the Schweinfurth Art Center.
May 5, 2023, First Friday
Schweinfurth Art Center is pleased to join other Auburn institutions and businesses to offer free events 5 to 7:30 PM on the First Friday of most months. Chris Thomas and his Smoke Dancers will berform at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be available. Masks are recommended. First Friday events are free and open to the public.
Thank you to our First Friday sponsor, Wegmans!
Auburn's Black Family Album
African American families can get free family portraits taken by Ellen M. Blalock, the Schweinfurth Art Center’s Artist in Residence, for Auburn’s Black Family Album, a Juneteenth project that is sponsored by the City of Auburn.
Families will get an 8 x 10 print and a digital copy of the photo, as well as a copy printed on fabric that can be made into a quilt in a later workshop. A second print will be combined into a yearbook chronicling each family’s history that will be donated to Seymour Library’s History Discovery Center.
Call 315-255-1553 to sign up
One-hour slots:
June 11 1-5 pm
June 15 5-8 pm
June 18 1-5 pm
June 22 5-8 pm
The photo session, prints, and quilt workshop are all free for participating families.
This project is part of the City of Auburn's Juneteenth celebration and sponsored by the City of Auburn's Historic and Cultural Sites Commission.